Digital Imaging

For my proposal, I wanted to design something that is near and dear to me. A company founded with my friends here at UF, has been making strides to help students save money on academic materials through meeting other students on campus to buy or sell their old books, study guides etc.  I imagined for my design to have one side with typography in the BookMark'd Poppins typeface along with the logo raining down books, calculators, and study guides.  

The feedback was extremely helpful in further expanding the concept of this idea. I plan to provide more animations to add deeper element to display, while developing a smoother transition.

Black Experience: Men 2020 While engaging in the classroom about the African-American/Black-American history, the initiation of the usual topic would begin with the Transatlantic Slave Trade period and continue to the contemporary view of black people in the United States. This piece was designed to highlight the decay of black people from once having the freedoms and luxuries to media targets for dismantling the agenda of active or silent protest for injustice. The first individual was the warrior persona before the introduction of colonialism. The second, the 400 years of chattel slavery and removal of identity. The third, the rise of the Black Panther Party to empower the black community through the harsh environment surrounding the Jim Crow era. The fourth is representing the contemporary black man using a hooded man to represent the shooting of Trayvon Martin eight years ago that set the precedent for the continuing injustice of killing minorities without probable cause no...

Foundation of Project 2

I wanted to highlight the decay of the African American from once being an individual of status to be reduced to cattle. I was thinking of having the individual clad in their respective garment of status and possibly a crown. As the animation continues the individual's jewels begin to melt and the garments are torn and replaced with the chains and ragged clothing. 

For this project, my initial thought regarding decay was through the concept of societal decay, particularly the decay of Black Americans from the days of african rulership to the contemporary view of a Black Americans. Also possibly the decay of human interaction due to the over usage of phones.

I had a great experience in being able to showcase my work. Overall the piece was well received with minor changes that could further propel the meaning behind the work. My next plan of attack is to implement more blending within the mouth area with the dollar bill print to look more cohesive even though there was a split on whether I should leave it or not. Making the watch more apparent to not emulate a clock would be the next goal given that my intention was not to make the watch come across as a clock. The main concern which will take more processing was further expanding on the artistic side to make the bandage more scattered through my body. Overall the critiques were detailed and were legitimate enough to not stray from the concept.

               Extremes, Sharod Farmer 2020 Analyzing both aspects of my life I wanted to provide two segments that encompass who I am today. Today Sharod Farmer is an artist specializing with wooden sculptures and a Founder/CEO of a BookMark’d, an online marketplace for college students to buy and sell academic materials on their campus to other students. For sculpture, I am always going with the flow and allowing my sculptures to take form on its own with my own body at its expense. In the event, a problem occurs, duct tape symbolizes my initial decision to use temporary fixes to solve the problem ultimately still showing visible signs of a disaster such as remnants in my hair.  For my business personality, I analyze and examine more methodically to ensure the company thrives. Being on the move causing me to be heavily reliant on my keys to get me to my meetings. Being bombarded with paperwork to sign off for and always having to pit...

Using Smart Objects to manipulate

If I had to provide a synopsis of myself, it would begin with expressing that my level of compassion, attention to detail, work ethic, is what would culminate as what I am as a person. My special feature I would guess as my ability to think beyond the scope and understanding various perspectives. However, I do have some negative points, especially my inability to give time to myself and wanting to do everything (spreading myself too thin). Despite my flaws, I would like to be remembered as a man, who survived and made the best of my situation while also making the best for everyone to have the opportunity to succeed.

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John Baldessari

From reading the chapter in Digital Technologies as a Tool , the culture surrounding digital technologies has grown exponentially within the past decades while also being integrating into multiple components of modern artwork. The piece that I found the most favoring was titled Beauty Composites First and Second , created by Nancy Burson in 1982. This work served as the early adoption of utilizing digital art as a medium. The images were constructed using a technique known as morphing, which has been defined as being able to transform images by compositing. This was rather interesting due to my unending interest in crime dramas such as Law & Order. This technique was actually appropriated to be used in law-enforcement agencies in order to produce alterations of suspects or POIs (Person of Interest for all of you non-fans out there.) Bruson also used mathematical functions such as the Csuri's constitutes, which allowed Burson was able to transform one image onto anothe...

I primarily focus on sculpture as my medium of choice. This piece is called the Bane of Society.  Inspired by the design of snakeskin. Snakes have always had a negative relationship in most cultures with humans  especially from a religious standpoint. The dichotomy of the perception of snakes and the design of their skin  are two fascinating elements. Highlighting the pattern of the skin was the main focus of this piece by having  the material react with light to outshine the shape of the actual snake. Implementing the rigid structure being  juxtaposed with the elegant pattern being carved into the figure was to further exaggerate the opposing  forces that coexists with snakes.