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The above is a link to my 2-D Foundations art project. Sorry I couldn't post the actual flash file but blogger doesn't seem to support the file format. Our guidelines on this project were to explore the mediums in which we use to escape reality with a heavy emphasis on color. So I tried to explain my point of view, how I see and understand color, through as many of these mediums that I possibly could. My original project idea was to make an installation piece, but difficulties arose. I truly feel that this version carries my meaning better, because I cover more mediums when this piece is on the internet and computer. We shot this in my room, because its green, it took use around 3 takes to get the take we used. This being the first time me and my friend used green screening we were not too sure what to expect. We learned a lot about adobe after effects, flash, sound booth. I really took time with this piece from the 2 week development idea, to the 33 or so hours put into production for this piece. And this piece only confirms that this is what I want to do for a living, as none of the work was to overly tedious. I had fun with this.

Artist Essay # 5

Today I’m going to talk Mark Dion as a artist and his ideas and meanings and how I see and understand them. Mark Dion is known in the world for his pieces that depict nature in a fleeting sort of way. By hanging rats on a tree he sees art. By hanging rats on a tree I can’t really see the meaning in it. And I can’t describe exactly what the piece makes me think of. It provokes questions of why are the rats covered in tar first before being hung on a tree. I know each piece of the art work has gone through sketches and books and all are there for a reason. But I’m having trouble formulating a single idea why anyone would want to look at that and take away some profound meaning. His other piece is a bit more pleasing to the eye and easier to unwrap. The tree in the machine controlled glass house is pretty neat. And I take away the idea that we are losing our selves to a world of machines and look at aging relics through glass windows such as a forest. Mark Dion is a unique individual, that’s for sure.

Artist Essay #4

Laurie Simmons is half an artist half an writer and actor in the development of plays inlayed with themes and ideas. The most well known of which is “The Music of Regret” a 3 part piece that tells numerous ideas and emotions. I find theater to be a bit ordinary when it comes to art, not that it’s a bad medium just that most of the ideas and meanings, themes, of most plays have been done. But Laurie Simmons only uses the medium to fully express her feelings and thoughts on time, and emotion by acting out various situations in humorous acts mostly played by hand puppets that she and a friend control. By having hand puppets in the act instead of people I take away the feeling that the situations she is depicting are childlike and not import the world around us. That most people should not be worried about trivial things in the world while wars and other global atrocities are happening. While theater and film is where Laurie Simmons is currently at, she started out in photography taking pictures of numerous things that depicted American life in a nut shell. I find her pieces to be reflective of American culture.

Artist Essay #3

Tim Hawkinson is something completely original. Hard to define and new his pieces represent numerous ideas an thoughts. My favorite piece of his is the uberorgan, besides having the coolest name I have ever heard it something that’s hard to fathom. A huge organ that takes up a massive space with tubes of silicon and plastic surrounding and intertwining all over the building, until all the tubes and plastic fix to a central point in the building. A huge conveyer belt running up and down with a system running on black dots as signs and musical note for when to blow what horn and at what force. This piece tells me that no matter how big or complex a piece is, or anything that people make or ideas that people come up with. All those ideas, thought, art pieces spawn from a central idea. The Emotor something that carries with it meanings and the same time being overly complex and hard to describe. A face completely independtly moving with the help of motors hence eMOTOR. But the face takes light sources from around the room and makes a face in accordance to the light of the room in that particular moment in time. what I get from that image is that, emotion is a central meaning in our surroundings.

Image Essay # 10

I’m not sure if this is a piece of art by an artist or if it is just an image from a shitty jewelry website, but none the less this object and the values it carries with it can all be derived from the shape of the object. Shapes can carrying colors, meanings, values and anything else a person wants it too. Shapes are in our everyday lives under our noses, underlying in every action we take or make. Just as I’m typing now on a rectangular keyboard on relatively square keys each one defined a value and a symbol so I can communicate on a square screen while looking at a gold ring. Shapes are almost too abstract to define, along the lines of the color I feel we can never fully understand shapes. For each person takes shape to a personal level. As a child one creates and takes particular shapes and colors and describes them as their favorites and most times those favorites last a life time. This ring carries with it different meanings from one culture to another from state to another, from one person to another. Each person my think of their wife or husband or a failed attempt at marriage. Once again each person takes and makes their own in art.

