Assignment #4- The Final Map

    It was a long, but worthwhile, learning process.  I was a bit overwhelmed with the images of my family and friends. I went to Photoshop and made each image into paths and created 5 different shades and took the shapes into illustrator but they weren't translating as well in Illustrator. So I just took the gradient images and made them transparent with a map in a layer underneath. But eventually I gave the attention that they deserved.

The task of fitting of the images inside of the designated maps proved the biggest challenge. 

The next challenge in this project was matching up the maps so that they overlapped or that they showed the same area to scale.  I had 15 google maps screenshots for each move. I figured the proximity of the locations was what was important.

 I decided to make zoom-in windows of the the Valley and LA Maps. The key is crucial in understanding the chronology of the moves.

   And Finally the titles I chose are a throwback to one of my favorite movies as a kid, "An American Tale". I looked up the font used and I was able to download it for free from Font Meme.com.  I gave the same details that are show in the movie poster.

             

In the end, I feel satisfied with the final product.

Assignment 4- Landscapes Traveled and Tracked- Update

The steps to make the photos of my family that will get masked into the overall map.

The original photo


Created tone separations into 5 colors


Took them into  Illustrator and did image tracing tool.

Taking shape with the images and map depicting some of the tracks.This is the placed the images inside Illustrator. The El Salvador map (in progress) will also include the photo of my entire family.

Here's more images that will go inside the California map. These are some of the collages in progress.

 

These will be place in Socal. A NorCal photo collage is coming, coming soon.

Assignment 4- Landscapes Traveled and Tracked- Beginning stages

Beginning stages:

Tools: Adobe illustrator, information of migration from my family and my own movements in the us for the past 30 years.

In the beginning stages of the map landscapes. First I traced the maps of the nations. In my migration there are a lot of drops. My mom's there might not be as many in the latter part of the 20th century. But This fores me to see how  withing a small area I've moved around in a small area and brief gaps fo times. What does this say about the financial stability? What does it say about the  dependency of my family? At which era did it begin to settle down?

google images of maps of the countries involve din our migration.

after tracing them on illustrator

stay tuned for more in depth visual tracking as more info from family starts to come in.

Augmented Body Project- Ability to Grow Fur on Command

My augmentation is the ability to grow fur on command when I'm cold. The condition of extreme hair growth is called Hypertrichosis. Even though the ability of growing hair on command is not biologically possible yet the myth of animal and human combination is known in Egyptian, Native American and Meso-American Myths. The Goddess Bastet from Egypt had the head of a black cat and human body and the shamans in Mexico summoned the jaguar spirit during rituals. In movies and pop culture werewolves are only seen as horror and sci-fi movies. Thus the x-files theme song in the animation below. 

Augmemented Body- Progress #2 Hair Brush Test

I Started looking for way to make the transformation pop. I ran across a tutorial that showed how to add facial hair and I went through the steps. It was fun once I learned how to create a brush that looked like a flow of hairs. I started to add facial hair to old photos. It was too much fun!

 Here's the progression for this photo. HAHA!

Meet Pachuca Werewolf! 

Women Represented in Commercials in the 60's: Culture Jam Video- Fall 2016

It took me a few hours to learn the program just enough to work on this video. . It's for an Anthro class we're learning how to "culture jam" at SF State fall 2016. It's a first attempt, so be kind.

Augmented Body- Progress #1

I'm working on the final stage of the transformation as the fur is fully grown. The first stage and middle stage images will be posted soon.

The combination of these two images. 

I  used the masking filter, the transform tool and warp mode.I  used the masking filter, the transform tool and warp mode.

This is the final stage.

 This tutorial on youtube helped with the transformation.

Chance Encounters Drawing- Partner's Instructions

The other half of this project is to follow my partners instructions and perform it and document it. Following my partners directions for the Chance Encounters Project, listed on Sam Stollerman's Blog. I tweaked the rules a bit and I involved several friends to participate last Friday, at a party at my house. We used a spinner and came up with a list of animals 1-5. The order of body parts went from top-to-bottom, starting with the head, torso, adding arms, then legs and finally, tails. The second spin was to determine how many of each body part the animal would be drawn. The torso was the only part of the body that didn't get a second spin, so the animal only got one torso. It was super fun! The Party was off and running after this activity! Thanks, Sam!

