stopmotion!

screenprinting!

This is my favorite screen print from class, it's printed on a piece of paper I found in the garbage room. I had a lot of fun screen printing hopefully I get the chance to take the class, I feel like that is something I'd be interested in doing... or even just a survey class.

Melinda Steffy

This weeks lecture was given by Melinda Steffy. She mostly talked to us about starting business online, and selling our artwork. I had already heard of Etsy, the shops online for handmade goods, and have looked into it a couple times. I really can't imagine starting to sell my work now, and I don't think I'm going to consider it for a while. It just seems a little out of reach for the time being, there are too many assignments not enough time to make half a dozen of pieces of jewelry or whatnot. Yea, I understand she wasn't telling us to just go out and start selling things now, but by the time I decide to start selling I think Etsy will be outdated anyway.. That's just the nature of technology and the internet, everything is eventually obsolete.

Melinda also showed us some of her work, the fine art stuff I didn't mind, but the things on Etsy that she showed us felt more like an advertisement than anything, it actually made me a little uncomfortable. I understand that she was trying to explain to us how the whole thing worked, but I think she could have showed us any old site, and I only say that because she didnt show us any inside workings. I would have liked her to explain more about how the owner works the site, then telling us about the design features. A tutorial or just showing us what you see when its your own site, would have been great.

Something new

I feel like no one in our class takes the time to share their work outside of computers. So, instead of blogging about the lecture i couldn't really understand. I decided I would post about what I really like to do... and that is make jewelry. I dont have many pictures of my newest jewelry, so this is some of my older things which are mostly all functional jewelry. I started making jewelry when I was in the tenth grade, and I have been doing it ever since. Lately though I have not had time to make anything new, my newest things are from first semester of college, (which I will post another time) but I am excited to say that I got into a real jewelry class next semester and I am pretty pumped. I think that the reason I never stopped making jewelry is because its the kind of art that you can actually use, and that it's not just something that hangs on the wall collecting dust.

Doug Bucci

This weeks lecture was about CAD printing and jewelry. It was really nice to hear that he was unfamiliar with the program, because I unwillingly am taking the CAD Jewelry class next semester. I was really interested in the jewelry that he made using his blood glucose monitors, when he said that I was just so confused about the fact that numbers could make jewelry and that there was no actual designing involved.


I also was really happy he said that The rejection pile is always bigger, because you never hear about an artists failure, especially accomplished ones.

Sharon Louden

Sharon is a multimedia artist who uses a great variety of mediums. She doesn't define herself with one type of art but many types including sculpture and animation. I think that really great, because when I graduate, and start making a name for myself I don't want to be categorized by one type of art, I want to be known for many different disciplines... (maybe not animation)

I found it really interesting that she worked on commissioned pieces in peoples home, I really liked the fiber optics and glass piece she did in a dining room, and I also really likes the paintings she did with the glow in the dark paint. I should get some glow in the dark paint that would be fun, I wish I had some for my 2D project this week.

pictured above: Hedge, 2007 30x50

Proud Moments at Tyler

The best project I have been a part of this year has finally found its way to the internet, This beautiful Andy Goldsworthy inspired sculpture was made by four of my classmates and myself. After I quit sports I sort of forgot how rewarding but frustrating teamwork is. This was a very fun project, it involved fifteen people cramming into a twelve seat Temple issued van and driving a half hour into the boonies of Fairmount Park to build site specific sculptures.
We broke into groups and started building. Unlike Gloldsworthy, we didn't have a single idea drawn out, so we winged it. We went through like twenty ideas and like 3 hours to get to a point where our idea was resolved, and we still ended up tweeking it with only minutes left in the assignment. I think it was really sucessful and it is honestly the first thing I have been proud to be a part of since I have been in Tyler.

(guarenteed that being knee deep in freezing water is why I am miserably sick)

different faces of a hungry father.
(share a common subject)
the subway, the poor bird in the tracks.
( all things I have seen and found.. at or in the subway)
casual dining.
(things people forget to appreciate,
because you see these things everyday)

what I do and see everyday.
(I spend at least an hour every weekday
loving and loathing public transportation)

my face on illustrator

Bradley Litwin

This week we learned the history of drafting software. From the first CAD software to photoshop and illustrator. I thought Bradley did a really nice job of showing us where all of the things we are so used to today came from. That was nice and all but i was more interested in his work, and I mean his art not his mechanical drawings. His machines are absolutely amazing, I wish I understood how they worked. My favorite of the ones on display was the one with the men riding what look like unicycles. I also really enjoyed his video with the collapsible guitar, and I decided to google him after the lecture and there is more videos of him singing and playing music.

