FROM OBSERVATION++11am+Art Appreciation+BCC+ a Hack.Art.Lab production.

Extra pics I had on My Phone that I Forgot

2009-05-14T08:40:00.000-07:00

The title says it all.

more pics:)

2009-05-14T08:34:00.000-07:00

These pictures are from my car either driving to or from Butler CC.

hidden butterfly

2009-05-14T08:31:00.000-07:00

these pics were taken one right after the other, it 's neat to see the difference a few minutes can make in the light.

sunset and a couple more...

2009-05-14T08:21:00.000-07:00

we finally have internet back!:) here are my pictures. I love the last one because the tree looks like a web against the sky.

Sea Monkeys

2009-05-10T20:11:00.000-07:00

In my biology class, we grew "sea monkeys" and watched them grow. The background is all distorted from the water, and just the environment they grow in is interesting

weekly observation

2009-05-10T20:07:00.000-07:00

This was a picture I took of the damage in Towanda after the storm on Thursday night/Friday morning. I think it's interesting how the old silo and barn have no damage, but the new silo was completely leveled.

2009-05-10T19:55:00.000-07:00

This is a picture taken of the glasses inside a glass cupboard. It's cool because you can see reflection on the stuff inside, and off the glass doors. I thought it had a really neat mixture of color and texture.

2009-05-08T05:34:00.000-07:00

These are pictures of rust and of bondo. I really like both of them they make a beautiful designs

Last Post

2009-05-07T13:01:00.001-07:00

I took this picture because I thought it looked kindve like a close up look of an aquarium kinda...Or a long tunnel with the light at the end.

2009-05-06T19:45:00.000-07:00

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I was sitting in ihop drinking some coffee..and when i put the cream in it, I noticed how it made the coffee look. I think it looks pretty neat.

2009-05-06T19:41:00.000-07:00

When I look at this picture I really want to know what is behind the fence..I like the pattern of the fence and how it makes what is behind it kind of a mystery.

2009-05-06T19:40:00.000-07:00

I definitely believe us as humans living on this world take advantage of all the beauty around us. The green-ness of this plant is beautiful.

2009-05-06T19:38:00.000-07:00

I thought this fence looked neat. I really like how the picture turned out.

2009-05-06T19:35:00.000-07:00

This is a close up picture of the leaves on a green plant..the shape of the leaves on this plant are perfect..it is amazing what mother nature creates.

2009-05-06T19:33:00.000-07:00

I went to the zoo today and this picture was taken in the rainforest area. I like the way the light shows through the trees. The trees are beautiful.

2009-05-06T19:31:00.000-07:00

This picture is very simple but i like the shape of the windows and the lines are so prominent.

2009-05-06T19:30:00.000-07:00

This picture looks like a full moon but yet it is just a close up view of a lamp..I think the picture turned out really neat..the shape is perfect.

2009-05-06T19:28:00.000-07:00

This picture has a great color, the background looks blue but the tree and plants look their natural color, and the lamp is slightly lighting up the picture.

2009-05-06T19:25:00.000-07:00

I was walking outside my friend's apartment when I took this picture. I liked the way it turned out because you can see the side of the balcony but peeking through the side is the beautiful sky.

glow sticks.. last week of school post

2009-05-06T18:44:00.000-07:00

This is a pic i took of my friend the other night. she is spinning different colored glow sticks that at attached to strings. I like how it make the crazy colors at night.

2009-05-06T10:01:00.000-07:00

This is a picture of the light I took on my ceiling in my apartment. I thought the light extending outward diminishing slowly on the way was pretty neat. i also like how the light is shaped like a clam or seashell.

Dinner Time

2009-05-05T21:42:00.000-07:00

Okay so, this is kind of weird but I was eating with my boyfriend at Cheddars. The first picture is of the ice in my glass up close. I liked the shine from the light reflecting on the ice. Also, I noticed what kind of pattern my broccoli cheese casserole left in the bowl. I liked the colors and specs of green.

