Review on Website

I chose to review Jennifer Simmonds website. I really enojoy her funky writing and fun playful feeling the page presents. Her homepage or index page is very simple and easy to navigate.
The art work page was visually a little messy, I felt like the video should be on a seprate page because it starts up as soon as the page opens. Also, the photographed art piece should be cropped and clean to give a more professional look. I think that some details about the art would be pleasing to page viewers as well. I really enjoy the colors and playful look its perfect to show the art educator Jennifer is going for!!!

Review on Final Project

For the final project review I chose Mellisa Muldrew clay animation video. The character seemed very intriguing to me, it was fun and light hearted yet you can tell ALL the hard work that was done to produce something that looks simple. The plot of the animation was interesting in a man verse nature perspective.

The stop motion frames must have been many in order to create the 1:28 video. Knowing the artist love for clay and how she said "It seems to sneak into every project of mine this year." I find this video Mellisa created to be almost a form of her year, where her work ends up consuming her in the form of clay.

The character Bob is perfect, he is his own character. The characteristics given to the shape shifting white blob, is perfect to the musical changes. The music seems to be perfect for the length and visual actions happening. Overall, this video was incredible.

I was a little late to the ICA today!

I went and first a forgot my id then... I was confused on whether it was park st or south station. Soooo finally getting there I was sadden to find only the 4th floor showing... Basically there were three new displays I hadn't scene for the most part I remember seeing it. I liked Robin Rhode, Jeppe Hein, "Rotating Labyrinth," and Markus Schinwald, "Bob".

Rhode and his freeze framed animation wall drawings were inspiring given our recent works in class. The photo's hung almost as a story board give me a joyful feelings.

Hein's "Rotating Labyrinth" ... made nauseous like I said in my blog of Pink talking about life and it being similar to labyrinth etc.etc. It makes me dizzy! Very well designed and the mirror effect is nice almost like a circus house.

Schinwald, "Bob", this was interesting the emotion and activity produced by the energy given off the dummy foot stomping "Bob". I know that feeling of hurry up lets get there. And the tapping of the foot made me be uneasy around him like he would push me out of his way to get off the T-train if he was real. I like the piece in all.

I was dissapointed there wasn't more. For the chaotic trip it was to get there.

Final Project...

For my final project I have some props set up and I have two girls to be the Caravaggio's painting of Holofernes & Judith... I have yet to find the right male. I need a guy with longer hair! The room and lighting are in check hopefully! And now I have to film on thursday!

PINK " A Whole New Mind"

Hated the first half of the book and like the second half. I Enjoyed the second half of the book with its activities and questions to ask oneself/ taking a different perspective. Pink has a great sight in the book. Which is deep and thoughtful, his writing technique isn't my favorite to follow along with. Also, the first half does have to do with the synopsis at the end. Which is a logical way at looking at the direct in which your steering your life. Daniel Pink, did one thing right he got me using my brain trying new outlooks!

Meaning...

I thought meaning was enlightening. Gratitude I sit and dwell on all the bad and then try to be thankful for all the good! http://www.evergreen.loyola.edu/~rpiedmont/STSR.htm
test I took.. I scored High on all of the tests... over the amount given... I got 15 -15 on both the connected and Universal question tests. The Sabbath .. I need to stop checking f-book and Mmmmspace. I'm an addict and I can do better things like paint and read more often instead of sending bumper stickers!
Honestly, never been in a labyrinth and have no desire too. Something about them makes me feel uneasy!!! Hate them!
I really like this chapter! I think its more like my life style...
I recently changed my room furniture.. I do this when I feel overwhelmed or bugged down in the blues from stress... So this make a new atmosphere and new attitude/ new page! Make me be at ease.
The joy I get giving a gift, or sending a letter in the mail, is something Meaningful. But as artist I feel like we have more in site than others on meaningfulness. We soak in our environment.

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“The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.”

