KHS Digital Media Arts

These are some pictures I took while my band was in Sonic Lounge Studios tracking our newest album. It was a super fun experience working in this studio as well as creating new music, I'm glad I could document it through these photos. I edited them to be monochromatic and also added noise to look like grain.

This is one of my favorite artists, Leif Podhajsky an Australian graphic artist who does the cover art for almost all of my favorite band's albums, Tame Impala. This style of psychedelic art not only is complex and brightly colored, but it fit the sound of Australian psych-pop band Tame Impala. 

Yes Theory is a YouTube channel made up of 4 guys from all over the world. These guys post videos weekly but also did a challenge called project 30. During this project they completed 30 videos on different topics like daily adventures or making peoples days better. They make awesome videos and use very cool angles and camera lenses to create even better videos. You should check them out.

I thought this video was very interesting, as it is based on how love is viewed by the artist in this animation. I thought it was fun to try and interpret the video and how love is expressed in each animation.  I hope you guys enjoy this as much as I do!

 Street art has always been really interesting to me. To create artwork the size of a building takes a lot of time, preparation, and skill. many street artists spend days creating stencils to paint with before they begin on the actual canvas, but some freehand everything. One of my favorite street artists goes by the name Stinkfish. He uses mostly candid photos of people he sees ad photographs while he travels, or old pictures he finds and paints them in mono chromatic tones. Then he adds imaginative and psychedelic detailed layers above them. He never sets the mood of his art on one thing because he believes artwork that large should bring up a large number of emotions. I love how he let each viewer have a completely different opinion on his art by leaving it 100% open to their imagination. Here are some of his pieces-

I just wanted to talk about the Photoshop filters because I played with them and I feel like everyone should know about them, some of them are really flattening like embed, and some of  them bring life. I really like the free choice filters because you can do things like stained glass, and bring new life to pictures in seconds. some cool examples are here https://www.pinterest.com/nishasandhu/photoshop-filters/

I stumbled upon this photographer and saw his amazing pictures! If you visit his website you'll see pictures from all around the world. He captures real world lifestyles in a unique perspective. http://stevemccurry.com/galleries

About a month ago, my family and I took a Caribbean Cruise. I absolutely love spending time in the Caribbean and it has a special place in my heart.  My grandparents always used to travel with us and this was the first trip we went to the Caribbean without them. The weather was amazing so I was able to get some beautiful photos. Below I have attached some of the ones I took.

Photography has been a passion of mine since 8th grade, and I have taken many pictures since then. I know from experience that it is very easy to fall into a routine and consistently take photographs that look the same. In my free time I enjoy watching YouTube videos showing different ways to spice things up. Below is one of my favorite. You can use these tips in most circumstances to give your pictures an interesting contrast that attracts people's attention.

Undertale is an amazing game. It tells a story of a human being thrown into a realm of monsters, but ultimately, the human is given the option of mercy or genocide. I believe the way a person plays the game reflects on what kind of person they are. Toby Fox, the creator of the game, wanted to challenge the players to think. He wanted them to think about the life presented before them and create a game where those lives mattered. His game has been an inspiration to me to create something that matters, and make a few friends along the way. ~AB

One of my favorite games of all time, Firewatch, has an astounding, yet simple art style. The artist behind this work of art is Olly Moss, who helped illustrate the spectacular visuals of this unbelievably beautiful game. 

I find a lot of inspiration from Luka. He's a creative director stylist, entrepreneur, and model. He wears a lot of street wear fashion that he believes suits him, but it none of the garments he wears looks bad. He has a lot of confidence and you can see that through his fashion. He's not afraid to wear what he wants and that's the main reason why he inspires me. 

These are a few of my favorite pieces from Colin Blu's portfolio. I love the broad variety of his work and how he uses different graphics and contrasts to push his message across. He allows his audience to interpret his art by giving every piece a vague title and he allows room for imagination. His pieces on the top and bottom represent more of that, while the piece in the middle is obviously a tribute to Frank Ocean using various shapes. He not only combines those shapes and colors to work together for one image, but he takes inspiration from original photos and changes the aspects of it to benefit his own creation. I take inspiration through the shapes and patterns used in his work to hopefully someday use it creatively whether it's in painting or drawing.

Last Minute Trips is a YouTube series made by Waffsicle. In this series, two guys named Collin and Julien simply throw a dart at a map and travel there the same day. Each video shows their unique, last minute planned adventure. The shots that these producers capture are breathtaking and their experiences are one of a kind. I highly recommend checking out this series.

A few weeks ago I went downtown to see the Blink festival throughout the city.  I though it was really cool how the creators of this blended old art with new art that they had made.  Whether it be architecture or sculpture throughout the city they were able to make is alive and exciting.  It was inspiring to see a new medium for art and for it to be so exciting.  I hope I get the chance to go again next year.

I found this video and I thought the style of the animation fit the story perfectly. I also enjoyed the playful nature of some of the characters, as well as the twist at the end.  Hope you enjoy!

I chose this photo of my good friend Kala because I love the colors in this photo. I love the cool toned backround and how it mixes with the warmness of the lights surrounding her as she sings. This was taken at Juliens cafe in downtown loveland.

The movie and novel The Giver is a dystopian society where every one is the same. There are no real emotions except with in those who are chosen to be Receivers. This scene is one of my favorites in all of the film because the colours are beyond beautiful and the music is the icing on the cake to make this scene really mean something.

Similar to many people, I love dogs. When I came across this drawing on Pinterest I fell in love with it. It is a very realistic colored pencil piece of an Australian Shepherd. This drawing shows so much detail and gives the dog a colorful look and personality. I hope you enjoy this impressive, adorable drawing!

