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    Anorexia Nervosa is partially an effect of the culture that we live in, and partially an effect of the social structure in our society. In American media there were stories in 1974 about how young women refused to eat, but without really illumination how serious these illnesses could be. Now we know how serious and deadly these diseases are. 50% of girls between the ages of 11 and 13 see themselves as overweight and It is estimated that 8 million Americans have an eating disorder – seven million women and one million men. If you see the signs get someone the help they need. You never know you could save a life. Get information at www.edrcsv.org. Am I skinny enough yet?

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andy warhol

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”

my other photo photoshop photo

this is fisheye. how i did this was i took a picture of flamingos. then

i used the elleptical marquee tool to make the picture round. after that i inverted it. next i deleted all that was outside of my circle. then i reverted my selection. after that i croped the photo and used the spherize in the distort filter.

this is blending photos. i picked three images. my target image (my main one) is the eye. i duplicated the background to make another layer. then i made all my pictures the same size. after i applied my other two images to my main one. then i used hard mix for a layer blend and made it less strong. but with the other pictures i used screen and vivid light. i also took out the Istock photo in the middle of the photo by erasing it and adding color.  

portfolio picture

Party Underwater

     I first got an underwater scene from Google images and made that my background. After that I got a photo of rippled water on Google images and put it in the underwater to scene to make it look like little waves. What I did for that was I changed the image size and applied the ripple picture to the underwater one and lowered the occapacity so it wasn’t so strong. Following that step I resized, copy pasted and free transformed a shadow of a shark that I got on Google and did the same thing as the ripples with making it less strong and making it fade into the water. After that I copy pasted and free transformed a rhino from a previous assignment called threshold, where we had to pick an animal and use threshold to change the color of the animal. To make a threshold photo you get a picture select your object and create however many layers of that object (I used about twenty more or less for my rhino and twelve for my zebra). After that you chose a color and select the white in the object delete it then select the black in the object and fill it with the color chosen. You repeat those steps and each time you change to a brighter color to fill your black with. I did the same thing for my zebra. All the mermaids I got from Google images which I copy pasted and free transformed onto the scene and blurred the edges so they didn’t look so rough and would blend in. I copy pasted and free transformed the boom box and music notes.