As a photographer, a small bit of my interest also falls in videography, specifically timelapses. Here are a few links to timelases that I hope I can create similarly throughout the night sky.  My overall plan is to make a timelapse that covers parts of Tempe/ASU throughout a day.

I watched the beginning of a PBS video on Glenn Ligon. I thought that he was a very interesting artists and had an interesting beginning. He talked about he wasn't necessarily a free drawer when he was a kid, rather he would copy. By copy, he would take, for example, newspaper cartoon characters and cut them out, draw them for his friends for sale. He knew he wanted to be an artists by high school. His mother was a big help in getting his interested even more peaked by sending him to after school programs at the local museum. Glenn has an interesting beginning in his childhood I think and that is what caught my attention. 

Hearing that some artists weren't that good at just free drawing is what drew me in. I would also see in school plenty of girls for the most part, doodling in notebooks and looking at this drawings and wishing I could do that but I didn't feel I had the creative mindset to make something like that. I would think that most artists had some start like that but to hear how Glenn would just copy other drawings and sell them, just goes to show that no two people are the same in how they get to where they are - everyone has a story that should be heard, you might be surprised at what you find out. 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/34621468@N00/14501909492/in/pool-13867288@N00

http://www.canadiannaturephotographer.com/hockney.html

I was able to find a few groups on Flickr as well of Hockney style images made in Photoshop. The Flickr artists [Lisa IndigoBurns Wormsley] did a great job with getting a huge range of angles of just someones face to create this huge photo that turns a normal portrait into something way more interesting. 

The Canadian Nature Photographer has multiple personal examples on the website. His very last one, of the waterfall, is one that I think he did a great job representing the Hockney style. He did a good job of moving the individual images close enough together for us to understand the main idea, but also looking at some of the images as individuals, you see some finer detail. Having each image bordered with a white box helps define each part of this Hockney and also makes us look closer at the individual landmarks of this photo: the dead log in bottom left, the rocks in the middle and the surrounding trees. The photo can be broken up but works well together. 

[Above is Kenyan Coffee]
[Below is Droidiga]

I haven't been one for messing with fonts too much in my works. When I do however need to find a new font or just something different that what some computers have, I go to dafont.com. It seems to have something there for me when I am in search of a new font. Based off my previous statements, because I don't have a huge desire to find some crazy fonts, I am more of a simplistic guy in all of my work and life. I like to keep things in my life 'clean and simple' so I have always been drawn towards san serif fonts because serifs are easier to read for long lines of text, I don't find interest in those because I am never writing blocks of text to be published. 

The two typefaces that caught my attention on dafont.com were Kenyan Coffee and Droidiga. Both of these typefaces have a heavy weighting.  It also happens to be that they both don't have a huge gap between their meanline and cap height. The reason I point these two things out is because as I said before, I like 'clean and simple.' Since the weight is heavy, it doesn't allow for a lot of little serifs here and there and that is why I like these typefaces: the characteristics of each letter that distinguish from the others is all there is present in Kenyan Coffee and Droidiga. Both typefaces are quite basic in nature. Droidiga does have a slightly looser tracking than Kenyan Coffee, but Kenyan Coffee's tracking isn't so much closer that it is obnoxious to read. 

Though Droidiga has a few strange letters in its typeface, I still don't think the oddity of them takes away from being clean and simple. It appears to still use straight lines to just add to the essence of that letter to give it a different 'feel' if you will. This does limit this font to some specific uses however.