Remake: The Book by BOOOOOOOM

Years back (say 2012-2013) BOOOOOOOM made an open call for art remakes for a future book they were planning on making. I being myself, decided to summit 2 of the remakes I made for my Photography II class back in 2012. I forgot all about it until weeks ago, I received an email asking for my mail address to mail me the book. I did make it into the book! I got two copies and felt all the feelings when I saw my face inside the book.

Moral of the story: I will never stop sending stuff whenever an open call is made cause, so far, I've been lucky enough to be published in two different projects! PSYCHED!

Thank you, BOOOOOOOM!

{Self-Portraits as Famous Paintings}

Or, you know... something like that.

I've been wanting to do this since forever but I didn't have the inspiration nor the time to do it. Since I have to take some photos for my photography class assignment I decided to give it a shot. They were 5 but I'm just letting you guys see 3 since I didn't like how the other 2 turned out. The painting I did where:

• "Girl with a Pearl Earring" by Johannes Vermeer
• "Self-Portrait" by Frida Kahlo
• "Son of Man" by René Magritte

"Girl with a Pearl Earring" by Johannes Vermeer

"Self-Portrait" by Frida Kahlo

"Son of Man" by René Magritte

The ones that didn't make it where:

• "American Gothic" by Grant Wood
• "Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe" by Vincent van Gogh.

Not the easiest thing to do since I had no tripod so I had to "make" one {that being using boxed, chairs and other things to place the camera} but it was fun. One of the comments I received from one girl at university was "You sure have a lot of weird clothes" I just had to laugh.

I want to do something by Roy Lichtenstein in the future since I didn't have to paint my face with any of this photos {Except Frida's but that was just a plain black line} so expect some other photos similar to this ones soon... Ok not that soon but whatever.

♪♫ Obstacle 2 by Interpol

{Mental}

Hey there!
For my last Photography II assignment I had to pick a theme to make conceptual photos. Me being me, I went with mental disorders. I had to take 5 photos representing mental disorders, which I love. As usual I went to one of my two forever-using-for-all-my-photography-assignments models, Leslie {Katherine, you'll be coming back, like always}. I had other things in mind but I guess I'm pretty satisfied with the result.

Bipolar disorder: condition in which people go back and forth between periods of a very goo or irritable mood and depression.

Schizophrenia: mental disorder that makes it hard to: tell the difference between what is real and not real; think clearly; have normal emotional responses; act normally in social situations.

Multiple personality disorder: mental disorder characterized by at least two distinct and relatively enduring identities or dissociated personality states that alternately control a person's behavior, and is accompanied by memory impairment for important information not explained by ordinary forgetfulness.

Insomnia: inability to fall sleep or to stay asleep as long as desired.

Paranoia: mental condition characterized by delusions of persecution, unwarranted jealousy, or exaggerated self-importance, typically elaborated into an organized system. 

For the multiple personality disorder, I had to take different photos of Leslie with different outfits and such... It was pretty interesting.

That's a pair of big brown eyes. That is all folks.

♪♫ The Simpsons Theme by Green Day

{Inspired by Julia}

Photography II will be the dead of me.
Another assignment for my photography class. "5 photos inspired my Julia Margaret Cameron". I guess I'll just post the most decent ones cause... well, yeah.
Models for the assignment where Leslie, Katherine {Told you! You were coming back}, Gabriela and Cristina.

As usual one thing led to the other and we end up with "CANDIDS!"

♪♫ Sunday Morning by Me playing Ukulele

{Photography II}

This is going to be the most frustrating class of my entire semester.
My teacher is, let just say it, plain badass. She had shoot for many magazines including covers and she knows so much about the photography field its crazy. That's one of the reasons I'm gonna be pretty stressed out this semester.
ANYWAY Leslie was my model this time {Katherine, you'll come back. I can guarantee that} and it was...uh interesting.

I'm missing some of the photos from the assignment but meh. You'll see more... someday.

{Film III}

How sad... this is my last Photography assignment.
Last Tuesday: not exactly the chillest day of my life. Between finding a film and getting to the location I was supposed to take the photos it was one hell of a day. I ended up in the place on time and I had to use a 400 ISO film {I usually use 100 or 200}
The assignment was simple: 4 pairs of movements photos and 4 pairs of depth of field. As usual, Katherine {aka my personal ~model~} helped me and posed for some of the photos.

 After I was done, Katherine decided to take some "candid" photos of my face... Not something I'm really used to.

Materials:

• Olympus OM-10
• ISO 400 film

♪♫ Nice White People by Aloha Tigers

{Fluorescent Adolescent}

A few weeks back, my friend Katherine finally gave me the t-shirts she wanted me to paint. Her request was simple: "I want a 12:51 Strokes t-shirt and another one with something Arctic Monkeys related"
The 12:51 was easy since I've already done that one and I had the stencil but the Arctic Monkeys themed on was well, not that simple. Hours of looking what to do I had three options for her and she picked the Fluorescent Adolescent single cover.

Draw the stencil, cut it out, lay it on the t shirt and a lot of white and blue mixing:

I had a photography assignment this week and, as usual, I went to Katherine for help. She is usually my "model" when it comes to this class and just my luck she had the t-shirt on. Took some photos for the assignment which was basically movement photos:

As usual, I started playing around with photoshop and added some colors to some photos {just this one but you get the idea}:

Materials:

• Olympus OM-10
• Kodak ColorPlus 200
• Adobe Photoshop CS5

♪♫ Fluorescent Adolescent by Arctic Monkeys

{Film II}

I've done a total of 2 photography homework assignments for my photography class at university. Both equal in the frustration scale. Anyway, for the second practice I went to develop the film in a different place which was the best thing I've ever decided. The first practice turned out horrible but the problem was the place I went to develop it. I scanned some of the photos from the second assignment {which was mostly portraits with Rembrandt light} and did a little B&W testing on Photoshop. P.S.: I need a new scanner:

I got some shots left so I start playing with double exposure and I have to say I might buy a new film just for double exposure!

Thanks to the ~models~ Pablo, Diego, María, Katherine, Graciela and various house objects.

Materials:

• Olympus OM - 10 {All photos were F 2.8; ISO 200; 1\125 }
• Adobe Photoshop CS5

♪♫ Two Weeks by Grizzly Bear

{Film I}

Earlier this month I got an analog camera cause I need it for my photography class at University. I got a film to test it and they didn't turn out so bad {Pointing out I don't know how to apply photography stuff like exposure and else}. I scanned a few {P.S.: My scanner is not good. Not good at all but it's handy at times and the only one I have} :

Materials:

• Olympus OM-10
• Kodak film ISO 400

♪♫ Darts of Pleasure by Franz Ferdinand