Sunday, September 28, 2014

The Internet Becomes the Art Medium

The Internet is a place where are human knowledge, achievements, arts, passions, and anything else can be stored in. Artists all over the world use society to show their works for recognition. Art is a language that can make people communicate their feelings, but there has not been many methods to do so. Throughout history, artists and painters have had limited recognition of their art work, which led to less success. As a result we do not hear much about past artists that might have succeeded in today’s world. But we do now have a powerful device that could change the way out lives work. Something that can make us be social and also interact with other all over the planet. This is called the Internet.

            Today, we look at how the Internet is the ultimate information revealer. Any person can become a publisher and a producer without having to deal with the outside world. Anybody can become successful without telling a word about their creation. The Internet has made it incredibly easier for artists to introduce their new art to the world. Even the people can find the artist instead of the artist finding the people. People no longer need to go to museums to see their favorite artists. They don’t even have to pay for see them unless the artists require purchases.


            Art has also expanded through the technology of the computer. People now share Photoshop ideas through the internet and make unique kinds of arts. Technology can now enable people to edit any art that they come up to, and that might be a bad side of the Internet technology. There is no easier thing to do than copying a face into another body and calling another person’s art you art. So the Internet is a huge advantage for people producing their creation, but it also has its cons with sharing art with any person that could easily manipulate it.

100 Words List

  1. Computers
  2. films
  3. movies
  4. youtube
  5. google
  6. falafel food
  7. shawarma
  8. cute girls
  9. friends
  10. oscar
  11. Avatar
  12. bible
  13. wallpapers
  14. family
  15. love
  16. cats
  17. pets
  18. animals
  19. game design
  20. filmmaking
  21. windows 8
  22. chrome
  23. word
  24. photoshop
  25. college
  26. life
  27. dvds
  28. hard drives
  29. graphic cards
  30. monopoly
  31. guns
  32. airsoft guns
  33. clothes
  34. pigs
  35. pork
  36. cows
  37. dogs
  38. kittens
  39. iphones
  40. numbers
  41. showers
  42. pens
  43. ipads
  44. mac
  45. pc fans
  46. keyboards
  47. mouses
  48. lamps
  49. tigers
  50. girrafes
  51. psychology
  52. wallets
  53. dollars
  54. money
  55. speakers
  56. wifi
  57. 4G
  58. banks
  59. credit cards
  60. taxis
  61. new york
  62. mueseums
  63. bolwing
  64. glowing things
  65. creation
  66. pants
  67. staplers
  68. air conditions
  69. glasses
  70. tvs
  71. wires
  72. printers
  73. power outlets
  74. gifts
  75. christmas
  76. blue color
  77. flowers
  78. food
  79. number three
  80. watch dogs
  81. Los angeles
  82. iphone 6
  83. iphone 5
  84. the word Hey
  85. world cup
  86. fur
  87. tigers
  88. lions
  89. showers
  90. hot water
  91. hot girls
  92. cousins
  93. mirrors
  94. Family guy
  95. Soouth park
  96. Bible
  97. Whatsapp
  98. 9gag
  99. Facebook
  100. This blog

Saturday, September 27, 2014

Friday, September 19, 2014

Saturday, September 13, 2014

Project 1 - The Massive Human Discoveries

"The Massive Human Discoveries"
by Ron Makhouli

700 px by 445 px
Source: National Geographic Magazine

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Ecstasy of influence: A Plagiarism Summary

Ecstasy of influence: A Plagiarism, is an article written by Jonathan Lethem. It gives us the facts and ideas of how plagiarism is seen by millions of people through history and how it differs from one category to another. The article gives examples of artists who use other’s work, quotes, ideas, music, etc. The idea of plagiarism can be seen as good or bad, but it really depends of how the relationship between the owner and the followers is.