Image Essay # 9

BRILLO what could possibly be definined from this piece? The definition of any piece can vary from person to person its what makes art so special and unique and great medium of expressionism. In this piece by Andy Warhol we are presented with Brillo soap pads. Now I’ve used Brillo and find them to do exceptional cleaning of dishes and pots and pans, but I think Andy’s meaning in this piece is a bit more complex than a great house hold cleaner. Could he be stating something about contemporary American women in this piece. That women are currently locked in their world of dish washing as a means of escape they turn to brillo to get the jobs done faster. Could he be saying that the world is running low on the brillo soap pads. Could it be that women deserve more than a square box of brillo soap. Could he be saying appreciate the women in your lives because where every they come from most men of Andy’s time period used to deem them nothing more than common house maids that raised children and washed dishes while the man works. Could he be saying that the brillo pads are becoming more rare in the fact that times are changing and women are taking new jobs of importance, and brillo should be in a museum, remnants of a lost society?

Image Essay # 8

Unity and Varity is an interesting and difficult design choice for an artist. With the use of Unity and Varity comes many factors of decisions including balance, in all forms. I feel this piece is a successful piece on Unity and Varity in the fact that each mask and arm is completely different in shape and design but held together by the fact than a human can don this mask and arms. But what exactly is this piece trying to convey to us? I see it as somewhat as a costume design for a team. They all seem to position and poised to run or at a starting track. Their hands each designed differently to show each member of the team individuality and how they start the race. The colors might reflect the likes and dislikes of the team. Each person taking something special away from the team as well as giving color and meaning to team. In a whole Unity and Varity of the team is maintained through balance that were all a part of the human race we all give and take something away from the team. And all that matters is how we perform on the field of life.

Image Essay # 7

Balance is a delicate process, in the balancing act one must remember to keep things from getting over powered from one another. Those things include the color, the shapes, the flow, the ideas, and numerous other mediums and tools to keep in mind. In this piece, reflects and shows the ideas that balance embodies. Firstly the image doesn’t let us stop looking there seems to be almost no area of focus, except maybe in the color comet in the bottom right hand corner of the piece. But the piece mostly define fluidity and motion in the strokes and also in the colors. The blending of colors with the implied motion of the piece keep us looking and exploring what seems to be a colorful plane in in a colorful world. The crossing and mixing of colors suggest what might be a sky full of clouds with a comet soaring over the world enticing you to make a wish. All the while maintaining the balance of this world. This image reminds of something musical, like music seems to have played a part in the design of this piece. Balance can cover many mediums from painting like this piece to music and everything in between.

Image Essay # 6

What better way than to talk about Positive/Negative Space than to critique my own work on the idea, and examine my own personal strength and weaknesses. In the piece I was mostly trying to convey my likes and dislikes. I wasn’t going for a protect the earth feel that many people associated with it, but if that’s what they took from it by all means build a more complex meaning than what it really is. I feel that my strength in the piece is the use of composition, I feel I arranged the piece in such a way that the flow of the piece is continuous and un interrupted without leading the viewer off the page or to a area of focus. But my weakness is in the heads of Gabe and Tycho I wasn’t thinking about Positive and Negative space in the pictures themselves a dumb mistake on my part, but it was the first few weeks in class. And this piece lead to what I feel is my strongest piece in which we looked at and reinforced Postivie/negative space again. That piece is the second piece that was due for class, I forget the assignment name unfortunelty. But I feel I learned and grew from this piece.

Blog Entry # 4

Visual Culture, Art history, and Fashion Design can all be viewed in excellent detail: in a Movie. The Fifth Element.

1. The Fifth Element demonstrates a fully realized fictional world. The Movie was an idea that Luc Besson had since he was a youngster, taken his time to develop the world before he actually developed the story. With the help of Jean Paul Gaultier as fashion designer, they helped bring Besson’s Dream into reality. And what it was is a fully colorful mix of races, places, ships, wars, conflicts, lore, society, politics and marked an achieve in the movie industry for special effects.

