Leandro Erlich

He is amazing. The first video is kind of lame, by this I mean the girls laughing, but its great seeing people interact with his work

Inuit Throat Singing: Kathy Keknek and Janet Aglukkaq

This video of Inuit throat-singing by Kathy Keknek and Janet Aglukkaq was created as an application for the 2008 Arctic Winter Games. I'm entranced by the way their throats move as they sing. Woah.

Swine Flu

think you all should see this at least once if you havent already.

essential.

For a lol (and kind of relevant)

This is AMAZING!! I wish I could do this. :)

Heyy! So I totally thought this was a cool example of kinda what we have been doing in class with the movie editing. :) This looks very complicated to do! I don't know about you, but I would have a hard time putting that together. I really wish I could do something like that for my final! Anyway, we'll see what I come up with. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG5gO4nlLRQ

creative advertisments from around the world

when i was tryyyyyyying to be productive with this final project i came across these lovely specimens of hilarious advertising gimmicks.
honestly- just click here please, it'll make you laugh, i'm sure youre not too busy to take one quick look. or you can take a gander when we are in actual class and there is nothing else to look at.


Link text


...i dont know why it says "link text"...but that takes you to the site ... erg emac!!!

Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky

Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky is a Dutch artist who uses photoshop to collage images. Just thought they were interesting!

insanely cute and amazing pop-up book video/song




Lisa Hannigan - Lille from ATO Records on Vimeo.

Animations!

MICHEL GONDRY IS BRILLIANT:

Can't embed the video, but this is a link to a music video by SIA with a creative twist on animation:

SIA "Breathe Me"

Also, this Dinosaur Jr. music video is a really great example of claymation.

wow

those videos are pretty cool. i would never be able to do that that must of took forever i wish i knew how anyone want to teach me ha ha

!!!

sorry for over posting!
but here are some famous stop motion little videos that people our age should know about!
i bet y'all have seen these anyways but if you haven't, take a look!

we checked this guy out in my elements class because he deals with public spaces. he is well known for his tape/bubble sculptures that he hides all over cities. He lives pretty close to us, only in DC.
his whole site is pretty much all awesome sauce:

http://www.xmarkjenkinsx.com/index2.html

he also teaches his tape casting process in workshops in the cities he visits.

party in the main building!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53SIw36Ogqw


oh how mica students still dance the same

Environmental Art Blog

This is a "vertical garden" on  the Musee du quai Branly in Paris. 

These pigeons are made out of street trash, wire, rubber bands and glue. Weird. 

This blog has some great stuff on it that is really relevant to a lot of work I have been seeing around school this year. It has some really inspiring work...

www.environmentalartblog.com

animal cruelty or artistic masterpiece?

why did all the mice go to the corner of the mirror?
it had an apocalyptic vibe to me with the haunting music and the way the animals seemed to become pulsing objects, moving at every beat.
my crazy cool roommate showed this to me. youtube is an intriguing abyss of crud most of the time, but every once in a while you come across something as weird as this. refreshing? annoying? too arsty fartsy? or just plain poking fun at PETA?

More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Elephants

BRUISE: 

A bruise, also called a contusion, is an injury to the soft tissue in the body in which the capillaries rupture and bleed into the surrounding area.  The outer layer of skin appears reddish-purple at first and then as the body metabolizes the escaped red blood cells, fades into a green/brown color.

                           

In my anatomy class, senior year of high school, I sat next to a girl who was a goalie on the school lacrosse team.  Almost every day, she would come to class and show me a new bruise she got during practices or a game.  She had the best bruises!  Honestly, I was jealous.  

                          

For all you artists out there who never got the same impressive bruises as the jocks in your class, the above picture is an example of the perfect way for you to create your very own, perfect bruise!

Also, black eyes are pretty great.  They're all the rage.  The new spring fashion.  Everyone has them:

                     

website

on top of this being a pretty interesting website, for some reason when i got to it i was looking at how i wouldve made it in dream weaver.  i dont know WHY i was thinking about it, emac must be getting to me.  anyway, its pretty plain but you can click all around on the words, letters etc. idk just stuck out to me.

