Photography Scavenger Hunt

I have arranged my images in the order below;

1. Asymmetrical image
2. Symmetrical image
3. Radial image
4. Person and their surrounding space
5. Person up close
6. An image from the point of view of an ant
7. An image from the point of view of a bird
8. A stable image
9. An unstable image
10. Your name on campus

shovel

Food journal

Due to my interest on cooking, i like reading the journals. 'Tupike' is a swahili word which means lets cook.

One or two words- Interests

math

Calculation is in my blood and they flow like the polynomial graph. They are exciting when a complex quiz comes to a solution at the end.

One or two words- Positive outcome

Wall frame

Decorating my walls with the picture frames of roses fills my heart with flying beauty like the eagles wings full of aspirations and endless love of nature.

One or two words- Indescribable emotion

My shoes

I can't wait for summer so that my feet can have freedom of breath and be on my beautiful butterfly saddles.I am  full  of confidence with it because of its comfort and make.

One or two words- Self believe

Snow

This is my second winter experience and its a big challenge for me to shovel snow outside my back and front doors. Its like needles piercing me.

One or two words- Challenging condition.

Glade

This is a compound full of power and fantastic take away of odor.It gives the splendor and beauty of smell in the house in fact i feel incomplete without the stuff.

One or two word- Fulfillment.  

cooking

I am inspired everyday to cook something new especially making it in a traditional because modern way came from traditional initiatives. All outcomes have given me joy and motivation to cook more.

One or two words-Joy of cooking

Bible

I read it everyday and i get hope of life and renewed in my life spiritually and physically. When i have hard times, i get solutions from it and out of it my salvation and believe grow more and more.

One or two words-Spiritual bread

Bed cover

This is an interesting activity part of my life. When i am almost finishing to crotch, its like when i was approaching the end line in an athletic competition.

One or two words- An interesting activity

Love seat

When the fire alarm is on, vacating the scene is compulsory and here i have my beautiful love seat and i need to physically lift it out of the burning fire.

One or two words-physical-lift impossibility

Buck eye

The day i received my first buck eye,lots of excitement came into my life academically and socially and at the same time i was anxious of what is ahead of my education.

One or two words- Academic process.

Journey Begins

Long and endless destiny storm into my mind. I did not have a clear picture of where i was going but i had imaginary ideas about the destiny. The text portrays where i was going was a place i have never been before but was determined to arrive. The color i have used make the photo cool and calm mood.I decided to put the tower of the bridge because it contributed to arrival of my destiny also its full of beauty of art.Finally the photo of my image riding on the college bus and holding a school bag give an idea of transit to the destiny.

My First Day in School

Early in the morning on my first day to start classes, I decided to buy my parking ticket as I go to my first class. However, I managed to get the Transportation and parking main office and on arrival fear came to me because the queue was long and I knew I will not be in class on time. In the front desk of the office I bought my parking ticket and was told that I will connect a bus to get my classes and the attendant gave me a bus route map and a brief description to my class. This was a very big blow to me because all was out of my expectations.  

I entered the bus and I did not pay attention to any progress but rather look on the buildings so that I may alight next to the stadium. The building was so big such that I could not figure out where to find the class and to make it worse I did not see the figure which was written on my time table and I had to go all round the stadium. I decided check on next figure to the one I had and fortunately I climbed the stairs and found the class but was half an hour late.

There are various things I did not see on that day, for example the slide show writings in front of the bus showing the next stopping station and time, also I did not recognize or rather saw the stop request string in the bus. That’s the day I will live to remember because I laugh at myself when I think about it because it was a hard day.

The Accidental Masterpiece

I agree with the author when he said there is no qualification for writing art and also many essays are driven more by themes. It’s obvious when he said that art provides us with clues about how to live our own life more fully; also creating, collecting and eve just appreciating art can make living a daily masterpiece.

I propose when he said art is an intense and often self-conscious unworldly devotion to our circumscribed routine and proper attitude towards art as critic, also making a work of art with no reasonable prospect that anybody would ever notice it. I like when he said that you calibrate your own estimation of a thing based on the value you anticipate and others will assign it.

