Eric's Art and Technology Blog Page

Growing up right outside of New York City made it very easy to go and see Broadway shows.  The first show I saw was the Lion King in 1999.  Through out my childhood I saw many different shows like Hairspray, Marry Poppins, Beauty and the Beast etc.  although I have seen many different shows there are two that stand out over all the others.  Starting with Lion King and then Wicked.  These two shows have stuck with me ever since I was a little kid which is why I think they are my favorite shows. Lion King which could be considered one of the best Broadway shows is my number one favorite show.  This is because even though I was three when we saw it I knew the story because of the disney movie.  The show has great costumes and music.  Even as a three year old I remember being so amazed by the technicality by the actors controlling the animals.  I also like that although the songs from the movie are still in the show, they added a few new songs ...

Eric Lax                                            Opera Assignment Magic Flute                                             2/13/18   ART 211                                                                                             ...

Madame Butterfly an opera written by Giacomo Puccini which takes place in the early 20th century.  The opera is about a Lieutenant in the US Navy who while in Japan gets married to Cio-Cio-San.  The two get marries but San's family disown here due to her getting married to the Lieutenant.  They make love and Cio-Cio-San becomes pregnant with his child.  He then leaves for three years and in this time she has the baby.  She continues to wait for his return but when he returns he is now married to an American women.  The lieutenant finds San and takes the child they made together and he and his wife presently leave with the child.  Coo-Cio-San in the end kills herself because her husband takes their child away and she just cannot continue to live. The stop motion animation of Madame Butterfly was beautifully put together and filmed.  Although the film did not include everything it did keep the most important parts.  The movement of the charac...

"Baroque Dress Tent" I got the idea for this integration project by looking through my art history textbooks to get some ideas of Baroque styled items.  I kept seeing big dress with really big round bottoms and they sort of have the same shape as a camping tent.  I then found a Baroque styled dress and began to cut up the different sections of the tent where the colors were darker or light and changing them to look like a tent.  This image is what  ended up with.

Micro Biologist Raul Cuero was born in a poor town in Colombia where he and his family lived with his grandmother.  as a child he slept on the floor.  He did not grow up with electricity or much of anything.  while living with his grandmother he would play with the roaches that were crawling on the floor and this is what sparked his interest in biology.  He enjoyed seeing how these animals would behave and making him use these creatures as a spark for his creativity and begin his love for education and learning through doing. Through out his life he has pursued many things like athletics education and inventing.  He states that although he has achieve so much in his life so many people think that he was brought up in a wealthy family because of his success.  The fact that a man who grew up having nothing was able to make a successful career for himself.  Through out his life he also endured prejudism because of his appearance when he moved out of his...

Hi my name is Eric Lax, and I am currently a junior studying Digital Art.  I am from New Jersey like so many other students.  I came into college no know what I wanted to major in. To me this was completely fine because it gave me the opportunity to see what kind of thing i really was passionate about.  I had originally declared my major to be  education but soon realized it was not something I really wanted to do so I went back to being undecided.  I then went to being a business major but the same thing happened when I saw what classes I would have to take did not excite me so once again I was back to undecided.  It wanted until the start of my second semester at UT that I realized while taking Beginning to Digital Art that I decided I wanted to study Digital Art.  This was all by chance that this happened because i asked a friend a fun class to take and he recommended that intro class and I am so grateful I took it. This past summer I had my first...