Jefferson, Texas

Jefferson,Texas

I tried to capture the feel of the town with my pictures. That way you can get a true feel of the town.

Assignment 1

This assignment taught me alot. Alot about searching for the right moments to capture. What I want from this class is to just to grow. Unlike other courses, art courses I think are meant for that...as long as your talent devlopes and grows then you get your moneys worth in that class and that should be what a grade is based on.

I also didnt know that you werent supposed to use a flash hence my last photograph.

The Visual Art Society

Join The Visual Art Society...
Its for any Art/Photography Majors/Minors
The next meeting is Tuesday March 10 at 4:30 in the art history room...
It cost $5 to join
Its a chance to get involved on campus and in the art department...don't miss this opprotunity!

My Articles for the week...

Article 1.

N.Y.U. Protest

A group of students lead a protest at N.Y.U this week and they have made thier demands with a megaphone after barracading the doors with cafeteria tables. They included a full and annual reporting of the university’s operating budget, expenditures and endowment. The students also demanded that N.Y.U. provide 13 scholarships annually to students from the Gaza Strip and give surplus supplies to the Islamic University of Gaza. On the group’s Web site, it also asked that all participants in the protest be granted amnesty from punishment.

Article 2.

The film makers coop. might face a possible eviction after 50 years of service. But a real estate dispute has imperiled the future of the financially troubled organization. Last month the Film-Makers’ Cooperative received an eviction notice that would force it out of its office and archive in a building in TriBeCa, space that is controlled by the P.S.1 contemporary arts center another bulwark of the city’s avant-garde artistic establishment.

Iraqi art

An Iraqi Museum will reopen at the end of this month, that has been shut down since shortly after the U.S. invaded in 2003. The Iraqi National Museum, is home to artifacts that are priceless to the nation of Iraq. This reopening is a major building block in the nations struggle to preserve important artifacts.

Qahtan al-Jibouri, the minister of state for tourism and antiquities has been working on the renovation for the museum for several months, and is saying that the artifacts, and the museum will be protected by a new ministry force entitled the "relics protection force".

Its nice to see that although this country has been through some hard times, they are working hard to keep there heritage alive.

Deadly Arson/Child Pornographer Caught!

So more than likely you have heard about the wildfires that plauges Austrailia. The record breaking temperatures, and 60 mph winds had the fires spreading over a whole town in just minuites. People were killed mostly just trying to escape the blazes..some surviors only managed by jumping in a swiming pool and treading water until help came.

Well they have caught the guy who is responsible for setting one of those fires. Due to the enormous amounts of violent threat the authorities have had to keep his location secret. Actually there was a rather large facebook group created to voice these threats entiteled "Brendan Sokaluk, the Victorian Bushfires Arsonist, must burn in hell.” about 4,000 joined the group.

Aparently, this man is not only charged for arson causing death, but also child pornography. Wow this guy had a lot of problems.

The most influential photographers to me are...

Eva Fuka

" I love Surrealism. I really do. I like the absurd view and Surrealism is most close to it –to combine things which don’t really go together but yet somehow do anyway because that is the way life is – absolutely absurd"

David Muench

Frank Grisdale-His work is amazing. He is Monet with a camera. I dont know what else to say he is brillant. He is a landscape photographer that works in the impressionist style. He is directly influenced as you can tell my that art movement and also by abstract art. He reduces the subjects or the landscapes down to there purest forms.

"Rather than deliver to the viewer all of the fine detail common in traditional landscape photography, I am choosing to reduce the detail in favour of colour, light and line. My images reference, in a modern way, the work of early impressionist painters.” Frank Grisdale

Martine Franck - Martine Franck – is a noted perfectionist who is said to never alter her negatives, and always on the look out for the perfect shot. Constantly alert, and armed, her work has a simplistic way of reflecting everyday life. It is admirable to me that she was constantly in an artistic state searching for the perfect moment. We share a love for art history and you can see the influences that it had on her work she understood that photography was not just about aesthetics.

A photograph isn't necessarily a lie, but nor is it the truth. It's more of a fleeting, subjective impression. What I most like about photography is the moment that you can't anticipate: you have to be constantly watching for it, ready to welcome the unexpected."

Eva Arnold
Eve Arnold – She has vulnerability as an artist that is unlike anything else. She has deep concern for her subjects, and has an enept ability to identify with her subjects. To me she is really able to get inside peoples heads.

“If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera that is the instrument." Eve Arnold

Yousuf Karsh- is know for his portrait of important figures of the twentieth century. I love his ability to really capture the person physiognomy. You can get a glimpse of this person’s mind through his portraits. His work is very cerebral, and that is something that I really respond to. "There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record." Yoursuf Karsh

"Limes regiones rerum", Reality Ends Here

These words appear on and archway at U.S.C.'s new film school has a "new" look designed by Mr. Geroge Lucas himself. The school, who has close ties with Holywood, new quaters will be opened March 29th.

Mr. Lucas enjoys architecture as a hobby and laid out the plans for the schools new quarters.

The Library of His Dreams: A look at Jay Walker's Library of Imagination

Jay Walker gives us a glimpse in side his home and the wonderful library that he has constructed. Its purpose is to inspire no doubt, and also display his amazing collection of historical treasures, such as the guttenburge bible, an flag from on of the apollo space crafts, and so on. Complete with a glass bridge which he expresses as metaphor for a leap of Imagination.

"How Do we create?
We create by surrounding ourselves with stimuli, with human achievements, with history, with the things that drive us and make us human, passionate discovery, with the bones of dinosaurs long gone, maps of space that we’ve experienced, and ultimately the hallways that stimulate our mind and our imagination."

"Patterns in the clouds.
Its all about seeing things in different ways, that’s what discovery and imagination is all about."

Are just a few of the inspiring quotes that Jay gives us during his speech.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jay_walker_s_library_of_human_imagination.html