Social Critique

This is my social critique piece. Basically what it is about is how people will spend hundreds of dollars at a big name clothing place (hollister is the first I could think of), and in the end they basically start to look like a walking billboard. When you really think about it, it doesn't really make sense to pay that much money so you can advertise a company. Images used under fair use agreement. May upload again with minor details touched up.

Assignment 2 Proposal

For my assignment 2 project I plan to try to do something similar to what Adbusters does. There are a couple ideas I have been toying with, I'm really just waiting for the right one to hit me. The ones I have come up with so far are about: apple always releasing products with very little differences, flu shots, video games, or maybe something political. these things interest me simply because they are things I think about.  I should have a final decision tonight.

Copyright Summary

Using photos that are not you're own can actually be ok sometimes if you go about doing it correctly. The public domain would be the best to use for photos because you are aloud to use them free of charge, as many times as you want, and how ever you want. Freeware is different from public domain, it is subject to copyright, but it is also free of charge. Most other images you will have to get a copyright for, which will cost a minimum of $150 for any images one time use. If it is a well known image it will cost more. Violating the copyrights can have some very high consequences, ranging from ridiculous fines to possibly jail time. If you're not sure if you can use an image without violating copyright, its probably better to just not use it and save yourself the trouble.

This is the final version of my psychological profile. Its intent is to be an abstract collage of what makes me, well me.  What I did was take pictures and scans of objects that I am around daily or that greatly impact my life or that have done both.

Objects that can be found here if you carefully look are: a plastic skull, my car, guitar strings, tuners, guitar picks, soccer cleats, my skateboard, a basketball, one of my guitars, an xbox 360 controller, my mixing board, my dog, and my name in flame. The main object in focus is the actual shape of the picture. It is actually my first tattoo that takes up most of my back. I wanted it to make up the shape of the image and sort of hold to collage together.

What I hoped to represent with this is what I said before, to show what makes me, me. It is supposed to be very chaotic and scattered looking because that is how my mind works. I am always doing at least five different things at once constantly multi tasking, how everything is cluttered and overlapped shows that, but at the same time everything is contained, showing that I do have control over the chaos that makes up what I like to call my life.

Work In Progress

So far its very cluttered and kind of awkward looking. It will clean up soon :)

Art Gallery, George Rush

At George Rush's gallery Darker with the Day, there were not very many pieces to look at, but the pieces that were there caused for a lot of thought and interpretation.

The first thing I noticed was that they are all black and white, and tended to not really be "happy" paintings. Also, some of the paintings were almost exactly the same, just with things either added or taken away from the table. With the darkness of the images and this happening with the objects it almost seems like the paintings and the name of the gallery were like a sorta of metaphor for life being darker than it seems it is and how things are constantly coming and going from life. Also one of the things I just kind of thought was cool was how the two window paintings were opposite each other, almost like looking through an actual window, one side being lighter than the other. Possibly going back to how things are darker than they seem to people.

Going back to the window paintings, it seemed as though going into the gallery we saw the darker window, almost as if showing us that we are entering a somewhat dark place, where as leaving you would see the light window, showing that you are going to a possibly brighter place. The window paintings were probably the pieces I liked the best.

Over all, I really enjoyed the gallery.

Questions for the artist:
1) The paintings with the table and objects, is that a specific place?

2) Was there any specific inspiration to the paintings?

3) What were you actually trying to represent with the paintings?

Optimism/Pessimism

Optimism

Pessimsism

Christiane Paul Digital Art

In Christian Paul's writing on digital art I was very interested by all the artists there, but there were three in particular that really stood out.

-Carl Fudge and his piece Rhapsody. In looking at the image I would have never  guessed that it was a picture of anything, let alone of the cartoon character Sailor Moon. I have always enjoyed distorted images and trying to figure out what they are. This image was distorted beyond all recognizing and it made it very cool to look at.

-Daniel Canogar's piece called Horror Vacui and Digital Hyde 2. Both pieces are made up of what looks like many dismembered body parts all put into a collage. It says these two pieces of art are supposed to operate on fear and fascination, and they do just that. I have always had a bit of an interest for things that are dark and morbid, that is probably why I found these pieces interesting.

-Lilian Schwartz's piece Mona/Leo was also very interesting. At first glance, it did not look like anything more than a portrait, but when I got a full look at it, I saw it was two images put together and it just seemed very interesting. It was especially interesting on the fact that their faces are very symmetrical to each other.