iNikon

I thought that the ipod advertisement was brilliant but when I say this on Flickr I thought it was so funny.

Robot Chicken

After doing stop motion I now have a higher appreciation for the time and effort for the art. Robot Chicken is done by moving little dolls and manipulating their mouths with paper to make them talk. Its funny and creative.

Silkscreen

I've just taken a silkscreen class and I looked at this picture and thought of how much work this piece must have been. Each color and each layer needs to have it's own screen. Silkscreen also reminds me of digital art because it block coloring.

Metro Art

This is a very interesting morph of something everyday into a piece of art. I found it on a French Blog.

Addicting Games

Addicting Games it right! This is what has distracted me from doing my finals studying. Color Fill

Cans Seurat

Cans Seurat was a piece of art by artist Jordan. He took many pictures of cans and then put them together to make the well known Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, by Seurat. There are 60,000 cans and that is the number of cans that Americans throw away in one hour. I thought it was an interesting digital media piece done to get a point across.

Missing Dog

This picture makes me miss my dog... he died while I was at college so I never was able to say goodbye. Now every time I see a dog I goo goo eyed.

Logo Art Stolen

A photographer on Flickr.com, Stabilo Boss, made the second picture and then found the first one on Wave. Flattering, but I would sue.

Art Event III- Senior Art Show II

After seeing the first senior art show I was thoroughly impressed, but the second art show was even better. From extremely large elephants to interactive art pieces. I really enjoyed that there were many art piece that one could interact with, it made the experience even that more entertaining.

The extremely large elephant was the first piece that caught my eye. One would be able to see it from a mile away. I believe that the title of the piece was “Life is though, so we pull the wool over our eyes”, but I’m not sure if that was just a quote intended to evoke thought while looking at the piece. The elephant was not only large but pink. Jessie Lieberman, the artist, wanted the piece to evoke a sense of going back to childhood. The large pink elephant is supposed to represent comfort. The sign in front of the elephant told the view to enter the belly of the elephant. As I lowered my head into the belly of the gigantic stuffed animal I felt comfortable and as thought I wanted to take a nap right there, on the pillows and fluff. The light streaming into the cozy compartment was diffused and also comforting. I was impressed by the thought and craftsmanship that Jessie put into her piece. I knew how much work and time she put into it.

After being awed by the work of Jessie I ventured over to “Storage” by Dylan Clark. Here I was also impressed with thought behind the piece. Only someone that knew a little bit about modern art would really understand the irony of this piece. Dylan made replicas of modern sculptures by arts David Smith, Alberto Giacometti, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, and Richard Serra. Then he placed those pieces against a steal rusted plate. The rusted plate represents a storage unit. He states in his artist statement “[...] each work looks new and undamaged to convey the current importance to the modern art world, but they are placed haphazardly to show the potential lack of attention in the future”. I don’t know if I fully agree with Dylan when he states that these pieces are going to lose importance in the future. I believe that some of those works could last as long in importance as the Mona Lisa. Yes, there have been many works forgotten or dismissed but we do not know yet if the pieces that we call modern will disappear with time. I love the accuracy with which he portrayed the modern works. I look as though he pull much time and effort into his idea and execution.

The last things that I looked at while visiting the gallery were two comic book style works, one by Courtney Burns and the other by C. Knight. Courtney’s was anime inspired and had to do with a reinterpretation of the three fates and cutting string to end a life. She made the three fates into a hooded figure and the string into a clock. I thought it was visually interesting how she made large colored images of her story and posted them on the wall with the book there for people to read. C. Knight did a similar thing but he put the whole content of his book on the wall. His book was about zombies taking over. The picture quality of C. Knights story was very good. His use of Photoshop made it look very professional.

The second senior art show was by far the more interesting one. Not to put down the first show, I thought that the senior in that show had equal talent, but as a viewer I definitely had more fun walking through scary mazes, ducking into a shrine, and laying in my childhood fantasies.

Google

The Invention of the first laser.
I really love how google changes their logo every now and then to adjust to what is going on in the present day. It shows that they are consistently changing their information. It also shows the creative side of google.