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2009-05-05T21:29:00.000-07:00

This is through a glass globe. i like how it has distorted everything, but not so much you cant tell what it is

Week 17?

2009-05-05T21:25:00.000-07:00

i really like how dark this picture is, its through the window so you can see large rain drops in contrast to the outside storm.

Green 3

2009-05-05T05:41:00.000-07:00

I like this picture becauseyou can see the sun in some places and the shadows cast probably by me. But I think it makes the picture better becasuse you can see different lighting.

Green 2

2009-05-05T05:40:00.001-07:00

I took this while driving as well I really like how it looks lkike a jumble mess.

Green

2009-05-05T05:39:00.000-07:00

I took this while driving.

VegaS has art?

2009-05-05T00:45:00.000-07:00

I didn't upload these pictures until now because I haven't been around internet.**
The first picture is of the bark of a palm tree. I liked it because it doesn't look like any old usual brown bark you would see anywhere else. It almost looks like brush and leaves on the ground of some sort. The next picture is of the palm tree's shadow of the leaves. I thought it was interesting how large they were and how the color of the shadow and the color of the concrete contrasted.

White tree

2009-05-04T18:02:00.000-07:00

I took this picture because I thought it was really cool that the bark on this tree is white. It is not something you see very often but this tree stands out because of it.

Week ?

2009-05-04T17:51:00.000-07:00

This is actually a reflection. I took a picture of a picture behind glass, and the result is this. I thought it looked cool, because it sort of has a "filter" effect; the colors seem to overlay the scene behind.

Week ?? observation

2009-05-04T15:55:00.000-07:00

I made some jello for my niece, and had to use a disposable pie pan for it. I liked the pattern that the bottom of the pie pan made with the jello, it kind of looks like small rippling waves going through the jello. Kind of makes me want to swim in it.

Week 15

2009-05-04T15:20:00.001-07:00

In this picture I just noticed the pattern on our dirt road out front when I was walking out and about. I like how the way the rocks seem to be assorted. They range from a fairly simple type to all sorts. The diversity in the way they are arranged and the rocks themselves give a very unique picture. Very simple and easy to look at yet all the while it's almost like a path has been cut through the middle of it, like a water way or something. What makes this picture stick out is the fantastic order of the larger rocks. The larger rocks give us a bigger picture, they give form to the rest of them.

April 30th Posts (17 &18)

2009-05-04T14:40:00.000-07:00

These two images I found just wandering about our farm. They seem to represent the textures of things. I found that the tree bark was quite unique as it almost simulates a topographical map. With the tubing it reminded me of an augmented snake or worm or something with a nice yellow stripe down the middle!

Week ??

2009-05-04T10:04:00.000-07:00

I took this picture zoomed in through a pop bottle and the light behind makes it look like a sunset.

Post for April 30

2009-05-03T20:32:00.002-07:00

One of these is of the side of my house actually. I know one of my earlier posts was similar, but I was trying to play around with differnt textures. It's stone, and I took the picture at night, so the background sort of fades out. The next one is of a CD I found lying around. I've always thought the rainbow reflections they make look awsome, so I decided to snap a picture.

Post for April 28

2009-05-03T20:20:00.000-07:00

The first picture was taken through a bottle of soap. I thought the color and way the light refelcted through it were really cool looking. The second is of the chimney that runs up through our house. I took the picture straight up to get a cool angle, and I really like the texture of the brick.

post 3 & 4

2009-05-01T14:05:00.000-07:00

this is a picture of milk bubbles, everyone has done this or still does, its just one of those things we all have experience but maybe didn't pay it the attention it deserves. the other picture is the drivers view looking into the side mirror, i really like this one its a picture inside a picture.

