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Exhibition 1: Eazel

In Ritchie’s Charles Ritchie: Welcome to Suburbia, Ritchie explores and creates impressively small scaled drawings that explore landscape. In work that is smaller and more minimal, it is crucial that the artist be patient to avoid mix-ups in their composition. For instance, most of Ritchie’s work includes small compositions of various sizes and lengths. This essential when try to make a focal point of make variety in your work.

In Seoul, Ritchie is debuting his art between the dates of March 12 and April 28 of this year.

Ritchie’s work in the gallery is unique in that the artist incorporates various mediums. Mediums such as gouache, graphite, crayon, charcoal, and ink only to name a few. Altogether the artist was determined to play with space within the gallery to make the audience immerse themselves in an intimate setting. The intimate setting being the small artwork.

I can consider adding this type of style towards my palette and work upon that style. This style is favorable for me because it allows for the point to still be made with risk of losing or the need for more content. Considering the execution and consideration of not only the artwork, but the space around it has to be inspirational. Moreover, getting the audience to react in such a way is essential too.

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10 Sites Inspiration

https://www.instagram.com/

Pros

  • Logo is simplistic and merges well with website
  •  posts are easily accesible

Cons

  • desktop is cunky
  •  Needs more originality with the text

https://www.google.com/

Pros

  •  sans serif typeface is great because it is easily acknowledgable.
  •  simplistic, easily recognizable

Cons

  • Not filling, empty space
  •  Still just a search board, nothing special

https://www.amazon.com/

  • Website uses the grid (for the most part)
  •  Lots of detail, areas to explore

 

  • Too much detail, very inconsistent based on looks
  •  Hard to navigate

https://www.bing.com/

  •  provides fullness in their search engine
  •  easily accesible

 

  •  nav bar at the bottom is not big enough
  •  their logo is not as easily accesible.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows

  •  Uses the grid
  •  text is easy on the eyes
  • logo and “Windows” being easily accesible

 

  • while the text is easy on the eyes, some are too small or light
  • Footer is too large

https://www.amazon.com/

https://www.amazon.com/

https://www.amazon.com/

https://www.amazon.com/

 

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Writing For Emergent Media Chapter 6

In Chapter 6 of Goldsmith’s thesis, he goes on to explain how origin is essential for photography and more broader, technology as a whole. Essentially, the value in which content transgresses loses value. The factor of originality is important when trying to create something for the simple fact that there will always be multiples of styles that look similar to each other. To branch off of that idea, there are various examples where content and work have taken the form of something else and loses its credit based on an underlying genre. A perfect example of this process can be related to art and towards a broader spectrum technology as a whole. Art has various genres and can take the face of many mediums so it would only be right for certain pieces to look similar. Now if you take that image and manipulated and used little to no originality, then it practically drowned in the content wave. The essential need for what’s in the now is originality. Another prime example is music. I feel that artists who take samples from other people’s work, do well based on how much originality they contributed into their work. The main point I’m trying to go back to is that through technology now, everything has a point of origin and will do well depending on how original that content is.

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Emergent Media: Hot Take

Through social literacy, hot takes have entered the digital world and is still understandably new. Even though this is the case, developing a solid claim about events that are considered relatively new. By definition, a hot take is a noun that entails strong and typically fortified commentary about a recent event, generally to attract publicity. Getting attention and formulating a thesis is generally difficult due to how whimsical and witty you are and most times it boils down to how novel you are to the story or news. For the topic of this take, I am going to be going over Alfred State College, and then developing a strong claim based on recent events.

One example of a hot take includes a take by some who is potentially going to Alfred State 4 years ago:

Take 1

This individual was able to expressed their absolute boredom by mentioning that they are visiting Alfred State College and that they are avoiding that by tweeting. This sort of commentary not only sways the viewer with a different point of view, but gives us a type of commentary based on recent experiences. Analyzing this take further, we as the audience are able to gather that Alfred State College is boring.

Take 2

Our second take, which is surprisingly much older, is able to share the same sentiments as the first take. The tricky part about this take is that the audience is not informed with why this person is not applying to Alfred State. In turn, we are left open to interpretations. Nonetheless, this post is still hot take worthy.

These takes makes it easier to support the overall claim that Alfred State is not generally a place for everyone.

Alfred State College caters more to finance and their administration than it does to the well-being of their own alumni.

Not to take away from this take, but it is a solid representation of the stigma presented by the college as well as how the college presents itself over the years. In conclusion, a hot take is consistent and can be considered as an opinion in digital literacy.