Weird Human Art

These are a few pictures of sculptures that I found. They are realistic representation of people in 3D. They're eerily realistic.

Fame By youtube.com

Zee Avi uploaded videos of herself singing her own song and then a year later she was discovered and flown to LA to start recording. The internet is making in easier for artist become discovered. If an arist can just capture a persons attention for more then 6 seconds and hold it, there chances of becoming discovered are remarkable. On the flip side, is this also making it harder for people becuase the pool of compotion is getting bigger? Or is it just evening the playing feild for people of every background.

Digital Coffee

This is very interesting but is it going too far in regards to food? They're is somethings special about watching the waiter create the foam art right in front of you. Yes it precise but is it adding to the elimination of human interaction?

Flash Game

This is a great little game, I think that utilizes flash. It would probably be easy to make and it made it on a very popular game site. When the Bomb Goes Off

Teeny Tiles

In class we had to create some images that would go on teeny tiles. This is a really interesting idea because its taking one of arts oldest media (ceramics) and putting it together with one of art newest medias (digital media). These are the pictures that I decided I wanted to put on the tiles.
Teeny Tile

Graffiti Tag

I wonder if this is cruelty to animals? Either way, it is an interesting concept. The tag on the slow moving snail makes the viewer look twice. A quick application of paint on a snail. Ironic.

Watts Towers (art event)

Sam or Simon Rodia might have been considered by many as crazy but in an architectural sense he was a genius. With little schooling he used useful architectural forms to create his masterpieces, Watts Towers. These towers are erected on a triangular residential lot of land that Rodia bought in Watts. He had the opportunity to buy a lot of lanf for the smae price in Beverly Hills but he wanted to be where the people where.

He talked extensively about the hierarachy of classes and the difficulties of rising. He thought that the world was going in the wrong direction. His living standards were very frugal. He was consumed with building his towers with every spare moment that he had. He would work late into the night and then, not wanting to be late for work, would jump into his red car and turn on the sirens to get there on time. He was arrested on many occasions for doing this.

Today there is a Watts Tower Art Center which conducts classes and hosts a festival every year. The festival celebrates the diversity of the area. The sculpture is not a symbot of the spirit of the area. The sculpture is comprised of nine main towers. The tallest of the towers stands 99.5 feet tall. He refused to give a meaning to his sculpture. Therefore the Watts Towers are not a monument nor are they a public statement. This amazing pieve is very appropriate for sculpture meeting architecture.

Rodia had a good sense of forms meeting forms and flowing together. He also had a good sense of color relationships. The towers look to me like a child's playground. They are imaginative, almost a way of escaping from the real world of material object. He found broken pieces and placed them together to create a magnificent sculpture for everyone. No one owns it. Maybe that's what his meaning was, even though he didn't want to give one.

Ice Sculptures

Another interesting time based media would be ice sculptures. They are carved out of ice and last until they are melted away. The only way that they would really last a long time was if the temperature stayed at freezing, even then it could collapse or break. These quick medias that don't last very long would be hard for me. I put so much effort and time into the things that I'm creating that they become very personal to me. I want to keep them forever. This is going to be hard when I start to see my work. What's more important to me, my art or money?

Light Drawing

These images are very interesting considering my background in photography. Drawing with light is basically what photography is, but these photographs are literately drawing with light.

Animation

These are a few great examples of stop motion animation.





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Time Based

During class Joe talks a lot about time based art. That go me thinking about the Buddhist monks. They spend hours on a intricate piece of sand art and then brush it away. It only last for a short while of time when completed. There are sometimes pictures taken of the art, which elongates its life span, but the actual work doesn't exists. This medium is a slow process but is quickly gone.

Creativity Test

I stumbled upon this cool creativity test for Panamerican School of Art and Design. It's a page of x's or o's grouped together and the test taker fills the page with as many creative things he or she can. It's a creative form of adverisment.

