Chance Project

Zach's Chance Project

Inspired by Zach Sesar

Chance Project "How I See The Bay Area"

Nature and Industry

 This assignment is to create a digital works piece from the chance of organic/geometric shapes will mix on a surface. The creator will take ten pictures of what they depict as Nature or Industrial.

Materials

paper, pen, and coin

digital camera

access to the adobe program photoshop

Microsoft Word

Taking ten photos

stand in location desired for photo and document where it is

flip coin 

heads: hold the camera at 90% (angle axis arm/leg)

tails: hold camera at 135% (angle axis arm/leg)

take picture and title

When titling the work artist needs to think in random and do not erase any marking put; listen to what is in your surrounding at this certain point and time.

Remember what images go with location and title

Repeat process for all 10

Translating photos through Photoshop

create a folder called “chance” on a desktop

then create two folders inside that folder called, “start” and finish”

download 10 images into the start folder

Automate batch Process all images to 10’’ by 10’’ at 300 ppi

Remove constrain proportions lock

For assistance use  this URL address

 HYPERLINK "http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~telarts/Art410/tutorials/PHOTOSHOP%20/AUTOMATING%20TASKS/PHOTOSHOP-Batch.htm" http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~telarts/Art410/tutorials/PHOTOSHOP%20/AUTOMATING%20TASKS/PHOTOSHOP-Batch.htm

start with the first image taken and copy this complete image

create a new project (titled defined by creator and save into “chance” folder 

then paste image upon “new document”

open next image that was taken into photoshop and copy/paste upon “new document”

layer that was pasted drop the fill and opacity to 90%

REPEAT step 8. for next eight images moving the opacity/fill 10% on each layer.

Once finished flatten image and save into “chance” folder

PRINT

On Microsoft world

document each picture from, angle, place, title, Opacity/Fill percentage

save in “Chance” folder

PRINT

Place works together on a wall

Inspired by Rosler, The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems, 1975

Thank you for playing

I took pictures as I traveled around the bay area

90%  Standing in the sand at Ocean Beach San Francisco (the watering hole)

135% Outside standing next to the construction site for the library (hiding sun)

90%   Standing on the walk way of the Holloway entrance to San Francisco State (crowds of ants)

90%   Inside the San Francisco State cafeteria (tons of fun)

135% last day at my old apartment near Ocean Beach (town n country)

135% Tree next to the outside stage at San Francisco State (fog city)

135% On the San Francisco State shuttle near Daly City bart station (homes)

90%   Crossing the street outside of Stonestown mall (ripe future)

90%  Hill at the Holloway entrance of San Francisco State (green entrance)

135% On bart going down the Pittsburg hill (Blue sky green grass)