Steve Kurtz

Over the break, I had the chance to see this documentary, Strange Culture, about the bioartist Steve Kurtz.  In 2004 Kurtz was arrested on counts of bioterrorism, after police were called to his house (his wife died in her sleep) and they found petri dishes containing biological specimens, used in his work.  His artist collective was known for creating genetically altered foods.  Fortunately, a grand jury turned down the bioterrorism charges, but Kurtz did end up being accused of mail and wire fraud, although the indictment was later dropped.  I thought it was really interesting.  His work really questions the traditional role of art, so it is understandable that the police, and FBI, did not really get this.  It just goes to show how so much contemporary art is really not accessible to the average American.  

so i met this cashier

the first time i went to Ok Natural food store there was this older man at the register. He was extremely friendly and we hit it off talking about California and Mica. He i guess was a photographer a while back, and still does it but now has a main focus. He takes some really interesting shots of Baltimore and its gritty glory through photos of "R.I.P" graffiti . whenever i see some "RIP Biggee" or "Get it or Die trying, Big Money" written on some building's bricks, i now think of Peter Barry, the Ok Natural hippie clerk.
Check his stuff out, some of them are pretty moving :

http://www.socialdocumentary.net/exhibit/Peter_Barry/301

I'm not sure if anyone has seen the commercial of the singing road but it's real! they really carved into the road to make it! its so awesome. go to this website and watch it! http://automobiles.honda.com/civic-sedan/videos.aspx?ef_id=1097:3:s_5a03fbd0abf7efe25ec14306580195ba_2030826066:9wpuZENIYWYAAHg6tU0AAAAD:20090316005939

www.0100101110101101.org

I love the work of these artists, Eva and Franco Mattes, the link was posted on the class page.  They created a computer virus as a work of art for the Venice Biennale!  Now, it is a completely harmless computer virus, its only goal is to exist and spread.  I just feel like that is such an original idea for a work of art and I really appreciate it.  I love that its legality is questionable, but really it hurts no one and nothing.  I found this interview with the artists pretty interesting too.

Response to film

La Jetee was a terrific example of how to effectively use still imagery to tell a story.  It would have been so easy for this film to turn into a cliche, melodramatic slideshow.  The storyline was interesting though, and the actors gave a lot of dramatic depth to the script.  I thought the still photos made for an interesting film, with great attention to details and composition in the shots.

La Jetee

I really appreciated the power-pointy technique used in this film. I think it gave it a very romantic, yet mysterious tweak. I thought the story was beautiful. Definitely my favorite film we have seen yet. I wish we could see more stuff like this in class!

Response to reading

I thought everything David Byrne had to say on the topic of Powerpoint was very interesting.  I like that he views the program as a metaprogram, he uses it to present work created in other programs.  It's definitely an interesting media to use to create art.  That other guy Tufte just seemed to have a personal problem with the program, and so I found everything he wrote to be obnoxious and close-minded. 

Funeral Car Flags

Are they just so that other drivers know not to be rude to the procession of slow drivers?

Why is it important that other drivers know that the procession is a funeral?

Why do other drivers need to be aware that a funeral is in session?

Are they only for cars or could people start attaching them to their heads?

powerpoint

I thought that Tufte reading was interesting--about PowerPoint being a negative alternative for presenting information. I thought it was interesting how the author applied it to schools and how educators will have students give PowerPoint presentations, when simply taking time to write and read--getting your hands on the actual information--would potentially give young individuals a better method of learning. I had never thought about that before, but throughout high school, I'd have to do so many PowerPoint presentations and I hated just bulleting information in a line and trying not to read word for word on my slide while every other student dozed off.
I like approaching PowerPoint in a less academic way, though, and doing something more performace based, and actually using it as a way to make art.

