Art and Tech

My inspiration for this project was a mix of The Elephants by Salvador Dolly and Andy Warhol. I created four versions of my face then use arm photos as the body which gave off the feeling like the elephants. The theme of hands is to show how we do so many tasks, constantly multitasking its like were made of hands. my printer broke when I was working on the project that's why some pieces are hard to see, however, I liked the look it shows you can't always trust technology.

Original My version This is my first grid, which as you can tell I screwed up with the measuring because the squares are way to small. I figured this problem out when I started to paint the squares and they weren't lining up with the original artwork.

 I first started by sketching out all the scenes with pencil on the book to figure out how long everything should be and get the images right.  I then went and went over all the lines with a black marker so they can be seen more clearly. Lastly, I went through and added color

Megan George 3/3/19 History of Microphones The history of the microphone starts with German inventor Johann Philipp Reis who, in 1861, built the Reis Telephone, a device which converted sound waves into electrical impulses- however it could only relay music, not articulate speech. The telephone was later famously improved by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876 with the liquid transmitter, allowing vocal cords’ vibrations to be picked up, and speech to be recorded. However, this system had poor quality. The first microphone that projected voice well was the carbon microphone, which was created by David Edward Hughes around 1877. These microphones are the prototype of today’s mics, and they are what helped develop broadcasting and recording industries. Thomas Edison remastered the microphone into the carbon-button transmitter in 1886, a more practical and efficient substitute for Bell’s liquid transmitter. This is what was used in the first radio broadcast and was used in telephones up...

I made a portable camera obscura, I found out through readings that you just need a box with a lens on one side, a mirror at 45 degrees on the inside, and a whole on top to look into (or put wax paper on to trace the image). The project turned out ok, I think if I had better resources it would have turned out better. However, it did give me an image upside down that I could trace.

The Broadway show that I enjoyed looking at was West Side Story. I've never seen the play, but my senior year of high school our marching band show was west side. So I have a lot of fun memories with the music. The concept as well is a classic, star-cross lovers. From the scene, I watched the song was very lovely and even though the stage was small and there were no props, my eyes were always glued to the actors.

Megan George 2/8/19 Opera Paper             I Capuleti & Montecchi is an opera about the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet- sort of. Written in Italy in 1830 by Vincenzo Bellini, it tells the same general story as the legendary Shakespeare play. It is not the same, though; rather, the particular form of the story the opera tells is a very significant choice. It gives insight into the state of Italy when the show premiered and shows off its impact. Throughout my research, I discovered the origins of this play are a bit complex; it was made with a script written for another opera called Guilietta e Romeo , which was based on a play of the same name made in 1818, which drew from Renaissance works translated into French, then back into Italian. Which means it is hardly connected at all to the Shakespeare play. The basic story seems to come from the same source, but Shakespeare lived in England. Therefore, Italy didn’t see his pla...