Emoji Portrait

This is an image of Kim Kardashian made from only emoji symbols. It was made by a rapper names Yung Jake, who has been making portraits of other celebrities as well and tweeting them to his fans. I really enjoy art like this, images made out of smaller images. This is really impressive since it looks just like Kim K without a lot of detail. The shape of her face, the placing of your eyes, nose, and mouth, it is all precise even though she is made out of emojis. I have seen this done with little pictures that make a big picture and it is made by the colors the smaller images make when made really tiny; so then these colors can be grouped together and used to outline and shade the bigger image. With this you look and see each individual emoji and a lot of the colors don't really have to do with the depth of her face, well at least not noticeably; so then how does this look like Kim K? I don't know but it does and it is amazing. 

I have made something similar to this but instead of emojis it is Bob Marley made out of words. I had to bend and morph the words to add dimensions. All the words related to the image and some are just repeated to make dark color. 

Evolution of Typewriters and Televisions

This is pretty cool that there is an exhibit that shows old type writers and television. It would be cool to physically see the evolution of these two and how they were brought together to make computers. To be completely honest I did not know this is how the first computers were made. It is truly amazing to be able to see how far we have come, and see what people where use to back in the day and what is the norm for our generation. I have an old type writer at home and when I was younger I thought it was the coolest thing, and I had been around computers for forever. Being able to physically see this evolution is way more effective than reading about it. I would like to visit this exhibit.

Norway to turn off FM in 2017

http://gizmodo.com/norway-will-be-the-first-country-to-turn-off-fm-radio-i-1698797593?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

This article talks about how Norway will be the first Country to turn off FM Radio in 2017. They are getting rid of FM-radio and switching to only digital radio. I think this is interesting, but I'm not sure I agree with it. This means people will not be able to just have the normal FM radio playing and will be forced to switch over to digital. Digital will be nice because it will have a more of a variety and you will not have to listen to the same songs over and over again. The problem with this is that the older generation is use to the radio and this is what they enjoy/know how to use. Also, I do not think all cars can play digital radio, so everyone with older cars will have to spend a lot of money to upgrade. I mean I would not have a problem with this because I do not listen to the normal radio often but I'm sure there would be a lot of people that had a problem getting rid of the traditional FM-radio stations completely.

Evolution of the Television

This picture shows the evolution of the television. The screen gets bigger and bigger, the frames get smaller and less colorful. I think it is funny that when tv was less prevalent in house holds, and families with tv's all sat around the tv together, the screens where so little. Now just about everyone has a tv, and a lot of people have their own tv and watch tv by themselves and the screens are huge. Just like all other technology television has come a long way; if you were to add onto this timeline of televisions you would have to include the curved TV that is out now. This TV is suppose to make the images more 3D and real. The quality of images on the television are so clear now it is like you are there in the scene. I am glad that we have progressed in this area so much because I enjoy a good movie and appreciate good image quality, I just wish people came together more to watch movies and spent less time watching on their own.

BLUBLU

https://vimeo.com/993998?pg=embed&sec=993998

This video blew my mind, I'm not even sure where to start or what to say. The amount of time and effort that had to have been put into making this video is incredible and I couldn't even guess how long it took. I have never seen this "flip book" type of art done this way. Not only did this artist have to draw every new motion of his character, but since it's on buildings and streets he had to erase the previous character's movement with white spray paint before he could draw the new movements. Then on top of that they had to photograph each movement then put them all together and add sound. The images are so interesting and trippy, I could not look away. The movement of the story went from walls to floors, huge to small. It was done so well it seemed real. I especially like the part where the character "eats" real paper of the wall he was drawn on; this was done so perfect I had to keep re watching it to see how it was done. Truly an amazing talent and artistic ability exemplified here along with extreme creativity.

Marcel the Shell

I love this video; I think it is so cute. There are different videos of Marcel the Shell and each one cracks me up laughing. What is so amazing about these videos is the time and effort put in to make it. Obviously the shell is not real and cannot move by itself, so every time the shell moves it is someone stopping the video or picture and changing the position of the shell a little and then taking another picture or recording. It is sort of like the flip books as well but instead of drawing you have the objects and move them little by little for each frame.  I wonder how they got the mouth on the shell though, maybe they drew the different positions of the mouth like a flip book and then put it on top of the video of the shells movements in each frame. I think this was put together amazingly, and was such an interesting idea. I love the shells voice it goes perfectly with his personality, and yes I said personality because they made this shell come to life with this process.

How Walt Disney Cartoons are made

After making the flip book of only 200 pages I appreciate what had to be done to make cartoons back in the day. I always thought about how long it must have took people to make cartoons but never saw it actually done. It is like a long more complicated and detailed process of what we as a class did with the flip books. It is truly amazing to see the effort that is put in and the artistic talent needed. I wish for the flip book I had transparent paper to keep tracing my characters but moving them slightly; this is very effective technique. Not only do they have all these steps for the visual content but they also have to record all the sounds from scratch. Now we have technology that makes creating cartoons much easier but it is so interesting to see how far we have come and how realistic our cartoons and animations look now.