Art School

> I’ve just seen this blog about a student’s portfolio work, and what she has created is a really really sweet thang. For Sarah Kahn, a recent graduate of Pennighen Easg in Paris, this meant creating a book around “the emotional intellect delivered by some computing tool and functions.” That sounds pretty ominous and slightly vague to me, but what she created was a book that takes the digital world and makes it physical. > Through creative uses of cutting, folding, and layering, she’s created a bunch of pieces that absolutely blew me away. Creating physical versions of Photoshop has been done before, but ... Read Full Story

Our homework for the week is fairly simple, find one piece of media that inspires you in each of the following areas: Still, such as photos or sculptures Video, with a limit of 5mins, but can be from anything (porn?) Advertising, any form Audio, anything from music to random sounds For my still piece I have chosen a painting remixed by Banksy the infamous tagger/political artist. The video I selected is truly one of my favorites. It was created using painting with light and frame by frame animation techniques. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video The advertising bit ... Read Full Story

My first project at CCA is a simple but time consuming one. To start I must construct 40 rectangular blocks. These blocks can very from 1/8 inch to 3 1/2 inches on any side. They may not be perfect cubes, and the edges must be as straight as possible. Once these have been constructed I must sort then into three groups: dominate, subdominate, and subordinate. Dominate pieces visual weight demands that you look at them first Subdominate pieces take second place to dominate pieces Subordinate pieces are interesting because they are the least dominate, but remove them and the entire piece fails or looks ... Read Full Story

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The CCA has set out some new portfolio requirements its first year students. They seem fairly straight forward, but I have a few concerns. You can download the official PDF document here: CCA First Year Portfolio Guidelines . Here are the requirements in full: It is the goal of the First Year Program to have all students who are enrolled in Core Studio courses be prepared to keep a well-organized and properly formatted digital portfolio of their Core Studio work. In addition to this portfolio requirement all Core Studio students from Fall 2007 and/or Spring 2008 will be expected to attend a First Year ... Read Full Story