The article shows us how corporations sue music downloaders, and how authors steal or “borrow” other author’s ideas and styles to apply it to their own story. It also explains how laws, such as American federal laws, have supported copyrights in order to protect artists. The author also goes into details of how copyright runs the world. He criticizes how distribution make money although, in reality, they are the ones who copy. He also illustrates that certain companies that distribute content, fearing the higher companies that they import from. Plagiarism is not necessarily bad, but it's not always good, As the article claims, some people influence others, and some people steal the influence from other. Artists sometimes end up turning against their audience, and companies end up suing their own record-buying people.

Clearly the author, by giving us specific cases and examples about authors, wants us to know that Plagiarism is not an easy issue to judge because it's rather very complex. He uses words such as “source hypocrisy”, explaining how people gather constellation of voices in their work. Deeper explanations begin to rise in the article when communism comes to role and gives the word property. It explains how people need property that they truly own in order to survive. The author also tries to tie in the aspect of gift economies, not in the essence of buying something, but by creating a connection between people. Lastly, the author goes into scientific perspectives of “undiscovered public knowledge”. The article can give us many explanations of how plagiarism works, and obviously there are lots of perspectives that are raised in the text.

Evaluation List

Overall, my five collages were great. However there needed to be some fixes.

Successful elements:

  • Using the Healing spot tool
  • Making perfect shapes
  • Using the Lasso tool
  • Able to arrange which layers on top
  • Related photos in one image
  • A successful theme




Unsuccessful elements:

  • Not using the paint tool to erase or add more to the layer
  • Work on refining edges
  • Work on color balances
  • Making better scale adjustments
  • Adding more images to specific collages


Saturday, September 6, 2014

Photoshop - 5 photos


Photoshop images by Ron Makhouli.


Beauty




Chaos




Science



Technology



Joy

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Interviewing Wayne White

Ron: Hello Mr. Wayne. It’s a pleasure to finally meet you.

Wayne: Hi, well you are supposed to act impressed, shouldn't you?

Ron: I guess that’s the case with some people. So beauty is embarrassing huh?

Wayne: Sadly it is. I think it is. And it is true. Nobody deserves to be beautiful unless they know how to use it properly.

Ron: So let me start by asking you a question. Since you are from Tennessee, a place where there are open landscapes and emptiness, what made you have the desire for art?

Wayne: Art doesn’t come from where or when you live, art is a lifestyle. It’s the spirit that you have in you. Artists like me are always trying to reach a world or a vision where art can be our lives. And let me tell you something, I reached that place. I live with art, I see everything as a special kind of art. It’s in me, twenty-four seven.

Ron: That is definitely a unique privilege to have. I noticed your passion to words. You use words in unique, and for most of the time, inappropriate ways. Can you explain this detail to me? I myself can’t have this artistic feeling toward words.

Wayne: Well to begin with, it is letters that amaze me, far more than words. And it is hard for people without artistic minds to process how I think. Ever since I was young, I always had this passion for letters. I feel like each individual letter has a different personality.

Ron: And you include comedy and humor in them, correct?

Wayne: Definitely, what would art mean to us without comedy? This is the best key to live with. Hell, I use comedy with what people call “bad words”.

Ron: I personally think that art can live without comedy. I see people who draw sad drawings, people who design electronically to create an artistic object. I don’t see comedy in that.

Wayne: You say that now, but you can never live without comedy. People would be simply depressed. I even took happy pills and anti depressants when I was young. So like I said, the art world needs someone with a sense of humor to play with it. It is begging for that person to come!

Ron: That’s a very meaningful theory, and I can see some truth in it. So here is my last question to you. Since you had many experiences, such as working with peewee’s playhouse, creating puppet shows, making sculptures with words, imitating your own congressman’s mask, creating the world’s biggest George Jones face, etc, what would you think your best art piece ever is?

Wayne: Definitely my word paintings, especially “The Beauty is Embarrassing”. You can’t beat that one since it has the most meaning.

Ron: No doubt about that. Thank you for the interview Mr. Wayne.


Wayne: You are most welcome, just keep up your comedy going.