The World Wide Web

I've successfully created my first two websites ever. Although they aren't very smooth or too intricate, I'm proud of them. The first one is semi web portfolio of digital work and the second one is my art portfolio on the web. I hope that you enjoy my work...
Site 1: Digital Media Class
Site 2: Web Development Class

Art Event II- Sculptures by Richard Friedberg

Sculptures by Richard Friedberg, was an exhibit shown in the Yager Museum. The exhibit consists of small scale models of his larger installations. There were a one large scale sculpture there that was a wall fixture, but the models that were sitting on pedestals would have been beyond comparison in size. The museum didn’t house the life size sculpture due to the fact that it wasn’t large enough. Although the pieces were models he provided pictures of his installations which gave more of a perspective to the grandness of his sculptures.

Richard Friedberg is a local artist living just outside of Oneonta, NY in an old Quaker farm. The largeness of the farm allows for him to easily construct his massive sculptures. The Quaker farm however is just his summer home. During the winter he maintains a studio in New York Cities Soho. He was school at Antioch College and then Yale University. After school he moved to New York City to teach the fine arts and make sculptures.

His sculptures are at first overwhelming. By looking at the models one is filled with the sense that the piece is towering them. The pieces are also very busy so the viewer’s eye is constantly moving around the piece. Each sculpture was unique, but he used a common theme throughout his work, flowing lines and organized commotion. All of the pieces created movement and had a great amount of energy. Just by standing next to these small scale models, one would get the impression intended when they are at their full scale.

The pieces also have a majestic quality. His use of color shows grandness or even godliness. His piece, diva, uses the colors gold, white, and sliver which add to it majestic qualities. It also has golden rods shooting out from the top of the piece, almost as if they were rays of sunlight. The piece also contains a pathway. This may have been intended to be the portal to a spiritual world. These were my thoughts when first looking at the piece. Then I thought about the name of the piece, diva. That didn’t really tie in with the rest of the earlier assumptions; unless it was referring to Mary as a diva, or another higher power. This made me think that maybe it was just a diva. A long flowing dressed diva. The grandness actually complimented it just being a diva. Gold shooting from the face and the ego of a diva, thinking they are the almightily.

Richard Friedberg’s pieces evoked many thoughts. I could quite put my foot down of what any of them were intended to mean but I think that might have been what he was going for. Friedberg may have wanted the viewer to find their own meaning in his grand sculptures. I wish that I could have been about the see a life size sculpture of his because the feeling that I get just by looking at one of his models would most likely be amplified immensely.

Tehran, Iran- From A Camera Phone

Visit http://lifegoesonintehran.com it's a website designed by a person to show what is going on in the capital city of Tehran without any propaganda. The country of Iran is being portrayed unfairly in the news and this website shows that it's like on a daily bases there. It allows the people from across the world to see what is going on in this capital city. He/she also designed the website to show his/her friends back in Los Angles that everything was safe and beautiful in Iran. He/she wanted to show this people she thought that people didn't really know what Iran consisted of.

Each of his/her pictures are taken with a camera phone. This adds another element of intrigue to this website. The picture are from a personal perspective. I also love the way that the website is set up. You come to a home page and then click on a date you like. That then sends you to another page that is primarily viewed running back and forth. This gives a freshness to the way we view websites. I believe in the future there will be many different ways one will view a website.

His/her mission statement:
"To show that regardless of what any president would have you imagine, despite what any media outlet would have you believe, life goes on in Tehran and elsewhere in Iran."

Psychedelic Paper Crane

My class was assigned to develop a stop-motion movie using Photoshop. After many trails and errors this is that I ended up with. The music is Ryan Monteblue whom I failed to credit in my movie.

"Shutter Shades"

Shutter shades= the new fashion statement. These useless but fashionable shades are making it big with the stars including, Kanye West (as shown about), Paris Hilton, and teenagers across the country.

Pop! Click!

For the low price of $14 you can become the next Andy Warhol. This camera take four pictures within one second and then stores them in yellow, blue, green, and red.

USB?

And people think that USB ports aren't cool.... This is a fashionable way to keep you're data safe and saved.