Backtrack

I always keep forgetting about this. But I guess here it is - works by the artist I chose to write a biography-like report on: Diane Arbus.

Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey


Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park, NY

Jewish Giant at Home With His Parents in The Bronx, NY

What makes Diane Arbus one of the most influential photographer of the 20th Century? I guess Diane Arbus' ability to capture the strangeness in what is supposedly a ordinary and normal, and on the same note, capture the humanity of life in something that is so exotic and bizarre would be part of the answer. Through her images, she challenged us to the question of "What is normal" - there is no longer a standard blue print of how families and homes should be like.

It was just too bad, and a loss to the photography world that Arbus' creations ended there, as it was seen as some of the most revolutionary images of her time. However, her time ended just too soon - nearly as soon as it 'really' started.

The End of Holidays

Feeling a little unwilling at the moment, don't think anyone would want to go back to school/work after a nice break. I did however manage to design, despite being preoccupied with cousins and parties.

After some hours of tweaking... I guess I'm quite happy with how my machine montage turned out... though the fingers are a tad odd due to the angle of everything, but due to the lack of time, I'll have to make do for now.


Also another plus was I abandoned my initial idea for my political poster, thanks to the inspiration from my cousins since they're both sick. Out of sheer boredom, I took out their medicine for them and started taking photos of it since they were still eating lunch. I did feel bad about playing with their medicine, I'm pretty sure they didn't get any more sick because of me. However, I was quite happy with the outcome of the photos and decided to use it in a postcard.

Machine

I was brainstorming on all the possibilities on how to create a robotic looking hand. Some of the options I came up with was to draw my own, use an image from movies such as Terminator and a few other not quite feasible ideas. But as I was researching on line about this, I came across some machine like humans where people had used photoshop to 'add' metal bits from machines into the body's ligaments and the likes, and used wires as well.

Here are the images I eventually chose to use in my machine hand. Here

And these are the wires I found for my hand. Here

Dreamy days

As I was walking home one day from the gym, out of boredom I looked up into the sunny blue skies above me. It was an exceptionally beautiful day indeed, the weather was not too warm not too cold, a nice breeze would sweep by every once in a while. Even the clouds were quite amazing as they floated slowly and dreamily in the sky. Perhaps it was because I just finished exercising, but I suddenly felt very calm and very content.

I immediately took out my phone and took pictures of this sight... which eventually inspired me for my political design.