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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