portofoglio

Looey Anton - New Media Student

[portfoliodeluis]

A photographer in the making.

[portfoliodeluis]

The Infamous Karl Erickson

[portfoliodeluis]

"#save_your_ass" Social Cause Flyer for New Media Class -photoshop and illustrator (April '16) [EDIT: fixed the flyer a bit after some helpful feedback from my New Media Professor and class peers. Pretty much a simpler cleaner all around better looking version I think. Much less messy. Lef the old one up behind it to compare.] I went back and forth between ideas, from GMOs to the Water Crisis, but in the end I chose to focus on the growing issue of Rape in colleges and universities all across the country. I chose this issue because I feel it's one that directly affects me and my fellow peers. Most young adults don't even think about this until its too late. I want to change that, I want people to be aware of the danger they could be in and know that it is a REAL issue. (This really does happen and it could happen to YOU!) I chose to go with a casual font because my target audience was young adults and college kids. If I had gone with something more formal, I don't think they would have paid it any mind. I also tried to keep it simple by only using two colors and avoiding too much text, since most college kids today have such short attention spans (myself included). I hope I don't get in any trouble for cursing, but I wanted to use something that would really get the students attention and stick in their minds. With any luck, they'll remember this catch phrase the next time they go out or someone offers them a drink.

[portfoliodeluis]

Thought I might add 2 other pieces just in case anyone was interested. The first one is how I brainstorm. I call them DraftBoards. Wonder if anyone else does the same thing. The second Image was what I was originally going to use for the Pattern-Making Project. It was drawn in illustrator using primarily the paint brush tool. Do you use something similar to brainstorm?

[portfoliodeluis]

"LiTM0B Pattern" -First Draft Two friends of mine have this group that goes by the name of "LiTM0B". In an attempt to make my work relevant to my personal life, I decided to use their group as inspiration for this week's pattern making project, but by no means does this pattern aim to represent thier group or what LiTM0B stands for. I simply tried to represent both of my freinds in one work of art, and slapped their group's name on it to symbolize their personalities, comming together. -The first image is the full pattern, and the second one is an upclose and more detailed view to fully show the pattern within the pattern.

[portfoliodeluis]

Noticed my New Avatar isn't coming up so I'm posting it here. First picture is the avatar and the following ones are how I got there. Think it could still use some work though, especially after seeing some of the creative ideas some of my classmates had. I'm hoping to come back around to it by the end of the semester. Would be nice to do a before and after, with the after including all of the skills learned during the semester.

[portfoliodeluis]

Digital Media Faked Photo Assignment

[portfoliodeluis]

Imaging Healing - "Healing Spok" learning how to use photoshop to fix damaged photos. (Takes so long though)

[smiling-luis]

[portfoliodeluis]

“Canadian Prime Minister” Extra Credit assignment using photoshop. Threw in a small tree just to be different.

[portfoliodeluis]

“Software Takes Command” (Intro)

The following is a short response to the intro of “Software Takes Command” by Lev Manovich: I’ve just finished reading and rereading the intro to “Software Takes Command”. Let me just start off by saying this, it was a struggle. It took three and a half days of forcing myself to pay close attention to what Lev was trying to get across to me, as relevant and thoughtful as it was. You know when you’re reading something slow and boring and your brain tries to focus on anything and everything else? Now multiply that by ten and that’s what this was like. I’m not sure if it was the way Lev writes that made it so hard to keep my attention, or the constant name dropping every other line, or maybe it was his method of listing so many examples that by the time you get to the end of the sentence, you forget how it even started. Now that I’m done being a critic (as if I could write any better) let me say the following. Although I had trouble getting the main point of his intro, I must say, he brings up some pretty relevant topics and overall changed the way I look at media today. Specifically when he mentions the birth and death of a few social media sites we have all used, and continue to use today. Never before had I thought about where these sites come from. I think we all take them for granted as if we just woke up one morning and they were there for us to use. The truth as Lev pointed out, is that sites such as google, facebook, and even tumblr, are only the most recent outcome of a process that has been happening under most of our noses for decades. Software has simply grown to the point where it is constantly in beta and widely available to all through the internet. The same software that was on your desktop has now become to evolve and migrate to the internet. I wish that I had gotten more out of Lev’s writing, but I’m still hopefully optimistic for the rest of his book, and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to learn about how the sites and programs we all use today came about. I have to hand it to Lev, I agree with his beliefs on how these programs have been evolving over the years, and how they will most likely keep evolving and growing into all of our personal lives. p.s. I won’t blame you for skipping the intro, it can be our little secret ;)

[portfoliodeluis]

Finding Waldo Beyonce - March 2016 Can you find all 5 Beyonces?

[portfoliodeluis]

Dali and Cat image collage - March 2016 Playing with photoshop again

[portfoliodeluis]

Jane Perkins, 2014, Afghan Girl (Junk Art) After reading "Remix" earlier, this particular collage stood out to me. I found myself staring at the familiar picture through new eyes. As the Afgan Girl stares back at me I find myself wondering, does Jane need to give credit to National Geographic for using their image? Has she copied their most famous cover image, even though she has literally completely recreated it? Or maybe Sharbat Gula, the 12 year old girl originally photographed in the picture, could sue both Jane Perkkins and NatGeo. Staring at this work of art won't give me any of the answers, but I find it curious to think about. Truthfully I don't think it even matters, except to support the points made in "Remix" about copyright laws today and the disconnection between those who making the laws, and those who breaking them.

[portfoliodeluis]

A Response to "Remix" by Lawrence Lessig

I'll admit, there were parts of "Remix" that I had to reread to make sure I was understanding correctly. That being said, I can't be sure I understood Lawrence completely, but I did take away some significant points that have changed the way I see copyright laws. From what I can tell, Lawrence is trying to show his readers that it's time for change when it comes to copyright laws and regulations. The Laws of yesterday no longer work effectively in today's digital age. If I understood Lawrence correctly, he brings up a good point about how copyright laws written long ago could not have predicted the changes in our society that were brought on by all of the new technology we have today. This causes problems for current day creators who want to use a piece of someone else's creation in their art. We can't simply use the work of others in our digital art the way we cite other's thoughts and ideas in our essays. At least not without risking a law suite or a ridiculous amount of fines. Although I know very little about copyright laws, I have to say I agree with Lawrence. Even my ignorance about these laws backs up the claim made in remix, that today's young people just "don’t seem to read the Supreme Court’s briefs"(Page 161). Those responsible for making these laws might as well be speaking a different language from those who are actually breaking them. Let me give you an example from my own personal life. Growing up in a household where mom regularly used water to stretch a gallon of milk, didn't leave a lot of financial wiggle room for video games or the newest version of Microsoft word. Luckily, I had a cousin who deemed himself an internet pirate and taught my young self how to download "anything I wanted" for free. So what started as downloading the newest version of Microsoft power point so that my mom could see her professors presentations at home, eventually grew into window shopping at Gamestop for the newest games to pirate as soon as I got out of school. However, I didn't know that what I was doing might get me in to trouble. I didn't have the slightest idea that is, until we received a letter in the mail one evening stating that it was a crime and we could be fined thousands of dollars. This is a perfect example of the disconnection between those making the law and those breaking it. What if there had been no warning and instead we had been forced to pay thousands of dollars in copyright fines for downloading a movie off the internet. That just doesn't seem fair to me.

[portfoliodeluis]

"Ben and Bill" Using Adobe Photoshop for the first time.

[portfoliodeluis]

Recent. I know the picture sucks lol. I worked hard on it though :]

[portfoliodeluis]

One of my first continuous line drawings.

The class seemed to like it...

more than I did anyways.