Initially, I was nervous about approaching a complete stranger, chatting them up, and taking their portrait. The confinements of taking only one shot also put the pressure on. Thankfully, I met a couple of really nice people today as I was walking home through Lower Haight. First, I met Gloria on Page Street, who was wearing a cool hat and purple pants. It turns out that she was quite into photography back in the day. In fact, she mentioned she has a darkroom enlarger and other photo equipment that she wouldn't mind donating to a school. (Academy of Art, perhaps?) A bit later, I was photographing a shadow on the side of a building when I met Tien. She was kind enough to pose and I found out that she lives just a few blocks away from me. Even though my time with Gloria and Tien was brief, it was a great experience personally and it also put my photo skills to the test!
This is the active homepage of the Academy of Art MFA class 'IDEATION & PRESENTATION' that was brainstormed by Will Mosgrove and myself back in 2006, and is now in its second year of application.
Its creation and intent is to foster an individual's resolute conviction of their visual ideas; that their indelible ideative imprint is manifest in critically actuated presentation materials as well as practiced verbal elocution as being paramount. We take an aggressive approach to inviting outside guest presenters/critics in to every class that also assign bespoke projects in advance of their appearance to bridge those expectations and provide insight.
The summation of intent is to elicit a full complement of preparedness to pursue a career as a commercial artist with vigor, esteem and success with conviction; and not by following.
Thanks for visiting, please feel free to contact any of us with queries/comments.
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