The Life of a Poet (art event)

Art work by: Patricia Engel LaFata

This event took place at SUCO and Phil was lucky enough to get the artist to talk about her work. It was a nice setting because there were only a few of us and it created intimate communication between the viewer and artist. She considered herself a mixed media sculptor but also a poet of common materials. When she was given the space to work with, she decided that she wanted to show new or recent work. She also took the opportunity to make new sculptures. Her concept was "The Life of a Poet", what it means to creat something, how does creation happen, and the creation of stories.

Her tolerance for repetition astounded me. She stated that repetition allowed dor her mind to wonder and was a type of meditation for her. One of the pieces that I wasn't attracted to so much had a great deal of repetition. This piece was called "Sign and Seal". This consisted of a figure dressed in a wedding dress with a crown atop her head. On the dress was staped "make the bride with sign and seal". Together as a piece I didn't think that it worked. The bird gave me the expression of freedom but the wedding dress had an ominour feeling of signing and sealing one's life away. I also wasn't a fan of the figure that wore the dress. She was made out of wax, fabric, and then burnt. The figure seemed to me like a corpse, maybe a funeral fress would have been more effective for this exhibit.

The piece in the exhibit that I was drawn to most was named "Golem". A golem is a pac e for the poet to work and be inspired. The piece consisted of different found, or made, objects that would inspire the poet during his/her work. It also portrayed the ability to change, form, decay, and then become alice agian, as does poetry and art alike. To Patricia everything was alive. There was also a pillow that the poet sat on with the instrucation to make a Golm written on it backwards and in a different language. Her reasoning for this might have been to creat words into more of and art form and showing the similarities between art and poetry. It could have also ment that an artist or poet doesn't need instructions, just inspiration.

Patricia said that none of her pieces were ever finished. That was interesting to me becuase artist are always struggling with when to walk away. The fact that she just settled on them being done for now but having the ability to

Forman Gallery (art event)

Elements of Balance, Niki Ketchman

When I walked into the Forman Gallery the first piece that caught my eye was, Dorthy's Secret Garden, it was tall standing about right feet. From the outside it looked unappealing and drab. Once the viewer entered the space a whole world of color opened. Surrounding me was the colors of different steel flowers and ferns swirling around me. Each of their stems poked out through the holes of the steel rods and wrapped the outside. The name most definitely fit, a secret garden it was. It was almost an escapes from reality for a moment, as I sat there staring at the swirling colors. The only thing that I might have changed would to have the garden peel back a bit to reveal some of the interior. Although being more esthetically pleasing to me, would have taken away from the secretiveness of the sculpture.

Down in the main area of the Forman hung a completely different sculpture. This piece consisted of six pieces that together made the installation, Closet. I focused on the one sculpture that I was indifferent towards. This piece consisted of zippers, feather, and fake pink fur. Then at the bottom of the piece she had placed pink feathers. I understand where she might have been going with these article of everyday (or maybe special occasion) wear but I just don't think that it had the same conceptual integrity as, Dorthy's Secret Garden. The hanging mights have resenbled hanging clothing in a closet but to me it wasn't visually interesting.

Silkscreens

"Mother Day Card" Fall 2009

"Technically Frustrated" 2006

"Make Peace with the Earth" Fall 2009
All Created by Brianna O'Connor

These are a few of the many silkscreens that I've done. Silkscreen is my favorite form of printing because it of the control and precision that the artist has. Some my my work even looks a bit digital. An artist could even take a digital black and white (well clear) photograph and use photo sensitive chemicals to obtain a crisp clear image. The other amazing thing about silkscreen is that you can put in on virtually anything.

Mexico 2009

This past January I look a course in Chiapas, Mexico, studying civic organizing and solidarity. It was a truly eye opening experience. Being an art student, I went over there with the intent that I would take some great pictures but I left with much more than that. My perspective of the world and my place in it has forever been alter. There were girls over there, the same age as me that had accomplished so much more than I had. They are also taking charge and making a differnce in their communities. I came back with some great picture but now they hold much more meaning to me.