Monday, September 19, 2016

Small blog posting ASSIGNMENT

Image 1: Poster for Louis CK's 2013 HBO special Oh My God.

This poster makes great use of space and symmetry. The bulk of the space is taken up with a soft white fill. The bottom center of the image prominently display the title of the special, the date and the channel. The boldness of the font and the information is arranged in order of most to least important. The picture of Louis in the middle poses a good contrast to the rest of the space, helps point the attention to the title card and the middle while also establishing symmetry.


Image 2: Piet Mondriaan's Composition with big red space, yellow, black and blue (B130), 1921

Piet Mondriaan uses basic rectangular shapes, linear lines, basic colors and a lot of white to form a multicolored grid that might lack symmetry but is very abstract in its arrangement of shapes and colors.


Image 3: M.C. Esher's Sky and Water I, 1938

This piece by Esher displays great use of forced perception of positive and negative space, contrasts, and the gradual abstracting of animals into shapes, then morphing into different shapes and into a different animal.

Monday, August 29, 2016

Chapter 3


The man, the mystery, the legend...

Hi there, I'm David Alvarado. I'm grew up in The Netherlands, moved to the US in 2014 where I now study Radio, TV and Digital Media at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. I love music and besides having played piano and bass guitar in bands have performed as a DJ in various Dutch venues over a number of years. The only official press release about my "DJ persona" is on the Weebly-page UCOL 101 students were forced to take back in freshman year. It goes as follows: "Of course everyone's wondering what he's going to do next. Mixing sensation David Alvarado, also known as DJ Alvarado, is what experts call "the future of the universe". But how does one stay so humble under these extraordinary circumstances? "But I'm not a rapper." David reveals. No he isn't, but he does enjoy pizza. He also speaks Japanese. In French. If only he wasn't an international man of mystery, we could tell you more about him." I don't think I have to add anything after that