The Poignant, Ever-Changing Tides of Art: An Adobe Epiphany

This past week, I was given the great opportunity of tuning into numerous Adobe Max conferences. I found them to be an extremely insightful way for me to view my creative process differently, allowing me to open myself up as an artist and allow what I make to exist as an extension of what I’m […]

Developing Your Brand – My Takeaways from an Adobe Max Session

“My professor asked us: what is the first thing you do when you apply to a job? So I said, I Google the company. My professor responds, Don’t you think that it makes sense that when you’re applying to a job the hiring manager would google you as well?” (Valentina Arismendi, Recent Graduate of UNC) […]

Data and Creatives.

when you start talking to creative people […] their eyes start to glaze over. Wayne Barringer during Data-Driven Creativity: Using Data to Propel Creative Work conference Data can bore people beyond death. It can be hard to understand, hard to figure out, and hard to like for people with more “creative,” mindsets. However, these people […]

The Technical & Professional Parts of Photography

I attended the Adobe Max Conference titled, The Art of Photography with Monaris and Dana Scruggs – MB105. I chose this topic because I am doing a photography series for my senior capstone. In this conference, Monaris describes her work (photography) as “cinematic.” “I just want everything to look like a movie.” -Monaris Monaris also […]

Adobe Max Conference: A Glimpse Into the Future

The year is 1996. It’s 3:00pm and you just came home from school, you’re extremely exhausted from sitting in classes all day, and you’re hungry. You walk into the kitchen and grab a fruit roll-up until dinner. While you’re in the kitchen you hear “All That’s” theme song playing in the background. You drop everything […]

Learning from Adobe Session

I attended the “Learning Premiere Pro Basics in One Hour L572” class last week. Speaker is a Youtube Creator, and Premiere Pro Trainer, Josh Olufemii. During that session, it mainly focused on Premiere Pro interface, toolbar, and some basic video editing technology. I chose this course for two reasons. First, I am interested in video […]