Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Tuesday, February 24, 2009


This picture is of an older and aged bicycle with the seat covered by a thick swarm of bees. The photo seems to be taken decades ago due to the older looking bike, older looking street it’s on, and that it is a black and white photo. The photo focuses mainly on the bicycle seat which is completely covered in hundreds of smarming bees. The bees cover the entirety of the seat so much that the color and texture of the seat are unknown. The shape of the seat it still evident, however the bees make it tough to tell how thick and how wide the seat actually is. There are bees flying all around the seat and even under the seat on the bike’s frame and on the back tire. The bike it standing up and is positioned on the road a few feet from the brick side walk. Behind the bike looks to be a shop with a window display, but the picture doesn’t allow this to be known for sure.
This picture is simple and has one main focus, the bees on the bicycle seat. The picture zooms in on the bee covered bicycle seat so much that it demands the most attention. All other aspect of the scene, like the store, the side walk, and the rest of the bike, are left up to the imagination. The viewer doesn’t know who owns the bike, where the bike is, what store it is in front of, or why there are bees all over the seat. The photographer obviously wants the main point of the picture to be the bees covering the seat completely as if it was their bike.
This picture shows the power of teamwork. The bees have covered the bike seat so completely that most people would not go near this bike seat, let alone attempt to hop on to ride it. One bee on the bike seat would do nothing and could easily be scared away, but hundreds of bees swarming the bike seat would scare most people enough to stay away from the bike. The swarm of bees found this bicycle and decided that it was theirs and they joined together to declare their ownership of the bike. As an individual bee, occupying this bike would be impossible. But as a powerful and terrifying swarm of hundreds, they easily took this bike and the owner is now scared to take it back. When individuals join forces to become one single power, with one single goal, much more is possible. As individuals we are limited, but as a single collective overpowering presence, we can do anything.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Photo shop first try


This is a photo of a mountain. We whited out the sky. We used filter (mosaic tile) on the town below the mountain. We inserted our mascot, which is the little mermaid into the picture. We Cropped and rotated the picture to make it look like Arielle is sledding down the mountain. Photo shop is pretty dope. I was surprised at all the cool tools it used. My favorite is the wand tool.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009


This is my first drawing. It the firide and i scan it useing the KIC scan.

Shades and Monsters


These are three of monsters that i drew. I used a sharpie to outline some scales and make some parts and lines of the monsters more defined. I hope you like!

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Extacis

Matthew Kiley
First Draft


Nick Sevigney’s display in the gallery at Drayper and Maynard is composed of several ceramic pieces, a few sketches, and a book filled with scribbles and brainstorms.
The ceramic works of art are primarily composed of winding pipes links together dozens of bowls, drains, containers and spouts. On the wall next to the biggest ceramic piece are two large pieces of paper with messy scribbles filling almost every inch of the sheets. The scribbles resemble the shapes and ideas of the ceramic pieces and are obviously the beginnings of the whole display. Tucked away at the end of the display is a small black book opened to a page with several pages marked. In the book are more scribbles written with a thin black pen that also resemble the ceramic pipe and bowl pieces. All the ceramic art, the large scribble filled construction paper, and little black book fit together because they are related with the same ideas and the same purpose.
The five three dimensional ceramic pieces are all different but all have used the same principles and ideas in their design. They are medium sizes and could fit in a 3 foot by 3-foot box. The designs are all very similar. The fundamentals of all the pieces are combinations of pipes linking into different containers, drains, and spouts. It seems that if water were to go through a pipe it come full circle going through all the pipes and bowls. The colors used are all dull and the art looks aged. The pipes twirl around different pipes and bowls and around cliffs but still link with other pipes. The organized chaos of the ceramic pieces make the art that much more creative in design. There retro looking drainage systems, that seems to be from the future.

Monday, February 2, 2009

Pictue Blog


I didnt know what kind of pcture to use so i went to goggle and just started typing in words. I found this picture of lions walking down the road somewhere in Cali. I dont know the whole story, but i think that makes it better. Just imagine seeing wild lions on the road. pretty rad huh?