Final Project

Final Project - Mid Check

Foto Filmic Blog Review

Blog: Foto Filmic

Artist: Nate Mathews

Foto Filmic is a photography blog with a series of shortlisted photographers, a film talk series, and a print shop. It is very simplistic to look at and easy to navigate. This is a photography blog that posts a film talk series every Thursday.

The artist I looked at is named Nate Mathews, and he is a Chicago based photographer, sculptor, artist, and educator that is teaching photography as an Assistant Professor of art at Northeastern Illinois University. He takes pictures of poorly designed architecture that people try to predicament of said architecture. He shoot with a 4x5 field camera because he thinks that he can perfect the images more than if he was using digital. I enjoyed his pieces very much mainly because it made one question what has happened or what is going to happen to these places.

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Light Leaked Blog Review

Blog: Light Leaked

Artist: Sarah Malakoff

Monday, October 28, 2013

Light Leaked is a photography blog, and visually it is not very exciting to me. That was one of the first things that I noticed. There is nothing that jumps out at they, drawing the reader toward it. It is very simply organized, with the entire articles on the home page. There is easy navigation between months on the right. This blog sight posts about once a week.

The blog post I am reviewing is over the artist Sarah Malakoff and her work entitled Second Nature. It is about how our lifestyles, personalities, and identities through our decor that we choose to display throughout our homes. She describes our homes as either a refuge from the outdoors, or just a recreation of them. She also invites the viewer to imagine what kind of people might live in these places. I really enjoyed this one because I've always payed to things that people own. By looking at the items that one owns tells a lot about that person.

Aperture Blog Review

Blog: Aperture

Article: A Conversation with Jakob Trollbäck

I enjoyed this blog very much. I felt like it was a very busy looking layout, but it made me want to look more and discover what all this blog had to offer. This blog post just about everyday and their main posts consist of art news or interviews with artists. This is a photography blog.

The article is about a custom installation by Jakob Trollbäck on one of the world's largest high-resolution video walls in InterActiveCorps headquarter in New York City, for Apeture's 1/1 benefit and auction. In the article, Jason Quincy Bailey had an interview with Jakob Trollbäck about his work as a whole. Trollbäck talked a lot about how music inspired his work, especially since he was a musician himself. He said in the interview, "I think that what I’m doing in motion is sort of a visual variation of doing music. It’s the same story, but you’re telling it with visuals instead of notes." This is what really intrigued me about the article and made me want to read. Being a very musical person myself, I could really relate to all that he had to say during the interview.