LAST LECTURE!

Well Tuesday was our last lecture for the first semester! Can't believe the semester is just about over! Sarah came in to talk to us and I enjoyed her lecture. She said she really enjoys glass blowing and made it seem really interesting, especially how she described it as using her whole body to create art. She moved on to video and interactive art which was really cool. She incorporated glass blowing .. sort off.. but did sugar blowing. She also used silk and video. I thought her work was really beautiful especially the flowers and the tree-like figures.. so awesome. She also mentioned that she does a lot of print work, which I enjoy. This was a good way to finish off the lecture series for the first semester :)

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yet another lecture

Today was the second to last lecture for the first semester! I can't believe that these past months have flown by so quickly. All I can recall was Etsy, Etsy, Etsy. I felt she was just trying to sell herself to a bunch of broke college students, and a spokesperson for Etsy. The lecture was kinda boring, I think at least. There was a lot of relation to gods and goddesses in her titles of work. She worked with fabrics, spices, stains, and alchemy. Talk a lot about vending, blahhh.

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So I totally regret not going to the lecture this morning, but I am sick and decided to sleep in. The lecture at 7 pm featured the work of Brett Cook. I really liked his work or portraits, its size and color! Wow there was so much color, and used with spray paint. It really was amazing. His lecture was very interactive, we took three breaths together to collaborate. He had volunteers write on posters on the walls that read COMMUNITY and SOUL, and used them as rubrics for his presentation. He does a lot of interesting community projects that really get people you wouldn't expect involved, and by watching interviews, I learned that they were excited about his projects. In his lecture he compared community vs. soul, paintings vs. murals, and even graffiti vs art work. I did not like how he went on and on about race, and how the lecture itself was soooo long. But all in all it was interesting and I enjoyed his work.

Tank Man photo

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Today's lecture was awesome! I really did enjoy it. Doug Bucci was so entertaining and lively (props to him for keeping me awake today). He started school in 1990 with a 6 month old child. This reminds me of my mom who is a great role model to me. She went to school while being pregnant with my now 31 year old brother. Doug's goal was to be a painter and educator. He applied to graduate school and thats where his direction in life really changed. He began working in metals and jewelry. This is something I really want to try and find it super interesting and cool. He designed a bunch of things for famous people like Prince Andrew of the British Council when he visited Philly and even Viva la Bam. He pushes himself because of his disease. He has diabetes but that doesn't stop him, and now he is creating jewelry inspired by the medical aspect of his disease. He is so interesting and inspiring. I loved today's lecture and it really inspired me and makes me want to try jewelry making.

tank man

Today I did my research and wrote my paper on "Tank Man". I found it really interesting, and the picture itself is luring. My paper touches on the history behind the photo and why it happened. Students in Beijing started protest in favor of democracy after there were memorial protests for communist general who died. The students were beaten, arrested, the even killed. After these events Beijing did not return to a peaceful place. Communist police covered the streets along with tanks. Soon after an unknown man stood in his own little protest in front f traveling tanks, and this had a huge impact on the press. He was very brave for standing in front on a moving tank right in their path. The tanks stopped before running over the man and the man was taken away for a possible unknown punishment. The picture taken of the man standing in front of the moving tanks is an iconic image and is very popular. It stand for many things to the Chinese people, especially those who crave more freedom and are pro- democracy.

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Today in lecture was ROUGH. I think every Tyler student is experiencing the effects of no sleep. It was a terrible rainy day when all I wanted to do was curl up in my bed and watch the Halloween series over and over again. Eileen Neff came in today to talk to us. She said she was a graduate of Tyler. She studied literature before she studied painting and then finally photography. She explained how she is very influenced by other artists. Much of her work has furniture in it. I didn't get it but it was kinda cool. A lot of her work seemed to target nature. Her work really looked like cut and paste with the computer. She works with the computer now, and her work is quite simple. 

