Final Project Summary

Overall I wanted my project to portray natural beauty and dressed up beauty and how both can be beautiful. I set up a photo shoot setting in my room and had my roommate dressed down then I had her dressed up. Every time I would add a curl or any makeup to her I would take a picture. This created the stop motion affect. I feel that my final project went really well. It seemed like people liked it. I don't know if I really like the way we critiqued today just because I wanted to talk about my project a little more, but I do feel that this critique got people talking more.

Overall I really liked this class and you as a professor! Hopefully I am able to get in another one of your classes at some point.

Final Project Notes

This is my final project. I am really happy with the way it turned out! I hope you like it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mF4z90qmBg

Final Project Notes

My final project is a stop motion video about beauty. I am using my roommate zoe as my model and I am going to have her start off looking natural and at the end her be in a prom dress. I wanted to show that no matter what you wear or look like you can always be beautiful.

Final Project notes

I don't have much of an idea yet, but I wanted to do something on the lines of natural beauty vs. beauty that is put together with make up and clothes. I want to do something like this because when I go to class I don't ever dress up or get ready, but on the weekends I dress up a lot. I like how you can have two different types of beauty. I haven't thought of what I was going to do yet, but I'm trying to think of some ideas.

Project Notes and Class Notes

Overall I feel that our project went well, but it was hard to work as a group. I feel as though everyone had these problems. We all agreed with pornography and that we were against it, but since Laura was so close to the topic that is was hard to allow us to have our own input. There is nothing wrong with that, but now that I look back on it I feel as though we should have gone with something more broad so that we all could have been more involved.

During this week of class it was just presentations. I think all of the projects were good, but you could tell that almost every group had some problems. I like how the disability group involved the audience, and I also really liked the legalize weed one. I think it was put together well.

Project Notes

My group is pornography. We met at 11:30 on Monday and went to the digital media lab to work until 2. We have all of our video filmed. We worked on adding in facts about pornography and also scanned in peoples opinion of pornography (we each asked three peoples opinion and they personally wrote their answers.) We found some swimsuit models and edited those in photoshop and plan on putting them in the video. We are going to met on Sunday to finish up our project. Our progress is coming along well. I think working in a group is awesome and it's a great experience. This way we are able to have more ideas coming in.

Some facts about pornography is:

U.S. pornography revenue: $13.3 billion
Pornographic websites: 4.2 million (12% of total websites)
Pornographic pages: 420 million
Daily pornographic search engine requests: 68 million (25% of total search engine requests)
Daily pornographic e-mails: 2.5 billion (8% of total e-mails)
U.S. adults who regularly visit Internet pornography
Web sites: 40 million
Internet users who view pornography: 42.7%

Class and Project Notes

This week in class we watched Art21 and had speaker, Jennifer Wallace come in. Some of the videos we watched were about Alfredo Jaar and Krzystos Wodiczko. Jaar did 21 projects with Rwanda. He wanted to do something that no one has ever really spoken about. Wodiczko's projects were about killings in St. Louis. He did a projection on Bunker Hill where the speaker is seen on the monument. They talked about loved ones who died. He also did a Hiroshima project where the hands of the speaker are projected on the Atomic Bomb Dome. All of the artist were very moving.

Our project is going really well. We are recording Laura's dad about his pornography addiction and overcoming it. We are also getting peoples responses throughout campus. We are asking how they feel about pornography and if they think it affects the person doing it and their family. We are meeting Monday at 11:30 to start putting our video together. I think it's going to come out really well.

Class Notes

This past week of class we finished up presentations and started talking about our next project. On Monday we went to see the paper makers. It was really cool how the incorporated army uniforms and the whole process is awesome. I am working with Laura, Kelsey, and Kristin. We are doing ours on Pornography. We want to show how pornography is degrading and can also ruins peoples life who watch it. It causes problems in house holds. We are planning to interview Laura's dad because he has a group about people who are addicted to porno and want to overcome it. We plan on making some sort of video.

Martinez and Gu

Daniel Joseph Martinez

Before:

1. Does all of his artworks have text on it?

2. What media type does he use the most?

3. What are the meanings behind his images?

After:

1. If Martinez would have not lived in a trailer park and experienced gang things would he be doing this type of influential art now?

2. Does his negative feedback ever make him feel that his type of work is wrong? Or change his opinion of his work?

3. What does he himself get out of his artwork?

D.J Martinez was personally not one of my favorites. I think his artwork is great in a sense that it stands out and brings up topics that people don't talk about, but some of them push to far. For instance, racism, a lot of people do not like to talk about it because it is something that was in the past and I feel like we have come to a point where almost everyone is accepted. There is no point in bringing it up the way he does because it just causes fights between races. I believe it should be left in the past where it belongs.

