Drawing +-

2009-05-12T12:15:00.000-07:00

Final with sound

ERRORS

2009-05-12T05:16:00.000-07:00

Uuupps....I don´t think you can hear the sound of my video....I need to fix this...I´ll uploaded this afternoon...Sorry guys.

FINAL PROJECT.

2009-05-12T04:40:00.000-07:00

While thinking about what can a stroke tell us, what can a drawing suggest, I came up with the concept for my piece. I created a drawing tool to make one drawing that shows a part of itself and hides another one depending on the music. The drawer makes a picture. The picture, the drawing, is always the same. However, it reveals itself in different ways depending on the music that is playing.

My idea was to put five different songs, four of them done by singers from the countries that represent the biggest groups of immigrants in Spain. The last one, is flamenco music, the music that most represents Spain. The fact that the line, the drawing appears and looks different depending on the music played even though it is always the same allows me to create a metaphor about tolerance and respect in the Spànish comunity. It is a way to embrace multiculturality while drawing. We are all the same people, we are always represented by the same stroke, even though we might look different.

The different songs I used are from the first to the last, South African, Eastern Europe, Central American, North African and the last one is Spanish.

I did the drawing tool combining examples from Zach (gesture examples), improving drawing tools that I created for previous assignments (like Draw With Emotion and Tempt Project). Also, I used the class perlin that Ruiz Madeira uses in his Reactive Scketches. In his case, it gives the drawing a more organic feeling. I don´t really think I took full advantage from his class –I ended up not using most of his code because I couldn´t really understand it- . From his code, I also used the variable fttList (that has 512 values for the music) to make the line be changed by the music. What I basically did, was adapting my Draw With Emotion, in which I created a line that could have its alpha, red, green, blue and thickness modified depending the velocity, the amount of space and other properties that the drawing made had. In this case, I related the alpha, red, green, blue and thickness to the variable that takes values from the music, the fttList.

I tried to incorporate music in Zach’s gesture-pitch but there was no way I could make it so that the drawing tool took music that I already had in my computer…

Hope you guys enjoy it!

Have an awesome summer

annita

EVERYTHING I PROMISED FOR LONG AND I FINALLY MADE

2009-05-12T00:48:00.000-07:00

The Spiral

EVERYTHING I PROMISED FOR LONG AND I FINALLY MADE

2009-05-11T23:45:00.000-07:00

Well, I've spent a semester promising I would make videos. Finally I did! I couldn´t make, (I don´t really know why) for the video for "Drawing Tool for Collective Thoughts" and I am having troubles uploading The Spiral i made....So I don´t know if I´ll be able to uploaded. If not, I´ll show it in class.

Tempt Project

Draw With Emotion

Some crazy stuff I made at the beginning. I could call it Untitled....hehe

HWXX: DRAWING WITH A STRANGER

2009-04-21T18:15:00.000-07:00

After proving what we all suspected, that the public space is the playground where our intimacy is revealed to the big brother, "el ojo que todo lo ve", like we say in spanish, I decided to draw my experience with a stranger. I got inspired in the design of the, so loved, American flag. How the flag is used inspired me to make this project. I thought about the symbols behind the flag and how national pride is used as a way to create the society of the fear. -If you want to be a good patriot, show me what you have in your bag- kind of thing. How the fear of terrorism is perpetuated using the flag as a symbol of protection.

So, I created a design with the stars and strokes of the flag, using its colors. I tried to see if the stranger could recognize the flag. So i asked them to make a drawing using the shapes in the design I made. I just tried it with two people. the first one, Fabio, who was an italian citizen visiting my friend. the second was Pati, the woman who works at the Deli across the street. I´d like to do it with american people.

My design

Fabio´s

Pati's

HWX. WALKING ASSIGNMENT

2009-04-21T17:23:00.000-07:00

Well, after promising during two weeks that I would upload all the work I have been doing for TaeYoon, i finally got the strength and the time to really do it. As you guys knew, I decided I would create a set of rules to critique the notions of control and surveillance that define society now. We live in a society that functions around the concept of fear. It is the reason under which governmental control uses different techniques of alarm and propaganda.

RULES:

1. Initialization: Start walking, from Union Square, to Ground 0.

2. If subject sees policemen or firemen, subject walks on opposite direction.

2. If subject sees suspicious bag/container, subject follows object 2 streets. Then subject walks direction Ground 0.

3. if subject sees or hears "terrorism", "protect/protection", "alert/alarm", police/policemen", "save/safety", subject turns and walks opposite direction.

