Durability. It’s something that a lot of people look for in their everyday products. For the objects that we buy that have a purpose or function, we often need them to last so that we can reuse them. Even our fragile things, like a glass cup, are made to stand the tests of time. In…
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For my song analysis I decided to go with the Song Dernière Danse by Indila. There are a few reasons I decided to use this song. The first because it holds a lot of meaning for me, and also because I thought it would be interesting to analyze a song that is not in English.…
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Take a look at the two video’s above, the first is the opening scene for Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. The second is the opening scene for Ruggero Deodato’s Cannibal Holocaust. Both are opening’s for two well known Horror Movies, and both open with very similar imagery. Even though both opening scene’s are wide shots gliding…
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Even though Film Photography was no longer an option, I still really enjoyed the rest of my photography class. Instead of shooting the rest of my projects with my digital camera, I choose to use my instant film cameras. The Project to start me off with the switch from Film to Instant film was the…
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This semester was full of a ton of new things for me. I got to work with plaster as a sculptural media for the first time, faced sculptural challenges like what can I use to sculpt the human form in a small apartment, began to learn to wheel throw, and also got to try shooting…
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Here is my Gestures for the Chair project I started, as well as my maquette that I made from paper. I did a combination of hanging and standing chairs. I played with if someone would be able to actually comfortably sit on it, or if it would be more visual then functional. I ended up…
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It was mid-march when the entire educational world was turned upside down, and PSU was not excluded. As the danger of Covid19 became more real, my classes and plans, like all of my fellow peers were ground to a halt. We did not know that our Wednesday class together before the beginning of spring break,…
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If I said to think of a ceramic piece of work, what kind of piece would come to your mind? A mug? A vase? Maybe a specific sculpture you saw in a museum? When someone asks me to think about ceramic art, the pieces I imagine tend to have certain things in common. Traditional looking…
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Last project we focused on throwing decent cylinders on the wheel. Working for height, even walls, even lips, and flat bottoms. For this project, not only were we still striving for these things, but we also began to learn how to add galleries to our forms, and create lids for them. A gallery is a…
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For this assignment, we were required to take the 16 cylinders we made for project one and create six handled objects and one stacked object. The purpose was also to explore different textures, and techniques. I started we my original 16 cylinders and picked out some of the less polished ones. I used these for…
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