Mahina Onekea
Spring, 2025
For my first animation/gif I made a ball bouncing off of a wall. For my next edit I want to add a background and clean up the animation. I was inspired by all the dogs that walk around my neighborhood.
Animated Gif
Author: Mahina Onekea
Audio Project: Jazz Bar
“Jazz Bar”, Spring 2025, Logic Pro X.
Mahina Onekea
For my project I wanted to depict a Jazz bar, I picked this setting because the noisy ambience was the first thing that came to mind, and Jazz bars are a staple of New York. I used Logic Pro X by Apple to edit this since I already have it. I used five different audios, and added a slight echo effect to the Jazz music to make it seem like it was playing in a large room. I used two different tracks of people talking and blended them together by adjusting the EQ. I also used two different foley effects of glasses clinking and pouring to add to the setting sporadically throughout the track.
Audios used:
Jazz
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/john-lopker/spaceship-earth/sista-jane-jazz-quartet
Glass clink
https://freesound.org/people/Joshua_van_Zyl/sounds/763638
People Talking 1
https://freesound.org/people/szalonegacie/sounds/467475
Wine Bottle pour
https://freesound.org/people/tylerwalker91/sounds/720950
People talking 2
Project 1: Image
“A time is coming” Mahina Onekea, Spring, 2025
For the final image, I decided to make a new collage with two medival paintings I found, using the different blend filters to mash the images together. The main painting visible is “The Death of Saint Anthony.” So I used a quote by him for the text portion “A time is coming when men will go mad.” For the pattern I used the eraser tool to cut out an image of a gold flower sculpture. I wanted to use this over the text but it didn’t show up as well as I planned. Instead, I overlayed and distorted the pattern across the image for the final piece.
Images used:
“Design for a Chair Seat Cover with an Ornamental Frame with Two Restling Putti with Hanging Garlands of Leaves and Flowers Inside a Larger Ornamental Frame Featuring a Heart-Shape Motif”
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/712106
“Gold Flower”
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/252349
“The Death of Saint Anthony, c. 1430/1435”
Photoshop Composite- 1
For my “first” photoshop composite I wanted to use colors I don’t usually use so I landed on pink. I decided to layer and move multiple shapes around until I got a composition I liked. I used the multiply and other layering effects to get this monochrome picture with the colors overlapping.
Photoshop Composite 2
Swan, Spring 2025, Mahina Onekea
I decided to start with a swan for this project as I’ve been thinking about them lately with spring coming up. He looked aggressive so I decided to give him a sword using the background removing/select tool. I then added a sculpture in the background to finish the European/Medieval look I was getting. I lastly found this “patchwork” filter that looked surprisingly good and tied the piece together. I definitely feel like this is something you would see at the MET cloisters and decent for my first go at photoshop.
Images Used:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/De_bedreigde_zwaan_Rijksmuseum_SK-A-4.jpeg
https://live.staticflickr.com/5457/9314548433_27a4749360_b.jpg
