Art Events (cont.)

Ansel Adams, Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California. 1927

Bowers Museum of Cultural Art
The black and white lines throughout the image are very straight and they keep your eye moving, also the use of negative space in the image keeps you focused on the structure of the dome. I love the way this black and white image came together. The Monolith has a strong shadow and seems very powerful in its imagery. This also inspires me to do more black and whites in the future, or to change my images to black and whites through Photoshop.

Octopus, Tim Hawkinson 2006
Photographic collage mounted on foam
The Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Hawkinson uses detail fo human anatomy to create his pictures. To create the suckers on the octopus he uses his mouth and lips to make them look llike the actual suckers of an octopus. With the use of photography Hawkinson manipulates the images into a collage t create a visually stimulating image. I love this image and the creative use of Photoshop throughout it. I feel inspired to an create and image like this one with body parts and the use of Photoshop.

Art Events (cont.)

Paul Nicklen- Balboa Park, The Natural History Museum
April 20 -

He has beautiful images with beautiful composition. I especially like the Leopard Seal that is posted at the Museum. The image is a seal on the ice and you can see the mountain in the background covered in snow and under the water. Not too many photographers create stunning images like this one. Paul Nicklen has many images on his site that are just as beautiful as this one.

The color in this image shows off his powerful use of underwater photography with the land use. Very eye catching! This image inspired me because it used a lot of color in its image and was very eye catching. The blues and whites were very complimentary to eachother and showed a uniqueness to the image as a whole.




Polar Bears, Ralph Lee Hopkins Balboa Park, The Natural History Museum
Such a pure picture of a mom and bear cub on the ice. The image in nearly all white except for the two bears walking away. This picture was something that I would definetly see in my personal collection....if I could afford it. I think they were asking $1500 for this print. This image inspires me because of its use of white space. I love seeing white space in images because it keeps you wondering and you can never really know what is beyond the image itself.


Yosemite Falls [03-93] John D. Clark<, The Ordover Gallery
John Clark produced an image in black and white of Yosemite Falls and showed great depth with his use of black and white. The image is very detailed and intricate to the point that it keeps you interested. The lines througout the image makes your eye wander and reveal things that you normally wouldn't focus on. This image inspired me by the use of black and white throughout the image. It almost seems mystical or magical. I would like to see more black and white images in my work one day.

Art Events (Cont.)

March 5 @ 7pm- Arts 111
Locally Grown Dance Series -SDSU faculty in choreography and they present fresh dance works that are modern and youthful. There was one lady at the end that was absolutely hilarious and she showed dance and the kitchen in her choreography. She was throwing Cheetos everywhere and yelling phrases throughout her performance that no one could understand. She was great.

Feb. 6 @ 7pm- Arts 111
Lux Boreal A Tijuana based dance group. They were the best dancers that I have seen, showing great rhythum and beats with their movement. For modern dance this will definetly keep you intrigued and interested throughout the whole performance. They used red tables as props and danced around them and over them throughout the whole performace. The music was very motivating also.http://www.luxboreal.com/


March 26 @ 8pm - Arts 111
North County North County, a play about a “side of life in North San Diego County rarely seen or discussed,inspired by the Al Norte de San Diego Latino History Project interviews. The play captures the many diverse and unique communities that reside in north county. It is a play about culture, clashes, commerce, dreams and desires.

March 12 @ 10am- Arts 111
Inside the Conductors jacket: Jung Ho Pak
A San Diego Chamber Orchestra Artistic Director and Conductor showed us his inspiring ways to introduce and perform in front of an audience. The arts have a big inpact on the audience and how we perceive classical music. He makes things more modern and interesting for younger audiences. He was also very passionate about his line of work which made it very interesting to listen to him talk. He also discussed the pep talks that he gives his musicians and how to inspire them to make things more interesting and involved as a whole group.

Art Events

Feb. 15 @7pm- CSUSM Arts 111
Katsura Kan-

Katsura Kan is a Master Butoh artist and his students performed a dance series that is considered a revolutionary dance which emerged from the Post WWII Japan. Katsura describes it as "surrealism of the flesh". This wasn't your typical dance, but it was very interpretive and very unusual to me. The dancers were performing acts like they were coming out of a wound and they were acting like animals and I found this pretty unusual for dance.

Feb 26 @ 7pm- CSUSM Arts 111
Hobey Ford
Hobey Ford is knows as a puppeteer and he created all of his puppets by sculpting them out of foam and other materials. This was the most interesting event that I have seem yet. He showed the movements that the puppets can take on and how the are manipulated by the hand to seem realistic. He had marionetts, "Foamies" and shadow puppetry. He was also the creator of the Peepers and he showed us some great moves to inspire children in their world of learning.

Quail Botanical Gardens

Here are some pics from Quail Botanical Gardens. There wasn't much in the Native section, but there were some great pics from the other sections. I found that the Lake near campus had much better native plants and they were all labeled. Lakeview Park and Discovery Lake such a beautiful place and a great lake to take pictures of.

Here are the pics of Quail!

Steve Freers

Expert in So Cal pictographs and petroglyphs, spoke to us about Luiseño expression, art, and communication methods via the canvas of stone. He showed how he enhanced the rock art so we can actually make the image invisible using the computer and photoshop tools.

He was a very motivated speaker and definetly knows his stuff. Listening to him speak was very interesting, he had a lot to say and the images that he showed were very powerful and vivid. The use of photoshop on his images helped reveal more than the naked eye could see and it was very inspiring to find new images throughout the rocks.

The Weather

The weather is bad and crummy, and it ruins my plans to go to Quail Botanical Gardens. Maybe Saturday will be better for photography. Till then!!

Spring Break!!

Spring Break is here and it is time to wrap up the progress on my book. I have completed my book and have minor touches to add to it. My book totals 250 pages and I can't bear to remove any of the pages.

The Appreciation & Preservation

of Southern California American Rock Art
By Steve Freirs

He discussed three different types of Rock Art; Petroglyphs, Pictographs, and Geoglyphs. He talked that the digital age helps advance all the rock art pictures to allow us to see what the drawings really were in the old days. Taking the images into photoshop allows us to see the images a little better so that we can interpret the images.

The three styles of Rock Art in So. Cal are La Rumorosa Style, Rancho Bernardo Style, San Luis Rey Style. He made us all understand the destruction that is around all of the rocks and how housing development is taking over the sacred sites all around.

Pechanga Images

This was the most interesting location so far. It had more Indian artifacts around and there was a lot of ground to cover.

Acordian Cards

Here are the pics from some trips that I have touched up and colorized.

Layouts 1-10

Here are my Indesign page layouts for pages 1-10

Rincon, Valley Center

Here are a couple of pictures that I took during our visit to the Rincon Reservation.