Wenda Gu

Before:

1. What is he trying to get across in his images?

2. Does he focus on just one media?

3. What is his background? Does it have an affect on his artwork?

After:

1. What response did he receive about his Oedipus Refound series?

2. What countries does he not have artwork in?

3. Why did he chose hair to be the script? Everyone in the world has hair, but everyone also has things like teeth. Was there a reason behind hair or no?

Gu's artwork was really good. The United one gave me a sense of calmness and I thought it was put together really well. I think his concept of trying to unify the whole world and involve everyone is great. I liked his work and his ideas a lot better than Martinez. He gets his point across without causing problems.

Nature Project Reflection

For my project I created an installation and a video. The concept I wanted to get across was how nature helps your release your feelings. When I am in a bad mood or upset I usually go outside for a walk and at the end of the walk I feel better because nature helped me release emotions and calm me down. In my video I have Jake walking into the park kicking up leaves (showing stress) and then I show my installation, which is nature hanging from a tree. My installation symbolizes emotions my emotions. At first the tree is pulled down and at the end of the video the tree gets released, which shows the releasing of emotions. At the end of the video it shows Jake walking out more calmly.

I think my project went really well! I was surprised how easily I caught on to using iMovie on my computer. I think for my first time using video as a media went great! I hope you enjoy the video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtPDIiM8fwA

Here's some pictures as well.

Project Notes

This weekend I went to the park. I built my project and took pictures and videos of it. Today during class time I worked on my video! I am really close to being done.

Class and Project Notes

This week in class we went to Reedy Creek Park to check it out and see what areas we could use for our project. For the project I am making a video. The video will be about "nature setting your mind free" and "going wherever the wind takes you." I want this video to let peoples mind wonder like they would if you just sit in nature to think about anything. I am going to hang some of nature off of a tree so it blows with the wind. I am going to video parts of nature and put it all together. I did not attend the Park on Wednesday, but I wanted to let you know that I did work on my project. I worked with iMovie on my computer and figured out some great video techniques. I downloaded music and nature noises that I want to work into my video. This weekend I plan to go to the park and video and finish my project at home Monday.

Reading Notes

Skip Schukmann

Before:

1. Where do his ideas come from for his installations?

2. Does he do any other type of artwork besides installations?

3. What is his background?

After:

1. How long has he been using the "one on one" process?

2. Does he ever do artwork that does not involve nature and plainness?

3. Does he regret not working with society as a whole? or is he happy with his relationships he builds with his clients?

I think Schukmann is a very smart man. His idea with working with a client one on one and working with nature is great. He spends less money without having to buy supplies and he creates a great relationship with his clients. I just wish that some of his artwork would be directed to the public so that everyone could see what artwork he has done.

Betsy Damon

Before:

1. Does all of her artwork have to do with nature?

2. What possessed her to create landscape plans?

3. Does she work with any other medium?

After:

1. Does she regret leaving painting?

2. I wonder if she feels strongly about anything else like she does about water? For example air or food?

3. How long did it take to finish the water park?

I think Damon is a great artist and great person. All the time and effort she put in to make a point about water and to try to improve the water in China is amazing. The water park is such a great artwork. I think her leaving painting was a great step for her.

Class notes

This week in class we watched movies. The first one was about the umbrellas in japan and california. I think this whole project was neat, but it was also very sad. I wish weather wouldn't have ruined the weather. The videos we watched on Wednesday were about artist who do installation projects and performance art. All of the artist were awesome and some were even crazy. For example the artist that shot himself and sat in a locker for 5 days with no food. I could never do something like that. We were suppose to go to the park today, but the rain was too much. Now we are going on Monday. I really need to go so I can come up with some more ideas for my project.

Class Notes and project notes.

Last week in class we only had class on wed. We watched a movie about an artist who uses nature in his artwork. His artworks were really great. The way he thought of these ideas was crazy. I loved all of his work.

This next project is about the environement. I'm not really sure what I want to do at all. I love nature and being outside. I played outdoor sports all of my life and like being outside. So I might do something involving that. I thought of an idea of hanging leaves, sticks, and other nature things from a limb to show that nature gives you a sense of freedom and go where the wind takes you. So that is one idea I have so that the leaves can move wherever they want and show the sense of freedom.

