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Archive for June, 2006
You Make Me Feel Like…
by Shelba
Word Salad
She looks like she is under water because her hair appears to be swirling around her head. I see her as a mermaid or a siren trying to hypnotize the viewer with her eyes. Look into my eyes….you’re getting sleepy. This feels very dreamy and airy to me. She makes me feel like following her under water.
Bungalow 360
I love this. This is a girl who loves her puppy. I love that both she and the dog appear to be naked. I love how she is gently holding the puppy. How she is looking off to the side. I love the grainyness of the photograph. This seems like a snapshot from a movie or maybe a vintage postcard. She makes me want to pet the puppy.
Something To Say
One of my absolute faves for all of this month. It seems as though I’m about to enter into another world. Like maybe I’ve been living a plain and colorless existence, but if I just walk through that door the world will come alive. The room through the door is so colorful and bright. And why is she standing there looking down? She makes me want to walk through the door.
Sarcomical
I love, love, love this. I don’t have much to say about this one other than I love it. I love her eyelashes, how the color is applied to her cheeks, lips, forehead and eyes. She makes me want to touch her lips and forehead to see if the red smears.
Joyful Girl
I love the wings. I can’t take my eyes off of her wings. Who are you? Yes, who are you? A fairy? I am too lazy to get my glasses out so I can’t read what is in the bubble over her head, but maybe even my glasses wouldn’t help with that, I don’t know. I just know that I wish I had wings like that. So yeah, she makes me jealous of her wings.
This has been a great month of self portraits, but I am dying to see what y’all come up with next month. See you then!
Joy’s Picks
by joy madisonMan oh MAN!!!!! This was a feast for the eyes!!! I started out with over 25 that I “loved” and had to narrow it down to 10….I couldn’t! I narrowed it down to 12! Here are my favorites from week 4.
Sorry for the small photos…..even more excuse to click on them:)
{knee deep in life}
love this interpretation of POP art
{steph sicore}
this just caught my eye…and the story is cool….watching soccer with the masses and mist
{little somethings}
i love kim’s perspective on things
{athena danoy}
this just cracked me up!!! very pop artsy:)
{peach and pearl}
i love the blank face and the blue…mmmm!
{bethany hiitola}
this is just eye candy!
{kiki}
i find using art as a political statement interesting
{geek betty}
this is just amazing to me…not as much about the image but what it represents…..how we view beauty in the west and what really IS beautiful
{fancy that}
i love mcdonald’s….that’s not her statement….(she doesn’t love mcdonald’s) but i do, so i picked this one:)
{eliazboothy}
this is just pretty to look at:) thanks elizaboothy!
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this was such a great challenge…..with an emphasis on challenge!! Thanks Kath! I love the interpretations on this theme….there are so many variations from photoshopping, to actual things popping…to political statements! This month
was a challenge for me, but I love what came out of it!
Introducing - “WarriorWife”
by notedWelcome to our first feature member of the month. I hope that this feature will make us all feel a little bit more like a community as we get to know another creator every month and maybe click on a blog that we wouldn’t normally read. This month I did a brief email interview with Tammy, or Warriorwife as she is known on Self Portrait Challenge.
Tammy is an amazing creature who is a living warrior, doing battle with ALS (www.alsa.org). From reading her blog and her photographs, I feel as if I have become a friend, a confidante and should be learning so much more from my life. In fact, I feel as if any words I have for this amazing woman are trite and condescending - just read her blog:
The Five Questions:
How long have you been a member of SPC?
I started at the end of May with SPC’s “Introduce yourself.”
Do you consider yourself an artist or something else?
I’m a 44yr old retired/empty nester discovering my creative side. We all have an inner voice that needs to be heard and validated. If we find a positive way to express that voice, that’s an artist.
Why are you involved with SPC?
I’m a camera nut and soon I will no longer have use of my hands, I can do it at home and I love the creative ideas from the talent found here at SPC
Have you learnt anything from SPC about Yourself, your style of work, etc?
I’m thinking more “out of the box” and I am feeling good about expressing the inside using the outside. I’m really liking the outside more than before.
What is the strangest/hardest picture you have ever taken of yourself and the story behind it?
Strangest was wearing pink muk luks and a wide long scarf, with nothing else on (important parts covered by scarf). Hardest picture, is all of them because I have trouble lifting arms without shaking.
::: So you have the microphone that is hooked into speakers across the world and everyone is waiting with bated breath for your next sentence. What message do you want the whole world to hear?:::
Life is precious, so don’t sweat the little things and love with your whole heart.
Ain’t she sweet?
How Do You Do That? Wrapping Text Around Images
by lessthanperfectSure it’s nice to just share your images but sometimes you want to do something special. The following tutorial will show you how to wrap text around an image.
<img src="http://thelocationofyourimage.jpg" align="left" hspace="3" vpsace="3" >
The above code will place your image to the left with a 3px border around it. The “left” can be changed to right as well. You can also increase the hspace and vspace numbers to give you the amount of space you desire.