Mark Twain

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I enjoyed! Finally... Pink talks about Laughing Clubs being a world wide spreading group... most located in India! They gather together and start "ho,ho, Haa,haa,haa" chants that actually turn into laughter. There is a quote that came to mind while reading

“The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.”
I do agree with this quote thoroughly. Cause it can heal and cure, it can make you live longer, it could create world peace. Will it... No probably not. I am sure that in all different cultures saw a comedic act they would all respond in the same.

The part in this chapter I found deeply disturbing was the American Arms Video game... The fact that there whole system shut down the opening day of this video game in "July 4, 2002", is disgusting to me. I wasn't raised around video games, I did watch tv. but video games is when all the kids in my neighborhood stopped playing outside. They are trying to get recruitments via internet and a game. Its not a game its a life decision!

Empathy Symphony

OKay i hate this book! Its soooo boring to me. I could careless what other thought Pink has !

I dont get what he is saying cause its soooooo drawn out! He is an intelligent man, very knowledge-able about current and past history, i give him all the credit for that. He loses me though, his writing just isn't intriguing. 

Symphony & Empathy  bring great perspective to the terms. Symphony had some different activities to do which helped.... EMPATHY was hard to read for me... dull... and his pictures weren't very good. 

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Empathy

Stop Animation Intro

I enjoyed the presentation on stop animation. It was interesting to see how everyones single drawing came together as a final piece in the end. I found it hard to make the clips long enough to make something of it... five second stop video seems to be UNBELIEVABLY long process. It is almost discouraging to see the effort. The presentation of examples of simple strips are actually more difficult then ever imagined. I understand why GUMBEE was taken off because of the process that they had to go through. It was ridiculously mind blowing.

Chpt VI

Daniel Pinks learning to make his self portrait is nothing short of amusing! When summing up this chapter I find myself thinking back to portraits my parents kept from my youth. It is very similar to his first self portrait when he was using "hieroglyphics" not "drawing" there is a freedom and comfort that needs to be opened in order to try and draw... that is why in drawing classes they do silly exercises to get your brain thinking and eyes seeing and most of the intimidation of white paper to dissipate! Its almost tempting to try it in both prospectives, just to see if I do both... hmm, maybe ill do that...

Carpenter Museum

"Two Or Three Things I Know About  Her"

This exhibit was very different from what I had imagined. Moyra Davey, "Fifty Minutes", is a series of vignettes where she speaks a monologue about nostalgia and psychoanalysis. She incorporates photography and reading also into her work. The main theme of the "Fifty Minutes" film is traveling to her therapist in the Upper East Side of New York. This is preceding the tragic "911" which she makes connections too. As well, she quotes from "Reading in an Age of Uncertainty, by Vivian Gornick the article talks of post war conditions.

 My favorite vignette is called "The Fridge", the monologue begin read is hilarious! She talks about 911 and a black out that happened during the summer. Moyra while talking comes to the realization she is deeply connected to her fridge. Her complaints of her husband over cooking and putting tons of left overs away. Moyra's aggravation towards her child for leaving the fridge open for to long. The list concludes her pacing in front of the fridge almost in the matter of proclaiming its hers and not to step the boundaries.

At the Fog museum I got even more intrigued by her work. She is a photographer, the photo exhibit held shows her art pieces within the past tens years. The pieces vary from records staked, books, even copper pennies. 

The "Copper Heads", gives you a lot to think about. On the on going theme within her work of psychoanalysis coincides by showing you the viewer that we take for granted simple things in life. The amazing colors and dissipating Lincoln are beautifully blown up in a grid like order. I will never forget my sister walking down the street saying, "America is the only country that would not pick up change, never mind leave it to fall". The penny is practically worthless as the dollar bill has lost value of what it used to be. This saddening economic downfall is what i feel Moyra is trying to show. Overall I really enjoyed her outlook through her work.

Chpt 5

I have a bad short term memory , unless its a story. Im kinda notorious for telling stories about memories and things  i learned about forever ago.

 "Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation"- Joseph Campbell. 

There is a certain rhyme  and rhythm to telling stories and i agree with this chpt.. It was the first form of history. The scamming post card story, i get this all the time via email or mail. Credit card stories even RED products from gap that donate to Darfur in Africa and when reading the label it was made in some foreign poor country on its outskirts. Stories are ment to be read into.

