Throughout the course of the semester, I have had to tap into my creative potential in novel ways in order to produce visually appealing, yet informative or otherwise interesting sketch assignments each week. I have had to exercise existing strengths (i.e., writing, researching) as well as develop weaker skills (i.e., drawing, working with unfamiliar software)
I chose to recreate this image from the movie “Tammy” because it requires minimal props and/or setup and it is funny even outside of the context of the movie. While my face certainly looks goofy, I am no Melissa McCarthy and I could not exactly pull off the facial expression that she makes. I also
My 16×16 image is meant to be a recreation of “The Girl With the Pearl Earring” by Johannes Vermeer. I tried to recreate the more striking aspects of the painting such as the young woman’s mesmerizing gaze and the color of the eponymous pearl earring as best as I could. Some details of the painting,
To distress they be born Success made hard Where indomitable wealth stewards the creation of wealth in no man This poem, which I am calling “The Wall,” was created by selecting words off of a book page. This particular page was discussing the life of Andrew Carnegie, who many will know as a steel
I am taking a class entitled “Disability and Bioethics” this semester in which we consider ethical issues from a bioethical perspective in tandem with a disability studies perspective. We recently began the section on neuroethics, the introductory lecture for which I thought would be interesting represented visually. For this class, we read the introduction to Neuroethics: …
I originally intended to create a cinemagraph of a bike with only its tires spinning. The inspiration came to me while I was at Piedmont Park the other day and I decided to shoot the footage right away, assuming all would work out. I had not yet seen the Lynda tutorial, however, which prevented me …
This week, Dami and I created an episode of Media Nouveau in which we examined the website, PatientsLikeMe. Dami and I are both interested in health & medicine (Dami would like to go into nursing and I, public health), so we were both fascinated, yet befuddled by the idea of a website that breaks the typical …
Paris, je t’aime is an anthology of 18 vignettes that take place in almost all of the different arrondissements of Paris. To me, this film represents Paris from a multitude of atypical vantage points (the vignette that takes place in the 16e, an affluent neighborhood, portrays the perspective of an immigrant nanny who works for a …
Not too long ago, I listened to an episode of the NPR podcast TED Radio Hour about the subject happiness. The show basically compiles several TED talks in order to provide several ‘expert’ perspectives on a given subject. Several of the speakers talked about living in the moment and not getting wrapped up in the …
Creating the first episode of Media Nouveau was both a privilege and a hindrance. Christine and I sought to follow the format designed by the class in Soul Pancake & Spreadability, but we found it difficult to devise a question that could have two starkly distinct answers based on our observations of Soul Pancake. We …
