My Website Flow Chart

Here is my Flow Chart.

Website

The Website I chose to look at or use belongs to Leah Uherc. 

http://digitalarts.bgsu.edu/portfolios/lruherc/MyWebsite.htm

Although, her content is not the greatest she has a good website.  The layout is simple and easy to navigate.  It isn't cluttered with menus and they are easily read.  Her gallery offers a nice roll over feature instead of constantly clicking the images you wish to see thus always jamming on the back button to get anywhere you desire.  It is obvious she didn't care about this website, but the amusing part is the fact that her lack of extravagance  made it to be really good in itself. 

Colors = Simple

Design = Simple

Navigation = Simple

Content = Not a lot, and not that amazing

From the Documentary titled "Stupidity", "Companies advertise to Grade school minds/mindset".  So if some one in grade school can use it, it is perfect.

4 Sculptors

Eva Hesse was born January 11, 1936 in Hamburg. She Studied at Cooper Union in New York from 1954 to 1957. She is currently Deceased. She died in May of 1970. She was known for experimenting in latex, plastics, and fiberglass. I like these two works because the both have a kind of Graffiti aspect to them. The one looks a lot like the flair associated with Wildstyle Font and the the other looks like a bunch of repeated wall bombings (Bombing - The act of tagging the same thing repeatedly on a wall or target.) However, due to recent events I am not allowed to give my critical opinion.

Louise Bourgeoise is a French born artist from the 1930's. His art was mainly done with metals and patina's however they were mostly of large scale. I like the spider just for no real reason. I just do, it intrigues me. The the Blobby bronze ______________ (I am not permitted to say at risk that people might think of me as objectifying a certain gender) However, regardless of what ot looks like the process of what it looks like, the process in which it was created is really alot of fun to think about.

David Smith, born in 1906, he was a Sculptor that dealt mainly Metals. At one point in his life he moved here to Ohio. Also another May death, he died in 1965 in an automobile crash. The two piece of his I find mildly interesting is the one that looks like a portal of some sort. It look like it was an early form or an art piece that inspired Stargate. The other I like because it looks like a cross piece. It looks like African art with mixture of silverware. (Due to recent events I must put a disclaimer that I am in no way attacking the African population, it is just a similarity between art styles.)

Tony Smith born in 1912, died in 1980, was a sculptor that dealt with Geometric shapes. His Sculptures or at least their influence can be seen in a lot of futuristic movies and abstract art. The Cubic piece is that looks like a shelter is very simple, but just due to its size it is really impressive. The Other that is all spread out in the gallery is also very open and although it doesn't look it, the piece is very structurally sound. Which is its appeal to me.

Why I chose these artists, Well to be honest, I don't have time to research the whole list, so for time constraints I chose the top four on the list.

Idea

Well, the original idea for this video Art Project, was to address my life and break dancing. I would set up a mat hi the play button and of course using a variety of shots while splicing in an out footage of what I do, like clearing a house in all my gear, to reenactments of my once "not so great" child hood, and then once finished with the breaking I'd get up and address the camera in a pissed off grab the camera and say something along the lines, "Fucking Lame Ass Emasculated Bitches, you think you're life sucked. Fucking get over your-selves. God damn pussies" and then throw down the camera. Then cut to text saying something like, "If you're so weak that you resort to your own extermination, Do it. We need real men and women, not this Pansy pussy footed society we seem to be creating today." However, I can't Break for maybe a week, if I am lucky. Messed up my feet pretty good on a Ruck march.
So I am down to two ideas. Since this is Video art and one can get away with just about anything I was thinking the easy cop out of "The Creative process" and splice together a random montage of odd footage that if done right people with orgasm over because it looks so creative.
The other is How I could address the my age old battle with College and their absence policies and how teachers have become no better than Facist Nazi's employed under a Capitalized system, where College used to be a service rather than a business. I pay for the product there for I have the right to use it or not and not be punished. But some how Schools have gotten or let their teachers get so far up their own rear ends that they think that their god sent goal is to control and "Steer" with their Unbreakable holy Sysllabus and product lists. So to sum up a rant and put it into video The life of a poor college Student who struggles against a higher oprressive power that hides behind good ideals that were once held up years ago.

The Quiz

Conceptual
Paik - The piece that I saw of Nam Joon Paik's was something that had some crazy fly around images of his face while changing it through filters, to music. It was the biggest heap of bullshit I have ever seen.

Narrative
Joe Gibbons - The piece I am going to address is his Barbie piece where he reanacts an old porno from the 90's. Using the gainy camera it is just like the poor quality amatuer porn videos that would always involve a fake rape interveiw/ audition. This was big back in the 90's during the huge interent porn boom. I can't lie, I saw this stuff, and even helped make some. Had to make a living some how. Anyway, It sucked. It was really just a poor excuse to call art.

After reading the article I was was interested to see Paik's work. However, It prooved to be a huge dissapiontment. There was nothing special about it, unless I decided to get high.

I had always known about video art, Heck I took a course on it in Highschool, and have always had a strong hatred for it, mainly because people always tend to abuse a good thing. I'll admit there are some good pieces out there, like music videos or even film in general. But people have taken video art to making stuff that looks like congratulations I high or to quote South Park a"a bunch of gay cowboys eating pudding". So I guess I understand it to be more and more dissapionting. You could classify the Youtubepoop series as Video art by this definition.

Video Art is using the Video as the main source and material of your piece, rather than making a video using other elements. Graphite vs Drawing.

36 photos only 10 made the Cut

So I had to take 36 photos pf myself and chose the 10 best. Well, I suck with a camera and the camera sucked just as bad. So I didn't have a whole lot to work with. Recently I just got into a little "fight" and I kind of got messed up. So I took pictures of all the external wounds, ha ha ha. Just recently has the internal bleeding stopped. Oh yeah, did I mention I lost. Ha ha ha, ah sweet delirium.

New Artist #1 -#3

So I am looking at the Siggraph site and the assignment is to pick three artists that I like. and place their links here.

http://www.siggraph.org/artdesign/gallery/S07/images/wallbased/large/hayashi2_l.jpg
http://www.siggraph.org/artdesign/gallery/S07/images/wallbased/large/zhou_l.jpg
http://www.siggraph.org/artdesign/gallery/S07/images/wallbased/large/lu_l.jpg


I ended up choosing these 3 because they all had some sort of graffiti aspect. Hayashi's was filled with the vibrant colors. The other two Zhou and Lu took into account the actual word and turning that into art itself.

I get so sick of seeing the same stuff over and over and over again. This person does a drug piece, the person does one on death, this person does one on equality and world peace, another person is working on their Emo feelings. What ever happened to just living, leaving your mark, pushing yourself to the limit. What happened to those artists?

Day one - What did I just get myself into.

As being a part of some in-class assignment,  I have to write answer why I want to be an artist and what plans do I have to when I graduate.   So to avoid being boring I'll make this quick. 

I've been drawing ever since I could remember I could hold a pencil.  I originally wanted to be a Paleontologist, but they made way too little money for all the stuff they have to go through and do.  Since everyone said that I was good at drawing I decided to take the cartooning route.  I loved Saturday morning cartoons.  ex Transformers, Ninja Turtles, Ghost busters, Voltron, etc.  It was then Shopping for underwear for my young brother that I decided that I want to make a character that will be forever immortalized on a child's posterior.  Heck! Pikachu and Scooby made it there and they make Bank!  To tell the truth I really have no idea what I am doing, I just do thing because they seem like a good idea.   I have no plans, just live life day by day and trying a little bit of everything.