Funny Powerpoint/just photos

Funny Pics

View more presentations from Franza. (tags: funny divertidos)

anyone else stuck on what performance to do? iiii am, i dont dance, sing, i dunno what to read, etc.  a piece of me just wants to twirl around for a few minutes while my powerpoints doing its thing haha maybe you all can get up and join me.

this bird is utterly fantastic.

there also is this story about some settlers that lived in the forest and they would hear these crazy creepy flute-like songs all throughout the night. rumors about the forest being haunted spread like wild fire. it turns out that these haunting songs in the night we actually just a buncha Lyre Birds copying the sounds of an old man's flute. They found out later that this older guy had lived alone out in the forest right by a nest of lyres, thus the creation of his music c:

about the homeless helper

I read the article about the boy who made the dome home thing for homeless people.It's pretty nice but they didn't mention if homeless people are suppose to make it themselves or the boy makes them and then hands them out. I wonder only because theres a picture of the boy in a metal shop and if the homeless are suppose to make this themselves it may be hard for them to get access to a metal shop...but it was still a nice thing ..I'm just being a jerk

Kate Moss is black??

Here is a perfect example of the use of photoshop getting a little out of hand. Apparently, The Independent newspaper featured an article dedicated to the fight against AIDS in Africa. So who is better suited to represent the black african population than Kate Moss?? A white woman! In blackface! In 2007. (Yes this is a late report but still very current) Seriously, WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? Why can't a black woman represent a black woman on the cover? And why is she so dark? No one's skin looks like that... this disgusts me.

Cray-c Harry Potter shit happening here

Just thought it was interestin. I wanna go. Now.

i'd use it

so heres a kid to run to if youre ever homeless.  he built this like home-y thing out of packing peanuts, plastic, and wire.  read for yourselffff.

http://www.mekanism.com/#_work

Thought I'd share this really cool production studio that I found.  They're based out of San Francisco and New York.  I haven't gotten the chance to view everything on their website, but I am in love with the videos playing on all the pages.  They're so weird and entrancing.  The TV commercials are pretty silly too. 

bien venidos a Hollyweird!
sick of this maryland-winter-friggin-freezin weather?
i am for sure and am also missing home where there pretty much aint any major change in seasons! so thinking along those lines of the lovely state of CA, i found this link to "This is Los Angeles" by Estevan Oriol on juxtapoz's website. his photos are being shown on this other site that's called SURU (haha another cool japanese word ) and its all about merging the art and fashion world with the retail world of the internet for "high end street wear and fasion forward consumers." there was this one brand called Han Cholo ... i dont know if any of you think thats funny but i laughed. There arent too many cholos in maryland i gotta say.
http://www.suru-la.com/
but take a look at the photos of this dude-he isnt too articulate...at all actually but...you know hold up i actually havent even seen his photos yet-all i have seen is a little video intro to the site so hold up-

oh okay...uhm that site didnt seem to have any of his photography...but i did just look him up on google and found his site. i never knew he was the guy who took the famous picture of the woman's hands (with very long acrylic nails i might add) forming "LA" with her fingers.

but yah....uhmm....i dont think most of you guys in our class are too into cholos and la gansters....im not even too into them so why am i posting this and writing so much hm? no se!

but here are some of the intersting images from the "this is los angeles" : http://hypebeast.com/2009/02/estevan-oriol-this-is-los-angeles-exhibition-recap/

and here is his site ... enjoy? indulge in your gansta-ness and chillax? http://www.estevanoriol.com/


hahah Carlito, tattooing his "lovely wife" during a gallery show. wow LA. gotta lurve you.

lo siento for this epic fail of an intersting post O.0

Crazy, awesome fashion at London fashion week

I have no idea how to post videos on this, so I put up a link. I just think this is cool..thats all. 

Enjoy

Pam Hogg fashion show

Something Interesting...

I found this article pretty interesting.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7910075.stm

 I never thought of texting having any impact on language skill one way or another...

One thing that struck me odd though, is that the age group being tested are 10-12 year olds. But are cell phones all that common within that age group?

lets learn this!

i hope that works, i'm not sure if it will.

ummm this kind of relates right? obama sushi, its pretty cool looking even though i'm not all about obama and all of his merchandise now, stiiiilll cool.  this post is a little late, oops!

by the way this is from boingboing.net a really interesting site

BeatWool

The first video is of the entire process of making the felt that goes on Mongolian Yurts. From the sheep to the final product. Watch that cricket-flicking. Yes.

