Alternative Spring Break

Apply for Campus Philly’s 2011 Alternative Spring Break!

Campus Philly's Alternative Spring Break is a weeklong service immersion program held in March of each year. Participating students live and work together throughout the week. During the days, students will visit a local nonprofit to learn about a social issue affecting the Philadelphia region and how that nonprofit is working to tackle the problem. Students will then get a chance to work directly on a service project with the nonprofit.

At night, students are given the chance to explore some of the many great cultural offerings of Philadelphia. Past trips have included a private tour of Citizens Bank Park, Eastern State Penitentiary, the Philadelphia Zoo, ice skating, Adventure Aquarium and more. This year's Alternative Spring Break will be taking place from Sunday, March 6th to Friday, March 11th. All applications are due on February 11th.

Spring 2011

Welcome!
This semester each student will create a blog at blogger.com. You will be asked to create new posts weekly. The posts may be homework images, responses to readings or lectures, photo galleries, etc. You are also encouraged to post interesting things that find throughout the semester. Please keep this blog related to your Tyler experience and leave the social networking to other sites.

Homework: walk/ride/bike
Get out of the dorms and off campus and check out Philly! While you're out there, look around, breathe the not so fresh air, try new food, see some art and take 25-30 Photographs, create 3 sketches, gather 5 objects to scan.
Blog about the experience and what you discovered.

Final

There are lots of questions about the final project. Here are some examples.
Q: How long must it be.
A: 5-7 minutes.

Q: What should it include.
A: Seriously? I've been talking about this since the first day of class. Influences and experiences that got you here. Also examples of art work from along the way.

Q: Do we have to use Powerpoint?
A: NO It's not about the software, it's about the presentation. Powerpoint, Key Note, or even Prezi are fine.

Q: Do I have to talk?
A: Yes, yes, yes

Q: How many slides do I need?
A: It's your project. Make it good. Make it professional. I don't care about the number of slides.

Printing in the Tyler Output Center

TIFF or PSD
RGB
200 PPI
Flattened

On 11x17 paper

DO NOT WAIT TOO LONG TO PRINT!!!

Photoshop Painting and Layering examples

Google image search Dave Mckean

Bad Music Video examples

Sasha Parker
Grace Hwang
Mike Dvorak
Lauryn Volovar
Courtney Hicks
Another Idea
Crazy Amazing
Her Morning Elegance
The making of Her Morning Elegance
You could do this

Composite Image

Now that you have created a composite photo from web images, create a composite image using your photos. If you want to add an object/subject that would be hard to photograph, you may find it on the web or in a book, but the majority of the imagery must be yours. The image will consist of a background and five additional layers. Do not flatten. Save as PSD or TIFF. Then resize and Save As jpg for your blog.
Image size = at least 8x10 at 200 PPI

REMEMBER! You must use appropriated imagery that challenges copyright issues and the idea of Fair Use.