Final Logo

As you probably have figured, the emily bee logo is on the header of my main blog page. It's cute, I realize that I could probably design a better one but after I made this one I was stuck on it. I can explain it for those of you who are thinking "Why did you use those colors and make it so cutesy and girly with the swirls?? It sucks."

Yeah, "Bee" isn't my last name. Kind of an inside joke, but people sometimes call me that and it goes with the first letter of my last name: "Bartos". And I don't really like my last name.
The orange and purple represent something my highschool teacher told me. She looked at my college stuff and mentioned that I use the same color pallette as I did in highschool--orange and purple.
The swirls are used because if you ever look at any piece of paper that has ever slipped between my fingers and into my possession, I draw swirls on it...I don't know why.

Today we have another critique in photo class. Mine however, still is not until Monday the 6th and I am very anxious to have my work chewed apart by the class...except I still need to get to Woodman's to pick up my prints. Hmm...Today I have three shoots *phew* So it will be exhausting, but fun. One is a headshot session (I finished my pricing guide last night!! YAY!), the next one is my art photography stuff, the last one is just me and Alex making her look gorgeous in the lighting studio. Later today I hope to share some of these online with you, along with my completed pollution dress, which did very well during critique yesterday.

I suppose I should get ready for class...

Working Logos and Nearing Completion of an Epic Garment

Alright, above are a couple more developed logo ideas...still not 100% confident with them but this is where I am at for now.

Tonight I have been working on my dress....which is no longer really ocean pollution but pollution in general...probably more with littering, actually. I dyed this floral print dress...adorable frickin dress...blue last week and since then have been sewing stuff too it. I began with sewing scraps of paper, wrappers, etc into swirl patterns below the bustline down and then in the back i sewed chiffon, and plastic bags to make a sort of train or whatever. I also stained it with black ink..same swirly pattern. I even have a giant flower made from dryer sheets. As it dries in the living room I know I created something great, but there's more to be done before crit on Tuesday.

I never took my self portrait this week. However, I found a great new location to shoot in. My friend Nik moved to an apartment above a funeral home...and everything about the building is gorgeous. Ideas are storming about in my mind, like mad. Expect photographs. Also, Nik's father, who donated a new door to our darkroom is also a photographer and gave me some 3200 ISO black and white film. Playtime? Yes.

Now. Dishes.

LRRH: Revisitation

Today I revisited an idea because I fell in love with another costume I grabbed from the basement of my house. I still want to use my mom's old bridesmaid dress, but I still was fascinated by the poofy petticoat i found and definitely the little red riding hood cape hood thing. And I had an itch to shoot, particularly because the week prior I had shot so much I was in some sort of habit or consumed by some fever that caused an adrenaline to just photograph...and constantly. So I talked to my lovely friend Greta, who is also my future roommate and has modeled for me before and many others, and she's a great model because she will do anything. This shoot was particularly familiar to her...she's had her share of playing fairy tale characters that are "bad to the bone". Last semester she appeared in a classmate's series of photographs where Little Miss Muffet was taking her revenge on the spider. Anyways, she was Big Bad Little Red this time. We took our story to set at the famous "Church in the Woods"...which is literally this old chapel in the middle of the woods...it's still maintained by the descendants of the founder's children...it's been there since 1925. Unfortunately it's become a sex pot and beer shack for some students. Or a place to shoot, for me. We may have been a little disrespectful...Little Red pointed her gun at a statue of St. Francis.

In other news, I can't find Jezebel's lenscap. Anywhere. It's a snap-on cap that I HATE because if it gets bumped it falls off. So while I was moving my stuff back into my apartment after spring break it probably caught on something. So I need a UV filter at least to keep it from scratching. Especially since I plan on reshooting at the church. The other news is that I came up with this idea, and I'm going to shoot a self-portrait every week. Sure I've used myself as a model but I don't have them labeled as self portraits nor are they meant to be. I'm a body that can fit into my clothes and be available whenever I want it to be...so...yeah. Tomorrow I'm going to shoot the first one. We'll see what I come up with.

I don't get critiqued til April 6th....so I'm printing the first Little Red photo and the "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" One. Four 11x14 prints are being processed of the toy images right now. They should hurry up so I can have them!

Portraits in a Gallery

Today the lovely Miss Clarissa and I went over to the Purloin Studio in the Falls to shoot some portraiture...the gallery offered colored panes of glass and all sorts of artistic odds and ends that resulted in some rather interesting portraits of Clarissa. The process of the shoot was basically putting whatever we could find on Clarissa...including scary grandma dolls. Needless to say it was the most random shoot I had done in awhile aside from the shooting randomly at midnight that one time earlier in the semester. I want to try more.

Tomorrow I am heading back to Green Bay, which probably means less shooting...but I must get my Graphics page layouts done and my Textiles project completed. The semester will pass by quickly, so I must finish strong.

Come May, I'll shoot everyday again. I can hardly wait.

Creating Characters: Little Red

Today my friend Clarissa and I ventured down from the coffeeshop to shoot at Lime Kiln park by the waterfall. We had no ideas in mind, just bags of costumes and our cameras. We found one surefire image, that I added to the Characters portfolio. We may have found another character with Clarissa wearing a fluffy white petticoat but I am still thinking more about those images and who this person could be. I like the Little Red Riding Hood character because she doesn't necessarily have to be Little Red riding Hood. The cape is a symbol that brings out more question about Little Red's identity...if this girl by the waterfall is in fact Little Red or not.

We plan on creating more characters today inside the coffee shop, who we will find, we don't know. But right now all I can think about is how much my stomach is growling.

Oh My

Above is a shot taken this morning...a LOT more is happening tomorrow. All day. And I have no specific goal in mind. Right now I am feeling a little lost because I am pretty sure I left my idea book at the coffeeshop. Luckily the staff and owners know me pretty well, and I was in the store after it closed so it should be safe. It has only been 3 places all day anyways: my house, Amy's car, and John Harbor's. Either way I have to get it back so I don't feel more mentally insane than I already am.

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