New media artist~

I enjoyed Meredith and Gina's presentation on Sam Easterston, The one thing about the presentation was the web site! I loved its simple outlay! I felt like Sam would have enjoyed it as well. I felt a little dissapointed that i didn't get to see the Chick video cause it looked that cutest and that is what attracted them to him to begin with. I love the controversial conversation it provoked during class as well. 

Chpt Four

Sorry for the following I am typing with a migraine. 

For what I could handle reading, i enjoyed. I actually have been into furninture design for a few years now. I have so many interesting ideas! NEW ideas! It started when I built a project in form study. It opened my narrow perspectives of what i thought art was at the time. 

I ended up working with wood and nails and it was ridiculously fun! I felt it was a self sculpture portait thing.

I love desgin complany's and escpecilly West Elm.... 

MY MIGRAINE is killing me.

Okay basically i want my own design company or be part of one. I love the encouragement this "design" chpt 4 gave to me. 

Scott Snibbe

Scott Snibbe... He has a really cool out look on his art work. He is into practicing the faith of Buddhism. Within this he uses it to connect the viewer into the mysterious cyber world. Most of all his pieces are interactive in one of his first large scale pieces is my personal favorite where their is a screen you blow on to interact with the larger piece. 

He is very well accomplished he taught at both RISD AND Brown. There is a lot of interesting stuff on him and you can read about it on www.sweet-adieu.net/aspect/ >>>>> Which was generously created by Kira

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Chpt III

I love this chpt! It's funny how a few of  his thoughts coincide with my own. I remember taking my first placement test in third grade! I was all worried and froze up... i just remember there being penguins on the cover and i believe it was black and purple. So I think from an early start you can find out what side of the brain i was using! 

SAT's I went took the test was annoyed by the person sitting beside me taking her shoes off, her feet stank. I was so uptight that, I basically felt like I threw my back out for about the next week. I don't remember my scores, my mom (being the intelligent lady she is) told me not to worry bout the score! So i basically forgot asap. I got into all my schools so it couldn't have been that bad!

Also the cartoon used to show the evolution of Jobs ! PeRfEct! Yay MFA!

Go Fetch!

ugh... So i tried... i failed ! i have a nice looking page and have no freaking idea how to work the o so cute FETCH program... honestly not much to say right about now... i thought it would be simple upload post done. nope . 

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I HATE THIS! This program sucks... I tried doing it like eight hundred ba-gillion times. I even used it on two different computers to see if it was just mine! And the stupid <> carrot things that disappeared for you th teacher didn't leave my screen! Its not fair! Wahhhhhhh! This is how i feel.

Chpt 2

"Abundance, Asia, and Automation," this chapter gave me an overwhelming feeling of being a slacker. Abundance stated how the US has far to much supplies and products that things are taken for granted easily. He talked about the drive into Washington D.C. , with its many shopping complexes. 

The Asia one I think gets to me the most. I have great parents who pushed me to get into lot of activities and school. With all of there pushing efforts, it never made me better in english or math. I loved history and science! I could never be a doctor, lawyer, or accountant. Daniel Pink doesn't give credit to the other jobs that make up for all that doctors, lawyers, and accountants lack. It touched a nerve cause, I wish the L or R side of the brain with that knowledge would wake up one day. 

The Automation leaving our lives to computers. I think we could get along just fine with out cellular devices and computers (WiFi). I see it as US uses it as a pedestal, if it were not to work, it would be a lot like when my cell phone is broken, i could write a letter; use a pay phone; or landline. And well after the first time I learned to carry and address book of my friends and family. People can adapt, we've been doing it for centuries!

Kristin Oppenheim

http://www.ubu.com/sound/oppenheim.html 

I was trying to find something peaceful from sound artists and I think I am in love with number 2 and 5 from the audio works of Kristen Oppenheim. She was born in 1959 on Hawaii. Kristen grew up and lives in New York. She recieved her BA San Francisco State University and MFA Hunter College. Number five is adorable....

