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SKECHERS at Universal CityWalk, this store is on the main level just below the food court which is known as CityFood.
I had no ideas at the time on what to draw on the etch-a-sketch, and one day I was standing by Mr. Rheault's desk and I said "can I draw your dog on the etch-a-sketch?" and he said "yeah". Thus was the birth of Theo on the etch-a-sketch.
The finished product! Here I am wearing my costume. This is a fully functional Etch a Sketch! Real Etch a Sketch's use aluminum powder with a stylus to scrape away some of the powder. I made mine with a clear sheet of glass, and I attach a dry erase marker to the back to draw the lines. I wore a gray shirt to complete the effect.
Mission
Emulate the work of William Eggleston (American, 1939-)
Like Pete Turner, William Eggleston is another 20th century photographer that helped to bring legitimacy to color photography. While Eggleston did begin photographing in black and white, he began using color in the 1960's. In the 1970's, Eggleston discovered dye-transfer printing, about which he stated "every photograph I subsequently printed with the process seemed fantastic and each one seemed better than the previous one". One of his most famous works, The Red Ceiling was printed using this method. His photos printed with the dye-transfer have a very heavy saturated quality to them.
However, more important than color is Eggleston's subjects, which are characteristically mundane. John Szarkowski wrote about Eggleston's work: "[it] is consistently local and private, even insular, in its nominal concerns. [Eggleston's work] might [be] in a diary, where the important meanings would be not public and general but private and esoteric. It is not clear whether the bucolic modesty of the work's subject matter should be taken at face value or whether this should be understood as a posture, an assumed ingenuousness designed to camouflage the artist's Faustian ambition" (William Eggleston's Guide, introduction).
QUESTIONS
1. Which photo(s) inspired you
None of his pictures inspired me.
2. What you like and/or don't like about Eggleston's work
There isn't really anything I like about his work. He is supposedly celebrating the mundaneness of life somehow, but none of his pictures look like a celebration to me. There are many things in life that are mundane to strangers but wonderful to someone.
For example, if I took a picture of my dog that has meaning to me, it could be a cute picture and still be a mundane subject.
3. Your thoughts and/or thought process behind your assignment submission
I went walking around looking for the most boring thing I could find that had color. I didn't like any of those pictures. So I took a picture of something I liked that had color, even though I think the picture is boring.
4. How your photo reflects elements of Eggleston's work
It is very colorful and isn't of anything particularly exciting.
5. What you gained as a photographer from studying Eggleston's work
Honestly, nothing. I hated all of his pictures.
EXIF
Exposure: 0.013 sec (1/80)
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 21 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
WHAT IT TOOK (WIT)
I've always thought this place had a great name, even though it's gross, so I decided to use something that at least had something I liked in it instead of some random picture of trash. The polarizing filter was great. I didn't have to adjust any colors to get this deep red.
POST PROCESSING
Cropped a hair off the left and top to remove vignette (from filter?).
SELF CRITIQUE
I do not like this picture, but it was the best compromise for this assignment. At least it has some humor. I had another picture of a ratty door, but I also thought that was a dumb picture.
Large acid-etched pane, originally from a public house in Stoke-on-Trent that was taken down in the 1970s and re-erected as a working exhibit at National Tramway Museum, Crich.
1/4 inch thick Clear Glass Panel with Metallic Silver Paint Filled letters on the Face of the glass.
Installed with (4) Standoffs
So lately I have been on a Nintendo binge art-wise...and I was thinking to myself, what characters would I like to represent on my etch a sketch this time? Only the cheapest ones for Mario Kart ever!
This one took me a longer amount of time than I thought it would, and it was fun to make...just not as much fun as I thought it would be. I would say it took maybe 2 hours? I did it in multiple sittings, so that is only an approximation.
I am happy with how this turned out; I mean, it's ok, but I feel like I've done better. Well, I think I did justice to Toad and Toadette.
So what do you guys think? Are toad and toadette friends, siblings or married?
I think they are just good friends.
our local dairy queen has the most lovely etched glass panels, many large ones with beautiful oceanside scenes. it seems out of place, like it should be an office waiting room, or hotel lobby. the kids love looking at all the birds, whales, dolphins, eagles, herons, and fish.
king george and 94a ave, surrey, bc
