Final Video Project

For this project I made my own sounds and edited them through audacity. Honestly, I was inspired by the show American Horror Story for this project as I enjoy the dark gothic-y-ness of it. I also enjoy The Walking Dead so I in a way tried to make my video similar to their openings. Basically, in this video random weird stuff happens, but I like to believe that an evil curse has been set upon the world and this is what happens. Some may or may not like it (which is entirely ok with me), so please if you have anything to say about it please let me know. What do you like about it? What do you dislike? What would you have done different? I always enjoy your opinions. If you say "It SUCKS!" that's alright, but please tell me why.

Anyway, I've enjoyed my time with you guys. You all have awesome stuff to show around and I'm happy that I was able to look at your projects. Thanks for the good times, I hope you have great winter breaks. :)

Performance Art

Here's my video. In this piece I attempt to go on this jogging trail by random people. I tried to get cars to honk, but I don't think the drivers really cared. Oh well. Sorry for the quality. I tried my best to edit it, but I think I just needed a whole new reshoot in general.

Performance Artist : Chris Burden

I looked at many different performance artists, but for some reason Chris Burden stuck out to me.

This guy did a couple things that intrigued me. He was one of those artists that believed that putting oneself in danger is an art form. One performance called Shoot was done in the seventies. In this act, Chris Burden would have his assistant distanced from about five meters away with a .22 rifle. Once the assistant was distanced, he/she would shoot Mr. Burden in the left arm. Mr. Burden himself would be considered the sculpture once he was shot. I believe the meaning of this piece was that getting shot was not at all fake like in the movies, but as real as the blood that drips down from a wound. The Vietnam War was going on during that time, so his piece would raise awareness for gunshots.

Another performance he did was called Trans-Fixed. In this piece, Chris Burden had his arms and legs nailed to the back of a Volkswagen. He was basically crucified to the car. The car would then rev for two minutes and then be pushed back into a garage. Obviously there is a religious message in the piece, but I'm not sure I can tell what it means.

The last piece I thought was interesting that he did was called  Doomed. In this performance Chris Burden positioned himself under a 5x8 slanted piece of glass. He remained there for however long it took somebody to interact with him. When somebody did finally interact with him in some way, (like Dennis O' Shea placing a pitcher of water in Burden's reach) he would get up and smash the glass and then quickly take a hammer to the clock next to him ending the piece. I don't even know where to start for the meaning on this one. 

Random Babbling

Alright, I'm thinking about the scanner project. I want to do something fun for this and putting body parts on a scanner is a good start. Where to put those parts is the question that I have yet to answer. I could have my face as the center and create like a sun using my hands and arms, but I feel like that is an obvious thing to do. As I sit here I'm gathering different ideas, so hopefully I can think of something intriguing. Not sure of what else to write about. I checked out some of the various art movements in the class links.I gotta say there are a whole lot of them. I've never heard of some of them like Transavantgarde. Apparently, it's like an italian version of neo expressionism, but hey it's got a crazy name, how fitting because some of the examples I looked up were kind of bizarre. 

Pimp my ride Sandro Chia style

It's a very flattering piece. It really is.

What am I looking at here? I think I see a hand!

I was on a mission from God

Well, I think I am done with my grid project. I decided to go with the Blues Brothers in the end because they ultimately won me over. I am very fond of that movie and I thought I would show my appreciation towards John Belushi and Dan Akroyd by pixelizing them.

I started with the image and put it on grid to get a grasp of what it would look like one.

I then drew by free hand a rough sketch of the Blues Brothers and then colored it in with a sharpie.

After that was said an done I made a cleaner version of the previous sketch and wrapped it up. My hand was sweaty after that. All in all I think it turned out alright considering that whenever I draw/color something I end up making a wicked mess.

Here's a random raccoon pic I took a couple days ago. I gave him a piece of bread and he preceded to lick the crumbs off of his mouth.

Grid Art

Throughout all of the stuff we did in class, I still had no perfect grasp on what I wanted to do. My mind has been blocked for this project and I had no clue why. Over the weekend I tried fixing my problem by just thinking of things I liked and decided to skim down things I could possibly try to draw. For some reason these images are staying in my head. I'll work on one of these bad boys tomorrow for sure and the end result may or may not give you seizures on Thursday.

Blues Brothers

Batman Logo

Man with no name

Rick Grimes

Materials

Today we discussed various materials and mathematics used in art. What caught my eye today was the use of screws for art. The way that one guy (I don't remember his name :( ) was able mathematically solve where exactly he wanted the screws and just how deep they go in the frame was brilliant. The little writing robot that we saw at the very beginning of class also caught my eye. Jaquet Droz, all I have to say is wow. The mechanical engineering this guy puts into his work is outrageous. I never knew about the little writing robot he made. The robot must have been made with incredible precision. If he was even the slightest hair off in his calculations for his little writer, I would bet money that the robot's writing would look like mine (which is terrible I admit). This guy was a genius, and I feel bad for not knowing about him. I decided to look him up and found a cool little site of him. Here it is.

http://www.jaquet-droz.com/en/node/1801