The second video is just for fun and shows a series of photographs of Mongolian wrestlers. Wrestling is the traditional sport of Mongolia, complete with specific outfits. Wrestling is to Mongolia as Sumo is to Japan. The music is not flattering. Turn down the sound.

what a surprise

address: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/090216-bikinis-women-men-objects.html

the great sleeping bear by eiko ishizawa

I'm not sure what we are supposed to be blogging about this week... I guess anything we want? I really like bears and I thought this was pretty cool. For more from this artist go to... eikoishizawa.com

Woah

That video of the Mona Lisa being created on Paint is really cool. It seems like that would be so painstaking to do on a program like that--you'd have to be very meticulous about the lines and everything. Makes me happy that photoshop makes things a little easier. But that was very impressive. The music in the background added a nice touch.

Huh, so thats how you do that.

I know its not photoshop, but damn. We talked about the mona lisa in class a little bit, and here this person is re-creating it, on ms paint... cray-c.

French culture versus American culture in advertising

I was just reading an article in the New York Times about television commercials in France.  It's really interesting, the way they chose to appeal to their customers versus the way American, and even British, commercials advertise.  Here, companies tend to want to stress the value of their product, and how much better it is than competitor's.  These commercials go "from the head to the wallet".  In France, however, commercials tend to be appeal more to the senses.  They stress sex and wit, because that is what French culture is to them.  Many of their commercials could never be shown here in America, they are too sexual, and/or plain old strange.  It isn't so much what they are advertising, as how.  The focus is on the sensual appeal, the aesthetics.  Commercials are also again being limited in that they cannot be shown on public channels in the evening in France.  I think that that is absolutely great of them.  I would definitely watch more television (okay maybe it's not such a great idea...) if there were no commercials.  I imagine television must also be more pleasant without constantly being bombarded with loud, obnoxious "BUY NOW, PAY LATER" type ads.  The French seem to treat their commercials much more like art, like film, something they are known for taking very seriously.

this is annoying

Every time I go to look on the syllabus or the reading on my computer I forget that you need to have illustrator otherwise i freezes up your computer for a while...ghh.Thats really annoying especially because I have to use a computer on campus to read what the homework is.ddvnjdn not cool

facebook has your soul!

so I was reading this artical about how facebook decided not to change their policy about facebook being able to access your personal information even after you delete your profile and account and all the good stuff. So even if facebook isn't messing around with your information..it's possable that someone could get to it.not good.facebook is gonna be in for a rough ride once this gets big.oh boy.but they say that if any thing was shared you would be conntacted..i dont know still sounds fishy.

A Kindle?

I was going through the technology section of news and came across this story:

http://www.msnbc.com/id/29265336/

Its about this device called a Kindle. I have heard about things like it, but never the name of the specific product. 

After reading the article, I didn't think so much about whether the device was hurting the book industry, so much as I was interested in how it compared to an actual book. We touched on the subject in class, whether people found it hard to read off screen. Being one of the people who has difficulty reading off screens, I wonder if reading off this device would be more or less the same as reading off a computer screen... If it were, I suppose the device would be of no use for me, since I print off all my online reading anyway. But I thought it was a neat little device worth sharing...

if you like illustration and design

i found this man, Lincoln Cushing, online when i was looking for Elements homework. i just thought that his illustrations were pretty cool and graphic and simple. some of them are quite dated but theyre still holding their own!

http://www.docspopuli.org/Design.html

this isnt even really the style of illustration i am usually drawn too but for some reason i appreciate the organic graphic style he has.

the one about the apartheid is beautifully excused and pretty powerful.

respond to Molotov

This article is much better than the last one. It is more interesting and understandable and I like the article because it explains both arguments in detail. I personally agree with Joy Garnett. I sometimes use images on the internet for my drawing which is really helpful to find my own style to draw in term of colors and composition. However, I think Susan’s idea is also reasonable after reading her argument, concerning about the photograph becoming into something totally different from the original meanings and concepts. Well then, there should be a board-line satisfying both sides.

