Beyond The Tepui

A team of three set out on a exhibition to one of earth’s wonders.

The team of Joe Riis, National Geographic photographer, Mark Synnott, North Face climber, and Dr. Bruce Means, the scientist, traveled to Mount Weiassipu. Mount Weiassipu is located within Guyana, South America. They traveled to the top of the mile high Tepui.

This video displays some of the most amazing still photography images. They capture the essence and wonders of what nature truly looks like.

One of my passions is to travel the world and explore the known and unknown wonders of this world. After watching this video, my eagerness to want to go on many exhibitions just spiked through the roof.

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Beyond The Adobe

Courtesy of The Huffington Post

Once upon a time a woman named Kat O’Sullivan, lived in an ordinary 170-year-old farmhouse. O’Sullivan is not just any woman, she’s an extraordinary artistic woman. One day she decided to turn her 170-year-old farmhouse into a magical rainbow farmhouse. The house sits close along the shore. Some say if you walk deep into the woods of High Falls, New York, you might come across this magical rainbow farmhouse. When you see the house, you may feel like you’re imagining it or you’re in a Hansel and Gretel situation but you’re not. Yes, you’re eyes, they are not deceiving you at all; the house is real. This house is said to have been built back in the 1840. Click the link below to get an exclusive look at the rest of the story.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/17/kat-osullivan_n_6155358.html

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Beyond The Selfie Revolution

Courtesy of iNewMedia

The concept of a selfie has come along way. Nov. of 2013, the word selfie was deemed the “word of the year” by the Oxford English Dictionary. The definition of a selfie is a self-portrait pictures. People usually will take selfies and then share them on social networking sites like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter. The funny thing is that the style of a selfie has been around for generations. Unlike the past selfies are now a big mainstream. There is a music video on YouTube called “#SELFIE,” by the Chainsmokers. Selfies are a unique form of photography because it’s a way of self-expressing yourself. You don’t have to be a photographer to take a selfie. I think capturing your self-expression is the key to taking a good selfie. Some people will take a selfie while they are injured. The art of selfies is apart of our culture that almost everyone had adapted to. People have started to use the word usies when taking a group photos. The difference between a selfie and a usies, is a selfie is by yourself while a usies is a group photo.

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Beyond The Illusion

“Liu Bolin, Hiding in the City – Art No. 1, 2013″ courtesy of kleinsungallery.com

Liu Bolin, the man who is also known as “The Invisible Man.” He has one of the most creative minds in the world; his art work is impressive. I’ve seen most of his creative pieces, and I have to say I was moved by his work. Some of you might be wondering why is he called the “The Invisible Man.” He got the name from being able to hide himself, if you check out his collection, Hiding in the City, you’ll see and understand what I’m talking about. Art revolutionary and it’s such an important aspect of life, without art there’s no excitement. I really like is his Dragon Series Panel collection. We all know dragons are just so freaking cool but that’s not why I really love this collection. The artist that help him with his collections got to be very talented, being able to match detail for detail is an impressive skill set to have. It might of took some of you a minute to find Bolin in the photo above. The artist who worked on him did a heck of a great job matching detail for detail, so that he blended in with the background. I believe that this type of visual imaginary is definitely revolutionary and there’s always room for it.

If you want to learn more about Liu Bolin, you can check out his video, Liu Bolin: The Invisible Man, on TED.com. Please comment, like, reblog, share and tell me what you think about this type of visual art below.

Beyond The Name

When you go beyond the name Alan Junior, you will come to know who I am and what my skill traits are. If you get to know me you’ll come to find out that I am an artist and photographer. I come from a line of artistic people. If you inherit unique skill sets, don’t be able to afraid to show it. Don’t let a good gift go to waste, show the world what you can do. I would never think about letting my creative gift go away. Drawing didn’t come to me right away, I was that kid who was more into scoring goals in and coming in first place in martial art tournament.

Growing up I never use to draw, I was always outside playing with the other kids. When I was growing up kids were more active with outdoor activities, so I really didn’t think about drawing. As a kid I did take art classes but those classes really didn’t draw my attention into the world of art. It wasn’t until fifth grade, that I started drawing an interest into the world of art. My art teacher, miss Amen, she was the one who really triggered my art obsession. I remember everyday in art class, I would learn different unique ways of drawing and tracing images. At young age in fifth grade, I was no Leonardo da Vinci or Pablo Picasso. I was still trying to develop my skill as an artist. The ironic thing about my past is throughout high school I had a chance to really enter the world of art by taking art classes. I really didn’t have a lot of confidence in myself at the time. I didn’t think I had the capability to advance my artist skill set. I decided to instead go down the path of technology, which is on a whole different side of the ballpark. There were people telling me that I should have taken art classes.

When I started attending Monroe Community College, I started to develop a strong interest in art and photography. My major at MCC was visual communications: photography and television. I decided to start taking graphic design and drawing classes. I took the class art essentials, where I got to get back on task of drawing art pieces. The weird thing I started to develop was the habit of not completely finishing my art pieces, but at least I had more confidence. I drew a strong interest in photography after taking digital photography at MCC, during the summer of 2011. My major required me to take a photography, so I was to distort about it. I became really fascinated with different ways to you could capture