Optical Toys

Our teacher gave us a site to look at that had multiple versions of old Optical Toys and state our opinion.  I think this is a very cool site. It has a bunch of examples of toys and objects used to entertain with motion picture. If you click on each thumbnail it brings you to a page that tells you about what the object is. I think my favourite is the Phenakistoscope, it creates the illusion of movement by a series of pictures on a disk spinning continuously.  The link to the site is to the side on the link list.

Pinhole Photography site

I like this site because it has some really nice pinhole photos
the link is in my link list to the side.

Pinhole Photography

The photos above are Pinhole photos.
Our cyberARTS class took a trip down to gallery 44 to do a pinhole photography workshop. I found the workshop and activities very intresting. When we were given the forms for the trip it said that we would need a coffee tin with a lid. When we asked why our teacher said that we would be making a camera out of it. When we arrived at the gallery with out tin cans we went to a studio room and were sat down and had a brief presentation about pinhole photography, after that we began to construct our cameras. It was really easy to make the cameras. The first thing we had to do was spray paint the inside black with non-gloss spray pain. Once that was done we made a small hole about 2 cm round after that we took thin tin from muffin holders and poked a pin sized hole about 1/3 of a cm. The tin was taped over the hole with black eletrical tape so that it was light tight. After that all you had to do was put photo paper in the can (making sure the hole was covered) and put the lid on. (The loading of the camera was done in the dark room).The expereance I had was amazing. I learned how to make a camera out of a can, develop my own photos and spend the whole day downtown taking photos.

A pinhole camera is a simple but complicated camera to use. It is very simple because all you have to do it place the camera and un cover the appeture (lense), but it can be complicated if you dont know how long your exposure has to be, meaning how long you have to leave the camera for. A pinhole camera is very different then a digital camera. With a pinhole camera you can not view your photo until you fully develop it and turn your negitaves in to a positave,Unlike the digital where you have a viewing screen. A pinhole camera also takes any where from 30 sec. to 1min or more. The way a pinhole camera works is that when the apiture is uncovered it takes in all the light and projects an image on the photo paper inside. Wich becomes your negitave. Then you take it back and develop it.

Graphic Design

In my cyberARTS class we had to find a graphic design site i chose 99 graphic design resources. I chose it because i found it was very inspirational. This web site has a lot of graphic design links. This site is also a blog, and has numerous articles about things like how to design a logo, 99 sites designers must know. The link to this site will be in my link list to the side.

Potography

This photo I took demonstraits selective focus. Selective focus is where one thing is empisized or focused and the rest of the photo is blurred or dulled.
This photo I took represets camera angle. Camera angel is the angle the photo is taken in (high/low) point of view.
This photo I took shows a natural frame. Natural frame is when the photo is taken with a natural boarded around it.

This photo I took represents lines. There are 3 tryes of line horizontal, diagonal and diagonal. Each of these lines have there own emotional impression.
This photo I took demonstraits Center of Interest. Center of interest is where your eye is automaticaly drawn to.

PDN Artical

Artical: The Girl Project Lets Teens Reveal Their World

By: Kelly Ebbels

In my cyberARTS class we had to read a article from the website pdnonline.com

The article i did was The Girl project. Which is about a New York photographer who started the Girl Project. What it is, is Kate Engelbrecht New York photographer sent out single use Kodak cameras to girls in America between the ages of 13-17. So far the results of the project is good. They found that most girls were taking pictures of themselves and friends. The media presents girls as these boy crazed beings, but really theirs not. I found this article interesting because it shows that people believe the media, and if the media says something people feel they have to either live up to it or believe it. When really They media is the one who creates the image of what teenager's,adults,children, etc. should be like. I think this is a really inspirational idea and it will let the world see that the media doesn't portray the reality of people.
The link to this artical is on the link list to the side of the screen.

Shape and Form

Shape- Shape is a two dimentional and is enclosed by lines. The shape may be a geometric with straight, edges and angles

Form- Form is a two dimentional and artists use form when shading to create the illusoin of form, to create depth you would shade.

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By: Janice & Abby