After watching the sweet animation in the class, I thought about an interesting quote by Vilem Flusser, a prominent contemporary philosopher.

"To come to know someone" is a process better defined by "To learn that the other is unknowable." The more I penetrate the other, the more I lose myself in his abysses. But such description falsifies the essence of the process. In reality, the other opens himself to me as long as I open myself to him. The abysmal mystery of the other is revealed by mutual suction ("attraction"), which is the essence of the dialogue between friends. The mystery has nothing to do with "the problem of man". For the anthropologist, man is  complex system, and therefore to be resolved. For a fridns, his fridns is not a problem; he is mysterious."

Contemplate the quote above and write your interpretation about the animation.

Cheers,

You guys need to blog!!!!!
Every Sunday I will be checking your blog. Upload visuals, videos, images, ideas you want to share with class which gave you inspiration and motives to work!!!

Let's start the class with interesting animation!

http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/watch-an-animation-of-shaun-tans-all-ages-picture-book-the-lost-thing.html

TAF Show Opening !!!!!! Please come to support our seniors in the photo program.
I would expect to see all of you!

Hello Everyone!

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving break.
I have posted corrected version of the assignments both for Shooting assignment and Final.
Under Categories:
Click 'Final' to read the instruction of Final assignment (Interrupted Landscape)
Click 'Shooting Assignment' to read the instruction of shooting assignments (both Recognizing Light and Exploring a Space)

See you.

Constructed Photography Artists

Gregory Crewdson

Jeff Wall

Patrick Nagatani

Justin Lane

Joan Foncuberta

Christine Chin

Daniel Kaufmann

Robert Parke-Harrison Use Website

David Leventhall

Andrew Crooks – Use Website

Chad Person

Anthony Giocolea

Lori Nix

Julie Blackmon

Wang Quingsong

Yasumasa Morimura

Cindy Sherman

Yeondoo Jung

Robert Rainey

Anna Gaskell

Simen Johan

Dan Wen

Aziz and Cucher

James Casebere

Thomas Demand

Ruth Thorne-Thomsem

Holly Andres

Alison Carey
Peter Garfield

Hippolyte Bayard

Julia Margaret Cameron

Man Ray

Warren Thompson

Oscar Gustave Reijander

F. Holland Day

Henry Peach Robinson

Carrie Mae Weems

Lewis Carroll

Amy Stein

Bernard Faucon

Laura Letinsky

Richard Ballen

Hello!
Here is the tutorial of Adam and Eve. http://www.scribd.com/doc/111136026
Finish it up, save, put it in your in class exercise folder in the server. Over the weekend, think about your favorite artist work you want to appropriate and start collecting images you need for the assignment. Here is examples of artists whose work is known for appropriating and post appropriating. Please research these artists to get inspiration.

Marcel Duchamp
Sherrie Levine
Richard Prince
Barbara Kruger
Paul Pfeiffer
Elad Lassry
Alex Prager
Joe Etheridge
Ann Steuernagel

Remember I meet with you individually to discuss your performance and grade next Tuesday in the following order. Each of you gets 10mins.

Kelsey
Meagan
Beckwith
Bronwyn
Mike
Jill
Mykala
Lauren
Rosalba
Yohan
Jesse
Pablo

PLEASE WRITE ARTIST STATEMENT FOR CREATIVE ASSIGNMENT 1 ON YOUR BLOG