If you’re not interested in doing this each and every time you wish to wrap text around an image, the same thing can be accomplished with just a smidge of css.
img.left {margin: 3px 3px 3px 3px; padding: 3px; display: inline;}
.left { float: left; }
What the above does is make sure that your text and image are lined up properly as well as placing a margin of 3px around the entire image and also padding the image with 3px.
By placing the above into your stylesheet, you simply have to do the following to make the whole thing work.
<img src="http://thelocationofyourimage.jpg" class="left">.
Easy.
July challenge - Self portrait as…
by kricketsonSelf portrait as … [insert word here]
examples
self portrait as a liar
self portait as a chair
self portrait as if I were dead
self portrait as Cindy Sherman
self portrait as Marlon Brando
self portrait as a sow
self portrait as a wife and mother
self portrait as a shaker
self portrait as a shamen
self portait as quadruplets
self portrait as subhuman
self portrait as pregnant
self portrait as a yeti
self portrait as ophelia
As you can see from the many ideas above, that this challenge can be fun or serious, fantasy or reality, I do think it will be fun.
this challenge begins in July
Five Lives, Five Pictures
by Amy“Popular, transient, expendable, low-cost, mass-produced, young, witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous, and Big Business”…. I’ve read it over and over, and this is the first week I feel even slightly confident in my entry. If you guys feel as apprehensive about posting as I do, it sure doesn’t show, and there were some great pieces this week. Here are a few of my favorites:
If only I could wake up every morning feeling this way. Even manipulated, you can still see the huge smile on her face. The bold color backs Krista’s stated sentiment. That text didn’t even need to be there, you can tell she’s a supermom!
I hate to say it because she’s a beautiful woman, but she looks a bit alien here… or bruised? You have to sit and stare at this photo, which you just can’t help doing, so you can see how the colors play nicely together and the lines in her face start to make sense. Misty’s eyes are very intense.
Even if she doesn’t care what I think, I love this image! Everything is opposing here: dark dress/light wall, dark eyes/pale face, darker hair/sparkiling tiara. Even her attitude… She made the effort to get dressed and get there but her face plays like she doesn’t care what happens.
The image is manipulated so that much that the original detail is lost in a very comic book manner. Lori’s use of dots is perfectly “Pop” and make her head and camera stand out from the background. I like this one and I can’t fully explain why.
‘Sin City’ is the obvious reference, but very much like ‘The Matrix’ as well. In fact, this is a figure you’ll see in many movies, just different versions. He looks almost robotic… certainly evil, or maybe the star of an 80’s music video?
You’ve got one more shot with this challenge before we change it up on you again…. *wink*
Carletta’s Friday Faves: Pop Art Challenge Week 3
by lessthanperfectI’m still really impressed by the creativity that you guys have with this pop art challenge, because I wasn’t sure how people would respond. So here are my favorites from this week:
I love just how much is going on in this photo. Plus I’ve been wanting to do a composite photo for forever so I’m mostly jealous.
This image is a bit naughty, a bit sinister and a little sexy all at once.
Here the author looks so tiny in front of this piece of art. And I love the lights and shadows.
Another one of those images that just has a dark and kind of naughtiness lying just beneath the surface. It’s also one of those images that you don’t catch everything the first time you look at it. Go ahead, look again.
You know how you look at a picture and you smile because you love it but you couldn’t explain why you loved it so much? This is one of those for me.
I think I’m so intrigued because I have NO idea what that thing that Joy is kissing actually is.
You Make Me Feel Like…
by Shelba
Love Life Live Love
I’m loving the composition here. The black of the picture and silhouette of the woman. The neon glow of the room and of the paint splatters from the painting. I could look at her looking at the painting all day. I feel like I stuck my head in a room, but I don’t want to make any noise because she is so into this painting. She makes me feel like whispering.
Caged Pixels
Pop art? Oh yeah, pop art for sure. I love the repetition of the dots and that she is a cartoon. And hello, she loves her camera! And you know her camera loves her back. I guess that is why she is called Photographer Lori, right? This photograph makes me laugh. It is a happy, funny surprise. She makes me smile.
Moki
Ahh, the bored socialite. I love this photograph. I love the white space, I love her bared shoulder. Is she wearing some sort of t-shirt or is she wearing a ballgown? And the tiara, love it! I imagine that she is at a fancy schmancy gala and she’d rather be somewhere else. She makes me want to ask her to go to the bathroom with me so she can fill me in on what or who has bored/annoyed her.
Planet Shannon
Oh, I love this. Red and hazy. Look at those eyes! The intensity of the red makes me think of anger. Blood. Rage. Fire. Her gaze is seductive. I don’t know what to think about this, I just know that all I see in this is her eyes, staring right back at me. This is very intense. Who am I that I’m looking at her like this and that she is looking at me like this? Very interesting. She makes me curious.
Michelle Caplan
This photograph feels very sweet to me. She is not smiling, but there is a softness in her eyes. This is a photograph that decades upon decades from now, someone that loves her (maybe the person she is looking at) will use to remember the young Michelle Caplan. There is a dreamy sweetness to this. She makes me feel as though though time is standing still.
Pop Art Week #3
by misocraftyJoelene’s picks
Once Upon a Time in the Midwest
