Ellen Garvens

Ellen Garvens work was very interesting and even though I didn't like all of her pieces, for the most part I liked them, and liked how she kept evolving with her work. I really enjoyed the pieces she combined pictures with drawings/the collages, they were made to look kind of abstract the way they were put together but could still see what the overall image was. My favorite pieces were the ones she was combining raw materials, or the different tools to finish creating the bodies of animals or creating her own creatures. The drawing of the swan with with the body being finished with metal sheets and it seemed like copper tubes was my favorite piece. The combination of something organic and robotic made it really unique and seem the animal had prosthetic, which is something that you normally dont think of, its normally humans with prosthetic.  With that being said, all her prosthetic pieces were my least favorite, she began to make some of her own which looked like sock/nylon material which were kind of interesting, but the ones that students or professors had made and she just took photos of, did not get my interest. It was good that she created the book with comments from patients because if it weren't for that, personally the photos alone seemed boring.

physical activity project

I'm planning on having some sort of wall (maybe piece of plywood), and using force create splatters on the wall, with color so it doesn't look boring.  I then plan on combining it with sound effects of the physical activity. I want to use as many of the words in my haiku to create the project, so i was also thinking for agility to create the soles of shoes to show the grip or a pair of shoes that would be placed by the wall.

Music Videos

Music videos are other ways to spread music that artists produce, and give a visual form to the audio format that is originally produced.  They can be very entertaining, and make you like the song even more, or help you understand what the artist's meaning behind the song is. Sometimes the video can be random, and not even explain the song, they can also be boring or over done. This is sometimes seen with hip-hop/rap videos, where money, cars, drugs, and women will be included in the video and there is no originality.  I recently saw two videos that used another elements from another common form of media, movies trailers. Movie trailers are used to promote the movie and get the attention of viewers and get them to watch the movie when it comes out. In a way music videos have the same purpose, it should be interesting to get the attention of people and buy their albums. These two videos are create a trailer to a fictional movie, and uses the song as the background music for the trailer. The first is Moves, by The New Pornographers, and the second is Howlin' For You, by the Black Keys.

Food

For lunch today I had two pieces of whole wheat with honey, several pieces of leafy, green, watery, plant, sliced up pieces of pig, and square pieces of aged milk all put together to mix all the flavors of the individual ingredients. As a side I also had triangle shaped, fried tortillas that had cheese powder on them. 

Haiku

Agility force

Jumping diving sweaty swing

Court enclosed walls lines

Super Bowl Sunday

It was a good Super Bowl game, the only thing that could have made it better was if I really cared for either team.  I didn't care who won but I was slightly leaning more towards Green Bay. The final score was 31 - 25. Another thing slightly disappointing was the commercials, there were only two or three that were funny, the rest seemed to be movie trailers and fox sponsored advertisements. Overall it was a good day, with friends and good food.  Since Green Bay won below I have posted a freestyle by Lil Wayne called Green and Yellow.

Alexander

Alexander is the name of a new solo debut album by Alexander Ebert. He is the lead singer of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. When I first heard the songs by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros I instantly loved them because of the different style they had in their music. It seemed Edward Sharpe is an alter ego for Alex Ebert which I think is part of the reason their music is interesting, as well as their music videos. After listening to Million Years from the Alexander album it reminded me a lot of the same style of music Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros create. Below I have included probably the most popular song by Edward Sharpe, and Million Years by Alexander Ebert.

Bionic Athletes

Ill start by answering the questions, What is the difference between the figure and the body? When I think of a figure I think of the overall shape or form of an object not necessarily a living being. Kind of like just seeing the silhouette of a form. When I think of a body I think of either human or animal and all the individual parts that form the body of the overall being. What is a Cyborg? From what I have come to learn through media is a cyborg is part human, part machine, but I see it closer to a robot (more machine than human). Even though technically someone with a prosthetic limb would be considered a cyborg according to its definition. What is a tool? A tool is anything that helps simplify any action, activity, situation. Why are chair so prevalent in art? A chair can be considered a tool to rest. If you have been standing for a long period of time working on a piece of art, you will want to sit and rest. There is the option of sitting on the ground and maybe using a wall as a backrest or a chair, and the chair will probably be the most comfortable choice to sit and rest.  After reading ESPN's Bionic Athlete article, I can see it happening eventually. Even after the reading the arguments for allowing prosthetic, I feel its still a disadvantage for other athletes because they wouldn't have the ability to get a prosthetic and its advantages.  They used an example about contacts helping improve eyesight, but anyone can get it without being harmed so I don't see any reason for it being unfair.  At the moment if an athlete wanted a prosthetic limb they would have to amputate their real one first. So I believe that when the day comes that anyone can get prosthetic limbs or some sort of substitution without removing anything, is when we will start seeing a change in the rules of sports.

Harrell Fletcher pt. 2

I really enjoyed his lecture and found it somewhat inspiring that he accomplished so many things and in a way didnt let anyone stop him, or at least do the most he could while it lasted.  I found all the projects he presented to be interesting, my favorites being Anthony's gallery, the office/social workers, and the collection of the wallet pictures. Something as simple as just collecting a wallet picture and enlarging it is what gets my interest. I really enjoyed the story of the homeless man who was able to travel the world and show his art with the help of Harrell.

Stranger

I'm not the best when it comes to conversations and tend to be shy at first, so when it came to doing this project I tried to use an excuse to get the conversation started and not have it get too awkward.  On Monday I had not gone to my art history class, FA 304, so that is how that was what I used to start talking. Today I sat next to a girl and began by asking her about the class on Monday.  We didn't talk too much through out the class mainly before and after. What I learned was her name, Bethany, she is from Idaho and a first year architect student. When I found about the architecture we talked about the projects and professors, and learned she has the same professor I had my first year and also some similar projects. Later that day I looked her up on facebook and added her as a friend and she accepted. I haven't talked to her since, but I will probably end up sitting with her and talking some more on Friday.