This is a Public Service Announcement, this is only a test.

Car accidents are the leading case of death for teenagers and sixty percent of all teen deaths in accidents are alcohol-related.  Drunk-driving is something that is completely preventable, especially amongst teens.  If you are planning on drinking make sure you have a designated driver or a place to stay.  Every minute one person is injured from an alcohol related crash.  Why would you want to be involved in injuring another person? Or getting hurt yourself?  In order to help prevent these incidents precautions and plans must be made before the consumption of alcohol occurs.  And most importantly if you see a drunk-driver call 911 and report them.

            Don't be Left4Dead.

Andy Warhol

• ·         Real name is Andrew Warhola (8/6/28-2/22/87) (Became Warhol after a misprint)
  o   Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Parents from Czechoslovakia (does not exist anymore)
  o   Father worked in a coal mine
  ·         In High School, kicked out of art club because he was “too good”
  ·         Graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Fine Arts)
  ·         Graduated with degree for pictorial design & wanted to become a commercial illustrator
  ·         Designed advertisements for women’s shoes
  ·         Used Polaroid camera
  ·         Fear of hospitals and doctors, hypochondriac
  ·         Favorite print making technique was silk screening
  ·         Friends & family described him as a workaholic
  ·         His sexuality was speculated upon and how this influenced his relationship to art is “a major subject of scholarship on the artist”
  ·         First solo expedition in 1952
  ·         Coined the term “15 minutes of fame”
  ·         1960s: iconic American products (pop art)
  ·         Created The Factory, his NYC studio from 1962-1968
  ·         Celebrity portraits developed into one of the most important aspects of his career
  ·         Made films (first one called Sleep – 6 hours of a man sleeping) (1963)
  ·         1965 said he was retiring from painting
  o   1972 returned to painting
  ·         Designed cover for the Rolling Stones’ album Sticky Fingers (cover made out of real jean material)
  ·         Produced Velvet Underground’s first album
  ·         Started a magazine called Interview, worked for Glamour Magazine, Vogue
  ·         Shot by Valerie Solanas 3 times for being abusive and “too controlling” (6/3/68)
  o   Solanas authored the S.C.U.M. Manifesto, a separatist feminist document
  o   "Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television – you don't feel anything. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it's all television."
  ·         Marilyn Monroe = favorite model (not painted until after death)
  ·         Wore silver wigs until he dyed his hair silver
  ·         Practicing Ruthenian Rite Catholic who described himself as a religious person
  ·         Died of a heart attack brought on by a gall bladder surgery and water intoxication
  ·         $100,000,000 for one of his paintings (highest amount paid) (“Eight Elvises”)
  ·         Referred to as the “Prince of Pop”

FourSquare Coke Bottle

Pop Object: Starbucks New Cup

Portrait

Modern American Hardcore

             

For this image I chose a photo I had taken at a hardcore show on March 5^th, the photo focuses on the three guys “hardcore dancing.”  I chose to emphasize these figures by using the color-layering technique.  This technique required me to cut out the three show-goers and make 13-14 layers for each, once I had the layers I would manipulate each using the Threshold Image Adjustment option.  This caused all of the layers to turn to black and white with different degrees of the two colors in each, I would want my top layer to have very little black in it and then it would increase throughout the layers until the bottom layer of the image was completely black.  Once I had completed the Threshold adjustment to all the images I would go through and delete the white out of each layer using the magic wand tool, I would then “CNTRL-click” the layer photo in the layer menu which would select the black parts still in the image, and would use the “CNTRL-Delete” option to fill the black with the color I had selected.  I chose the colors blue, purple and red to emphasize each of the figures; I would choose the darkest tone of each of the colors for the top layer and then lighten the color as the layers went down, until the layer that was fully black would have the lightest tone of the color.  When I finished doing this to all three of the figures I cut out, I duplicated the background layer of my image.  To the top background layer I added two new adjustment layers, the first one being the “Hue and Saturation” adjustment in which I de-saturated the photo changing it to black and white; I also chose to darken the “Lightness” option on this image until I had a darker background in comparison to the figures.  The next adjustment layer was a “Photo Filter” layer, where I chose to put a red filter over my image; I used the filter at 77% of the color.  After changing the adjustment layers I chose to use an “Artistic Filter” on the background in order to differentiate it from the figures, I chose the filter “Sprayed Strokes” which caused the background to almost look painted.  After doing all these changes I decided to add one more final touch to my image, I found an image of the “American Hardcore” documentary DVD and cut the main title out of the image.  I chose to blend this image onto my background layer by making a new layer with the American Hardcore text on it, I put it right on top of the background adjustment layers and chose the “Apply Image” option, I chose to “apply” the image using a color burn technique which allowed some of the red to show through.

Traveling Monster (Little Toy)

Baking With Monster.

Sushi Time with Jordan!

Doughnuts from Starbucks.

Smoking Kills.

mmm...giraffe.

The City By The Bay<3

Blended Fantasies

Blended Image.

Copy&Paste

FISHEYEEEE

So thats how city hall really looks....

Nature is Sweet

Abstract Shot

Big View Shot

Edited Big View Shot (Candyfornia)

Detail Shot