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.