Corinne Botz

I know this is a little late.


A few weeks ago we had a photographer come in to talk to us. Her name was Corinne Botz.


Corinne explained to us a project that she had done called
"The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death." Corinne became interested in a woman named Frances Glessner Lee, who was a criminologist that created miniature crime scene models. When looking at the photographs of the models it is amazing how realistic they look, and how much attention to detail there was. On her website, Corinne says: "Through framing, scale, lighting, color, and depth of field, I attempt to bring intimacy and emotion to the scene of the crime. I want viewers to feel as if they inhabit the miniatures - to loose their sense of proportion and experience the large in the small." As a viewer, I feel that Corinne did just that, and very well. I had never been too interested in photography, but something about Corinnes work really caught my attention. 

These are a couple of examples of Corinnes work. More photos can be found on her website.

"Bad Music Video"

Video done for my Foundation Computers class.

Shot with a Panasonic HVX 205a

Song: Matt and Kim "Cinders"

"Self portrait"

My most recent project in my foundation computers class was to create a "self portrait." This wasn't a typical self portrait, it was more so supposed to be something that explained who I was and where I was from. I really liked this project, but I'm not exactly happy with my end result. Now that I look at it I wish I would have done a few things differently. In the middle of the page you can see something that looks like a written letter, which it is, but it's so small that you can't read what it says. I wish I would have made it bigger. For now I'm going to have to settle with this, but eventually I'm going to re-print a new one.

11/2 Lecture

During last weeks lecture we had a few Tyler students come in and talk to us about their experiences with Interning and Assistant jobs. I listened to all of their stories, but the one that really stuck with me was Rachel Ignotofsky's.

Rachel is a graphic design major at Tyler, and got an internship working with Hallmark. I'm sure the reason why I cared about her experience so much is because I'm thinking about majoring in graphic design as well. Rachel basically said that the reason why she got her internship was because she was outgoing and made sure she talked to people before talking about herself. And trust me, I believe her. Rachel was able to get a paid internship working for Hallmark, and during that experience she made her own card and baby book. I never really thought about getting an internship, but after hearing all of the good things about it I might just have to try to get one.

Sadly I can't find any of Rachel's work online but if I do I'll post it.

This week for our lecture we have Lead Pencil Studio coming in.

10/26 Lecture

So I've missed about 2 lectures, and I've been slacking on writing about the ones I have been to so here we go.

10/26 Lecture - Ben Volta
Ben Volta came in and talked about his projects with a mural arts program that he is a part of. It was actually really interesting, and no, I'm not saying that for brownie points. What I found interesting was how he was able to work with a group of kids, and teach them how to explore their mind artistically. The one project that he talked about was a mural ( if that's what you would like to call it ) on the side of an old, knocked down row home. The process of creating this mural took a lot of time and thinking. The design that they came up with was based on rooms that you would typically find in a house, and the furniture that you would find in them. For each room, the kids thought of a piece of furniture, did research using google images, and then drew them out. When they decided as a group on what furniture worked, and what didn't, they uploaded their drawings onto the computer and edited them into a design. When the designs for each room was printed, they attached them to the wall of the old building like wall paper. I personally have not seen this actual mural, but it is in Philly and I'm sure I will run into it one day.

The project.

Here's the new slideshow of my type, I've included a warning label that I made.

Type

This slideshow shows pictures done in type.
For class we were to have done 3 different pictures, all using type. One picture was to be representational, which is the picture of the toilet paper. One was supposed to be emotional, which is the picture of the boiling pot, and the other abstract, which is the one with the z's and ect.

At first I was most proud of my boiling pot, but now I think I over worked it.
Now my favorite is the abstract one, which was the easiest to do.

Dump your pen friend.

This video seriously shocked me so much.

The fact that Virgin Mobile was able to take this picture of a young girl off of a website and use it for their campaign doesn't make sense to me.

In no way should that even be legal. 

If this is the future of the way that companies are going to end up promoting a product then I feel that there should be more strict guidelines on how you upload or post your pictures online.

There should be almost a guaranteed copyright for when you upload a picture online.

David Carson on design and discovery

David Carson's talk was actually really entertaining. I found myself laughing quite often. The slides that he showed throughout his video really caught my eye. During his talk, the one point that he made that really stuck with me was how its important to put yourself in your work. It's safe to do what people always expect of you, and being safe may not always be the best choice. I like David Carson's work because it's exploring different ways of doing type. Some of it is hard to get at first, but when you think about it a little it all makes sense. It makes me want to try new things and step out of the box.

Tuesday 9/21 Lecture

During this weeks lecture we had Candy Depew come in. She specializes in print making and ceramics. To be completely honest, it was really hard keeping up with what she was saying because she would jump from subject to subject. But, from what I gathered she talked a lot about her travels, and the different experiences she's had. Oh, and she went to Tyler. Not at this location though. But she showed us a lot of her work, and trust me there was a lot of it, but it was pretty sick. After that lecture I'm actually really interested in printmaking, and I want to explore it a little. It was sort of an inspiration to look at Candy, and listen to Candy and know that she made it so far with her talents.

Lecture: 9/14

During Tuesday's lecture Peter Hanley came in to talk to us. Peter talked to us about the different types of studios. In his case, his two studios were his digital studio and his real studio. He didn't go to art school, he started off writing contemporary poetry, then went to publishing, and now is into typography and design. Peter made a valid point that an artist's number one studio is their head. Which, in all honesty, I never even thought about. To him, the computer is not a place but a layer on top of his mind. To me, a room with bright lighting and whatnot is equal to his computer.

Next weeks lecture we are going to have Candy Depew come in to talk to us.
She specializes in ceramics and print making.

Walk:Bike:Run Slidshow

Walk:Bike:Run

For my foundation computer class we were assigned to go on an adventure and experience something new.  I decided to take a day trip with my boyfriend and explore some of Philly. Growing up, I've always been exposed to Philadelphia, but I've never actually taken the time to walk around and see it. Our day started at 12 PM when we took the train to Suburban Station. From there we went to Love Park, which was my first time ever actually seeing it in person, and I snapped a few pictures and did a few sketches. Being at Love Park was probably the most relaxing experience i've ever had. There were so many different people, but every one was doing the same exact thing. Relaxing. There were kids playing in the fountain, old people falling asleep on benches, and of course couples getting their picture taken under the Love sign. We continued our walk through China Town. The smell of it made me hungry. I'm actually a little upset that I didn't come more prepared with money, because there was a ton of stuff that I would have liked to buy. I'll know better next time. I wasn't exactly sure where it was that we went next, but Tom ( my boyfriend ) told me that we were walking down Spring Garden, which is apparently still a part of China Town. Throughout the whole walk I kept taking pictures of graffiti. Graffiti was the one thing that kept catching my eye. There was a wall near Spring Garden where some of the best Graffiti artists got together and did pieces on. And from what I heard, it was legal. So, that's okay. The whole day was amazing, and I would honestly love to do it again. I've grown up outside of Philly my whole life, and I actually find it kind of sad that it took a school project to make me actually experience it.