drake

i just bought a ticket to see Drake at the Sprint Center in March, 
but the ticket is for my sesster for her 31st birthday gift, im just sad that she is going to go by herself, lol

project 1,

First project of the semester, photo collage!
I wanted to use the view from my dorm room for my collage. Below are three ideas/mini collages i put together to guide me to my final collage that i will make! so far it turned out nice!

Painters invented photography?

In the text Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes, he states that photography was NOT invented by painters just because of the framing, perspective and camera obscurer. Rather it was the chemist who determined that the light and rays "emitted a variously lighted object." Barthes also speaks of color and how it is an artifice just like a cosmetic, it's not needed but rather an accessory. Depending on the photo, i feel that black and white photos look way better than colored photos. Since the invention of color, black and white is more rare and has an out dated feel to it, but it can bring more meaning and emphasis to an image because of the lack of color making the photograph much stronger. Barthes talks alot about the past and the future and about being there where the photograph was taken, "the photograph does not call up the past,….. photography offers an immediate presence to the world,. a co-presence,…..at once the past and the real." I feel that i agree with what he says, a photograph is a captured moment of the past to keep as a reminder, being co-presence.

school starts next week, ;/ im not ready to go back! ahhh but im so ready to get away from home, gotta get my act together,