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Sharon Louden came in to speak to us today. At the start I really didn't like her work, I respect her as an artist, but her type of work didn't interest me at first. She said she is inspired by nature, architecture, hair and dance. I saw some of that come through through her work. She says technology influences her work also, which I picked up by her animation as she called it. I wish it had sound ... it reminded me of an old video they would show in one of my high school science classes .. weird. All of her drawings were very paint-like and showed opacity. She started painting figures, and said that "boredom kicked her butt" and she really began to push herself. I loved her work with the glow in the dark paint on the three dimensional objects. It was really awesome how the objects themselves disappear in the dark, but the paint still showed her drawings and paintings that were on them. I also really loved the ceiling piece she created with the glass and fiber optics. It was such an interesting light source for a room, and something I can see myself having in my home someday. 

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My life sucked this week. I did nothing interesting and was loaded with work. I did not leave my dorm and spent hours in the tech center ..

Lecture October 6th

So today's lecture really held my attention. Bradley  N. Litwin came in and discussed his career and what he does in the art world. I loved how he described drawing. He said that it is called Laying Lead. And he even called a pencil a lead holder. He called it a little machine. His outlook on everything seemed to be compared to machines. He is a very mechanical man. He mentioned how in high school him and his friend wondered if we could ever draw on the visual screen. Now look at our technology. He then went into talking about computers and how they developed in the art world and his experiences with computer programs and making artwork. He showed us many of his sketches he did when he was growing up and they all seemed very cartoon-ish and had a scientific flare. He had work in Tyler now, all mechanical and meticulous. They all have little motors and gears and are very fun to watch and study. I think Bradley is a very interesting man, and made me look at art in a mechanical aspect, which I have never done before. 

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So today in lecture, Kate Cuffari came in to talk about her job. She is in the field of conservation.  I never really heard about a job like this until today and found it really interesting. I had no clue so much technology was involved. She mainly works with 3D works of art and the museums use microscopes, ultra violet rays, and x-rays. The work they do can be undone so it can be left how it was found. They study samples of paint and its pigments from vases and wood cells from cabinets to tell their age. Some art is even meant to decay naturally, like "Strange Fruit". I really liked today's lecture, and especially the pictures Kate had to show us. I hope  nest weeks lecture keeps my attention like this one did (;

These are two of my 5 drawings on Illustrator that I was assigned for homework. The first is a Warning label describing me. It reads WARNING: FLAMMABLE HAIR. I wear too much hair spray and if I am exposed to an open flame I will definitely combust! Also I uploaded my saying "Are you mopping up what I'm spilling?" This is a saying a lot of my friends and I use. It is sort of like saying "Do you know what I mean?".

From Homework

From Homework

From Homework

NYC

So this past Sunday I went to New York City for my art history class. I took few pictures of the MET, my friends, and Central Park. I had a lot of fun and ate some yummy food. Actually I ate a ton of food, too much food. I ate a cookie, a wrap and a gyro. And I drank an organic orange soda pop (delicious) and lots of water. I was very tired, but still had a great time. 

In the MET I wrote a small paper on this little Greek bronze disk thrower .. he was cute (: The MET is huge, I want to get married there, it is beautiful. Outside the museum there were four men singing soul music, it was quite entertaining (:

Computer Class

Sean and I don't want to go to 2D class. We are scared.

homework

So I went to South Street to do my homework (: I went with Malcolm, Ryan, and Marlena. We drove in Malcolm's Jeep so I guess it is safe to say we did not experience the subway mayhem. We went out to eat at an OK restaurant with a DISGUSTING bathroom (I might have Swin Flu). And did some shopping. I ate a B.L.T and a side of fries, and got a drink at Starbucks. I bought some supplies for my 3D class and a piggy bank .. which isn't shaped like a piggy at all. But it holds my change. I took lots of pictures of different shops and cafes. I took pictures from the car and walking. It was around 8 o'clock so the pictures are lit up by the street lamps and neon signs. I had a great time, and collected 5 really fun objects that explain my trip :)

first blog in class (:

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