Installation is now complete - well mostly. I'm still toying with the idea of created artist statements for the digital prints and USB-NA. I can put them up through tomorrow if I do it. Otherwise install is done. It went perfectly smoothly other than a minor incident with the trunk of the tree. I lost my grip trying to get it out the the library and into the hall. It slid down my arm so I have a really nice set of scratches but they're just surface scratches so it looks far worse than it is. :)
I'm working on turning my PowerPoint portfolios into slide shows but I ran into a snag. Microsoft (which has now totally earned their nickname Microsucks in my book) removed the feature that converts PowerPoint slide shows into html files in the newest version (at least on the Mac version). So I can make it into a .mov if I want to mess with animation timings for hours. Or, I can opening each one in Keynote and have it covert the presentations for me. *sigh* Why can't Microsoft stop screwing things up? In any event the slide shows will be a nice synopsis of each part of the project and will explain a lot more detail about the meaning of each piece. Look for that in a day or two.
I would like to beg for a real photographer to take pics for me. I'm flat broke so I can't pay but I also can't use my camera worth a damn. Yes I read the manual, like six times but when you don't really understand what the F-stop does exactly, knowing where it is doesn't really help you. The little tiny blurb it provides is about as clear as mud and I have had zero time to spend on photography this semester. You'll see in a minute that I used a pretty expensive camera to take really crappy pictures (its a gift). You don't get to see the digital prints because I couldn't figure out how to photograph them without a giant flash showing on the print - well it dawned on me when I got home how to turn the flash off but it was too late then wasn't it. All in all my pictures, the "good" ones are passable at best but mostly terrible. You're only seeing the passable ones for the most part.
BEGIN PICTURES........
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| The school only provided our name so I provided the title of my exhibit. There was some discussion about not allowing this because it wouldn't be fair to students not willing to spend the money (mine cost less than $10). Cry me a river. As you can see, mine went up. If you can't save $10 in 4 years you need help. |
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| The entire exhibition |
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| Left Corner |
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| My sign-in book, it says "Never Stop Thinking." The pen itself says "Last Sin" on one side and "TexelGirl" on the other side with ones and zeros in the background. No detail too small. |
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| This is the pedestal for the sign-in book. I had two extra PC cases that had no covers on them at all. Together they were almost a perfect height for a pedestal-table. Inside was the fallen angel statue that was "gifted" to me at the very beginning of the project and the extra apple I bought. The fallen angel served as a model for my "square project" assignment at the beginning of the semester. |
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| Satellite Dish Grouping A |
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| Satellite Dish Grouping B |
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| The Tree of Knowledge of Good & Evil with all 5 apples fully installed. Yes, if you look closely that is a crow standing on top of the tree. Why? Because. Just Because. An no, you won't get any more explanation than that. As you can see I am a lousy photographer. I took several photographs and this was the best of the bunch. The chain in the picture will be removed Monday morning, I Photoshopped both of them out of the larger picture :) |