Thursday Posts

2009-05-01T09:49:00.000-07:00

these are my two posts for thursday, I was at work and took an upclose picture of some popcorn, and the other one is looking towards a light through a straw. I think it's cool because it looks like I'm looking through a tunnel

Waterfall post for sunday

2009-04-30T19:13:00.000-07:00

This is a pic of a small waterfall. I took it so

it was upside down. i think it gives it a different way to look at it.

Post for april 30

2009-04-30T18:31:00.000-07:00

The first picture I took is of the parking lot. The texture of the asphault looks cool in the picture. The second one is of a tree that I thought was pretty neat because its leaves are a dark red color.

Post for april 28

2009-04-30T18:23:00.000-07:00

The first picture I took is of the turf in the Ctc here at Butler. The turf has a weird texture it is like fake grass and there are a bunch of little rubber pieces at the bottom. The second picture is of a house I happened to drive by, a tree had fallen on the roof. I also thought the entry way for the house was kinda neat. My camera didn't take a very clear picture of it.

New Spring Grass post for thursday

2009-04-30T16:34:00.000-07:00

This is a picture of a pasture that had been burned not long ago. The new spring grass is starting to come up out of the chard

ground.

Thunder Clouds post for thursday

2009-04-30T16:33:00.000-07:00

These where clouds that where starting to build up outside my house. It was such a nice day and it can change in just moments.

Thursday Posts

2009-04-30T13:59:00.001-07:00

The first picture I posted is a coin jug that has alot of change in it and the second is of a plant hanging in our house.

Tuesday Posts

2009-04-30T13:54:00.001-07:00

The first picture I posted is a picture of coffee cups and kitchen utensils in our kitchen and the second picture I posted is of my laptop. I posted the picture of my laptop because I like the design that is on the front of it.

Thursday Posts

2009-04-30T12:38:00.000-07:00

One of these pictures is a picture taken through a soap bottle and light, and the other is through a hand sanitizer bottle and light. The hand sanitizer looks like it has marbles stuck in it and the light reflected off the soap bottle in a pretty cool way.

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2009-04-30T05:17:00.000-07:00

Tuesday April 28

2009-04-29T10:07:00.001-07:00

I really like this picture because i like how the pond is flooded and you can only see a small piece of it.

Tuesday April 28

2009-04-29T10:05:00.001-07:00

A picture of my easter basket, I like this picture because it looks like a city kind of with the two big boxes being sky scrapers.

Salyer week13

2009-04-29T10:03:00.000-07:00

I like this picture becasue it has an irregular patterent to it.

2009-04-29T09:12:00.000-07:00

My two pictures for tuesday I had my brother help me. One of them is a close up of a flower vase in our kitchen and the othert is a close up of my brothers diamond earting. Both of them had some pretty cool reflections from the light.

2 posts for Tuesday

2009-04-28T21:42:00.000-07:00

These are pictures I took of the Walnut River that flooded right by my apartment. You can see the playground in the park thats flooded, and the walking bridge on the left that is usually a good 4 ft above the water is flooded. It's crazy what mother nature can do in a matter of hours.

Friday's performance....

2009-04-27T21:07:00.000-07:00

Make up post tuesday

2009-04-27T16:41:00.000-07:00

This is a picture I took of my make up bag. I liked this because it represents the amount of products it can take to make a girl feel pretty. Also it is art in a way because people us it to make new looks.

Cake post for tuesday

2009-04-27T16:39:00.000-07:00

This is a chocolate cake that my friemd had in his room. I liked all the designs and different colors of frosting. Also the different texters i though made it look cool.

April 28th Posts (15 & 16)

2009-04-26T21:42:00.001-07:00

In the first image, it is a cow's horn and I took it with flash and at this angle to highlight how the light seems to reflect down the inside and off the sides of the horn. It almost seems like it has been polished or laqured with something glossy.

In the second image I found this old wooden floor stain in a house. At first it reminded me of the great lakes. Ironically water that can cut through rock over time seems to have the same effect on a smaller scale in a tiny bit of water staining your wood floor.