I chose to post this picture to the blog because I really like the vibrant colors and the broken glass effect on the wings and body. I also like how colors extend out until they fade out.

        I like this image because it makes wonder what I'm thinking about at the time. Its also unique.,

I'm posting yet another music video because I think music videos are extremely amazing and this one in particular is extremely amazing. This video is to the song Keeping Your Head Up by Birdy who has a beautiful voice and demonstrates it in a beautiful music video. In some of Birdy's previous music videos, she plays with a real-life Alice in Wonderland, costume, old English, glittery light aesthetic, which I love. Keeping Your Head Up is one of her newer songs and she doesn't fail to impress with this aesthetic again. She takes the glittery, back-lit lights, colors, costumes, and fantasy feel, and mixes it with amazing effects and interesting background dancers. This all results in an almost creepy, dreamlike, totally creative music video. Also, I get sometimes you can get bored watching a non-narrative music video (even though this video does have a little bit of a narrative to think about, but you get what I mean), but this one definitely keeps you watching! Highly, high

I find this image beautiful, and it makes me want to better by Photoshop skills in order to create a piece like the one above. The colors in this piece have a nice contrast against each other, and the missing pieces of the girl is somewhat symbolic.

There are 50 different camera techniques this artist uses to capture each detail in the human eye. His name is Vitaly Friedman and his whole concentration is based on eyes. I think they all look very unique and interesting. You can see the rest of his concentrations  here .

this is a video of what Overwatch looked like when it was being created. I feel like this video shows how we can use our digital media skills in the real world. in order to have the characters you play as you'd have to do sketch ups and character sheets which is something us as artists do all the time. Enjoy :)

I found this picture and I think it's a great picture because the artist used the forced perspective technic with a mug and christmas lig ht and made it look like the light is being poured into the mug.

This is a Spartan that I had found online. Spartans were known to be some of the most fierce and strongest fighters on the planet. They had fought for Greece/Rome and had conquered lands from miles and controlled many many countries. Here you can see that the armor is dark and everything around them is dark and black as well, this could describe the feeling the soldiers have about there "operations" and on the inside of the armor you see the light. This could represent the soldier  as who he is and how he is not a killer and that he is more than just a "spartan" 

This is a very cool and different way to show off a stormtrooper. I like how the artist brought a land boring object and turned it into something with lots of colors. Faze Up!

This is just a cool picture that I really like. I really like how the ball inverts the background and you can still tell what it is.

I thought this picture of a kaleidoscope was really cool, I like the use of different colors and use of opacity. The repetition of 8 is also really cool with the round shadow look. I want to make my kaleidoscope look similar to this one.

One of my absolute obsessions this summer was calligraphy. My friend's older sister has an entire lettering account on Instagram and I would constantly look at it wishing I could do it as well. Recently I finally took the initiative and tried calligraphy for myself. It is so calming and inspiring to see the gorgeous flow of the letters as your pen moves across the page.

This picture was taken back in 2014 in Kutna Hora, Czech Republic. This is St. Barbara's Cathedral, the main attraction their. My interest in photography was started here. I loved taking pictures of all the different sights I saw that I wouldn't see in the USA. Ever since I took this trip my photography interest only increased. I now love to take photos of everywhere I go and share them on my Instagram.

Here is some concept art of the cancelled Star Wars game 1313. The first picture shows the dark and gritty underworld of Coruscant and I really like how the artist chose to have the city in the background and how it shows the depth of the scene. The second image is really cool because I feel like it shows intention and whats about to come. I really like how the light is shining on the over world but it gets dark in the lower floors symbolizing how the underworld is a dark and rough place.

One of the many photographers whose work I follow has done a project he dubbed the "Photo Ark". His name is Joel Sartore, and he's a photographer for National Geographic. The Photo Ark is a comprehensive photo database of the world's species - but photographed in an unconventional way. Joel sets up either white or black backgrounds to pose the animals on, thus forcing the audience to focus on only the animal, not their environment where they live. He believes that by looking into the faces of these endangered or threatened species, people will start to care more. If people look at these photos and they evoke emotions in them, they're more likely to care about the saving and conservation of these species. His unique presentation of these species is something that really stands out to me. I've attached a few of my favorite photos of his, but if you want to look into more, just search the term "photo ark"!

I love HDR art simple because of the high dynamic range. In this photo it really shows with the clouds reflecting the sunset and how in the background u can see the reflection of it everything is crisp and clear.

Here is some amazing snow art that I found on the internet. I love snow and I love how these people used it to an advantage by finding an open field. I think it is crazy how they found a way to hide the footprints.

In class we are doing the side by side trailer and my group is doing expelled. This movie stars Cameron Dallas as the lead roll and is about his adventures while he is expelled from his high school. The in it of its self is terrible by all means just terrible. Like really bad but the thing I like about it is its so terrible that its good. Sorta I don't know maybe you will like it but I just can't take it anymore

The other day, a representative for SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) came into our class to discuss what the school had to offer and all the possibles avenues you could take once you got in. When he introduced the Fashion Marketing and Management major, I was immediately intrigued and he showed me the list of classes a student in that field would take. I went online and did some of my own research and found pictures from their last fashion show in May, that was entirely student led, which I thought was really cool. Below are just a few snapshots of my personal favorite pieces from the show. My favorite piece would have to be the denim one because I love the way they took old pieces of scrap and renovated them to give them a fresh new look that only a truly creative mind could have seen from the few pieces it started out as.