I, Ester America Gonzalez, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 38.5 hours of work. It's true, it's true what they say, "How did she do that!?" I would never have made these hours if it was not for the countless mishaps that kept on occurring. Just yesterday I was about to turn this in, and Google decided to delete all of my spreadsheets, so I did them over thanks to trusty Microsoft Office Excel 2007.
The majority of the beginning of my research was experimentation with different styles of photography. My USB Drive was taken and I needed to build my portfolio and collections once again. I was watching Steven and Chris, and I decided I would try to photograph food for a while and just different things around my apartment. I was just reading little tidbits about food photography online and I learned that hot chocolate served in orange cups was more appealing to the audience, and that cream colored cups were thought to hold more aromatically pleasing and sweeter hot chocolate. This was all explained in "Hot Chocolate tastes Better In An Orange Cup" by Catherine Paddock PhD on medical News Today's website. I am a little taken back by how much science uses photography and photography uses science. It is exciting, and so informative, almost the perfect collaboration. I was apprehensive, but I do quite enjoy the collaborative benefits each field provides to the other.
Starting my independent component, I had hopes of selling my art on the internet and spreading the joy I feel when I see an interesting piece of art that catches my eye. But the more I read about all of the websites out there, the more I realized that eventually I will be making money IF anyone ever buys. I am a guppy in the ocean of art. I am also not a legal adult and I could go to jail if I get a crabby patty customer.
I had been working on my portfolio as stated above. In my original I had a picture of a ballerina clock I have, so I tried to recreate it. it was successful. I include this because my neighbor, who has always been there to see me do strange things in the name of art, bought a ballerina print in 8x10. It was a rainy day and I was doing my usual mischievous looking shenanigans while taking pictures and eating chocolate like a weirdo. We ended up talking about photography and it lead to me talking about my rut that I was facing with my second independent component. And you know what my generous neighbor did? He bought the picture of the clock! I went to IKEA and Kinko's and when I i finally gave it to him, he told me he had been telling my other neighbors. More sales came and went and I would go out with my cousins and we would sell together, to their neighbors and peers.
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| My creepy Valentine's day flower. I had a cropped version but the file was corrupted. |
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| These three are supposed to be stuck together in a horizontal line with minimal spacing between, but those functions are beyond my power on this. They'are dark, but it was cloudy that day. |
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| I like this. It reminds me of the dinosaurs in the desert. |
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| This is the ballerina clock I recreated. |
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| I decided to join the kids I TA one day and take pictures with them. We had a field trip to the Japanese garden up at CalPoly. |