Blurry Topic, or is it the font?

First of all, this article is blurry. As I'm reading it I feel like I'm slowly loosing my vision. Thats a lie, I actually haven't started reading. Ima go do that, let the fun begin. l8ter.

K, I'm back. woah. no, i still haven't read it yet. brb.

Quick tidbit, the paintings are kinda fugs, littlebit a lot.

Woah, so this article was a lot more interesting than I thought it would be. It's a difficult topic to take a side on because if it was your photo or artwork that was used you would probably feel the same as susan. So I'm not sure. But, not only is it about copyright infringement but also, and more importantly about the birth of a symbol. It makes me wonder how other emblems came to be.

Now that I finished reading, ima go sleep. Night y'all.

Photoshop

I am about to start this photoshop project and I am a little worried. I don't really understand how to use the program.. uh oh. Can't wait to see everyone's though!

Molotov Man

I liked that the article included both sides of the argument from the actual artists. It is an interesting argument and I don't think that I can definitely tell you who I would side with. Whether a piece of art should or shouldn't be appropriated depends on what it is. This article just kind of annoyed me. I think that Susan Meiselas is being selfish, as many artists are when they are so concerned with how their viewers see their work. Sure, art is a personal thing to many people who make it, but the experience of it is also personal; nothing has a set meaning or significance.

Response to Molotov Man

I actually really agree with Joy Garnett.  I think she had every right to use the image and interpret it in her own way.  I can understand why Susan Meiselas would be upset at her image being decontextualized and dislocated from its original meaning.  However, I love the idea of an image taking on a whole new meaning and context, and if I were a photographer, I think I might be excited to see this whole other view on my picture.  Art is so subjective anyway, so why not embrace it?

grr computers

So Im not sure if I'm doing the homework right. This is just really hard for me because Im not use to a mac. Im having a hard time and Im soooo tired. I dont know this is starting to get confusing.ehhg.

Molotov reading

When I read this story I was like 'wow that really sucks' but then thinking about it he really should have tried to contact Susan if he planned to have his pieces in a gallery.I too side with the photographer, it was hers and shouldn't have been altered unless permission was given.I do however sympathize with Garnett because that would be horrable to see his work advertising a different meaning but if you think about it..that what he did to Susans photographs.hmmm intresting.I do think though that the molotov shirt looked pretty cool.

MolotovMan response

After reading, I found myself siding with the photographer and agreeing with what she had to say about the situation and the piece. I don't think that she necessarily as the right to "control" what happens to the image and how it is reproduced and altered, depending on copyright laws; however, I do think that she has every right to criticize work based on it. Because the photograph was of such cultural and historical significance, I can understand her concern about the image becoming "decontextualized" and morphing into something so far from its original meaning and purpose. Plus, I think it would be hard for any artist to disagree with the photographer because she had her piece used in a new context without her knowing, and that in itself could almost feel like a violation of some sort. I think it would be difficult for an artist to accept a work based on his or her own artistic creation that strayed from everything that the piece originally meant.

On Marshall McLuhan

Marshall McLuhan speaks about inventions and innovations as extensions of something already existing, (ie: clothing as an extension of skin) is an idea i agree with. It makes sense when considering that man cannot create anything new, he can only manipulate what exists already, creating new combinations of pre-existing objects which may fail or succeed. It all fits into a matrix, which explains why creativity machines exist. Also note, creativity machines are an extension of our own creative process.

As for media being the message: I believe there are of coarse varying levels by which media speaks out above content and vice versa. I think it's as simple as that.

(ie: 1. A single line drawn in permanent marker, versus the same line drawn in pencil. The media governs the meaning. 2. A woman painted in oils naked and smiling versus, the same naked woman painted in oils crying. The content governs the meaning. If you continue to mix and match these things you will find the dominant characteristic varies.)

Conclusion: Media and content create their own context, neither could exist without the other, and I would say they work on a sliding scale when it comes to which is more important to the specific item at hand.

(Small) MEDIUM (Large)

Mr. Marshall McLuhan manipulates minds (into) (i)magining mediums (as) messages.  