2. Firstly the entire movie is set in the future, with a completely different society and trends. All the buildings were actually made and modeled to reflect the n eeds of a society in space. And with the movie being a futuristic society Jean Paul Gaultier designed clothing that Reflected the needs of and wants of a futuristic society. As well as adding additional layers of information into the clothing of the main characters, Like Corbin Dallas (Bruce Willis), who is a rough and tough typical ex-soldier who runs into/falls in love with a redhead alien women looking to save the planet. Jean Paul Gaultier Took that too heart when designing Corbin’s outfit with a orange tank-top and cargo pants his a hard and tough guy yet if you look close to the white tank top you can see and intricate design that is both delicate and romantic too reflect Corbin’s Soft Side. Movies seldom are original in today’s society, The Fifth element is original and fully developed, and that extraordinarily rare.

3. Luc Besson before The Fifth Element, was mostly into crime dramas Most notable was his piece Leon – The Professional. So in a line of Crime Dramas, The Fifth element seems kinda of out of place, but like I’ve stated before this was a dream of his since he was a kid. Jean Paul Gaultier is a world re-nouned fashion designer and make new and unusual cloths that carried meanings really wasn’t anything new for him.

4. Dominance takes the form as the story in the fifth element. A story so complex with multiple characters all focused on a central problem either to help it or destroy it. Love takes the cake as solution to the problem, which is corney as hell, and the solution is what they all strive for and what the story apex is, so Love is the dominance in The Fifth Element.

5. Humanity is seen as just another race in the galaxy with no real special identifiers. With both alien and human celebrities we all just fall into the world and what you make out of your life is what you work for.

6. I understand that huge tasks can be accomplished. Like carrying an idea for decades and developing and saving it for when I feel the world is ready.

Blog Entry # 3

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PLACES

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Both. Places can define us or we can alter a place how we see fit. The only question is how you see it. Will this place define you with the surrounding area that you adapt to the area? Or do you alter that area and make it as you see fit?

2 and 3.

Barry McGee art is shown on his surrounding areas. He likes to do most of his art in the form of graffiti, his artwork becomes his surrounding area. Barry McGee adapts to his place. Matthew Ritchie seems to make his own world. Complete with meanings and ideals surround and encompassing in and throughout. Building to complex levels of understanding and meaning each line representative of an idea, and some end some continue but in the end he determines where those lines go,end,start,length,width,color,hue,angle,shape,crossover,crossunder… he makes his place.

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Tree hideout – Bright, Attic – boundless, Place under the stairs – Quiet, Tiny White Door – Mysterious, Randy’s Room - Smokey

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The place that most interested me was the same place that terrified me. On the Westside of our house there is a tiny white latched door in the foundation cement of our house. It could be that it’s a wooden door inlaid in cement, it could be that the lock on the door was open rusted and forgotten. The door pealing in white chipped paint and creaks and cracks revealed darkness behind the door. The door seemed to be made for a child coming barely up to the bottom of my knee know. When I opened the door the darkness so thick the floor above so close to the uneven crumbed dirt. I couldn’t see more than 2-3 feet inside I still have never gone inside.… I still wonder what I would find under the house that was made in the 1830s…

STORIES

1. I grew up with an unhealthy addiction to E.T. But that was more a sensational thing much like sponge bob is in today’s society. The one story that I’m sure everyone knows is that of Humpty Dumpty. It would stay in its story book form, much like it has been for centuries.

2. I have no idea. When we look at Humpty Dumpty it’s a twisted fucking story. Humpty a man made of what most believe to be an egg made of porcelain falls and dies, with no hope of reconstruction he dies, and the world keeps moving.

3. Sketchbook is the start of any idea, to be thrown away or developed. A sketch book is an idea sifter. Anything that expresses an idea or an feeling is an art piece, a sketchbook holds fragments of one days thoughts or years of development. A sketchbook is an work of art if the artist uses it for art proposes, to either: learn, express, practice, enhance, think, develop anything that helps one to explore and develop ideas about them and their world around them.

4. Young Self: Gonna play mega-man X, and Super Metriod and go see my friend Steve Whitenmier.

Self Now in Young Age: Gonna play mega-man X and Super Metriod, and save Steve from moving away where he gets a girl pregnant and moves out and files for bankruptcy at 18.