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:!: CORRECTION :!: The field trip will be on April 21st

Art 41 and 43,

Our exciting field trip to the Geffen Contemporary in Little Tokyo will happen on Thursday 4/21. The exhibit Art In The Streets will be on view. Bring your student ID and pay $5. 

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The Geffen Contemporary is located at 
152 NORTH CENTRAL AVENUE,
LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

Watch these videos to get geared up for the show!

Banky's recent film, Exit Through The Gift Shop,
 

 

... and the classic 1983 hip hop documentary, Wild Style, 
 

After you see the show, share your ideas about art work. What is your opinion of the show in general?  What happens to Art In The Streets when it enters a Museum?

 

:!: FIELD TRIP :!: April 19th for both Art 41 and Art 43

Art 41 and 43, we'll be meeting at the Geffen Contemporary a part of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles on Tuesday April 19th.

 

More details to follow...

LBCC Photofest is almost here! Check out these events.

The Photography Program is in it's fourth year of producing a spring Photography Festival with a wide range of events that are open to both students and the general public - and it's all free!  This year we've coordinated with the Month of Photography Los Angeles project and we'd like to reach out to our LBCC Art students as well.  The events start on Friday, April 1st and run over the following 3 weeks. 

Registration is at our website: photofest.lbcc.edu

Business Practices:

Fine Art Photography and the Market: Rolf Goelinitz will discuss the current state of the Fine Art Photography market.  Tuesday April 5th


Business Basics for Photographers and Visual Artists: Barry Schwartz, President of American Society of Media Photographers LA will discuss the business and marketing side of being a commercial photographer.  Thursday, April 14th


From Student to Working Pro: a panel discussion of LBCC photo alumni who are entering the “real world” as photographers. Thursday, April 14th


Going Pro as a Community Photographer: Bill Wade will tour his studio and share his experiences over several decades as a community photographer. Friday, April 15th (this is at 5608 E. 2nd Street, LB)

Fine Art Photography:

Beyond the Frame: An investigation of Photographic Sculpture and Installation: Amanda Keller Konya will discuss the work of contemporary artists who move photography beyond its two-dimensional boundaries. Tuesday April 5th


Experiments with Double Exposure: Kireilyn Barber will discuss and show her recent experiments with double exposures exploring random/chance events.   Wednesday April 6th


Photography and Sustainability: Sheila Pinkel, Professor at Pomona College will discuss how this topic has permeated photographic work of artists since the 60’s. Wednesday, April 13th



Studio Skills:

Editorial Portraiture Workshop: David Daigle has photographed celebrities and writers and will be discussing his work as well as going through various lighting demonstrations in studio.  Friday, April 8th (PCC studios)


Contemporary Portraiture with Large Format Cameras: Brian Doan will discuss the field a will give a lighting and camera demonstration. Tuesday, April 12th (PCC studios)


Choosing the Right Lighting Tool for Your Project: Commercial Photographer Wes Kroninger will demonstrate how he chooses equipment for special projects to met the needs of his clients.  Wednesday, April 13th (PCC studios)




Digital Workshops:

Getting Started with Digital Retouching: La Toya Tyson has been working with LBCC students assisting them with their digital projects and will be discussing advanced digital post-production techniques and retouching.  Saturday, April 9th


Fine Art Digital Printing: Ann Mitchell will go through the digital workflows involved in both b&w and color high-quality digital printing. Saturday, April 9th



Technical Workshops:

Speedlight Workshop: learn to work with the attached Speedlight Flash for Canons and Nikons. Tuttle Cameras will have several lighting stations available for various lighting effects.  Friday, April 1st


Canon Workshops: Join Canon Pros as they lead workshops in Canon Lenses, High Dynamic Range Photography, Tilt/Shift Lenses and High Definition Video with dSLR Cameras. Monday April 4th


Infrared Photography: Jeff Smeding shows how to work with Infrared photography which gives the photographer new ways of looking at the world.  Wednesday, April 6th