Week 14

2009-04-26T21:36:00.000-07:00

This is a picture of a stepping stone that we have out front of our deck. I was looking over the railing and saw this really interesting pattern in the stone! The way that they used little rocks that are almost smooth and round but not quite to form a perfect circle is quite interesting to me. As I am doing my paper on Andy Goldsworthy, this seems like something he would try to do without the cement that holds it together. LOVE IT!

Week 13

2009-04-26T20:48:00.001-07:00

I think this picture is really neat because of the point of view it was taken. My friend is a pilot and took a picture of a burning field this past week from the sky. The fire looks like its trying to draw something on the ground.

Week 14

2009-04-26T19:48:00.000-07:00

I took this picture of the rain, and I love how there's almost a pattern to the rain drops. They are in vertical lines from the streams pouring off of my roof, and you can tell where each stream is by the line of vertical droplets. It's kind of like a Polluck painting because you can trace where the droplets started. I also like how some of the light from my flash makes some of the droplets look like fire.

Storm

2009-04-26T18:45:00.000-07:00

This is a picture of the storm. I thought it was really cool because the clouds almost look like smoke.

window reflection wk 14

2009-04-26T18:05:00.000-07:00

This is a picture from my dorm window. I was trying to take a pic of the rain and the window made a reflection. the reflection is of my room. So in this pic you can see the outside and part of my room in one picture.

Week 14 Moth

2009-04-26T16:37:00.000-07:00

This is a picture of a giant moth that landed on the screen of one of the windows of my house. It looked so cool I just had to take a picture. It's a really neat example of the pattern and vibrant color present in nature. I think it's a luna moth, but I'm not sure. I've seen pictures of them before, but this is the first time I'd seen one in person.

week 14 #2

2009-04-25T21:11:00.000-07:00

this was taken out of my window and i really like how it looks like its raining massive drops onto a dead tree, and the angle is appealing too

week 14

2009-04-25T21:03:00.001-07:00

this is my a&p cat 'fluffy' during the euthanize process they are injected with dye so the veins and arteries are more visable, i know its a little gruesome but you have to admit its pretty cool looking.

Week 12

2009-04-19T21:38:00.001-07:00

This is my table cloth, I like how it looks like a checker board.

Diving Bell

2009-04-19T21:33:00.000-07:00

These are the diving bell picture that I took. The first picture I took through corn syrup, the second I took through anti-bacterial handsoap, and the third I took through a curtain and a window at my house.

Diving Bell Week11

2009-04-19T21:31:00.000-07:00

I really liked these images!

refridgerator

2009-04-19T21:28:00.000-07:00

This is a picture I took of our fridge covered with pictures at my house. It just looks like a collage of pictures, cuz you can't even tell that there is a fridge.

Mason Reflects Wk 12

2009-04-19T21:12:00.000-07:00

This is a picture of me drinking my cranberry juice out of a mason jar.
I noticed when I put the cup up to my lips that you could see the
"Mason" engraving that was on the jar reflecting in the juice. I
liked the color of the juice and the reflection of the word. I
t almost seemed like the word was floating.

pattern on the wall

2009-04-19T20:16:00.000-07:00

I took this picture in the dorms. I like it because the beams along the wall make a cool zig zag type pattern. It is interestung to look at.

Week 13

2009-04-19T20:14:00.000-07:00

I took this picture of a decoration on my roommates door. I like the way the flash makes the beads look like little disco balls, and how they all sparkle

Week 12

2009-04-19T20:03:00.001-07:00

This picture was supposed to be taken through something like we did for the Diving Bell project. However, I forgot to turn the flash off on this one so instead of looking through the soap, it reflected off of the bottle. I kind of liked it this way anyways, because you can see all the different bubbles and the purple beads really stand out from the flash

Week 13

2009-04-19T19:55:00.001-07:00

This was a photo looking through a power meter. I turned it 90 degrees clockwise to show some of the chaos that I saw in this. There are parts going everywhere, and somehow among the chaos there is order and a strict rule to how things work. Physics and the natural laws rule this object and determine if it works or not. Yet in the end it's downfall is the imperfections of man's creation.

