How To Get The Selby In Your Place!
Want to learn how to take pictures like The Selby? Well Todd Selby put together a guide on how to do just that. The guide explains his tips and tricks on how to get the perfect shot. So grab your camera and get ready to get take some photos.
Color Theory: Quick Reference Sheet for Designers
I found this stumbling. This is a great reference to refer to when designing or creating color pallets and I thought I’d share. I think it’d be cool as a large print out in your room, studio, or wherever your workstation is. There are also color picker / color theory programs available for purchase, however I sometimes use plain ‘ole color wheels, which may seem a little archaic, and other times I use Adobe Kuler.
Still Work’n in Japan
Photos by Thomas A. Crossland
For those unfamiliar with woodblocks, let me briefly explain. First off, it’s a real painstaking process in my opinion. It requires unconditional attention and precision. Woodblock printing is a long and tedious which starts from concept, to paper, to woodblock. It’s the technique for printing text, images, or patterns on wood. It’s a process somewhat similar to “inking a handheld rubber stamp which is then pressed against a blank sheet of paper,” only in this case it involves a complete set of illustrations carved on cherry woodblocks, a separate one required for EACH color used. The inking and actual printing process produces wonderful gradations.
The content of woodblock prints are usually of Fujiwara/Mt. Fuji [wara, Japanese for Mount], the mystifying geisha women of the pleasure quarters, life in Kyoto and/or Edo and chonin, and samurai.
European Art= Unrealistic Expression
European Art at its finest
Type- European Art of the 1900′s
Camera- Nikon D40
Exposure- 1/30 sec
f-stop- f/3.5
Program- Adobe Photoshop Cs4 and Adobe lightroom
This picture to me represents the joyfulness of life. This is one of my favorite pictures in my portfolio due to the subject matter. I also like the picture because it represents repetition of form(when you repeat a certain size, shape, or color) and in this case it would be the squares. Its really interesting to study how the Europeans depicted life, the babies were never small but always a certain size, i would say the artists really made the babies disproportionate which was common in all European art.
TEN:15 pm – Viewer submissions
Jermaine, Queens, NY, Monday Nights
Jason, Murry Hill, NY, Graveyard Shift
Grime Textures
Two free high quality grime textures by Bizy Dreaming. The snow was crazy this weekend in Brooklyn and from what I heard, Long Island got it worse. I was coming home from work today, fortunately I had my camera, and the buses were just grimey with dirty snow residue, YUCK! Anyway, here you go!
Download here.
You can gather your own textures with any digital camera you have laying down, it’s easy. Anything you find interesting or abstract can be used as textures for your work.
Sanford: Prisma Markers
Tryna get back into the flow of things, get some pencil to paper.. then outline “the real,” any work, with prisma markers. NEED if I want to take a step up in a old medium. Getting the summer started..
U8_Technologic Fat::Free Font frm The VS Project
Lately, I’ve been extra busy with work, which always has me tired, and out looking for alternative jobs, as well as internships, which is why I’ve been neglecting Keep It Surreal readers. Nevertheless, my eyes are still open and my ears to the “streets.” I think I’ve been up to date with things going on around the city and what’s on the web. I just downloaded the U8 Technologic Fat font from The VS Project for free. I’m eager to use it, hopefully I get some time in to create an image to publish.
Source via: The VS Project
Video: Your Business Card is CRAP!
Source via: Tishon
15 Awful Design Mistakes From GoMediaZine
15 Awful Mistakes Made by Designers in the Music & Apparel Industry – 3 of 3 | GoMediaZine
Check out this really informative article about 15 Mistake designer tend to make and how to avoid them. GoMedia is a good place for design ideas as well as allowing hi-quality vector images to use as stock, for purchase and some are freebies.
Recycled Cardboard Macbook Case
Architecture student Alastair Hunter has recycled some cardboard to create this beautifully crafted macbook case!
Bizy Dreaming x Montage 2009
You haven’t seen one of these headline’s in awhile, Bizy Dreaming x “you”, or Bizy Dreaming x anyone else for that matter. I gave you an heads up a while back, that I’d be featured in a school publication, a publication, nevertheless. Anyway, it has arrived!!! I didn’t get what I wanted to be published, but I got something worthy of credit, so I’m excited about that. Next year, we are going for something better. I have a 3/4 page on page 18 for digital photography, check me out! This year’s edition of Montage is surprisingly far better than last year’s copy because more artists decided to step up. I have a few extra copies left from the ones I gave out, send me an email and we can work something out. Very limited copies!
Check out the featured photo (155th & 8th) here>>
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T: Typophile
I’m understanding my aesthetic in conjunction with self. In photography, I love high contrast photographs, as for design, I love a sleek and clean design, web 2.0 does that perfectly. But, more importantly, I love typography and headlining sans-serif fonts. One of my favorite font-families are Avante Garde or Century Gothic.
Check out Typophile.com if your interested in type. You get an undrstanding of different font types and hear designer opinions on specific topics, or get help and feedback. They also direct you to font foundaries. Check it out!
Mike Mac x NYC Red
It’s 11:21 pm right now and I’m really not doing anything! It’s the first time in about a week – week and half, where I can afford to kill time. Key word, afford! At least I think. Anyway, I just was just pleasantly surprised. Mike Mac, a musician and illustrator, wanted me to critique a project. The project happened to be an illustrated portrait of me. I’m definitely digging the piece. I might do something else to it, not to redesign his work, but to force a collab.
I’m the subject of another designers work – feels good to know your hard work is recognized.
Check out his work on Flickr here
Visit his blog here
Be on the lookout for a NYC Red x Mike Mac collaboration!
WE DID IT
The order came in this morning at 9:39am; I’m feeling great. The shirts weren’t exactly how I wanted, but I’m still beyond reality right now. I won’t give you the satisfaction or dissatifaction of what was wrong, however it’s really miniscule.
More photos after the jump.
Slight Change
Hey all, we’ve changed the domain and made it official! The new site address/link/url is keepitsurrealonline.com.. We’ve changed from bizydreaming.wordpress.com to keepitsurrealonline.com. Make the change in your bookmarks if you haven’t already.
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Bread & Butter
Not much to really say, but relay some of the best advice I’ve gotten in a long time.
Advice:
“Figure out what you like to do and get your bread and butter out of that. Find your own style of aesthetic.“
-Sara Jordeno
Stencil ArtxScreen printing
What you need for Stencil Cutting?
- Self-heal cutting mat or a sheet of glass to protect the table you are cutting on
- A blade to cut with. I highly recommend an X-ACTO KNIFE
- Thin acetate – The thick stuff is too hard to cut
- Sticky tape
It’s best to print stencil designs on to a piece of A4 photo paper. It makes a nice firm base to place the acetate on. A4 photo paper is available at most supermarkets now for a reasonable price.
You can buy single sheets of acetate from stationary and craft shops. Acetate works really well because to lies flat on the fabric once you apply ink. If you make your stencil out of paper it’s only going to get damaged and start buckling when you start to apply the ink.
If you don’t have a printer, you’ll have to go down to a local print shop [e.g. Kinkos, Staples, a Campus Copy (if your living on a college campus)]. Get them to print it on to some thick card.
Tools of The Trade
Some of the tools I can’t do without, as far as designing, would definitely be my Macbook, of course, a few pencils and pens, a ruler, and an X-acto knife. A self-healing cutting board is also great, but that’s more the designers with a studio and space.
Chad Harris
Broccoli
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