Starting page and tenth page

I’m making a bit of progress if I do say so myself. Why can’t everyone spend a lot of time developing something family-oriented, like I do? It’s quite simple if you stop to think. I never rule out the children in an audience, you know.

The Pillow Book

The Pillow Book is a movie that apparently takes place in China. The text that frequently stood out to me involved the “eyes,” the “lips,” and the “sex.” I heard about calligraphy being a marvelous thing, but I never thought it could also be portrayed on the body.

On a little girl, there are usually markings placed on the cheeks, the forehead, the lower lip, and the upper back. In this process, the girl starts to grasp the concept of Chinese calligraphy, even during the time when she has to write her name.

As the movie progressed, I began to anticipate the entire body of a woman becoming the canvas for calligraphy. What came as unexpected was when the woman covered in calligraphy had the calligrapher sign his name on the bottom of her foot. The art of writing just about anywhere is a rather intriguing concept, and I’m sure it can only be done just as long as the tool used for the medium is all natural.

More pages

My rhyme works very well, don’t you think?

1000 Journals

Now there’s something completely original: journals being passed on to people who are willing to show off their creativity on their own pages.

It’s kind of sad how creativity dwindles in most people as they reach adolescence. This might be because they can never get hooked on things that are meant to be pleasing to audiences in a sublime way. As a result, someone decided to spread out books with blank pages so whoever obtains the books can express him/herself. One could write, draw, tape scraps of paper, press stamps, and just about anything one could do with a page on a book.

I never quite understood how people, including my dad, have trouble expressing their creativity. Luckily for me, I’ve been focusing on being entertained by comic strips, animated films, and video games for all ages. Give me a book and I can show you what I’ve been conjuring for the past five years or so.

First Six Pages

I know this is my first time scanning pages, but I think I can see some faint outlines of pictures on the next/previous pages.

Swoon

Ah, my first post for Mrs. Small in almost two years.

This unusual lady, ‘Swoooooon,’ has an unusual way of portraying whatever’s on her mind to the public. What she does is work on life-sized carvings of people in various scenarios in a small apartment and sticks them to the walls on the street when they’re done. That’s a way of developing a meditation of focus. Living in New York City, she simply wanders and looks and takes in a lot about the moment of observing, whatever that means. I found that she somehow stinks at toning down language when speaking about how exasperated she is, BUT I found that she once had a blast during her cross-country adventures. There were thrills by the water, including raft-building, which sounds like something big and interesting I could do during summer vacation. I must admit, her concept of showing off art is rather inspiring.

A Book of Electronic Fun

A Book of Electronic Fun by CJ Signorino | BOOK INFO

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MoPA

Seeing Beauty, located at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park, is an exhibition in which the viewers discover the beauty of photography through the eyes of various photographers, including Bill Brandt, Walker Evans, Mary Ellen Mark, Edward Weston, Minor White, and Aaron Siskind. The gorgeous pictures people expect to see consist of the many genres of photography, like portraiture, abstraction, landscape, and still life. When I was in Fine Arts in high school, I became aware of these concepts and knew how significant they can be in society. Since my panorama of the view outside my house wowed everyone in the classroom, I knew it was a good idea for me to submit it to the Arts Contest, in which three winners would be awarded 100 dollars. The photographs in the exhibition really do feature elements in the context of aesthetic beauty, and they remind me about the fact that my experience of looking at art can be affected by the question of how our personal interpretation and notions of what constitutes beauty. Nigel Poor’s pictures of flies suggest that beauty of a creature can become obsolete as time goes by. One picture, Lima 89 (taken by Aaron Siskind in 1975), is one of an L painted on a wall and an homage to Franz Kline, a painter known for abstract expressionist paintings that appear in black and white. Another picture, which features Courtney Chavis and Georgiannia Oswald (taken by Mary Ellen Mark in Lexington, South Carolina, 1995) and appears in black and white, suggests beauty can exist at an age before 10. I should know that because I have a sister who competed and won in several beauty pageants when she was in Elementary school. I also noticed there were pictures of 7-year-old girls practicing for a beauty pageant taken by Susan Rankaitis, reminding me of those days when my sister was in the pageants. With my photographic eye and Photoshop skills, I’m bound to make objects look old and new depending on their appearance.

Ordover Gallery

Abraham Ordover is one of the photographers whose pictures can be found at the Ordover Gallery, which was apparently named after him. That’s because he formed a partnership with the San Diego Natural History Museum in 2006, leading to the opening of said gallery on the Museum’s 4th floor. Before changing his career, he was a Yale-educated law professor, attorney, and mediator. He became a professional photographer in 2000 and had solo gallery shows in New York City, Atlanta, San Diego, and Palo Alto. His solo exhibitions were in university museums, including University of Colorado and Georgia Tech, and his major one man shows too place at the Parthenon Museum of Nashville and the Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta. Some of his Monarch butterfly photographs are truly amazing and give us a good glimpse of what nature is like in Mexico. There’s one photo with multiple butterflies, some of which are blurred with the background and a some of which are closer and higher in quality. There’s really a sense of depth in there! When I take pictures, I always like to have objects appear to be three-dimensional and the background to be a little blurry. But the pictures I’m taking are mostly electronic products, so the backgrounds are usually minor. I think it’s more fun when I alter colors of the objects I take and make them look like they don’t exist in the real world. If Abe used Photoshop, the wings of the butterflies would really stand out. There are other artists besides Ordover whose photos can be found  in the gallery as well. There’s Olof Carmel (a photographer who used archival print on canvas for his pictures in Lake Tahoe), Charles Cramer (the one who used three kinds of print for his nature pictures), and Tom O Scott (the one interested in Fuji Crystal Archive Lustre, which apparently involves the rearrangement of objects in the sand). It got me to thinking about the fact that pictures can be made to look as if they were painted, and Photoshop is a great approach. These artists sure know how to impress.

Felix J. Bonomo

Today, I went to the Kellogg Library and learned about Felix J. Bonomo, a photographer whose pictures reflect stories of places and people he saw in his travels. His deepest interest is in the rapidly changing lives and culture of China, where history has been recorded for thousands of years and recreation is taking place each day. As his career in photography matured, he found himself in international operations, which required frequent travel to Europe and Asia. He chose to go to Asia because to him, the continent was an intriguing part of the world and a natural subject for him to photograph. Now, we get to see a gallery of photographs from China he calls, “Women Hold Up Half The Sky.” While traveling through the rural areas with his camera, Felix was fascinated by the images of Chinese women working at everything from nanny to construction worker to religious pilgrim to office and restaurant workers. Like him, I, too, would be drawn to anything people would find interesting, including the long shot of the road I took from the side of my house for a panorama project. If an object satisfies me, I’m sure it’ll satisfy everyone else. This book I’m creating, “A Book of Electronic Fun,” will consist of interesting electronic products with altered color schemes, which I think many people will find intriguing. The title “Women Hold Up Half The Sky” comes from Mao making a comment about women holding up half the sky, claiming their equality with men in a Confucian society that had never considered them equal. This equality is evidenced by the fact that women became half the work force, but that’s only an anddition to the household and family work that’s been done for years. What’s interesting about Felix’s photos is that some of the Chinese people featured in the pictures didn’t know he was taking pictures of them. Sometimes, when I take pictures of people, they don’t bother looking at the camera because I never tell them to.