Practise Photoshop

Petrina Hicks

Inspired Bill Henson

I have been thinking about my final piece and i have been inspired by Bill Henson. I want to create a photographic series of disturbing, eerie, morbid images focusing on the development of spirituality and sexuality of an adolescent. I want all the images to contain a male model in women's lingerie with a white mask on. I would like to experiment with nature settings... maybe have him floating in murky water holding the floating mask. I really want to explore the character of people while they find who they are. The things they choose to hide from the world and the things they throw out there.

just imagine.

This is a photoshopped image that i created to represent myself.

Olive Cotton

Olive Cotton works with a fascination of landscape and the Australian bush. She successfully captures the purity and beauty of the land.

Ansel Adams

Bill Henson

Fashion; Art

I think fashion is a way of expressing yourself creatively. Alternative fashion is a good example of this. After looking deeper into my personality profile and the way I present my external self I have become really interested in investigating the clothes I wear. My favorite items, why I was drawn to them, the colours, the textures, and the way I want others to perceive me.

Michael Zavros

Appropriation: Art Making?

In the visual arts, to appropriate means to adopt, borrow, recycle or sample aspects of man-made visual culture.

I think this process is a valid form of art making because it isn't just copying, it is creating an alternative meaning and using objects or images to convey a point. The process has a subject matter and can be altered in various ways therefor making it art. It is all about speaking through visual language. As long as the appropriating artist isn't claiming the image to be an original or their own than they can usually dodge copyright claims.

Jeff Koon

Cindy Sherman

In her photographs each one creates a character and she makes this obvious, but the way you interpret it is left up to you.

In Cindy's recent works a lot of them focus of sex dolls that are demonstrating erotic poses.

Chuck Close

After closely looking at this image I can make assumptions about the personality and life of this man. I think this man would be one that enjoys the simple things in like; music, food, sleeping. I can imagine him sitting outside a cafe, drinking espresso, reading over a film script and smoking. I think this man would be in his late 20's or early 30's but looks older due to a hardcore rock n' roll lifestyle. I assume his nights consist of loud music, alcohol and drugs. I could imagine him with a unique, sexy, european name that doesn't really suit him. I believe he would have a very vivid imagination and an eye for film making. I don't think he would be married as he seems too spontaneous and up in the clouds to settle down. I could imagine him being a film director with a very creative perspective on things, spending his time writing scripts and listening to indie music. I think he would dream about flying and worlds lacking gravity.

Imagine Another Life

One of my favourite things to do on a raining winters day it to curl up in bed and read. To imagine anything I ever wanted to and believe the most amazing things. I mostly read fantasy or science fiction novels because I love reading delicate descriptions of these fantasy creatures and surreal worlds. I often imagine myself in another world during boring days. I image what it would be like to ride a magical dragon over a sea protruding with castle tops and what it would be like to go home to a family on centaurs.

Nightwish - Meadows of Heaven

Ramble On - Led Zeppelin

Evanescence - My Immortal

Fashion

I love alternative fashion. I think it's all about colours and textures. I love to wear velvet and lace. I think fashion is about showing who you are through what you wear. I love leopard print and Dr. Martens. I love detailed lace corsets and layering.

Rock n' Roll

When I think of music I think of shredding guitars, insane drum solos and vocals that give you goosebumps. I listen to a variety of genres of music but when I turn of my Ipod I go straight to either heavy metal or rock n' roll. I grew up to the sound of 80's rock n' roll... Bands like: Kizz, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin and Bruce Springsteen. This influenced me a lot and these bands are some of my favourites today. Although I still go back to these regularly, I am more of a metal head now that I have grown up...

My favourite band is Parkway Drive, and to me this is music.

LINKS:

Parkway Drive - Sleepwalker

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

Parkway Drive Live

Led Zeppelin Live

Popular Culture

Popular Culture to me is a bit like fads. It's what is all over MTV and what everyone is talking about. I'm not a big fan of popular culture because I think a lot of the time it's not what everyone likes, they just like it because of what it is. Today I would list examples of things like Lady Gaga, The Twilight Saga and Russell Brand as popular culture... It also includes things like fashion and hobbies. Things that people talk about and do on the weekends. I think popular culture is heavily influenced by these icons as shown below. People do things that they see them doing, or see them eating or wearing. Popular culture to me is strongly shaped by the media, from the controversial film clip on MTV to the next teen vampire heart-throb.