This course blog is where we communicate as a group, share responses to assignments, and post our work. You are required to publish posts according to assignments found on Moodle, and are encouraged to share images, make comments, and pose public questions throughout the semester.
There's something really interesting about the band of blur that cuts horizontally through the image, yet I wonder if it could be integrated with more specificity and nuance. The concept of having a sharp foreground and background, but blurred middle really messes with the viewer's expectations in a satisfying way, but placing the blur more regionally might have made the technique feel more creatively intentional. As it stands, so uniformly, it could even be mistaken for a mistake. Perhaps individual buildings could be blurred, however stand right beside a sharp one? Such variety would really train our attention onto your visual and conceptual intentions. In addition, with a base image with so much exciting visual activity, it would be interesting to see you layer out some of the buildings or rows of light so that you could play around with their hierarchy, potentially foregrounding elements that don't belong, like weaving and patterning the buildings and lights together.
There's something really interesting about the band of blur that cuts horizontally through the image, yet I wonder if it could be integrated with more specificity and nuance. The concept of having a sharp foreground and background, but blurred middle really messes with the viewer's expectations in a satisfying way, but placing the blur more regionally might have made the technique feel more creatively intentional. As it stands, so uniformly, it could even be mistaken for a mistake. Perhaps individual buildings could be blurred, however stand right beside a sharp one? Such variety would really train our attention onto your visual and conceptual intentions. In addition, with a base image with so much exciting visual activity, it would be interesting to see you layer out some of the buildings or rows of light so that you could play around with their hierarchy, potentially foregrounding elements that don't belong, like weaving and patterning the buildings and lights together.
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