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relates to my essay topic , im refering to a culture text: gender/sex.

This film strongly shows japanese culture.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB67V6Tpm1c

For our drawing class,we had to design 4-6 party hats. Party hats now are just sphere shaped paper cone hats. We were asked to do something else other than sphere shaped hats. I had an idea of birthday,coz my birthday is in november. I design a cake hats with pink ribbons on top and had my name says “happy birthday phyllis”. Another one was a bottle hat beacuse when it comes to birthday,the first thing that comes up to my mind is drinking parties. The 3rd one is a shopping bag hat that was made up of a coach shopping paper bag and i glued my shoping receipt on it. The last one was just a originally pink fancy hat that shows how much i LOVE pink.

David hoffos is a cotemporary artist who maintains a practice in Lethbridge,alberta. His works relates to illusionist installations that has special effects and cinematic techniques.He did number of works that was really interesting. He went to Univeristy of Lethbridege in 1994. One of his work is called Scenes form the House Dream: In 2003 hoffos launched the first phase of Sences form the house dream, a five-year series of linked installations. The entire series is et to begin its cross-canada tour in the fall of ‘08. his single-channel work has been shown in festivals in over twenty countries, and recently represented canada at the 48th Oberhausen Short Film festival, germany.
Hoffos constructed optical illusions through the apparatus of everyday. His supply is low-end tv monitors, black masking tape, and inexpensive mirrors, he reveal secretive model worlds peopled by ghost figures that appears slowly. He work reflects to other artists how his work can be artist’s dream. Scenes from the house dream was a collection of scenes constructed from turn-of-the-century optical techniques and minature models. Seems like there are so many story behind each of his work. Like there’s narrative stories behind them. each of them features four or five scences inspired by the genre of film. Which from this work Hoffos has gain experiences and telling stories to the audiences, that reflects a banalities of daily life. The story starts in the middle of no where because hoffos choose not to tell us where the story starts. Referring to Hoffos’ statement, he says”Through my installation work i have sought to reveal and examine the sources of illusio found within genre movies,stage magic, and museum displays. The evolution of my work has been a steady process of accumuating and inventing techniques and devices and then applying and refining them. Over the course of more than 20 installations my work has developed step-by-step from simple, stand-alone film/sculpture pieces into complex,immersive,multichannel environments. A few of the techniques and devices that characterize my work include: film and video projection onto cut-outs, large miniature scenes, mirrored boxes, phantom figure illusions, ghost video glass effects,cinermas,homemade video projectors, and curtained entrances.” Haffos’ works have been display in galleries. Where audiens come in and see the projector projects on the work he did.
His film, video and installation works have been included in solo and group exhibitions in canada, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland and the United states, including 2003 solo exhibitions at Trepanier Baer,Calgary;”Present Tense” at the AGO,Toronto. Another example of his work is called Labyrinth of dreams, which is a multi-media installation invlving sound, video projections onto various supports, and a landscape in a magic mirrored bo. It was first displayed at the Southern Alberta Art gallery in 1999. The univeristy art education students observed this process as a case stody on how to teach contemporary art in the public school systems.
Hoffos work’s has its relation to space, which makes it really interesting.

clay can be made in such detailed forms

Time is running out . . .
heres the mock up, this is my thought in sight after getting off the car of my ride in the parking lot, being almost late everytime. This area of place makes me think of being late, and this picture will make me thinking how time is being wasted and I need to hurry my ass up.

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My life style places where I often go to do my duties. I share this with my roommate and sometimes my friends, I wouldn’t move anywhere else, I love my home and my community, I personality think Burnaby is cute.

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For our diva class,we have to capture few photos then link them together in photoshop to form a panorama. I had a good experienece in the process of taking the photos because it’s actually my first time taking photos using an tripod. It did come out better using it. I learned how to set up the setting for proof and my final work. However,my proof didn’t come out the way I wanted because it was too dark, which in some areas had not enough details. Then I changed the settings in my final print. At last, the final print came out perfectly close to the way I imagined it would be. I’m satisfied with the results.