User:Darcyharlan

Bio
Hello! My name is Darcy Harlan. I'm currently in the animation field at the Art Institute of Seattle. I love music, movies, games, and anime. I love animals and have two dogs. Originally i come from Arizona but for the past year i have become a resident to Washington, and i love the weather and colors ^ ^.

Always Wanted To Schedule

 * Topic

Something that I always wanted to do was to create a stop motion. With a goal of it being as long as a song to go along with it so at least two/three minutes long. It's something I've never done or experienced but always enjoyed watching.
 * Research Component

For my research I was thinking about getting aide from a friend as well as my brother on how to create a movie form individual pictures. As well i was thinking of researching how stop motion came to be and perhaps some of the 'bests' in stop motion. : )
 * week 1

For this project I probably use flash and photoshop or a movie making program. One of three programs I have access too. As well, I estimated that if it is three minutes long I need to take at least 540 pictures per day. That's going off of a 15 frames per second count. Decide what song going to use along with plan out ideas. If ready take the first 360/540 pictures.
 * week 2

Continue with second/Take first round of 360/540 pictures. Moving object(s). Move first rounds of pictures onto the computer and begin placing it in order. Include music to assist with video. Make sure to keep object(s) in correct placement while taking picture.
 * week 3

Take next round of pictures and continue with uploading them onto the computer. Make sure to keep the object(s) in correct placement while taking pictures. Use photoshop and flash to begin stop motion.
 * week 4

Take another set of pictures and continue uploading them. Make sure to keep the object(s) in correct placement while taking pictures. Call my friend from Arizona who is into videos up to see how to correctly get the motion to look as if moving on own. He has made a stop motion before and can help.
 * week 5

Take any final pictures and upload them onto the computer and into flash. Make sure to keep the object(s) in correct placement while taking pictures. Use photoshop to clean up any pictures making sure to get rid of any hands or unwanted objects. Add to flash or movie maker program.
 * week 6

Work on incorporating each picture into flash or the movie maker program. Make sure there are no skips or missing pictures.
 * week 7

Continue with Flash and Photoshop. Check again for any mistakes or touch ups. Make sure everything flows with the music.
 * week 8

Finalize any missing frames or flaws. Save and recheck if works on multiple computers. Save to email/flash/cd.

Midterm Assignment 1: Taste & Aesthetics
Mark Di Suvero’s Bunyon’s chess is a sculpture that I had found out of place and hardly worth the name art. However, I did find out that Suvero was more interested in displaying the heavy feel of objects rather than trying to make his art seem appeasing. He was very fascinated by cranes and machinery. Wants viewers to see and understand the feeling of difficult things being done easily.

He has many steel sculptures that are large and mostly outdoors. All of which seem to continue his essence of difficult being made easy or simplistic. They have a unique character to themselves almost portraying his passion for machinery and construction-esc art. He also has a knack for line and shape, as well as using overlapping and merging to give a heavy appearance. In his works it seems he tends to stick to the original color of the steel or go for a vibrant shade such as red or yellow. I’m actually surprised that he went about incorporating wood into this work because it stands out against all his other works that are made from metal or steel.

In Bunyon’s Chess the crossing beams are meant to give the feel of broad brush strokes in space. It was a new form of sculpture for that era and was his first private commission. It was made for the outdoors and uses wood against steel. He was inspired in sculpture’s kinetic qualities by Alexander Calder. Looking at his Suvero’s works compared to Calder you can obviously see the inspiration coming through. Suvero and Calder both use vibrant primary colors as well try to give the appearance of being light and yet still heavy. In the Bunyon’s chess you can see that with the wires contradicting with the heavy logs he uses Calder’s affect almost to an extreme.

Looking at Suvero’s work I actually like his works. However, I can’t seem to work myself into appreciating this piece. I don’t like how he fused the steel and wires with the grungy wood. Though I can now understand his point behind it.

Midterm Assignment 2: Manipulation
first one: Skin Cancer Towel Advertisement This is an deductive fallacy: You can get skin cancer from being out in the sun. You can die from skin cancer. You will die if you go out in the sun

http://www.toxel.com/inspiration/2008/06/28/24-unforgettable-advertisements/

Second one: An example of inductive Fallacy A girl with blonde hair comes across as an airhead and a ditz. Therefore all blondes are dumb.

http://www.quibblo.com/quiz/BEZGYb/The-blonde-test

http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-blondes-theyre-just-like-us/