Emma’s FMX 211 Blog

I am deeply inspired by the #MeToo movement and I believe that everyone should be aware of its importance. I used a pink tint in order to add feminine connotations (although men are also a part of the movement, just not as much). The overlapping audio and video attempts to display the prevalence of this issue and emphasize the fact that sexual assault happens more than one would think. I hope that this video inspires people to speak out and support the movement. I included the credits in the description when I posted it on YouTube, here is the full list: Til It Happens To You, Instrumental - Lady Gaga Halsey Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjRnyFBexq0 Ford Opening Statement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfc5aG1friU&t=3s Rose McGowan Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5rNnqSG-io&t=19s and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW3KD4kqqug Gabrielle Union interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka8rXRKeUpI&t=103s Lady Gaga Speech Clip: https://www.you

           Due to my unfortunately high amount of social anxiety, I utilized the anonymity aspect of the Guerrilla Girls. Although unlike them I decided to spread words of love and encouragement for finals season rather than try to be exclusively political. I went out of my way to ensure that no one knew the notes were from me by waiting until I was the only one in the restroom. There are many days that I find myself looking around for a sign that things are going to be okay, and I truly hope that this project gave someone that satisfaction. I covered the women's bathrooms in Straz, Morsani, ICB/Starbucks, Cass, and Vaughn. If I was to go back and do this again I would have tried to use my DSLR camera rather than my phone, use more direct quotes, and include off-campus restrooms as well.

For the self portrait I decided to use my polaroid pictures to take close pictures of my face. At first, I wanted to take nine pictures of my face that came together to make a bigger picture, but they ended up not looking the way I intended. After realizing that I decided to make it more abstract and form pictures of my hand into a sun shape. For some reason, a majority of my art work tends to have some relation to the sun. I included the pictures of my face in the center of the sun to represent how I see myself. I have come a long way in the last few years in regards to my self esteem and happiness in general so I wanted to put myself in the center as if I'm the light of my own life. When I was in the line for                                                                                        Starbucks, I realized that I needed to add another aspect to the design and impulsively took 15+ sweet & low packets to add the effect of outer space and clusters of stars. Material

I ran into many issues trying to create this grid project. Illustrator both on my laptop and the school computers repeatedly frozen and would not open my saved project. Given this, I decided to use the application created by YungJake that allowed me to quickly utilize different emojis and draw them on top of my pixelated image. I used about five different shades of brown emojis, four grey ones, two black ones, three blue ones, and three green ones. It was incredibly time consuming but I am glad it at least resembles my dog in the end.

The vacuum tube, also called the electron tube, is a sealed enclosure used to control the flow of electrons between the metal electrodes in the air tight tube. These tubes were crucial in the development of the radio because of their ability to amplify weak currents and generate radio-frequency power for radio and radar. The cathode ray tube was the primary mechanism used for image display in older analog televisions. In a CRT, the negative terminal is referred to as a cathode and is the heated filament. The ray is the stream of electrons that are exerted by the heated cathode inside the vacuum in a glass tube. Due to the fact that electrons are negative and the anode is positive, it attracts them and focuses them into a tight beam. The image is able to be transferred to the flat screen because of this tight, accelerated beam of electrons flying through the vacuum towards the screen coated in illuminating phosphor that makes the screen glow a certain color; white, blue, green or red.

                                                  Song: Young Volcanoes - Fall Out Boy I am not an artist whatsoever, so creating this was a struggle for me. Even though I came to Florida for college, I still love the idea of having four seasons so I decided to make my drawings align with that theme. I chose the book Emma simply because that is my name and many of my interests are displayed within the flipbook. I enjoy watching sunrises (when I get up that early) and especially sunsets so I began with that. The snowman and Christmas tree represented my favorite time of year even thought it has the worst weather. I decided to build the snowman up gradually in order to make him seem more animated and represent the snowman building process.