ICE CREAM

Here's the link to my Picasa album that contains the photos from my representational project.
The image I chose was an ice cream cone.

ICE CREAMMMM

^^just click on the pic^^

1st Illustrator Design

Here are a few images of the progression of making my fist illustrator design for this class.

1. This is the 1st hand drawn version

2. This is the 2nd version which I mad on Illustrator

3. Lastly this is the final version after many changes from the original.

Hooray weird clock like hanger image, I shall call it 'Hang Time'
Fitting huh?

p.s. sorry my pictures are all colored differently, I had some troubles

quite the slacker

So I have been an extreme slacker on this whole blog thing. I do not own my own computer, therefore I have to motivate myself to get my butt to the library to do these things. But I have no excuse at all for not taking the not so long walk across campus! Anyways, I am hopefully getting a macbook in the next two weeks so my lazy self will have zero excuses. Either way I plan to have all my blogs caught up within the next few days!!

P.S. I am very much enjoying learning the ways of Adobe Illustrator.....frustrating yet fulfilling.

Gestalt Psychology....better late than never

Gestalt psychology is a theory of the mind/brain that proposes that the operational principle of the brain is holistic, parallel, and analog, with self organizing tendencies, or that the whole is different from the sum of its part.
Max Wertheimer is the founder of the movement, although the movement was first introduced in philosophy and psychology by Christian von Ehrenfels.

The key principles of the Gestalt systems are emergence, reification, multistability, and invariance.

Emergence is the ability to pull out recognizable objects/shapes out of an image that is actually not made out of real objects/shapes.

Reification is the generative aspect of how you perceive something, it is the way your brain perceives an illusion from the contours it is presented.

Multistability is the ability your mind has to go back and forth within one shape and create two or more shapes. Like the draw a vase and see the faces project everyone has done once in their life.

Invariance is the thing of perception where objects are recognizable even though they have been flipped, rotated, scaled, etc.

The fundamental principle of gestalt perception is the law of prägnanz which says our minds tend to order our experience in a manner that is regular, orderly, symmetric, and simple.
This principle contains the Law of: closer, similarity, proximity, symmetry, continuity, and common fate.

So over all Gestlalt Psychology is pretty cool stuff. It is crazy how complex our mind works on images so that we can understand them on a daily basis.