Responses about Appropriation

1. In the first article "The Medium is the Message: Shepard Fairey and the Art of Appropriation", Fairey did not receive compensation for his work for the first ten years and was doing it for In the book Fairey wrote about his work "Supply and Demand", he posts pictures of the original work he appropriated from along side of his own work. He also included the history of the pieces to make it known that he appropriated them for the historical figure or event.
2. Vallen argues that Fairey is ridding the original pieces of their historical meaning, when really Fairey is enhancing it further in his pieces, and creating another related way of viewing the same subject, not disrespecting them. Both pieces can be enjoyed and not be considered plagarism because it always has a different approach even while using a same image.
3. I disagree with Vallen completely and feel that he has not really investigated the art enough to make these accusations. If he feels this strongly about Fairey's use of appropriation than can any image that has ever been made or produced be used again? Are we allowed to draw an invention because someone else created it and its their work? I think that he has an insane take on things and if people ended up following him there really would not be much more art to be produced anymore.

Part 3: final assignment

Photoshop Restoration

original

restored!

Adobe Illustrator tools

Rotate Tool: Clicking this rotates a selected path or paths 360 degrees. It is located under Tool Palette, keyboard shortcut R, pull out for dialogue box where you can specify what precise angle you want. To drag it around its center point, you just click and drag. To use a different point, click anywhere in the window to reposition it and then drag in a circular motion. To rotate a copy of the object press Option after you start dragging.

Reflect Tool: Clicking this creates a mirrored refection. It's located right next to the rotate tool. After selecting the tool, you select the 2 end points of where your axis is to reflect it right over the line. To get a copied reflection creating 2 images hold Option when clicking your second axis point. You can adjust the angle of reflection by shift dragging to make it 45 degrees, the outline will appear so you can pick exactly how you want it.

TED talks response

I really thought I wouldn't be interested in TED talks because it would be overwhelming technology that I wouldn't understand. However when I went to the website I went under the Jaw-dropping sub-catagory because I thought that could be potentially interesting. After doing a little browsing I saw Will Wright makes toys that make worlds and clicked that as my choice. Turns out it was not an overwhelming, boring lecture, but a really interesting new game coming out that I would even want to play. Will Wright a game designer and the creator of the hit game The Sims, has developed a new kind of game that he believes can help to change the future of our world. It is a game of creating species and civilizations on worlds throughout the galaxy, while you as the player getting to design and create on your own. His idea is that it is hard to picture and understand the effects of actions over such long periods of time but by having them happen right before you in minutes on this game we can begin to wrap our heads around it. The player gets to design and create their characters in simple steps and continues building and designing how ever they want through the rest of the game. By using fact and science fiction the game has so many different ways it can head all on account of what you choose to do. It seems really fun and easy, but still challenging and thought provoking. I will play it and I don't even really play video games.

color change photoshop

Finally understanding!

Panorama photo and part 1

Part 1: manipulated sketch

City pictures

My object

My sketch