Consumption Final Project

My final project was a picture skirt. I had six rows of seven, which ends up being 42 pictures. What I wanted to convey in this was people that consumed my life. I have my mom, dad, boyfriend, roommates, brother, and best friends all incorporated in this skirt. The first, third, and fifth row are pictures that I have taken of my friends and family. I wanted to show that photography takes up a huge part of my life. The second, fourth, and sixth row shows me consuming my time with my friends. The skirt was really fun to make, but it also took a lot of time because I had to thread the string through every single corner of every picture.

Here is my project:

Class Notes

This week in class we had Malean Bergmann come into class and speak to us about her film piece. It is crazy how much time and money goes into such a short film. There were so many concepts behind the video that I could not see from first seeing the film. On Wed. we had our consumption projects due. The ideas that people came up with were so different and really cool. This project made us think outside of the box and the ideas people came up with were great. I loved all the projects.

Consumption

The project I am choosing to do is the picture skirt because every time I try to think of what i consume the most my friends/family/and boyfriend keep coming to mind. I'm going to use pictures of me and my friend that we have taken when we have just been having fun and then there will also be pictures that i have "professionally" taken of them! I am planning on pasting them on a piece of long paper to wrap around me or punch holes in all the pictures are weave them all together.

Class notes

This week in class we talked about artist Kinkaid and Becroft. Both of these artist are very talented. My favorite part of class this week was going to the Mccoll center. All of the artists works were absolutely amazing. I was really blown away by what I saw. My favorite was Anthony Schrag who liked doing performance art. I liked him the best because it was something different and funny at the same time. Jonathan Brilliant was also amazing. His stick project was so fascinating. I really want to go back to the Mccoll center at the end of the semester to see how they will progress.

Thomas Kinkaid and Vanessa Becroft

Thomas Kinkaid

Before:

-What kind of media does he use?

-What inspires him to do these works?

-What kind of background does he come from?

After:

-Does he plan on trying to have everyone in America have one of his artworks in their household?

-Did he ever fail at first with his artwork? Or did people always love them?

-How long do his paintings take to complete?

I liked Kinkaid a lot. I feel like his works are able to please anyone, which is a great quality to have in an artwork. The only bad thing is that it is so overused by the people today and I believe that is our fault because we want it on items such as cups, mugs, blankets, etc. But, I think Kinkaid is doing a great job at getting the message he wants across to people.

Vanessa Becroft

Before:

-Why are women standing half naked in this picture?

-What is she trying to portray with this media?

-What was her inspiration to become an artist?

After:

-Why did she never use herself as one of the models?

-Why doesn't she use other medias besides installation to portray this meaning?

-Did she overcome anorexia with these installations?

Vanessa Becroft kind of confuses me. She wants to portray the image of beauty and self, but she isn't one of the models. She says she could be, but chooses not to. All of the models she chooses have plastic surgery and are enhanced by the light surrounding them. They are made to be beautiful and I think this is wrong. True beauty is natural and should not take any enhancements.

Consumption Brainstorming

Some things that I consume or that consume me are:

water, oatmeal, apples, electricity, phone battery, hairspray, toothpaste, toothbrush, energy, tv, computer, facebook, time, lead, ink, sleep, running, exercise, lotion, friends, cheerleading, photography, nature, nail polish, gas, car, cigarettes, music, beer, hair, clothes, art, ink, paper, dr. pepper, bread, ice, sausages, eggs, bagels, cereal, family, boyfriend, pool, tanning, bikes, hair ties, sandals, homework, cell phone, headphones, tv shows, bookbag, books, charcoal, mexican food, retainer, sheets, bed, blankets, pillow, desk, sink, refrigerator, oven, stove, spoons, knives, forks, toilet paper, nails, shampoo, fast food, soap, razors, fries.

There are many more things that I will add on at some point. I have three ideas that keep coming back. One is making a picture skirt. I would attach pictures of friends and family. They are people who consume most of my time and photography is one things that consumes my time as well.

My second idea is getting cigarette buts and somehow making them all connect and make a necklace because cigarettes control a lot of my life. At the bottom of the necklace I would make a big circle with a slash in it symbolizing that I am trying to quit.

My last idea would be using on of my friends and writing facebook stuff all over them (such as the facebook symbol, comments, status quotes, relationship status, how your feeling, etc.) and photographing them with just a bathing suit on to symbolize that facebook consumes so much of a persons life. The bathing suit shows that people put so much of themselves out on facebook that their is barely anything else left to share. I know that facebook consumes a lot of my life as well.

