Bruce Dale Photography

Bruce Dale has created a beautiful landscape of the Chama Railroad in New Mexico. The movement of the train keeps you wondering and wanting to know where the train will lead to next. The colors are vibrant and very seasoned and the rolling hills are everlasting. I would very much like to create images like this with beautiful natural colors.

Michael Nickols Wildlife Photographer

Chimpanzee Confiscated From Hunters
Monrovia, Liberia, 1989

Nicohls found this baby, frightened and confused, in a tiny zoo. The zookeeper, a teacher, meant well but was overwhelmed and had little or no funding. Later this zoo was destroyed by civil war and the animals killed and eaten.

This picture is so nice and makes me want to see animals rescued like this. The image is in a sense rescued and trapped at the same time. It is such a sad picture and the story behind it is even sadder. But I would like to see myself capture more emotional images like this one. The composition is powerful and very compelling to the viewer.

Art Events (cont.)

Link to the other Blog with Pictures.

Ansel Adams, Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California. 1927

Bowers Museum of Cultural Art
The black and white lines throughout the image are very straight and they keep your eye moving, also the use of negative space in the image keeps you focused on the structure of the dome.

Octopus, Tim Hawkinson 2006
Photographic collage mounted on foam
The Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Hawkinson uses detail fo human anatomy to create his pictures. To create the suckers on the octopus he uses his mouth and lips to make them look llike the actual suckers of an octopus. With the use of photography Hawkinson manipulates the images into a collage t create a visually stimulating image.

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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Art Events (cont.)

Paul Nicklen- Balboa Park, The Natural History Museum
April 20 -

He has beautiful images with beautiful composition. I especially like the Leopard Seal that is posted at the Museum. The image is a seal on the ice and you can see the mountain in the background covered in snow and under the water. Not too many photographers create stunning images like this one. Paul Nicklen has many images on his site that are just as beautiful as this one.

The color in this image shows off his powerful use of underwater photography with the land use. Very eye catching!




Polar Bears, Ralph Lee Hopkins Balboa Park, The Natural History Museum
Such a pure picture of a mom and bear cub on the ice. The image in nearly all white except for the two bears walking away. This picture was something that I would definetly see in my personal collection....if I could afford it. I think they were asking $1500 for this print.


Yosemite Falls [03-93] John D. Clark<, The Ordover Gallery
John Clark produced an image in black and white of Yosemite Falls and showed great depth with his use of black and white. The image is very detailed and intricate to the point that it keeps you interested. The lines througout the image makes your eye wander and reveal things that you normally wouldn't focus on.

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Art Events (Cont.)

March 5 @ 7pm- Arts 111
Locally Grown Dance Series -SDSU faculty in choreography and they present fresh dance works that are modern and youthful. There was one lady at the end that was absolutely hilarious and she showed dance and the kitchen in her choreography. She was throwing Cheetos everywhere and yelling phrases throughout her performance that no one could understand. She was great.

Feb. 6 @ 7pm- Arts 111
Lux Boreal A Tijuana based dance group. They were the best dancers that I have seen, showing great rhythum and beats with their movement. For modern dance this will definetly keep you intrigued and interested throughout the whole performance. They used red tables as props and danced around them and over them throughout the whole performace. The music was very motivating also.http://www.luxboreal.com/


March 26 @ 8pm - Arts 111
North County North County, a play about a “side of life in North San Diego County rarely seen or discussed,inspired by the Al Norte de San Diego Latino History Project interviews. The play captures the many diverse and unique communities that reside in north county. It is a play about culture, clashes, commerce, dreams and desires.

March 12 @ 10am- Arts 111
Inside the Conductors jacket: Jung Ho Pak
A San Diego Chamber Orchestra Artistic Director and Conductor showed us his inspiring ways to introduce and perform in front of an audience. The arts have a big inpact on the audience and how we perceive classical music. He makes things more modern and interesting for younger audiences. He was also very passionate about his line of work which made it very interesting to listen to him talk. He also discussed the pep talks that he gives his musicians and how to inspire them to make things more interesting and involved as a whole group.

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Art Events

Feb. 15 @7pm- CSUSM Arts 111
Katsura Kan-

Katsura Kan is a Master Butoh artist and his students performed a dance series that is considered a revolutionary dance which emerged from the Post WWII Japan. Katsura describes it as "surrealism of the flesh". This wasn't your typical dance, but it was very interpretive and very unusual to me. The dancers were performing acts like they were coming out of a wound and they were acting like animals and I found this pretty unusual for dance.

Feb 26 @ 7pm- CSUSM Arts 111
Hobey Ford
Hobey Ford is knows as a puppeteer and he created all of his puppets by sculpting them out of foam and other materials. This was the most interesting event that I have seem yet. He showed the movements that the puppets can take on and how the are manipulated by the hand to seem realistic. He had marionetts, "Foamies" and shadow puppetry. He was also the creator of the Peepers and he showed us some great moves to inspire children in their world of learning.

Terrilynn Quick

Visiting artist to demonstrate altered books

Seeing Terrilynns books was interesting and very inspiring. Her book with the maps was one that stuck out the most for me. I enjoyed the colorful pages that were painted on the maps, it created a bit of depth for the pages and made the book more interesting to look at.

Spring Break!

I have finished my book and I am making some final touches to the pages. I actually like my book and am enjoying making this one.

Also, my altered book is done! I painted my book and made the paint spill over the pages like the visions of every page. Each page is filled with different colors and they represent the different representations throughout the whole book. I even made another book that consisted of folded pages. I really like this one better because it has cleaner lines and a different look.

New Spreads

Here are the new spreads that were re-done and added onto.

Spreads 1-10