Week 12

2009-04-19T19:53:00.000-07:00

I saw this out in an old burning barrel and I thought that it was ironic how the paint or whatever had dripped down like this. It reminded me a bit of Jackson Polluck and his expressions of process. There had to be a laid out process even if it was random for this paint to get like this. And on the inside of a burning barrel? Interesting.

wk 12 and 13 Rain and Fire

2009-04-19T19:09:00.000-07:00

Our Internet has been down since last week so here are the posts I missed:) The first one is a photo of our burn barrel, it sort of looks like an oversized candle. The second one is a photo from my car at night in the rain. I got stuck at the train tracks at about ten o'clock. I liked how the rain on the windshield distorted the train guard lights.

Week 13 + Extra

2009-04-19T16:47:00.000-07:00

This is my week 13 observation, as well as two other photos. I think I may have missed an observation in the past, so this is to make up. If I didn't, then here's some extra photos. :) The first one I took at night while driving. I had my camera set to a night setting, but apparently it only works if you keep the camera still. So the weird light effect is a result of that. I think it looks like a bunch of flamingoes crossing the road. The other is my fridge. I like how the reflection makes the scene look double. And the last one is a lighted fountain at night. I love how the light plays on the water, and how the fountain almost looks like fire.

Spider week 13

2009-04-19T11:25:00.000-07:00

although i am terrified of spiders i got close enough to this one to capture it and the detail of his web. i really like how you can see the deck in the background unfocused and the spider is perfectly clear.

Solarized week 13

2009-04-18T12:11:00.000-07:00

This is a picture of a design on a park bench. I solarized the picture in photoshop to give it a different type of look.

Diving Bell Pics

2009-04-17T21:35:00.000-07:00

This is a picture of the shower curtains and towels hanging in my bathroom. The curtains make layers because of the transparency and the colors. The maroon color of the towel just gives it some "umph".

This is three water bottles and some dish soap lined up. The color blue that is made in the bottles is from the Dawn dish soap. I liked the waythe water and the bottles almost looked like a reflection, like mirrors.

This is the underneath of an old lawn chair. I liked the stitching and the pattern of the fabric. the way the pieces of fabric layered over eachother made it look like a weaving of some sort.

Week12

2009-04-17T18:44:00.001-07:00

This picture is just a normal picture of my basement and i turned it negative. I really like how the dark and light colors switch places and made it look pretty cool.

Week 11/Diving bell

2009-04-17T18:37:00.000-07:00

These are my three Diving Bell Pictures. One is through a cologne bottle, one is through another bottle, and one is a picture through a gross lava lamp. idk they seemed like they would be good at the time.

scary week 12

2009-04-16T12:41:00.000-07:00

its an up close of a wasps nest, i really like how its a great design made from nature, just something i noticed being built on my porch.

2009-04-12T20:51:00.000-07:00

The first picture i took was through an empty bag of candy, it kind of gives the picture a blurry look. I took the second picture in the car today on my way back from Missouri, it is not a very clear picture.

Raindrops on Glass Wk 12

2009-04-12T14:25:00.000-07:00

This is a picture of the raindrops on my car windshield. I like how it's focused on the raindrops, but because it's on glass, and there's traffic in the background, it really gives it a lot of depth. This week I went photo hunting and spent several hours driving around Wichita to get pictures. I think by the end of the evening I had over a hundred and fifty. It was really hard to pick which one, but I love rain, so I decided on this.

Divingbell Project

2009-04-12T14:11:00.001-07:00

These are my three pictures for the divingbell project. This was actually a lot of fun to do, finding different things to look through. The first was taken through ginger ale, the second through some old wavy glass, and the last was through a bottle of olive oil.