Two New Media Artist's

I was really inspired by the vocal artist Joan La Barbara. She was educated at Syracuse and New York University. She also attended Tanglewood/ Berkshire. Joan is a composer, vocal artist, and performer. As a sound artist she has broken a lot of boundaries in the art world. She worked as a teacher at university's and colleges.  Joan produced her own radio station "Others Voices, Other Sounds" that is a station of contemporary classical music.  She was an artistic director at Carnegie Hall. Her voice has led to many great opportunities, she has been in films such as "Date with an Angel", "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer", and "Alien: Resurrection".  She has produced many disc's, the songs I heard were of her voice except it was a layered of whispers, clicking, and humming. It was amazing how well it went together. In song number 4 of her 1993 album "73 Poems" it as though she used her animalistic instinct to hiss and buzz, to say so much more.  www.ubu.com/sound/lab.thml As a sound artist, she has used her voice as a painter to your senses. 

Project 16 yr old me~

My experience for the first project was a very personal one. It is very intimidating sharing experiences of the past. Its even more intimidating doing it in front of a camera. I am a firm believer in the quote, "live life with no regrets". Unfortunately, like every person there may be a few things I wish I could've post-poned or stopped from happening. 

My project partner and I combined our personal stories of regret and what we wished we had known in a year of so much change, at the age of 16. It is amazing how that year effected me. I a lot of experiences that shaped me to who I am. Whether it be new fears or new goals. I think that there is a lot of changes that year I wish I could've made. 

The process of writing a script was amusing, you can really hear our individual voices coming from it. We had a hard time coming up with a plot and the scenery. It took us an hour to find a good location to feel comfortable to film. The balance had to be set to a certain scene cause of electronic devices making the screen do a rolling blinking look across the screen. We fixed the small problems and hope everything shows up the way we envisioned it too. 

A Whole New Mind Chpt #1

Ouch! My brain ached after reading this, I have known a lot of this information as a child. It didn't come at much shock to me. I think it was interesting that the author of A Whole New Mind, Daniel Pink, had you partake in exercises of uses your left hemisphere and right hemisphere of the brain. To think about which side is working right now and "I wonder which side works best for me", makes my right hemisphere hurt! One new thing I learned from this reading was the part of the brain that is inactive for some people is why someone like my Math teacher from high school talked with no enthusiasm at all, because of one of the hemisphere not being active! 

New Media

A personal definition of NEW MEDIA is hard to come by. When thinking about new media, I think of video and film art, installation art, and performance art. Mostly new media, is art through emails, internet, "You-tube", and blogs.

1-29-08 Videos

In class on 1-29-08, I had many different personal reactions to the videos shown. Some videos I really appreciated others I found to have no interest in and annoyance. The first video was Camilleu ABC silhouette, I found something about the performance of the letters falling very hypnotic. The fact that the letters actually are words from poems makes it that much more intriguing. I love how its a performance, a video, and uses new media to create the falling of letters. Joan Jonas and Tony Oursler's videos weren't intriguing to me. I found them both irritating and outdated, I believe its the outdated films that I have a hard time finding an inspiration in.

Robin Red Breast performance was one of my favorites. It reminded me of how as children we imitate animals. She imitated the robin and its mating ritual so well I could see the bird on the front yard run and ever so slightly turn its head. The Yes Man's political video was confusing for me, I had never heard of "The Yes Man" and not knowing of the misfortune that had happened I was lost. After it was explained I felt a great deal of gratitude for them to pull such a stunt on BBC. More stunts like this should be happening. They aren't harm-full they are helpful.

Christian Jankowski's Karaoke video was a little on the cheesy side, it reminded me of a bad day time soap. Adrianne Wortzel, new media video of the Dr. & Patient Robot was confusing and dragged out. Christy Georg's cork glass and water noise video thing, was interesting but could have been more so if i had gone to see it at a museum as an installation piece. David Webber's was my third favorite, using kitchen devices as a way of imitating Soap voices was humorous and creative, I really enjoyed this piece.