Lith Printing: Eric Joseph from Freestyle Photographic Supplies will lead  a “hands-on” workshop where you will explore this unique and mysterious experimental photographic process.  Thursday April 7th


Toning Workshop: Brian Doan and Jeff Smeding will take you through the process of toning b&w photographic prints. Thursday, April 14th



Special Events:

Canon Keynote Speaker - David Hume Kennerly, Pulitzer Prize winning photo-journalist who’s been photographing world events for over 40 years.  Monday April 4th (evening)


Portfolio Review: Bring your portfolio and have it reviewed by Curators, writers designers and galleriest.  Thursday, April 7th


2nd Saturday Phantom Gallery ArtWalk and Student Photo Contest Exhibition. Saturday April 9th (downtown 3rd and Elm)



Photography Contests: see posters in both labs for deadlines

Plastic Perception: toy camera contest and exhibition. Reception April 1st Art Walk Bixby Knolls

LBCC Photo Contest: B&W, Color and Experimental photography and exhibition. Reception 2nd Saturday Phantom Gallery, 3rd & Elm, LB

Freestyle Photographic: Traditional B&W contest with winners announced at 2nd Saturday Phantom Gallery, 3rd & Elm, LB

TypotypotypotypoTypography!

We will be talking much more about typography as we dive into using InDesign for your mock publications. Here's a video to get you thinking about the power of typography in setting a mood. 

 

InDesign Tutorials

art show announcement example

In class exercise. Make a post card for your own amazing art show. Follow these instructions from eHow. 

Create interesting text effects with InDesign. Layers Magazine tutorial.

General help with InDesign from Adobe.

Tuesday 3/15 catch up

Art 41: I hope you were able to access the computer lab today to work on your projects for Thurday's critique. Be ready for the crit with your prints. I'm really looking forward to seeing your comic book work.

 

Art 43: Same about the lab. Keep working on both your website and your online article. This will involve preparing images with Save for Web, creating layouts in Dreamweaver, researching and testing designs etc.Keep reading about CSS in your text book. Read through to chapter 9 before the online article project is due on March 21.

Here's a CSS tutorial that I've posted previously. It's very helpful:

CSS Part 1 from curtis stage on Vimeo.

I will definitely be in class on Thursday.

 

Art 41 Collaborative comics

By now, everyone in the class has swapped Illustrator-made characters and is creating a unique comic book layout. Each project tells a different story using common characters. Your decisions regarding panels, text (or no text), colors, scale, reading directions (top > bottom, left > right, right > left, center > out?)  will set your particular story apart. Use the work made by your classmates along with your own vector characters. Really consider how a story can be told using graphic clues like unusually shaped story panels, moving elements off of the page and zooming in/out. 

Here is an example of a web piece made by  Adrian Miles in which the artist rethought the video frame, Bergen Clouds.

The artist explains the motives behind the cloud shaped quicktime player,

twilight lingers in bergen. + speeds it up - loads degraded skies.

this is a project that wanted to begin an investigation into the aesthetics and possibilities of skinned movies. but skinned movies that didn't replace the standard qt interface with something groovy but removed it all together. it comes out of the canberra trilogy series where i started to think about the frame of the video not just as a container for video but as itself an authored space.

A couple more examples of interesting and useful, styles of framing in comics:

From Scott McCloud's amazing book, Understanding Comics.

 

The last two examples are images of a graphic novel  by  Laylah Ali. Watch this Art 21 video with the artist to learn more about her work. It's pretty great.

Watch the full episode. See more ART:21.

 

 

Art 43 Web Typography

Some links for you to peruse as you plan out your online article:

CSS Zen Garden illustrates the power of separating style from content.

An article about the importance of font size on web pages from Web Design Ledger.

Here are a few of the sites I showed in class that demonstrate a range of different type styles from very readable to very interesting:

http://www.newyorker.com/

http://eastofborneo.org/

http://themorningnews.org/

http://wordswithoutpictures.org

http://mirandajuly.com

http://noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com/0002

Here's a site called I Love Typography.

If you, too, love typography, please watch this documentary about the typeface Helvetica.