4. If subject sees American flag, subjects turns left,

5. If subject doesn´t see/hear anything for during three streets, subject walks Ground 0 direction

6. Program lasts 120 minutes.

The first image illustrates the path were the rules brought me. I find interesting the shapes of the drawing that is created on the map. The squares represents any symbols of nationalism founded or symbols of controls. Most of them were flags (I never, never in my whole life I had seen such amount of flags. We know they are out there, but once you pay attention to them, they appear everywhere)...Not to talk about the policemen and firemen...

The blue line, pictures the shortest walk to my objective, Ground 0.

These next images are some of the documentation done during the process.

Union Square

This two next images. In them, me, getting certainly pissed while not being able to get out from drawing squares in the city.

One wasn´t enough...two, just to make sure nobody missed it...

Next image, Relocated ad, a reality show about the witness protection program.

A sign between the Lower East Side and Chine Town...And in the other corner, a surveillance camera...They must be pretty safety hanging out in the corner...

After, two hours of walking ...my prize: A wall reminding me that even thought some governments might have forgotten it, we do have rights. We have the right of intimacy, and freedom.

HW_9. FOR TEMPT FROM ANNITA

2009-04-14T22:33:00.000-07:00

I created a brush for Tempt. I got the inspiration from observing some of his graffiti...I observed that in some of them he uses three different layers of paint to create shadows and volume...Three dimensional effects to his bidimensional graffiti. I also added some dots inside the type as well as outside, since I saw that he uses this technique in some pieces. I had funnnnn!

Of rocks when I can make it work...

Hope you guys enjoy it!!

Tempt, if you see this, I hope you like it!!!Of course we will never do it as well as you but, we try hard...Enjoy it!!!

Annita

HW7_DRAW UNTIL YOU CRY

2009-04-01T08:06:00.000-07:00

I made some drawings last week...sorry for my delay...my thesis is taking over my life, I guess. I have uploaded two of the drawings I made. I am an easy cryer...I am a really nostalgic person and I cry from emotion a lot, remembering Barcelona, my family and my friends...I tend to idealize the past. Whenever I think about my grandparents, I always cry. They are all alive, but they are 85 years old...I cry thinking that they, one day, die. I cry because I am here and I can not enjoy their company here. I cry because they cannot visit me because they are too old. I know that rationally, coming to nyc is really good for me and I love being here, but everything has its pros and cons...not seeing them is definitely a con...So, I know I didn´t do the required homework, because what I did was making an effort not to cry while drawing my grandfather who lives in the countryside and the little town where he was born...deep flat Spain.

HW8_GET WASTED IF YOU CAN

2009-04-01T07:05:00.000-07:00

For my walking homework i tried to walk from Montrose (I would take the subway to union Square) to World Tread Center...if I can... I titled it "Get Wasted If You Can"...Eventually one could be able to get to the World Tread Center, where our insanity and obsession for protection an being "safe" started...In an ideal world, we could get wasted with my drawing tool...I suspect, it is not gonna be able to happen...

HW8_CONTACT FREE ART

2009-03-31T22:33:00.000-07:00

I decided to create what in spanish we call "polluelos"... little chickens. They get placed so that they look like the "Chicken army".

My interpretation of the inorganic ended up turning into something abstract but colorful!

I also made a drawing inspired in the texture of crystal when something gets broken and it smashes in infinite little pieces.

And here some cells.

Some flowers!!!!

The first drawing I made were some sunflowers which pattern gets constructed and grows...I wish I knew how to use a movie grabber...but... I still haven´t figure it out. I keep on promising videos and they never get there...Maybe tomorrow? Since then, enjoy a sunny day with sunflowers!

HW7_MOOD ANALYSER

2009-03-25T08:10:00.000-07:00

For my mood analyzer, I decided that the mood in which the drawer is while drawing will be conveyed through the use of color, thickness and alpha. Observing previous gestures that we have studied, I realized the thickness of the stroke depends on the velocity in which the drawing is made, more than on the angle of the drawn line. So I decided to link the variables used in my drawing tool to different mood states:

If the bounding box is big---the drawer wants to get noticed---the line he is drawn will turn into a really thick line.

