Friday, November 2, 2007

What the hell?

I really disliked this project we did based off of LeWitt works. To me it makes no sense what so ever. It is a pointless piece in which takes no skill or no meaning. The only good thing that would come out of this piece is that it brings the people who worked on it, together. The unity in that is the only thing I can understand in which I don't even know if that is what the artist was trying to get across with doing this.

Oh my, what have we done?






Well first of all, when writing up this activity I didn't realize what kind of problem it was going to create, pretty much just because it is harmful. So in my activity of smoking cigarettes, I had to add to my sheet a caution label and a oath in which pointing out the risk and knowledge of the risk and that it is the persons own fault for taking part, which had to be signed by the person. Overall I think my activity went very well and to plan. Plus both of the people were smokers so they seemed to enjoy it. I also got some great action shots with Thiana nice camera. I also participated in a couple of other peoples activities like in Chul's where I had to speak german to Saraswati which was really hard because she was speaking spanish back to me. So I just said some pretty random stuff about the weather and such. Also I did Chris's activity with Jill on high fiving. And me and Chul caught each other as we fell backwards into each other arms.

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Logos, logos everywhere, where they'll stop, NOONE knows


A logo is a symbol, or icon to represent something, usually something in the commercial world, that is trademark for that brand. I picked the Ford mustang logo because not only is it one of the greatest cars ever made but also because it is very known for what it stands for. It, like most logos, is very simple with just the outline of a horse running with three bars of red, white, and blue behind it showing America, and American made.

The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even


when I first looked at this piece, or two pieces, I was extremely confused, I knew there was also a story that goes along with it, but couldn't thinkm of anything possible to explain this, I thought it was just a meaningless abstract piece. After reading Duchamp writings I kind of started to put everything together and realized the complexity and thoughts that went into both the writing and the artwork. To which at some points I am still confused. I think it's great how they relate to each other, I just wished I could understand it better.

Pattern, the Islamic way

Pattern is the repeating of objects or colors or other types of form that project themselves over and over again. In the Islamic culture the bases of pattern is used for almost anything that is decorative to them. In pots, buildings, fabric. The use of both colors and forms are used to create these pieces.In buildings the use of pattern in the floor consists of mostly blues, golds, and whites floor tiles and other shades around those color. Also the same in the wall coverings. In the fabric it's patterns of those colors but mostly in the form of natural organic nature forms.