Identity Project

This is my identity project. I was really nervous about this because I have never taken a drawing class or any art classes. Photography is one of my major skills, but I tried to go outside my own box and try something different. I used bristol paper, charcoal, colored pencils, and sand paper as the background.

This project explains my ear surgeries. It is me with a gas mask on. It was a rough time in my life when I was scared. The purpose of the sand paper is to show how rocky that time was. It is 3-d because it stood out in my life.

During class while everyone was present was a great experience. It let us look into everyones life and get to know everyone in a different way. I think it definitely brought our whole class together. I think the identity project was a great first project for us.

Jennifer E. Price Extra Credit

Jennifer Price is a fine arts printmaker from UK. In her presentation she organized it with questions she always ask herself. She said that she is constantly questioning herself as an artist.

The first question was should art perform a duty? The answer to that was yes. Artwork can be used as propaganda, art can can create or display culture, and it can show hatred or love in christ.

The second question she had was what is my artwork about? She was a huge drinker while in college and one night she was hospitalized and found out that she had multiple personality disorder. Her artworks focus is inkblots. This is when you put ink on one object and place a sheet or some sort of cloth on the object and the pull it off and the inkblots appear. She said that her multiple personality disorder has a lot to do with her inkblots she does because people can make up what they want to see in her image and that the object she uses almost has "two personalities." There is the object itself and then what it looks like when the sheet is peeled off.

Her third question was can obstacles be overcame? She said yes because she has overcome many obstacles her self. Some obstacles she overcame were she was broke in college, she wasn't discover how she wanted to be, was homeless and sold artwork in markets, was attacked and insulted by some one she thought was her friend, and got in a major car accident. She said that the last thing she thought to herself before she died was "I can't die yet. I haven't done anything to be remembered for."

This is when she turned things around and became a bigger artist. Her last question was am I an artist? Her answer was "Yes, I am because I say so."

I thought she was very inspirational and gave people a reason not to give up on their dream. I would definitely go to one of her galleries.

Her website is http://jenniferpriceart.com/#/artist-resume/4535630959

This is one of her inkblots of a car

Gallery

This week in class we only had one class and we went to The Light Factory. It was so great seeing two galleries. The artist that stood out to me the most was Robert and Shana Parkeharrison. Their pictures were so strange out different from all the rest. The way they had things growing out of arms was just incredible. I don't think i will ever forget this gallery.

Identity Project Notes

So far on my project I am still kind of stuck on what to draw. I have two ideas that i cannot choose. One is that I will draw something about all of my ear surgeries I have had throughout my life. Those experiences were very scary and almost unknown because I would remember going into the surgical room and them putting a gas mask on me and two seconds later you wake up in a different room. Its very odd. So one idea is a picture of a gas mask with two huge nervous eyes behind it. I would use charcoal or pencil.

My second idea is about my transition to college. I was very lonely, scared, homesick, but at the same time excited. One idea is have a bird flying out of a nest. The reason I have this because it is me leaving my home. I feel like this could be something that has been done before so idk which one i will chose

William Kentridge and Nan Goldin

William Kentride

Before:

-Why are most of his works black and white?

-Why do his art works start with "History of?"

-Are video stills his favorite media?

After:

-Why are none of his works really about him? Instead of them always being about South Africa?

-If he would have been born somewhere else, would he have become an artist?

-Why does he choose to make films his main focus?

Nan Goldin

Before:

-Why are most of her pictures about death or pain?

-Does she do anything else besides photography?

-What made her become an artist?

After:

-If Goldin's sister wouldn't have died would she still have been interested in photography?

-How many years did it take to produce Ballad?

-Are all of Goldin's photographs vulgar? or are there some that are about happiness and peace?

Identity Project

5 Touch Points

-cheerleading being a huge part of my life

-death of my cat

-having ear surgeries

-transition to college

-high school

Adjectives for transition to college

-lonely

-clueless

-nervous

-homesick

-exciting

Metaphors

-lost puppy

-bird learning how to fly

-trying on a new pair of shoes

-fish out of water

-finding a new identity

Materials- photographs, feathers, leaves, paint, and colored pencils

Actions- Maybe take different pictures of birds and nest and incorporate that in a picture.

Feathers scattered trying to find where they belong.

Draw a picture of a bird leaving its nest.

First day of class

The first day of concept studio went very well. I did not really know what to expect of this class, but it seems like it is going to be fun. We have a couple of projects we are going to have to work on. The first one is identity, which seems pretty cool to me. We talk about how art influences people, realism, abstraction, and non-objective art. I cannot wait for this class to continue because I think its going to be a fun and interesting class.