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.