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Beautify

Photograph by Macsorro

This tutorial was based on the Beautify a Face tutorial from lunacore.com. 

It's interesting that doing something that sounds so simple as touching up a face is a very invested project! When I first saw it, I loved this photo taken by my friend Macsorro. However, typical girl, I thought that some touchup could be done to make it even more impressive.  I've always used Photoshop for photo compositions more than for photo editing. So this was definitely a good exercise! And I learned that everyone could use a little editing!! 

:: homework THREE :: cousin it

Cousinitweb

So I was home looking at the image that I posted of this project earlier and realized that I posted the wrong one!! How embarassing! So I reopened the file and saved the correct one, and am now uploading it. This was totally a fun project! Each student had pictures taken of their head from all angles and had to create a collage of themselves, based off of art projects by artist Kiki Smith. Since most of my pictures were of my hair, this is what I chose to concentrate on. 

Kind of looks like a squashed Cousin It, hence the name. :) 

:: extra CREDIT :: kaleidoscope

This was an extra credit exercise that I did for my own exercise, as opposed to turning in for class since technically I'm turning it in late. So the credit I am getting from it is the experience of the exercise. This was fun. My images are of a free newspaper stand in Hollywood, a PeeWee Herman doll, and a cat that came into the Apple store I used to work at, during the Snow Leopard release. This cat was adorable and totally looked like the snow leopard on the package! Plus, he was fairly well trained, walking on a leash with his owner. And he was HUGE!!! So, I thought I'd commemorate him in this kaleidoscope.  

Anyhow, I'm very tempted to print this out and use it as wrapping paper for the rest of this year! 

Kalediscope

::classwork:: animated gif

Click on the actual animation to see the full piece. The preview in this blog is poop. 

Zztop

no class today

I had an excellent adventurous weekend and was looking forward to class today. Had fun with the collages for class and was very curious to see what everyone else put together. But I should have seen it coming. Traffic lights were out the entire way to school. I saw Tommy's Hamburgers lose power completely. Somewhere along the line, the power in nearly three cities went out around dusk tonight. So by the time I got to school and saw that the only light in the place was coming from the partially lit parking garage, I had a feeling....

And yep, class in our basement lab was cancelled. Ah well.... Gives me time to read ahead and work on the face-morph project. 

As for my crazy weekend, I received a new nephew on Thursday (not quite the weekend but close enough!), went to International Sword Swallower Day at the Ripley's Believe it or Not museum in Hollywood   and the Museum of Death. Went to a beautiful baby shower for my friends Todd and Amy. I had a ton of fun making their gift since Todd is a professional knife thrower and it's not every day you can give someone a baby onesie that says "Don't make me MAD... my dad throws KNIVES!" and have it be relevant!!  It was truly one of the best baby showers I've been to! What can I say? I'm not a huge fan of the silly games. :p And the sweetest part of the baby shower was hearing Baby Jack's grandpa sing a song he wrote to his grandson. A true treat! 

Anyhow kiddos, for my classmates, see you Wednesday! Hopefully we have power!! 

love, 

me. 

Links: 

International Sword Swallower Day -  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/35644890#35644890

Knife Thrower "Jack Dagger - The King of Fling" -  http://www.jackdagger.com/

Museum of Death (not for the queasy) -  http://www.museumofdeath.net/