Video art

Highlike

I loved looking at all the pieces on Highlike. So many of them caught my eye and got me thinking. Most of them took my breath away because almost every piece I felt a personal connection to. Although it took me a while to pick one piece to blog about one by Bedwyr Williams really caught my eye. It is a toilet with a bunch of emotions written on it. Its a really deep piece it is basically saying how love to flush our emotions away and not show them. Kind of like an emotional Bulimia.

5 categories of Music

Girl power:

• Lady Gaga
• not only is she clever with her songs she cares
• she knows how to captivate the audience and make us think about music

Punk:

• Blink 182
• classic band that is still played on the radio
• so many hit songs that shaped my childhood and my musical tastes today

Latin:

• Shakira
• She is a chart topper not only in the US but all around
• she is still dropping hits to this day 

Electronic:

• Porter Robison 
• He is one of the youngest producers/djs
• his music takes you away to worlds unknown he even created his own visuals for his music

Dubstep:

• Knife Party
• harder gritter intense sound
• they sell out arenas and festivals and are known around the world

Performance Art

http://youtu.be/BRz0cOkdvFM

Butoh

In class we discussed Butoh and how it is a very bizarre form of dance. I find it mind blowing how they have to train themselves really hard to master the tinniest weirdest motions. I love how it is so bizzare and almost alien like how the move across the stage, roll around and do weird motions. The dances them selves seem almost morbid and something straight out of a Tim Burton Movie version of the Nutcracker. I love the make up also and the bizarre hanging pieces.

Sheryl Oring

I loved Sheryl Oring even more after learning about her project which was titled I Wish to Say. This was when she decided to act and dress like an old fashioned secretary and asked everyday people to write a letter to the president about their thoughts and wishes for the country. I found the ideal really cool and loved how even asked children. What made me even happier was that she actually sent them to which ever president has been in office. I love how she even doubled the projects size but letting her students take over and help write down their wishes.

Wicked

In watching the video behind the scenes of Wicked after seeing the show several times it truly made me like the play even more. He took so much time and care directing it that how it had such an emotional effect on everyone around him. It really was a labor of love. He truly took pride and listened to other peoples opinions.

Sigmund Freud

http://www.biography.com/people/sigmund-freud-9302400
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist who was best known for his psychoanalysis. He mostly focused on sex, the ego and paternal and maternal issues. Also his interpretations on dream analysis are super interesting. Some of his theories though I feel are a little to farfecthed and bizarre and push the envelope a little to much

Bread and Circus

This is term coined which means that politics and movies and common media do things just for public approval.It Originated in Rome as a form as political satire. This started as a cheap form of entertainment which kept the audience coming back for more. A literal meaning of this was when the Romans would hand out bread and wheat products to the audience.

Raul Ceuro on Creativity

When watching this video it really touched me it was extremely inspiring. Ceuro was an incredibly intelligent man who exceed his parents smarts. He was more focused on the educational side of creativity and how creativity can have logic behind it. He was able to teach himself incredible things. I think its really cool how he's telling us to use creativity to learn.

Xerox project art piece

For my Xerox project I did a modern and provocative sculpture and model  of a body and did it rather abstractly.

The Velvet Underground & Nico [Full Album]

In listening to the full album I really liked the sound. I really loved how grunge and punk it sounded. The music was mellow then sped up at times but the subject matter was really heavy. The vocals tho seemed some what soothing to me. I really like the beats and how the instruments were used.

William Burroughs

http://flavorwire.com/148558/97-things-you-didnt-know-about-william-s-burroughs
In class we learned about William Burroughs and in doing research about him I learned some pretty interesting things about him. He was first introduced to opium by his housekeeper. His use of this drug fueled his creativity greatly. He learned about sex from studying the classics. He destroyed all of his own diaries so there are none left.  Burroughs graduated with a degree in English literature from Harvard University in 1936. Another fact that really was interesting was that he was turned down by the military four times. On of his most famous works was naked lunch

Marcel Duchamp

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/duch/hd_duch.htm
Marcel Duchamp was born in Normandy in southern France in 1887 he went back and forth through Europe and the United States for the majority of his life. One of his most important works was nude descending the stairs. He was big in the cubism movement. He loved to incorporate motion and the idea of trickery in his art. He love to use preexisting objects. His most famous one is the bicycle wheel the urinal.  

Dada Manifesto

When reading this I was utterly confused and fascinated. It starts off spilling a bunch of nonsense which confuses me greatly. Then we you read on it says Dada means nothing. Which really sheds light on the fact that art and spoken word really have no meaning but we give it meaning ourselves. Art is art because it means so many different things to different people. When you read on it starts to just repeat words which provides  a sense of organized sense of chaos illustrated through words.

Grid art

I chose to make a rainbow out of condoms for my grid art piece! Enjoy I chose to use a provocative medium to convey and innocent image which leaves people the ability to create the meaning of the rainbow in their own heads.

TI994A

http://oldcomputers.net/ti994a.html
this system was improved over the years.  this system has a floppy disk and other feature that can be plugged in and added on. these extra features were revolutionary. This computer system is considered revolutionary. Although it was ground breaking it suffered from a lot of issues which needed to be fixed later on.

