PSA

Andy Warhol

·         Real name is Andrew Warhola (8/6/28-2/22/87) (Became Warhol after a misprint)

o   Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Parents from Czechoslovakia (does not exist anymore)

o   Father worked in a coal mine

·         In High School, kicked out of art club because he was “too good”

·         Graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Fine Arts)

·         Graduated with degree for pictorial design & wanted to become a commercial illustrator

·         Designed advertisements for women’s shoes

·         Used Polaroid camera

·         Fear of hospitals and doctors, hypochondriac

·         Favorite print making technique was silk screening

·         Friends & family described him as a workaholic

·         His sexuality was speculated upon and how this influenced his relationship to art is “a major subject of scholarship on the artist”

·         First solo expedition in 1952

·         Coined the term “15 minutes of fame”

·         1960s: iconic American products (pop art)

·         Created The Factory, his NYC studio from 1962-1968

·         Celebrity portraits developed into one of the most important aspects of his career

·         Made films (first one called Sleep – 6 hours of a man sleeping) (1963)

·         1965 said he was retiring from painting

o   1972 returned to painting

·         Designed cover for the Rolling Stones’ album Sticky Fingers (cover made out of real jean material)

·         Produced Velvet Underground’s first album

·         Started a magazine called Interview, worked for Glamour Magazine, Vogue

·         Shot by Valerie Solanas 3 times for being abusive and “too controlling” (6/3/68)

o   Solanas authored the S.C.U.M. Manifesto, a separatist feminist document

o   "Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television – you don't feel anything. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it's all television."

·         Marilyn Monroe = favorite model (not painted until after death)

·         Wore silver wigs until he dyed his hair silver

·         Practicing Ruthenian Rite Catholic who described himself as a religious person

·         Died of a heart attack brought on by a gall bladder surgery and water intoxication

·         $100,000,000 for one of his paintings (highest amount paid) (“Eight Elvises”)

·         Referred to as the “Prince of Pop”

Photoshop Portfolio

This is 5 pictures combined into one all of which were taken by myself. 10mm focal length

Little Toy

This is my photoshop image of my little toy. I combined a photograph of a hand in the desert with my Diana F+ Edelweiss edition.

This photo was take on the job site in a bathroom that my dad and I were remodeling over the weekend. The camera is sitting on a work bench against the freshly tiled wall.

Focal Length: 10mm

Aperture: F/3.5

Shutter: 1/15th

I took this photo when I went on a drive along Skyline and highway 1 over the weekend. The photo is taken on the hood of my car at a wide focal length.

Focal Length: 10mm

Aperture: F/3.5
Shutter: 1/250th

Architecture Blog

This is a photograph of my Great Grandmothers 1908 Craftsman home in Palo Alto.  The house is on the market and this is what the living room looked like set up for sale.

Focal Length: 10mm

Flash: 1/60th

This first photograph is a mix between my 'On High' shot, a Thanksgiving Shot, and a landscape shot.

The building is put into the landscape picture from the On High shot, and to maake the shot more fantasy-like, I added the turkey on the roof.

This next photograph is a blend between a picture I took of a fence in Portola Valley and a picture I took in my bathroom that is currently being remodeled.

Landscape

This was taken at Crystal Springs resovouir. The yellow is the dividing line on the sidewalk.

D90

10mm

This is taken in Portola Valley off of 280. I like it because it reminds me of Ansel Adams road shot.

D90

10mm