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Alexander Apostol

Mon, 01 May 2006 23:23:23 +0000

Alexander Apostol

Mon, 01 May 2006 23:22:30 +0000

Digital Movie

Mon, 01 May 2006 22:38:16 +0000

For this project I actually had a lot of fun. It was very challenging for me to do this project because I had never made a digital movie before. It was my first time using "I movie" and also doing any type of editing whatsoever. It took me pretty much a lot of time to make this 5 minute movie. I thought it turned out how I wanted it to which was a great satisfaction to such a hard project. I feel like this last project was a success and it was fun to produce my very first movie set to music in this class.

Greek Project

Mon, 01 May 2006 22:28:14 +0000

Greek Project

Mon, 01 May 2006 22:14:41 +0000

I thought this project was a pretty challenging project to do. Jodi and I had originally wanted to produce a movie but after a lot of thought we decided to do costuming and then we photographed ourselves dressed in costume and incorporated our artwork to make pictures that looked authentic to statues or maybe old movie sets. This project ended up turning out pretty fun and creative and I also liked the outcome of the other projects that the class had made. Overall, I think the classes ideas were all different but meshed really well as a whole final outcome for the Eleusis project.

Blog Artist

Mon, 24 Apr 2006 22:00:14 +0000

Alexander Apostol has won awards on his photography and is well known throughout Venezuela, Brazil, Mexico, Guatemala and the United States. Born in Venezuela, he now resides in Caracas. Alexander takes photographs and makes ink jet prints that resemble lithograhy prints or also flat drawings that are maps of his country. I think Alexander is somewhat a postmodern artist because his ideas are really unique and strange yet at the same time they keep the viewer interested in what they are looking at because they are so odd.
I found the artist Alexander Apostol the most interesting to look at. He took photographs and altered them by taking all the entrances and exits out from the buildings. This project is called Residente Pulido. He takes modernist architecture and he retouches out all the entrances and covers the outside walls with glass or porcelain. Alexander turns 50 year old flats into impenetrable monuments. This is somewhat a metaphor for him as an artist and for the arrogant masculine male. These are visually interesting and look like run down abandoned buildings. The artist makes something that wouldn't normally be interesting pretty glamorous to look at. Yet, these buildings are so plain, they trigger so much interest in the subject and I think that is what good art is really all about. At first when you see the buildings you think there is something wrong but are not quite surewhat it is and then slowly you can notice the slight changes he makes to his art and you can see the reasons why it is so intriguing to see as a viewer. I didn't find much art in the digital art book that really intereseted me. I think it is mostly because I am a studio artist and I don't really like to manipulate my images much. I find that sometimes artists can manipulate images in a creative way and then maybe they can make an image fun and visually eye catching.
In Alexanders work, he is catching the eyes of a younger generation where new and postmodern work is very popular. I like this artist because he keeps progressing art with sharing his ideas through his visions and he is creating new things that are fresh to the viewers eyes. Incorporating his own heritage and background I think is also a great asset for him to keep achieving in his work because it will keep his artwork unique to him and no one else.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Tue, 07 Mar 2006 21:30:22 +0000

Our Digital Narrative Project was the next more challanging project for me in this class. I feel like each project keeps progressing me more and more with digital art. I enjoyed this project because it allowed me to use my photography as well as use my own style within photoshop to create the backgrounds. I felt like each person in the class came up with some creative ideas and gave me more ideas on what I could have done or could do to make my story better or make a new story with other photoshop methods. This project helped me grow in the digital art world and it was fun to make also.

Sleepy Hollow

My Self Portrait

Mon, 06 Feb 2006 22:37:10 +0000

I thought that the self portrait project was a fun project yet, still challanging for me since I am a studio artist and I haven't had that much experience with digital art. I found it easier to come up with an idea than to make it look how I wanted it in the final outcome. I felt that everyone had very different ideas and also different personalities which contributed to unique and interesting final self portraits.