Sugar Week 12

2009-04-12T13:17:00.000-07:00

This is a picture i was taking for my photography 2 class. I was taking it and noticed the sugar and the way it poured. I liked the way the sugar is just flows over his had and over the pot.

divingbell project

2009-04-11T09:46:00.000-07:00

i used reflections and looking through my screen door for these photos, the reflection of rain on the roof of my car, flipped upside down to give it an interesting view. a gazing ball, the type that usually are in the garden distorts pretty nicely. and through the screen you can see the tree in my front yard, but focus is on the screen.

Video Project

2009-04-10T08:35:00.000-07:00

These are the pictures that I took for our video assignment. After some searching around the house I found a really neat way of taking pictures that distorts the object so much and yet I think makes it look like a wrinkled up canvas painting. The way that the criss cross hatching on the inside of the bag I used makes it look like some one just slapped this on a nice piece of canvas for all to see.

Week observation

2009-04-09T11:30:00.000-07:00

This was one of my layered pictures that I didn't use but I liked the way the trees and landscape are distorted, but you can still tell what they are. I used bubble wrap to distort them, and i love how some areas are more out of focus than others. I also like the random splashes of blue from the sky.

Art Project

2009-04-09T11:15:00.001-07:00

These are the pictures I took through something. I used bubble wrap, a plastic cup, windex bottle, and bottle of water wrapper.

Art project of taking pics through something!

2009-04-08T20:16:00.000-07:00

These are picture i took for the project we had to do with something in front of the lens. I took the pictures through pink poka dotted tissue paper and a Quick Trip cup.

Week10

2009-04-08T10:08:00.001-07:00

This is a picture close up of the carpet at my house I like the unordinary patteren it has.

My Nephew Week 3

2009-04-07T08:49:00.000-07:00

I just gave my nephew a bath and his hair was a little wild. I couldn't stop laughing and obviously had to take a picture of this. I know how everyone thinks that there own family is always cute but I hope that others think that he as cute as I do because he's my little dude....lol

Super Kool Sky Week 4

2009-04-07T08:46:00.000-07:00

I was driving on a dirt road to my Dads house when I looked up in the sky and noticed the rays of the sun coming through the clouds. It looked beautiful by itself but I changed it to negative and thought it looked even more beautiful so I took the picture and hoped that others would think the same.

Cereal bowl week 5

2009-04-07T08:44:00.000-07:00

I was eating a bowl of cereal and noticed the rings from the light that reflect off of the side of the bowl and is shown on the milk. It makes a perfect circle and I thought that it was pretty neat so I took a picture.

Old Phone Week 6

2009-04-07T08:42:00.000-07:00

I noticed this old phone because its so old and have never seen one of these before. The picture was taken with my phone so please excuse the lighting but this phone caught my attention and wondered if it would catch anothers.

Bear on wall week 7

2009-04-07T08:38:00.000-07:00

I was watching tv when I noticed that my mom had put her bear that she shot in Alaska on the wall. I would have not looked or even noticed the bear otherwise. So I thought that i would take a picture and post it on he blog for people to see.

Light rays week 9

2009-04-07T08:34:00.000-07:00

I was in psychology and took this picture after I noticed the rays coming from the light. On the camera it intensifies which also caught my attention I think more that usual.

Black Leaves Week 8

2009-04-07T08:30:00.000-07:00

I was in the library when I noticed the sun shining in the window. The sun mad the green leaves black. Any other day I would not have noticed this.

Germ X Bottle Through Germ X Bottle Week 10

2009-04-07T08:23:00.000-07:00

I was looking through a germ x bottle and the images that were seen through the germ x bottle looked somewhat odd looking but at the same time I thought it looked extraordinary. Once I found the other germ x bottle I thought it would be kind of ironic that you were looking at a germ x bottle through a germ x bottle.