I like when he said art is a good taste of an open argument and not a list of acceptable items where no limits can be placed on the tendency; in fact it constantly needs to refresh itself with new outrage.

Interpreting Visual Culture

Art can also be revealed through cultural background information. Like in this passage, the author illustrates the distinction between two subjects that is denotation and connotation and the use of different language to represent a certain culture. The artist also has used painting to describe the African American culture and how it has made an influence in the surrounding. This shows how art can make changes in the society either negative or positive hence conflict the big idea.

In the magazine cover, culture has been used to describe and illustrate the whole big ideas. The artist is describing the denoted image of the women and everything about them. There is also the use of cultural language which can describe who they are for example “Booty Camp”. The connoted image of the women gives an expression of who they are and what they do. Their aggressive attire is symbolic rather than practical. Finally cultural interpretation is affecting children as per the Tee-shirts, Teddy Bears, Cereals and Boxes denotations and connotations.

Big ideas and Art making

I agree when the author says that big ideas can expand our art making concerns beyond technical skills, formal choices and media manipulation to human issues and conceptual concern. Big ideas can engage us in deeper level of thinking. Becoming personally connected to a big idea is highly important for art making. Big ideas represent the artist’s overall purpose for art making, and they tell in broad conceptual terms what the artist is about.

Examples of big ideas,

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<!    ·Life and death

        ·Individual identity

<      ·Community

<!     ·Emotional life

<!     ·Family

<!     ·Idealism

<!     ·Social norms

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 Themes become a big idea when it persists throughout an artist’s body of work. Subject matter is the artist topic, whereas big ideas are the artist concept that is what creates the main body of art making for example, for Jennifer Bartlett’s, gardens are the subject matter but her big ideas are houses,boats,oceans and landscapes. Big ideas are rules and systems represented by human attempts to impose order and meaning. Artist frequently transfer big ideas from one subject to another.

THE CHEESE MONKEY

Interests

The author has portrayed a picture of art using parables or rather certain words with different meaning for example “Townies going up and down the land” which describe people going through change in technology. Going from left to right is part of our daily life and everything we do “We are western world. We read, see, think. Left. Right. We can’t help it” Top to bottom has been described by nature that is gravity and hence everything that goes up must come down. Big and small has been used to imply photography and zooming it all which shows the power of manipulating arts to give a real meaning. In front of and in back of has been used to display images to appear in real world.

I disagree with the author for using virus to mean enemy in technical terms. There is no direct meaning in the content, everything is confusing.

THE HERESY OF ZONE DEFENSE

Interests

The story describes exactly the flow of the game and how players use techniques to lay the ball up into the basket. The author describes the project of a well planned and organized game to the extent of completing it with success hence making fun to the audience, for example when Kareem’s perfect defense made Erving’s instantaneous, pluperfect response to it both necessary and possible. The author describe basketball as a fine art, can educate and much beloved public spectacle. This also leads to programming designs systems and hence professional basketball, and however art wins.

One thing that bothers me is that, sports are not part of me especially basketball and it’s making my nerves bored and tired. I disagree when the author declined the man to man defense because even if that rule exists still the offense can create a design to disorient the plan.

Introductory about myself

Life is an interesting opportunity on earth especially when art becomes everything in it. I was born in the horn of Africa in Kenya and became a wonderful lady in sports and athletics, but there is one thing which has dissolved the sports and athletic in my blood and that is technology revolution and change in career,and commercial globalization.

Technology has given me lots of interests, that is arts or rather gospel music, passion on guitar and piano and chemical engineering as a career. Craft has become part of my life, for example crotching. Design and creativity has allowed me to make certain simple pattern of a bed cover.

I decided to take arts education because it will awaken my creativity on design and critical thinking to do things on my surrounding that is in my career and outside my career. Acquiring knowledge from school is my major interest and I know with the help of my lecture and fellow students and hard work, then light will appear at the end of the tunnel.

When it comes to what I like and places I like gives me a picture of a conservative person that’s why I am doing art education. I like watching CNN and HLN news and other news channels like BBC because I have lots of interest on globalization. Scientific channels are also part of my interest because of my career Chemical Engineering. I like cooking my own food but sometimes eat at steak and shake and donatos.