He seemed like a really cool guy I wish tht it wasn't such a guided lecture, and that he would have just talked about what he wanted to talk about and not just technology. I feel like that would have made this lecture more enjoyable.

Warning Label

what increasing frustration leads to, something everyone has felt.

Kate Cuffari

This Tuesday's lecture was my favorite one so far. Kate Cuffari, an artist in the conservation room at the PMA talked to us about things I have never thought about. Like how certain materials we use all the time don't last forever. I always thought that everything I have made would last forever, but nothing lasts forever. She talked about about what causes art to be obsolete, like willful destruction, performance destruction, and unintended deterioration of materials, and environment. Something else she brought up that I never thought of is digital storage, I honestly had the notion in my mind that CD's and memory cards would store my stuff forever, I can't imagine them going out of date... but then again, I didn't think that about my walkman either.

... oh and this week in 3D we made site specific sculptures in the woods, (very Andy Goldsworthy) and I was so proud of the piece my group and I made, hopefully I can get a picture up here. I was soaked passed my knees and absolutely freezing but I still had a good time.

text pictures

I'm thinking about re-doing the fish one. I guess I was thinking of it more as a composition, not as something i would post on the internet.

..I think it's pretty good for a first-timer.

Lecture 4

Philip Glahn...

I was pretty unsure of what he was talking about even thought I read the required reading. However, the points I did catch were pretty interesting, Especially the part about art making into a capitalist dream.

After the lecture I decided to look up the artists he talked about to see more of there work, because I found that one piece, "The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist" by MICHAEL RAKOWITZ was pretty cool.. The fact that he used technology to research all of the artifacts that he replicated that had been destroyed or simply just disappeared. His other work is pretty interesting too, one of his other exibits was about the influence of science fiction in the Iraqi culture.. It's pretty weird stuff.

exploring?

I wouldn’t call it exploring more like living.

Anyway.

Today I caught myself doing a few strange things.
1. I have managed to memorize the traffic light patterns on the street I live on.
2. I have also managed to figure out at exactly which spot I will lose service on the trolley. Going two school at 37th coming home its right as you’re leaving 33rd.
3. I know exactly where to stand so I can walk onto the last car of the subway through the second door

…and lastly
4. I have been timing my commute as if I could break some sort of record. Yesterday it took me about 18 minutes to get to the subway station and about 7 minutes to get to Cecil B. Moore.

Lecture 3

Scott Rigby is one of the minds behind basekamp, a group I find very interesting. I went to their website and the thing I found most interesting are their installations. They are really clean and balanced. I like that. I am sort of sick of messy art, I feel like that’s all I see anymore. But anyway, I also liked the fact that they are using unconventional ways to communicate with other artists. The whole skype thing is mind boggling to me, especially talking internationally with other artists and sharing ideas about art, and projects… One thing that really didn’t enjoy was the lack of explanation, I couldn’t even begin to understand how the whole thing works, even after looking at the website. In all the pictures it seems they only have one little computer, how are all those people talking at once. I wish he would have explained it a little more, or maybe he did but I couldn’t hear.

The City

I had fun even though most of my pictures are of my daily commute. Most of the things I took pictures of were things I really wouldn't have noticed if I didn't have to take photos. The assignment really made me open my eyes to things that just pass me by. Like tile detail in subway stations. That's something I never really noticed until I missed my train and used the delay as an opportunity to take photos.


I tried to hide the fact that I was taking pictures of the people on the subway.

...I never felt so awkward.

Lecture deux

Ah, a real lecture.

I really liked that guy, not to mention his hair cut. I thought most everything he had to say was really interesting. I am really glad he went into ways to find a job and work, because I as most art students am worried about where my life is heading.

i checked out some of the networks he suggested. and I actually found an old professor of mine on linkedin he wrote a great book called "help yourself to a blue banana." his name is Micheal Adams... I'll put a link in if i can figure it out again...

Lecture

Good lecture today even thought it was just an intro.. I'm curious about what some of the artists are going to talk about, because I don't really use tons of technology in my art... maybe one of the lectures lined up will inspire me.

p.s- i saw a deer today... in the city. I wonder if that is common..