However, one can want to be noticed by drawing in an big canvas but drawing a lot (having a big total lenght). In that case, I made the thickness of the drawing be a bit smaller so that the lines in the drawing don´t get mixed with each other.

I linked the angle change to the red, so bigger angle change, more red. My thought was that if we draw having a bigger angle change, we are conveying how nervous we are...That's why in this case, the line gets a bit more red.

Here we have an example of a big angle change...It is yellow because I linked the time we spend drawing with the green (my thought was in nature people take it easy, take their time to do things). That's why eventhough one is nervous while drawing lines with a big angle change, there is a lot of green (and no blue) and lots of red so it is yellow. Since the bounding box is smaller, the thickness of the line is smaller too...

I have more drawings in other situations to get posted...I´ll be posting them after class....Donm´t wanna miss the train! more, coming really soooooooooon!

HW6_RESAMPLE THREAD INTO A SPIRAL BY HAND

2009-03-14T19:50:00.000-07:00

I created five strokes with purple thread and I resampled them into spirals. I placed them onto a black background simulating the drawing tool that I created with code.

The five strokes drawn with the mouse before getting resampled into spirals. Now made by hand with a purple thread onto a black background.

Detail shot of the threads that turned into spirals.

HW6_RESAMPLE STROKES INTO A SPIRAL

2009-03-12T17:22:00.000-07:00

My drawing tool resamples spirals that will be placed in different places in the screen. Five different strokes can be drawn one after the other, getting resampled into five different spirals that have different radius and are placed in different places. to do it i looked up the spiral formula in the internet, and i made it work similarly as Zach done with the circle formula, dividing the cosinus by TWO_PI. When I put a small radius in the start animating in the testapp.cpp, it gets clearer that the stroke drawn turns into a spiral. If you put a big radius, you cannot really identify what is the shape that the first stroke made is resampling into. Here you have the five strokes turning into spirals:

The first images is the first stroke being resampled. The second is the stroke already resampled as a spiral.The third, the forth and fifth are the 2º, 3º , 4º and 5º stroke getting resampled.

The sixth image corresponds at the five strokes being already spirals and the image that follows is a detail shot.

The two last images are the same thing but drawing fast. So that the five spirals are a mess since they get to an order determined by the spiral shape.

The next step is to work getting different colors in each of the spirals and having the their radius be the last point where the mouse stops drawing the strokes.

HW5_PLAYING WITH ATAN AND THE DISTANCE FORMULA

2009-03-04T08:22:00.000-08:00

My drawing tool is not finished yet. I couldn´t make it so that if you draw slower, the line gets bigger. I changed though the thickness of the line. I don´t really understand how it works...I need some feedback on that, but basically, the first time you draw the line is really thin and the second gesture you make, the line gets thicker. I have observed that the line is generally thin when within the same gesture you draw, but it gets bigger once you draw on the other direction. I played with the sign on the sqrt and I exchanged the the sin and cos in the velocity variable...Any ideas?

I've also made it so that when you press R you can change the color of the stroke.

HW5_CALCULATING THE DISTANCE BETWEEN TWO POINTS

2009-03-04T08:19:00.000-08:00

I made a tool that calculates the distance between point 1 and point 6 of the line drawn. Depending on how fast you draw the distance is bigger.

HW5_MY NAME MADE OUT OF POINTS IN A TRACING PAPER

2009-03-04T08:18:00.000-08:00

HW_4.FIRST REAL TRY OF THE DRAWING TOOL FOR COLLECTIVE THOUGHTS

2009-03-02T19:38:00.000-08:00

This is the first time I used my drawing tool with a group of two people (after having a hard time making everything work). My friend Lauren and me tested the tool. While drawing I thought about the way she was staring at me. Her big and deep gaze which is the mirror of her personality: strong and deep. She told me she was just distracted, while looking at me and drawing. It was the first time she was drawing while staring at someone's eyes. She said she could´t concentrate in any concrete though. Hers is the red drawing. I spaced out, I was too excited with the creation of the real first collective drawing of thoughts and I forgot to photograph mine...Excitement is not always helpful for practical reasons...Sorry guys...

2009-03-02T14:46:00.000-08:00

One more drawing made out of two thoughts....