Steve Jobs

It really moved me how Jobs himself mentioned how he never graduated college and how he was moved to go to college. He goes deeply into his personal life and his birth mother. his life was not that early. His story of how his academics were based off of his parents. He was originally forced by his parents to choose to go to college. Dropping out of college helped him learn about academics. He was a brilliant man who used his motivation as a young mind to drop out and select what kinds of classes that he wanted to take. He used his class on typography to program the first Mac to have the first types of fonts. Jobs used his shortcomings to be successful.

Flip book

In class we were assigned to do a flip book! Here's mine hope you enjoy

http://youtu.be/487UQhzqRE8

alan turing

In class a couple of days ago we learned about a man named Alan Turing. After doing a bit of research I have learned that he was a pretty incredible guy. I learned that he went to Princeton and worked for a secret british department. He had many brilliant plans but his peers and co-workers would always shut them down or dismiss them. In 1952 he was arrested and tried for being gay. He was operated on and tested on to cure him from his sexuality and as a result of this he commited suicide and his works have been recognized today. He was a brilliant man who has tortured during his day and age for being who he was which cut into the life of a brilliant man.

Mark J. Stocks

this is my favorite image by Mark J Stocks. Its so peaceful I love the look of smoke to me it looks like cigaret  smoke in the night air. I also love who wispy and airy it looks. I almost want to reach out to touch it. The process of how he does his art also captivates me.

radio

I love how in the past radio was just as important and entertaining as tv is today. The one radio show that entertained me was the original  War of The Worlds. It convinced people that the world was truly coming to an end. The shock value was important because it air during a  normal broadcast and sounded truly realistic. It made the nation be in a state of panic I find it funny how someones voice can convince you that New Jersey is being invaded by aliens.

The Great Train Robbery

Like the other silent films The Great Train Robbery is a truly terrible short film. The plot is useless and poorly done. But for that day and age it was groundbreaking. For movie goers in that day and age it would have truly  fascinated them and made em feel like were transported into the world they havent seen before. The use of gun shots and color in the end are weak but for that day and this use of technology is amazing.

Stop Motion

http://vimeo.com/1452564
In class we learned about stop motion videos and how they are becoming a new and improved form of art. I watch one called Big Milk and it completely caught my attention. The use of the stop motion and lights immediately capture my attention. It is provocative and makes you think. I had to watch it a couple of times to fully understand what was going on and I still don't fully. The use of the skeletons was really fascinating. I also love the length of it and how the man who is painted like a skeleton starts and ends by eating out of the empty cabinet.

Vernacular Photography

This was a major switch in the photography industry because now everyone can be photographer and most people want to know their creative brains. The use of photography became a very social and happy aspect of culture. Before vernacular photography came into play photos were dull and appeared to emotionless. But now picture are happy and and playful and showed a lot of creativity. This picture is one of my favorites

Abe Morell

Abe Morell's Camera Obscura is amazing. The concept of blackening out a room and cutting out a small hole to project the image of what ever is out side fascinates and amazes me. It almost looks like magic. On his website all of his pictures amaze me. The ones that I were particularly drawn too where the bedroom ones. The beds are perfect center piece to the amazing scenery. its so magical and almost something out of this world. The picture is so vivid and amazing. I was completely unaware how such a simple idea could turn into something so amazing and revolutionary

The life and death of opera

When i watched the life and death of opera I was fascinated by the evolution of opera its self. I also love how it dropped alot of interesting facts about the birthplace of opera and explaining how its not about the stories but its mostly about the evolution of stories and how the music has changed dramiticly and how its different in each country. my favorite part was how it evolved in to broadway and how the words started off to be sung in a different manner and how they were changed later on.

Deus ex Machina

Dues Ex Machina is a when a problem in a movie or book is solved instantly with a solution that does seem logical at all a prime example of this is in the movie The Other Woman in the end all of the three women that the man is cheating on meet up. and then they end up banding together to black mail the guy and ruin him. In logical world will the girlfriend wife and mistress all talk and end up liking each other and using what each girl has to bring him down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZcQfnGcqDU

Madama Butterfly

This animation was very morbid but got its point across in a very beautiful manner. The butterfly appeared to be a symbol of innocence. I love how it was portrayed with very innocent kid like dolls but it deals with issues like having children before marriage, sex, loss of a child, and suicide. It kind shows how people can view things in a artistic lens to make morbid things seem like an art form.

Juan Carlos Delgado

his art amazes me. I have never seen an artist freeze sculptures.  It reminds of something out of Narnia or Alice in Wonderland. The ice and how it changes with the temperature of the room gives each of these pieces emotion and almost make them come alive. Another piece of his that stood out to me was a glowing green door it was eerie and made me think of a haunted house

gaudy outfits and rave culture

I believe that we live in a Neo roco era. Fashion especially during night life or in the EDM scene. People wear widly lavish and colorful outfits and crazy hair styles. We care more in this culture about standing out. Everyday like a circus people will stand out and are more concerned with being noticed our society is more gaudy then ever. We like the attention on us look at celebrites like Deadmau5, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry. They wear crazy outfits and focus on appearence