Here is the product of the unholy Frankenstein-Dr.Moreua-like creature we created using the chance rules. I loved it so much that I started a follow up project. I started a painting from this collaborative drawing. More updates coming soon!

The Augmented Body Sketches- Auto-Fur Growth

I'm always cold. I am cold on my face and my feet. I'm on my bike and a sudden wind hits and my hands are cold, my face gets cold. Or I'm drawing or on the computer I'm having a good flow and i'm but I don't want to stop and put on gloves or a sweater. Also  when i get out of the shower I'd warm up so fast! So I want a way that i can grow fur on command so that I get instantly warm. These are the preliminary sketches of what it might look like.

Soft fuzz to cat-like fur starts to grow on my arms and face. Then when i'm warmed up again it can retract. I'm gonna save so much time!

Chance Operations Documentation Video

 My Friend Lili helped out with the videography and stills for the Chance Encounters assignment. And other friends participated. We added our pop culture flavor since we're big Stranger Things fans. 

Set up for Chance Operations Project

Instructions:

1. Set up large paper pad or loose paper on a clear wall. Gather pencils, brushes, and whichever desired media to draw or paint with.

2. Set up a projector to project onto the paper. (alternative; large TV and Slide see-through sheets)

3. Go to Stumbleupon.com  log in or create a free account. Click on the "photos" tab in the top menu

   this will be the photo source for the projections.

4. Set a timer for 1-5 minutes, depending on how much time you’d like to do each session. I started      with 1-2 minute sessions and then increased the time.

5. Start the timer then  start click “Stumble” on the webpage and then trace the image that is being projected onto the piece of paper. When the timer stops click stumble again to get a different image and trace that one either superimposed or fill up the paper completely with images.

6. Lastly, turn off the projector and admire your collage drawing!

The Chance Encounters Drawings

  The Chance Encounters Drawings from the video. 

Artists: Sugey Salazar, Josue Bustos, Hector Solis, Lilly Alvarez

Chance Operations- Set up for Chance Operations Project

Set up for Chance Operations Project

Instructions:

1. Set up large paper pad or loose paper on a clear wall. Gather pencils, brushes, and whichever desired media to draw or paint with.

2. Set up a projector to project onto the paper. (alternative; large TV and Slide see-through sheets)

3. Go to Stumbleupon.com  log in or create a free account. Click on the "photos" tab in the top menu

   this will be the photo source for the projections.

4. Set a timer for 1-5 minutes, depending on how much time you’d like to do each session. I started      with 1-2 minute sessions and then increased the time.

5. Start the timer then  start click “Stumble” on the webpage and then trace the image that is being projected onto the piece of paper. When the timer stops click stumble again to get a different image and trace that one either superimposed or fill up the paper completely with images.

6. Lastly, turn off the projector and admire your collage drawing!

The Augmented Body- Lisa Park: Can move water and make sounds with her mind!

The possibility to move water or objects with your mind, that's sci-fi nerdy stuff only in the movies or comics! Not anymore!!

Lisa Park is doing it now with an enhancement headset. It's set to read her brain vibrations and  she's using an "EEG headset to measure my brain activities and translate the data into sound waves that vibrated the five dishes of water sitting atop speakers – visually and audibly expressing my state of consciousness....The intensity of the sounds mirrored the intensity of my current emotions detected by the EEG. As a result, the water responded, in real time, with different formations of ripples and droplets in unpredictable patterns. "

from: Euonia
Programmer and Sound Designer: Tony Lim

from  It's like Proffessor X and Jean Grey but in reality! Feel free to let your brain explode...right...now. (Boom!)

The article on her in the Creators Project Magazine was the first time I found out about her.

