If this doesn't inspire you, what will?

Everyone wants a Porsche. Not everyone can afford one. Or so you think. This kid (link) took this:


and he turned it into this:

This guy's determination is truly inspiring to me and everyone else who's ever wanted something really REALLY badly.

Retail Me Not Tutorial

For this week's tutorial, i have provided the the link (in the image) to the RetailMeNot website. This is a website for anyone not looking to pay full price for items purchased online. There are coupons for many sites where you might want to save a little money: Dominos, Pizza Hut, Blurb, and Victoria's Secret are just a few examples. And they're always adding more coupons so check each time you go to buy something online and you might save a few dollars.

Picture Poet

Above is one of the spreads in the book i created for my final project in Digital Print Based Media.

Final Proposal and Inspiration

For my final project in Digital Print Based Media, i will be making a book that combines photography and poetry into a cohesive body.

The inspiration for my work comes from many seemingly random places. Shel Silverstein, for example, inspired me to start reading more poetry and, in turn, begin writing some of my own. My work, however, does not generally reflect that of Shel Silverstein. Enter Nancy Springer: Springer is the author of a novel titled "The Boy on a Black Horse." Within this book, Chav, one of the main characters, writes a poem that has no title:

"My life is made of midnight
The black horse of anger gallops closer
The moon in my sky is the color of death.
The stars a chips of broken glass.
In a black back ally at midnight.
And the stallion gallops in my chest,
The black horse of anger gallops.
The world will die under his iron tread,
And the moon in my sky is a cold dead eye
At midnight."

This poem has inspired several of my own poems as well as a few of my photographs. The darker nature of this poem influences many of my own pieces.

Are Video Games Inspirational?

Yes.
The graphics in Skyrim are absolutely astounding. For an Art Major emphasizing in Digital Media, there's not much cooler.


And here's a tutorial on making a character to get you started :)

The Final Cut

Here is the final version of my video to be used in the opera production.

My Latest Creation

For the "Opera Project," i am still in the process of working out the kinks. i changed my mind from using Flash to create the splashes of color to a PowerPoint slideshow of different types of phones and phone lines to a video recording of food coloring dripping systematically into a bucket of water. This last idea is the one i am staying with. However i don't yet have the video on my computer to post up here (nor am i entirely sure as to how i would post it) and therefore will only be able to post this image of some food coloring dripping in bottles that i found online. (And i will post the video just as soon as i can in class tomorrow)

click here to be taken to the image's source page.