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..