The medium isn't always the message -or at least not the entirety of the message.  An instance in which, for example, the paint on a canvas coveys all the meaning and the image from the paint on the canvas conveys none of the meaning is as unlikely as an instance in which the fact that the painted image is made of paint is completely irrelevant. Medium affects the message, for sure, but it isn't solely responsible.  

A gun made of metal and loaded with bullets is threatening.

A gun made of plastic and loaded with water is significantly less threatening.

A gun made of felt and loaded with little balls also made of felt is not the least bit threatening.

Neither the medium nor the content can convey the message alone because everything we sense, we associate with something.  And everything we associate with what we sense, we associate again and again.  

And again, again, again. 

The Medium is not the Message/maybe/hi

I haven't finished reading yet but I just wanted to say how difficult this article is to read. I can't focus at all, and I'm adding anchor points to the text in my head. This "P" could be a hat. You get the general idea. back to reading. brb.

Quick trivia question, how many times is medium written in this article?

In my opinion the Romeo and Juliet example is horrible. Why do people always think that referencing Shakespeare will somehow add credibility to your work? Cause it don werk like dat.

I believe General David Sarnoff would agree with this statement "Atomic Bombs are in themselves neither good nor bad; it is the way it is used that determines its value." Idea Fail.

SO here's the scoop. Medium allows us to express ourselves and form our conceptual ideas into tangible things. Also, growth in our society correlates to growth in technology although some argue that this is isolating us from each other. Thus we stop using technology. Excpet for facebook and emac class. And I agree with that.

response to the reading; the medium is the message

I agree with McLuhan’s idea when she says different media invite different degrees of participation on the part of a person chooses to consume a medium. It is true that ways of doing things change because of the technology and then we realize the social implications of the medium. The meduim is more important than the message itself.

Response to James Turrell

Since I saw the Art21 on James Turrell a year or so ago, he has become one of my favorite contemporary artists.  I love this quote from him “I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.”  His work is so great because I think he's really challenging what we see as art in a way.  His ideas are just terrific, and I love how spiritual his work really is, meditative is a word he likes to use in talking about it. 

Response to the Reading

I really liked McLuhan's argument about the media being more important than the message and how he thinks that on TV, for example, whatever is being broadcast doesn't make as big of an impact as TV in general. It's like it doesn't matter whether you watch cooking shows or violent shows or cartoons, just the fact that you are using that medium will change the way your brain sees the world. It reminds me of my brother, he's 3 years old and my stepmom has never let him see a movie or watch TV or play computer games or anything because she thinks that it'll screw up his development. So it's like it doesn't really matter whether he is looking at an educational computer game or porn, just the fact that he is looking at a computer will traumatize him. She says that images on television are too "schizophrenic," like they change too much and too often and it's too much for his brain to take in. I think I kind of agree with not letting him watch TV, etc until he is a little older, but I was wondering if you guys agree that all technology is "evil," or hinders children in their development. Please respond if you would like.

Class Discussion

For this post I thought I would comment on the discussion that we had in class about media. I really enjoyed that conversation because I thought that everyone brought interesting ideas to the table that they were able to talk about articulately. I also was glad that most people weren't cautious about jumping in to the conversation to share their ideas and opinions on everyone's projects. I thought the class' ideas on exploring our natural senses were inspiring and stimulating, each invention helped the user to see their world in a new way.

reading

The reading was certainly tough for me. I had to read things a few times to grasp some of it, and other parts I am still unsure of. But all in all, I think I understood--the idea that the machine is not necessarily the medium, but what one does with the machine is and that carries out the message. Like when the author was talking about the electric light and how without it, certain situations would not exist--such as the night baseball game--thus, I gathered that it is a medium because it would aid sight and allow one to expand beyond his normal capabilities. For me, the author did get a little wordy and I could not quite make sense of what he was getting at. It doesn't really seem like a difficult concept, but somehow, he made it hard for me to initially understand.
Really, I think actually having to come up with my own medium for the first project helped me realize how so many things can act as a medium. That's why, for me, it was difficult to come up with an idea that was expansive and would extend one's limits and senses. Overall, it's really interesting think about how the senses and communication are extended by so many things in our everyday lives.

response to James Turrell

I looked at the profile on James Turrell. He is a very interesting artist, the way he manipulates what we see by creating specific atmospheres based on light. I was reading about one of his pieces, and I found it interesting that he is expanding on light and its meaning. He mentioned moonlight and starlight and how those ideas of light have influenced some of his pieces. I also like how a lot of the work I saw seemed very minimal with the light and the atmosphere as the main focus. Art: 21 is really cool, too. It's nice to get to get a feel for working artists and their studios and their processes.

