Video

http://pinterest.com/pin/161003755398660200/

This is my video for audio, I am really starting to love video.. this project I wanted to keep it more fun. Everything I do is too serious. So it was fun making this one. I downloaded the video off of youtube, because I was 100% sure I needed this clip, and because of that it is very small when you view it and not of good quality. I would like to learn how to fix that.

This is for core, it's my midterm. It isn't supposed to be a traditional picture/video. more like background or ambience I don't know. I imagine it with many other pieces.

Audio

For Video we did just an audio project, and I just went to a concert where they played a song that I really love and sort of speaks to me, specifically a certain line. So I play with these lyrics slightly. It would be fun to play even more with it later.

Tony Sonnenberg

This guy really amazed me, and I think that I have a lot in common with Tony's work. I really connected with the idea of drawing the viewer in and then having them find a more realistic feeling found soon after. I specifically want my art to be as aesthetically pleasing as possible, because I also love the contrast between what is being masked and so on and so forth. He is a great model for what I need as inspiration and I will be watching Tony's work consistently.
http://ANTHONYSONNENBERG.COM/section/131711.html

sigur ros video competition

http://vimeo.com/51423928

Thursday Talk

I am writing about last Thursday's talk with Louis and Cable's work. I really liked both.
I have always been interested in the idea of the history behind a piece, because that is what drives what is the end result. Louis told us he was interested in concepts and trying to find the medium that would best fit, which I think is really important. We are here to see what type of medium we like and I don't know if I want to learn a specific medium, because different projects need different mediums.
I also enjoyed Cable's abstraction, and I liked it when he said that he enjoyed abstraction, because then the viewer cannot necessarily judge is this a good cat, or a bad cat. It is the viewers job to create what they may. I was excited to see that he had so much passion. He knew when he got out of college that he would always be a painter. He stayed a painter, even if he didn't like his work, or it was too much or he didn't get it. But he found his nitch and succeeded in what he wanted to do.

I am writing a response to the video Tooba, made by Shirin Neshat we watched this thursday at the Seattle Asian Art Museum. The first time I watched the video, I watched it the way the artist wanted the viewer to watch it, I moved my head back and forth about every other moment to see what was happening in either video. It was very intense this way, and it made me fear for the woman in the tree. The second time I watched it, I watched the video of the woman, the sound effected me very much. Until I saw the people, I had no idea what was happening around her, the sound hinted that something bad was happening, and I was glad she vanished. The third time I watched it I watched the video of the people, it seemed very ritualistic, and sort of obsessive, the sound also worked very well with the video. Before reading the "about the artist" and learning more about what the piece meant, I got a vibe that the woman and the tree were a symbol for the earth, and the people were on the earth or her and the tree, just because the way the were effected by the earth was formed it seemed like they were struggling through it. And then when they came to the tree to sort of "honor" it... I don't know that was just my feeling.
The video was really the epitome of Object and Space, there are many examples, for starters, the video of the woman starts with just her eye, where the other video starts with the sky, as the eye moves out, the sky moves in. The video of the woman keeps the video within the space that is created by the bricks until the people dive in. And the different angles of both videos presented when the people on the outside of the bricks really sort of creates the space for the viewer all around them, which I really loved, because we sort of were the tree's view. I feel like the placement of the lens was purposeful, and as the viewer was seeing an image they were turning into either a character within the video, or an idea in the video, if that makes sense...
I really liked this video, and I think if I were to know more about the background of the video it would have been very easy to see where the artist was coming from.
It was beautifully made.

Last week we listened to Ephraim Russel talk. We have been asked to make up a question, and then create and answer in his "words." 

Q: As human beings, living in an unnatural world, can we consider ourselves to be natural?

A: Humans are part of a built environment, but as independent beings we are natural, this idea makes me feel that we are not so corrupt.

Although my question/answer sucks. I liked some of the points he made.

He said that some things are visually described by their functionality.

I really liked the idea of the blackbox, and I think it is something as artists, if we are looking to make a profit as artist or in general this should be looked at.

This is my second video for my video class. It was supposed to be a portrait of ourselves in some way. I feel that this idea that I portray frames me and in some way tells people who I am. It is not necessarily a bad thing, as portrayed, because I guess this idea has kept me moving, if this makes sense. 

This really could be a sad excuse for a 10 grid documentation of some of my work for digital imaging. But I had some really nasty photos, and it was fun playing with the photos in digital imaging last time and I sort of wanted to do that again.