HW4_TOOL TO DRAW THOUGHTS BTWN TWO PEOPLE

2009-03-02T14:12:00.000-08:00

This tool makes one drawing from two people inputs. While using it, the two people should be facing each other. After some time looking at each other's eyes, one of them starts drawing what the other one makes him/her think about while looking. The drawing tool captures the first gesture, that it is red. Once finish, without looking at the screen (still looking at each other's eyes), the second person draws (after pressing the rewind right arrow). The second gesture starts recording. The second person should make the same, draw what the other person made him/her think about. The second gesture is blue. Once done, the two gestures can be seen together, by clicking the left arrow.

This drawing tool makes one drawing out of two thoughts, out of what two different people have thought after observing each other's eyes.

Each of the two gestures is done by three different strokes: A line, a line of circles (on top of the raw line) whose distance depends on the velocity of the gesture of each participant and a line of circles that grows its radius depending again on the velocity.

The drawing tool is design so that only two people can make one drawing. Once the collective drawing is done, the new participants can make another drawing by clearing up the screen.

The next step would be to make the two gestures interact with each other once the collective drawing is made, so that the two thoughts in the one drawing are dynamic after being made.

HW3_DRAWING TOOL II

2009-02-17T22:32:00.000-08:00

In this drawing tool I turned the line into a line made out of circles. The mouse follower is a long rectangle (pict 1). The drawing tool has two phases. In the first one, the circles in the line are smaller and the¡r size is random and have more opacity. In the first face, the the mouse follower is made out of three mouse followers, three rectangles that have a 1/2 and 1/3 distance to the mouse follower that directs the line (picts 4,5,6). In the second phase of the drawing tool, the mouse follower is only one rectangle and the circles are bigger, with less opacity.

An interesting thing is that the drawing the person who is using the tool is doing will never get done as he/she wants, since I change the velocity and put it negative in the vx. So the circles, instead of going towards the direction where the person who draws want, draw in the opposite direction in the x. I called it "Frustrated Drawing Tool for Frustrating Times"....One of my photography teachers says times of crisis are times for creative people. The recession is definitely inspiring!! (programming too...)

HW3_DRAWING TOOL I

2009-02-17T22:12:00.000-08:00

In this drawing tool the line is made out of circles that take random colors in the blue and red channel. They change in three moments phases. At the beginning they are empty and bigger. After, they get smaller and they get random colors in the red channel. The size changes depending on the moment of time where they are drawn. The mouse follower's color and size changes also according to the change on the line of circles. At the beginning, when the circles are bigger and empty, they seem to move slower. After they give the illusion of a bigger movement and velocity due to more randomness in their size. Video coming soon!

HW2_DIGITAL DRAWINGS

2009-02-17T20:50:00.000-08:00

1. Drawing made using Excel

2. Drawing made using Indesign

3. Drawing made using Illustrator

4. Drawing made using Flash

5. Drawing made using Text Edit

6.Drawing made using Epson Scan Software

7. Drawing made using Powerpoint

8. Drawing made using Photoshop

9. Drawing made using Processing

10. Drawing made using Word

HW3_DRAWING WITH THE EYES II

2009-02-17T20:31:00.001-08:00

Some of the drawings made with the eyes, get to touch the paper and get an output on the sketch book. Some others will remain in the memory without having any physicality. Some of the drawings that get to touch the paper, get more abstract and some others define the shape of a body, a face or a space. I observe that the drawings that get less abstract are the ones where the pencil is touching the paper constantly. Once one takes out the pencil from the paper to draw another part of the subject, the abstraction begins to be more obvious.

I wish there was a way for me to register the drawings that remain in the memory, the ones where the pencil never touches the paper (it would, at least be useful for spaced out person like me...to keep record of what I've seen).

Drawing with the eyes is a useful way of observing textures, shadows and highlights as well as the shape of things and people. It is a way for the person who is doing it to stop time and observe what it is that surrounds us. What I find more interesting is the fact that one forgets that it is a drawing that uses the paper (with its physical borders) and the pencil as raw material.

HW3_DRAWING WITH THE EYES

2009-02-17T20:28:00.000-08:00

Drawing with the Eyes. Memories of a classmate back.

DRAWING TOOL_1

2009-02-17T11:18:00.001-08:00

HW2_REMIXED DRAWINGS

2009-02-17T10:57:00.000-08:00

HW1

2009-02-17T10:20:00.000-08:00