One of my favorite blogs is Color Me Katie (http://colormekatie.blogspot.com/). The author, a photographer living in New York City, shares her life through her photographs. I admire the creativity she displays in her photographs and street art and I love being surprised and delighted with each new post.
Camera Obscura album
I wanted to post Camera Obscura’s My Maudlin Career album. The artwork of this album is detailed and highly creative. I may be wrong, but it seems like a combination of water paint and other installations; I’m almost certain a graphics program was used to create the final look.
Maybe I’ll learn how to create album covers from GRA217-8? 
Karen Hor
Because I am inspired and in awe of music and film, la blogotheque is one of my favorite websites. It combines both music and film in such a beautiful way that it often evokes an emotional response from me. This french website is a must-see for anyone who loves folk/indie music and appreciates the amazing filmmaking that goes along with it. This picture is a link to a video of one of my favorite new bands performing a couple of songs in the alleyways of Paris. To go right to the songs go to 2:50 in the video.
Today, Adage featured an article called “Movie Posters We Like.” (http://adage.com/madisonandvine/article?article_id=145670). The article talks about how these well-placed and well-timed movie posters for recent upcoming movies have caught people’s attention and created a lot of buzz. I found the above visual to be the most eye-catching, for the upcoming film “buried.” The vertigo effect definitely captures my attention and even makes me a little dizzy just at a first glance. Another interesting and attention-grabbing poster is for the upcoming film “The Virginity Hit,” which poses the question “still a virgin? For help call…” This is definitely an unusual yet effective new tactic for grabbing people’s attention on a movie poster.
This is a clip from Ukraine’s Got Talent of a women who does sand art. Sand art is a form of art where sand is placed on a lit table, and with the quick flick of the artist’s hands images and a story are created. I think it is unbelievable how such detailed images can be created so quickly simply from sand, and how the images can be so captivating. I also really like how when she begins an image you can’t exactly tell what she is making until the image is finished. I think this shows how even a material as simple as sand can be used to make something both beautiful and gripping.
Everyone has seen the classic Old Spice commercial that has swept the internet over the past few years. Viral exposure has become a common theme in advertising since the creation of Integrated Marketing, after advertisers realized it is an extremely effective form of advertising. Adage compiled a list of the top ten viral commercials of all time: many of which you are sure to recognize.
http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=145673
It takes some balls to successfully re-do any classic. Whether it be a song, movie, or piece of literature, we live in a culture that is constantly reconstructing and redistributing classics. In more cases than not, re-interpretations are awful. Has anyone seen Wolfman?.. Me neither. However, once in a blue moon a reconstructed classic meets and even exceeds expectations. This example is a re-illustrated book cover to the classic Lord of the Flies written by William Golding and re-illustrated by Sam Weber. Weber captured the essence and overall intensity of the classic novel with a simplicity of shape, color, and form. This is a prime example of how it is the job of the Graphic Designer/Artist to lose more than he/she adds. This piece is a gauge of how simple yet powerful a graphic really can be
It’s hard to have a visual representation for what inspires me the most – classical and instrumental music. Without words, the listener is free to feel the emotions not only written into the songs by the composer but also played by the musicians. Silence can be just as distracting as a heavy metal song when you’re trying to concentrate on something or do work, but instrumental music lets the mind flow in its own directions inspiring ideas that might not have come through otherwise.
The video is of someone playing Beethoven’s Fur Elise – one of my favorites since I was younger.
Honestly, when my best friend’s mother friend requested me on Facebook, I found it a little weird, creepy, etc. Ironically, her Facebook introduced me to the art form pictured, Zentangle. Zentangle is an art form I had been creating for years under a different name…a doodle. I’ll admit that when I first started reading about Zentangle I thought it was capitalizing or commercializing the doodle. The origin of Zentangle is described as, “She described her feelings of timelessness, freedom and well-being and complete focus on what she was doing with no thought or worry about anything else.” That resonated within me; I believed in Zentangle. I encourage everyone to try it… just put a pen to paper and see where it leads you. http://zentangle.com/index.php
I know every one has watched this video in class. But since the movie is so impressive that I can’t get it out of my head these days, I decide to post it here.
I’m a fan of landscape photography and it’s not a new discovery that people can show emotions by means of trees, sky, roads, and etc. However, it’s the first time I see a video that’s only made up of scereny, some most usual scereny that people can find everywhere, but is not a documentary about animal or environment. There’s no people showing in the film. There’s not much plot involved.It’s day and night. It’s trees and grass growing. Peaceful. Eyeable. But it actually talks about a cruel human affair—war.