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/meet-biohacker-artist-lisa-park

Here's the video from her website to see the performances:

http://www.thelisapark.com/#/eunoia/

The Augmented Body- Amy Karle: Skeletal Modifications

You've Heard of Them in the Closet But Skeletons in the Petri Dish? Amy Karle is an artist that works with DNA and 3D printers to simulate human bones and recreate them to look more aesthetically pleasing. She's a local artist in San Francisco that was serving as the artist in residence at Pier 9. There she's come up witht the possibility to recreate human skeletons via 3d printing and the results are stunning! 

She claims that the potential use of these designer bones could bring a new wave of fashionable modifiable body parts. The physical body is not just a creation of nature, she's optimistic about the possibilities of science and art making discoveries for medical discoveries.

Video:
https://vimeo.com/168270199

The Augmented Body- Never worry about being locked out EVER AGAIN!

The Inventor and biohacker Amal Graafstra, Founder of Dangerous Things Website provides a safe way to Biohack yourself.  He's the innovator that made the chip implant to enable the automatic door unlocker. It's a convenience that he was interested in since the early 2000's. He took the technology from the locator chip for pets one step further. 

It's a form of cyborgic treatment that serves a specific everyday purpose. It's a simple and cheap implant, the Dangerous Things site sells kits so the average person can even do it themselves. 
I'm not gonna do myself, but kudos to those that have the cojones to try it!

dangerousthings.com 
Ted Talk

Conceptual Arts Strategies- Artist Profile #3: Swoon

Swoon street art at 24th and Mission, San Francisco.

Swoon in from Brooklyn.  She's famous for her wheat pasted lino-cuts and papel-picado cut outs. The subject is mostly women and children and people she encounters in the world.Her world is about the celebration of love and friendship displayed by everyday people. She's skilled with a lino knife but her installations and sculptures are my favorites. She creates structures from string, scraps of fabric, beads, rope and paper. Her style and attention to detail make a much sought after artist all over the world. She displayed in San Francisco earlier 2016 at Chandran Gallery.

Detail of the papel-picado fan.

Swoon installation at New Orleans Museum of Art

https://www.artsy.net/artist/swoon

http://missionlocal.org/2012/01/the-missions-beloved-swoon-part-i-ii/

https://noma.org/exhibitions/swoon-thalassa-the-great-hall-project/

Conceptual Arts Strategies- Artist Profile #2: Jualiana Santacruz Herrera

photo from Lulus.com

Juliana is a craft-guerrilla street artist that filled in cracks and potholes in the street. She documented these a Flickr account. The photos are taken in the streets of Paris. Not much could be found known of Juliana online. her work is an inspiration because sh isn't only beautifying something that's a physical eyesore in the outside world bus she's filling it in with crocheted colorful yarn. Crocheting craft is a tradition mainly done by older women. And up until a about a decade ago, before hipsters made it "hip" again you'd only see older women doing it. It was perceived as a traditional craft in the same genre as crafting. So Juliana by filling in the grand black gaps in public space with color she's inserting the feminine into the broken drab world.

Juliana Santacruz Herrera's Flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/39380641@N03/

Conceptual Arts Strategies, Artist Profile #1: Rafa Esparza

Photo by LA Times

Rafa Esparza is a Latino, queer,  the creates performance, mixed media and installation art in Los Angeles. He's a multi-range artistic phenomenon. He performed this Summer at the Hammer Museum and it was a sensation! He had viewers mesmerized and moved. His work is about the convergence of Mexican and Indigenous natural themes, and proposes a feeling of nostalgia for earth-bound ancient cultures of the Maya, Aztecs. He performs at his installations, the rituals that he creates make the viewer feel like a voyeur in a time warp watching a queer modern-day shaman connect with his ancestors.


Rafa at LACE-2015
www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-rafa-esparza-uses-5000-adobe-bricks-to-construct-a-building-inside-a-building-at-lace-in-hollywood-20150722-column.html

Rafa at the Hammer exhibit-2016
https://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2016/made-in-la-2016/rafa-esparza/

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