February 9 Class

Things I learned:
1. Well, we learned the basics of photoshop. I have very little experience with photoshop, so that was pretty valuable.
2. I learned that crying kids make hilarious faces. And you can tell how pissed a kid is depending on how wide their mouth is opened. If they are just upset they make an upside down banana face, if they are reeeeally mad they have full open mouth screaming faces.
3. I learned that the political management of our country is overwhelmingly white and male. (From the senator amalgamation).

Things I found interesting:
1. I thought the similarities of facial expressions of crying children was really interesting. I got kids from all over the world. I have an Iraqi boy, I have malnurished African children, and I have photos of American kids that their parents posted online and there is a universal face of sadness. Its crazy.
2. I thought the Senator/Representative artwork was reeeeally interesting. Seeing the democratic and republican faces all four together was creepy. Its almost like a big brother sort of thing, it looks like they have to fit this creepy perfect older white man meld.
3. I also thought it was pretty cool the variety of ideas in people's sketch books. I thought it was really insane to see everyones different takes on the idea of cover. I wish we would have had a chance to hear everyone explain theirs. It always impresses me to see what a group of people can come up with. There is insane diversity of thought and interpretation.

Ideas!
1. I want to do more with my chalk board spray paint. I'm trying to think of a really cool way to use it. Currently I have a blob shape cut out to put on my wall....
2. I also think if I end up enjoying the amalgamation I will try it out on some of my other ideas. I'm genuinely interested to see what will happen with some of the other ideas I have written down.
3. I want to amalgamate family and friend faces too. I think it would be kind of hilarious. There are all those sites that make what your baby with someone else would look like...i feel like i could do that with amalgamation. I think i could do some sweet stuff with heritage family stuff.