Cosmosomas: Dead Electric

Cosmosomas personality is very different from your typical mainstream band. They’re not involved in music for the fame or fortune; they choose having control over their music rather than money. They’re on a small label that allows them to be who they want and play what they want. Their style of music is techno, house and electro, mostly popular in the UK.

Bands with the same style are:

Daft Punk

This band doesn't believe in the star system, they focus on making great music for their fans. They choose to not show their faces while in interviews or preforming, so they can have a normal life. They play house music and during preformances visual affects are used often.

Justice

A french electronic music duo, thought to have some heavy metal influence. Their music often includes bass slapping, which results in an electro house style. Additionally, Justice uses samples of other songs to add to the effect of electronic music.

Depeche mode

Depeche Mode is an electronis music band formed in 1981. Depeche Mode is one of the longest-lived, most successful and influential bands to have emerged from the new wave era.

random CD cover assignment

For my first cd cover the band name was lady of the forest end, which is completly random and is actually a childrens book. The image was dark, so immediatly this band became some sort of screamo/metal/emo band. The font has a creepy horror look to it, which is important to the music genre. I chose for the band name to be the larger white font so it would stand out more. The cd name is wings with high thoughts, and the red font represents things such as blood and horror, which is what the music of the band represents.

The second cd cover was complatly opposite of the first one; the mood is calm and peacful. For this cover everything fell together nicely, the cover worked with the album title and the band name.

how to make a pinhole camera

There's this great website called fecalface.com and on that website theres a how-to columb and it shows you how to make a pinhole camera, and also how to take the pictures, and develop the film for the camera. Once you have all the things you need to build it, it goes into description on making it. There's step by step images to help you follow the directions, which makes is even easier to create. The directional images also continue to show you how to take photos and develop the film. Viwers can coment on the post and state their opinion on how it worked or didn't work for them. The direct link to this site is http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=441&Itemid=92

composition exercise

Simplicity
The element of simplicity is the technique used to achieve the affect of singling out an item or items from their surroundings. A simple picture can be achieved by getting closer to the subject, which is also one of the main rules in photography. The simpler the picture, the easier it is for the viewer to comprehend the picture and appreciate it. Simplicity is one of the main components of most good photographs.

There are several way to achieve simplicity in a
photograph. The most obvious and easiest is to place the subject against a neutral background, such as snow, as seen in the first image. There is not a lot of detail in the image, which is what makes it simple. Another way to achieve simplicity envolves focusing on the subject while ensuring that the background is unfocused, as seen in the second image. The girls face is focused, but most of her curls are unfocused, and the background is also neutral.

Arial perspective

The element of aeriel perspective is how an image captures distance or depth caused by atmospheric haze, and the tonal change in the image as the depth increases. The haze tends to make distant objects less clear than near ones.

The first photo represents aerial perspective because as the trees are more distant, the tonal value changes due to the haze. The second photo has the same concept because as the mountains are more distant the haze causes them to appear lighter, capturing the depth of field.

Humor

This photo represents the composition of humour because it is graffiti of a funny caricature of Joseph Stalin. Humorus photographs can be planned such as the first image, or can be a funny momant such as the second image.

Humorus photos are usually ironic, suchas the second image of the child pulling on the lions teeth.

photoshop exercise

For this Photoshop assignment our task was to place something or someone in a background that they wouldn't be in, and make it look realistic. I chose to put penguins in a desert, because clearly you would not find them there. First I opened the image, then I duplicated the image by dragging it to the new layer icon in the layers palette. After duplicating the image I took the magnetic marquee tool and outlined the penguins, and inversed my selection to allow the background to be selected, then deleted the background. The next step was to add a new layer and fill the layer with a solid colour; I choose green. With the background copy selected, I began to remove the blue halos. I did this by using the airbrush tool, painting away with small strokes, and replacing the blue with green to match my new background. Then I used the magnetic marquee tool for the second time, outlining the penguins again, and then copying them. The next step is opening the second image (the desert) where I pasted the penguins. Now that the penguins are in the desert final touches are ready to be made. I used the dodge tool to lighten the penguins, to match the background better. I also took away some green halos using the eyedropper tool to pick up the colour I wanted, then painted over the green halo's. Now my image is complete.