REALLY COOL LINK

This is awesome and I wish I would have seen this before our final project was due, it is exactly what kind of things I think my professor was looking for ... it is very very interesting and I think that it must have been a fun challenge to accomplish what they did.

~B~

Thoughts on "New Media Artists vs Artists With Computers"

As I skimmed this article and a rebutle to the article I began forming my own thoughts and opinions to the views. They both discuss how artists use computers to aid in their art and wether or not it means they are just an artist with a computer or if they should be clasified as new media artists. I would probably be classifed as an artist with a computer but the way that they talked about those types made me very upset. I am a mac lover and would use nothing else for my line of work. Does that make me not an artist because I use a program to aid in my work, its like saying a painter is not an artist if he used his tools like a paintbrush. There are certain things in an artists life that help them to become better artists and creators. Personally, the Adobe CS3 suit is like my paintbrush as a graphic designer. Knowning how to use these programs is a special thing and not everyone has that priveldge of being good at it or even being able to being to understand it. I think that people need to relax and let things be how they are naturally. New media artists and other artist use computers and all in different ways. Call yourself what you will and if thats what you have given yourself as a title no one should challenge that. They should respect that you made a decision and one can change their minds as they grow and mature as an artist.

~ B ~

Finals Week

I kinda just wanted to do a short little blog post talking about how this semester went. This is my senior year and this semester was just as hetic as ever. I really thought things would slow down as you became a senior and rounded up your college career, however that certainly was not the case. This semester in 280 was a struggle for me at sometimes and at other times things would just click and everything with a project would go smoothly. The hardest project for me by far was the video clip montage part of the project. I have always had a hard time working with video and doing what as a graphic designer would do in a print situation in video. It was a totally different dynamic and gave me a really hard time. I feel as though it fit into the class but it was asking quite a lot from someone who doesn't work with video or sound manipulation to do and to accomplish an A was an even harder task. The other projects, although I was sometimes perplexed with what I was suppose to do, usually turned out well and were an interesting exploration for me as an artist and graphic designer. Overall the challenges and hard times helped me to learn and to be able to push myself as a person and graphic designer and as an artist.

~ B ~