Art 21 James Turrell

hey guys, heres the art 21 bio and some videos and photos on the side of James Turrell, the guy i mentioned as my influence for my device and what not. annnd if you dont remember that, he's also the guy who bought the crater and did all that neat stuff, enjoy!

art 21 James Turrell

a very poor response to the reading

So this reading is pretty cool but it's too long i don't want to read it all. I got it the first hundred times ugh. oh I just realized i forgot to spell check my last blog...whoops.I cant talk about this reading. It's just like every other article they make us read here.

good website ha

ha I looked at that website..the useless invetions thing..awesome.my favarite is deff the food cooler and the butter stick is pretty sweet too. I dont know butter stick?...i would use it but the food cooler looks a bit tricky to use. I think it's really funny how there are rules for whats useless and what isn't my favoite is  number 8 " chindogo are never taboo"..now thats just great.

wow this took too much time to figure out how to actually post this , but here is the web site that i mentioned in class : http://www.designboom.com/history/useless.html
its pretty funny, these inventions should be useless otherwise they DO NOT qualify to be consider a Chindogu : )
my faves are the chicken eye protectors and the duster slippers! i think there are actually books made about these silly inventions and mostly from asia! there was this HILARIOUS one that was made for subway commuters where people could nap while standing because they could rest their chin in these cup like thingies and it was connected to a tall tripod....silly sillly people. i'd be very embarrassed personally to try it out-but if i had a friend with me, maybe i would try out some chin0cup-subway-nappers.

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short response to film

I totally agreed with Berger in term of different ways of seeing art. I think art is the system of communication this is used by people as language. Through art, individuals are able to convey, express and interpret meanings, ideas and concepts. Therefore, art is the way of communication. However, it can be interpreted in different ways depending on how it is seen by us. There are many subject matters that change the whole atmosphere of art works. Art is a window into another culture, since how a society thinks and views the world is expressed through its own language. To know about art provides different ways of dealing with problems common to us all. Understanding a different type of art enables us to look at our own cultures from a fresh point of view.

response to film

I thought all the points that were made were valid. When they played the different types of music while they show a painting to prove that it could convey a different meaning defiantly worked and I think that's true. Paints can have different meanings in different setting, it's almost like 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder' but in terms of a painting, meaning is in the eye of the viewer and that can be changed by that persons experiences and where and when they're seeing the piece. I don't however thing that what we see before and after doesn't really change what one may think or feel,especially our generation which has grown up being able to flip channels on the tv all the time.It's just the way we grew up. Everything else made sense and I think is pretty true.

Responses to "Ways of Seeing"

So I thought I would open up a new post for you guys to add your thoughts on the John Berger film "Ways of Seeing" that we watched in class last week. Normally if you would like to begin a new topic you can create a separate post(using the new post link on the navigation bar on the top of the web site when you are logged in.) For responses to specific films or readings I will try to post something that you can comment to.

Feel free to point out what you do and don't agree with in Berger's film. How do you think electronic media has changed our view of painting. Do you think what he is saying is important to our understanding or ultimately trivial? How would Berger's idea about television compare to viewing a painting on the internet? Feel free to expand on these ideas or add others.

Welcome to Electronic Media and Culture

This blog will serve as the class discussion area. You should post your response to readings and videos here. You are expected to post at least two items to the blog each week(including reading responses). In a addition to responses you can posts about issues in media, electronic art, exhibitions or other topics related to class; or you can respond(comment) on another students or my posts.

Why doesn't everyone introduce themselves by commenting to this post.