Disconnected from Reality

I’ve battled depression on and off since the mid ’90s, and have often found myself feeling a surreal sense of awkwardness in different environments, and sometimes in my own skin. Immersing myself in books, films, and video games helps me manage my depression, but I’ve also wondered if immersing myself so fully into various stories has caused my recurrent feelings of disconnectedness to magnify. This project gave me the chance to visualize this feeling of not fitting in and of feeling surreal by exploring the juxtaposition of reality and fantasy through the use of photography and digital illustration.

2018-02-26T19:20:45-06:00December 1st, 2009|Design|

Art, Postmodern Criticism

Here’s an article I just read and really enjoyed, and I have to say I agree with a lot of what the critic says. http://www.integralworld.net/martin-smith.html “The proverbial head ate the heart in an attempt to understand it, so that avante garde art and literature have sadly been relegated to PhD’s and ever-narrowing groups of intellectuals who “get it”, never bothering to ask if it’s worthy of being gotten in the first place.”

2015-11-04T04:55:17-06:00October 20th, 2009|News|

Surreal Landscape, Digital Painting

Surreal Landscape, Digital Painting | Fall 2009 Class: Adv. Imaging Professor: Doug Clark Software: Photoshop This digital painting was made for part of my final project Disconnected From Reality. The idea was to place photographic cutouts into illustrated environments to portray a sense of isolation and disassociation.

2025-02-18T01:25:28-06:00October 1st, 2009|Art|

Beyond the Sea

Beyond the Sea was inspired by a song titled The Iron Sea by Keane. I wanted the words to have a handwritten look so I wrote it out and scanned it into the computer. I duplicated and layered the text onto a photograph I took of the ocean in St. Augustine, Florida, and set the blending mode to screen so my original black text would appear white.

2025-02-18T05:16:03-06:00September 30th, 2009|Photography|

Scanner Art

One of the projects in my Digital Imaging class introduced us to using scanners as a means of creating art, aka scanography and scanner photography. The extremely shallow depth of field and flat plane create a really interesting look. These three images didn't make the cut for my portfolio but I thought they were fun. Check out Scanography for more scanner art samples. Snake with Flowers, 2009 The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog, 2009 Falling Baby, 2009

2025-02-18T05:16:23-06:00September 29th, 2009|Photography|

Don’t work for free.

I’ve been reading a ton of articles concerning logo design today when I stumbled upon this blog , and it got my blood boiling a bit. The lesson to be learned from it is that working for free cheapens us, hurts us all, and makes our work under-valued. This seriously troubles me. I still have a little bit of school to complete before I’ll be out looking for a job, but man oh man do I really need a job when I graduate. I know a lot of people are lucky and manage to go to college free one way [...]

2020-02-29T01:00:40-06:00September 25th, 2009|News|
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