Flight Ground: October 2010

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Super Morlock Adventure

For this assignment, we (as a group) had to go downtown and take a bunch of pictures as part of a scavenger hunt. My group consisted of myself Kevin Duong, Scott Pessoa, Francis Carcacas and Lawrence Posadas and the name of our group is Pelican. We went downtown the other evening and managed to get every item on the list with relative ease (of course with a little pre-planning). So please enjoy the photos!

The photos and descriptions are posted below and also on my flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/55384606@N08/

Super Morlock Adventure Photos

Photo of yourself waking up in the morning, obviously delirious

Group photo of all members on the subway

Photo of an advertisement in the subway

Photo of a warning sign

Getting off at St. Andrews

Photo of 2 members getting a transfer

Street art at King and Emily

Photo of all members in a street car shelter w/ ad in background

Photo of Java's Daily Special

Photo of Portland and Queen street signs

Photo of New York Subway

Photo of Ghandi's

10 Photos of Graffiti

Photo of Silver Snail's storefront

Photo of flyers in Silver Snail

Photo of Active Surplus robots

Photo of a member purchase made at Active Surplus

Photo of a member buying something from a street vendor on Queen

Photo of Black Bull patio

Photo of a member walking with Eye Weekly

Photo of Black Market signage

Photo of "Stranger" store front

Photo of Much Music SUV

Photo of UMBRA storefront

Photo of everyone on the subway

Photo of Francis reading Eye Weekly

Photo of Lawrence reading Eye Weekly

Photo of Kevin reading Eye Weekly

Photo of Scott reading Eye Weekly

Photo of someone's business card on a subway seat

Photo of everyone saying bye

Photo of yourself before you hit the bed at night

Thursday, October 28, 2010

DMA179: Paper Zoo

For this assignment we (as a collective class) painted 6 different backgrounds including Savannah, Desert, Polar, Ocean, Plains and Rain Forest for our Paper Zoo. The next step was to draw two animals for each environment, scan the images and place them into their natural environment.

For the Savannah background, we had to draw a Lion and I chose to draw an additional Cheetah. The first thing I thought when I thought of Savannah was a Cheetah and they are pretty synonymous with each other. Cheetahs are an iconic animal and a very beautiful one, so I decided to use it.

For the Desert background, we had to draw a Desert Tortoise and I chose to draw an additional Scorpion. I thought a Scorpion would be an interesting take because they exist in the desert but I didn't think it was an obvious choice. They are also very interesting and dangerous creatures that you definitely would not want to underestimate in the wild.

For the Polar background, we had to draw a Penguin and I chose to draw an additional Polar Bear. The Polar Bear was an easy choice because it is the first animal anyone thinks of when they think of the arctic. There was no going wrong with the Polar Bear and they're very nice creatures as well, I would like to have one as a pet.

For the Ocean background, we had to draw a Squid and I chose to draw an additional Hammerhead Shark. There were so many choices for ocean, but the Hammerhead is a sea creature that fascinates me the most because it is so unique. The look really cool and they're pretty bad ass so I felt like I had to draw it.

For the Plains background, we had to draw a Buffalo and I chose to draw an additional Wolf. I felt like I needed to draw a wolf for one of these backgrounds. They live in all sorts of environments, Plains, Polar, Savannah, Desert and even Rain Forest. It was really an obvious choice but I'm sure everyone has one in at least one of their backgrounds.

For the Rain Forest background, we had to draw a Bush Baby and I chose to draw an additional Anaconda. I thought this would be really cool to draw an Anaconda because it's a really cool and dangerous looking animal. I thought it turned out very well and I really like snakes.

I really enjoyed this project, particularly sketching the animals. It very relaxing to just sit there and sketch rather than doing anything technical. I thought scanning and placing the sketches was very tedious but I think they turned out pretty well. I also decided to just place a fact about each animal for the information. The facts are short, concise and gives you a gist of what the animal is about, if you didn't know already.