Mark J Stock

I'v been looking at Mark's artwork in the last few days and a lot of his work is really crazy. My favorite is "Magma 19" it is so cool and how he made it is insane. I also really liked "Dynamo" which is really interesting, loved it.

Image reconstruction from brain activity

I watched the video on the video reconstruction of images from the brain and it was absolutely crazy. This was so cool and i fell that they can make it even better over the next few years so that the image is 100% clear and recognizable.

Video Art

Danielle: very good, enjoed the beat boxing and your use of filters/effects
Hessa: loved the message, the monologue was great, great work
Luis: very interesting, really liked the idea, liked the part when the bike was right nect to the car
Sebastian: cool idea, loved the filters and effects used, the music was well done, fit well with the video, liked the integration of Lee Bowery
Stef: really cool and creepy, liked how it become more and more de-contexualized over time
Emily: cool idea, loved how it linked to your previous work
Francessca: really cool, at first didn't understnad what was being said but after the explanation I though wow extremely interesting
Jon: really interesting, good effects and sound, wanted more
Hannah: really interesting great everything
Sara: cool idea, liked the hands effect and the music associated with the video and the ending was cool with all the 3d lights
Abby: the idea was cool, execution was great, loved how organic it was, only video to not use any effects/filters
Grace: great use of own sound in the piece, liked how the three images became  an exquisite corpse
Amanda: cool idea, liked how the cube became the screens for the individual videos, liked how you created your own effect by putting the phone in water and recording it

Tamiko Thiel

I really liked the "Reign of Gold" becuase she is de-contextualizing the occupy movement. I thought that the idea was really interesting and really cool. Another one of her pieces that I really liked was "Shades of Absence" yet again she is de-contextualize the Brooklyn bridge.  She has a lot of really great work, great artist.

Dreamachine

The dream machine was created by Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs. A person uses this machine with eyes closed the strobe light like lights stimulate the eyes optical nerves which then alter the brains electronic oscillations. This allows the viewer to see odd color patterns and bright lights.

Xerox Project

Sebastian: Great idea, like the addition of the headphones and blackberry
Francessca: so cool, really amazing idea, one of your best works
Grace: great idea, really cool
Luis: cool idea, liked what you did with the upside down eyes
Amanda: wow, so cool and great idea making yourself a puppet
Hessa: great idea, really intricate, great use of scale
Sara: great idea and cool idea using quotes
jon: realy cool idea with Popeye, could have done more with it though
Stef: really cool idea, love the use of the eyes watching you
Danielle: really funny, great idea
Emily: really interesting liked the dog and the fist as its head
Hannah: really really cool, great idea, the eyes and hear rate were crazy, amazing

Joseph Beuys

Joesph Beuys was a German performance artist, a sculptor, a installation artist  and a key figure in the Fluxus movement among other things. One of my favorite works by Beuys is "Homogeneous Infiltration for Piano". I love this piece because it is really interesting because he is channeling Marcel Duchamp in this piece but instead of a typriter it is a piano and the sheet covering the piano has a red cross on it. This piece is really interesting and cool.

Video Art Project

I really didn't quiet understand what video art was so what I was I played around with the iTunes visualizer and how it changed per song. I recorded that on my phone then recorded that recording from my phone onto my computer playing with the filters in Photobooth.

crazy stuff

this is so cool, this dude is crazy at what he does

http://games.yahoo.com/photos/eye-popping-sidewalk-paintings-1323131375-slideshow/julian-beever-sidewalk-painting-batman-photo-1322695305.html

Performance Art

The purpose of my piece was to contextualize myself by saying that I am technology however as a human we are no longer technology. On the shirt it reads I AM DEAD TECHNOLOGY next to me is my laptop which has a word document open that states I AM THE TECHNOLOGY OF NOW. The idea arose from the debates that I have heard about how computers and technology will make the human obsolete.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK8m1k8o-OU

Xerox Project- Hookah

This is supposed to be a hookah, I know it doesn't look that much like one but thats what I intended it to be.

Beatnik Who and What Were They

The term Beat Generation came up in 1948 by Jack Kerouac in order to generalize the underground anti-conformist movement that was prevalent in New York City at the time. The term Beat was introduced by Herbet Huncke who's explanation was the term was used as underworld slang used by the hustlers, drug addicts, and petty thieves, from whom Alan Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac received their inspiration from. Beat was slang for beaten down but Ginsberg and Kerouac it has a spiritual connotation to it

Grid Art Comments

Abby: great idea, loved the detail of the eye
Luis: great use of color, really cool idea and great use of the grid
Sebastian: great idea for the grid, good use of color
Stef: really cool idea, amazing outcome, good use of color
Danielle: great color and use of texture really cool outcome
Emily: great use of M & M, great colo to the monkey
Francesca: really cool idea to use the cards as the grid, great final outcome, really cool idea
John: really liked the 3D take on the project, great texture
Hannah: absolutely amazing, excellent use of color, great use of the grid
Sara: good idea, great use of color
Grace: liked the MJ artwork, great idea and good use of color
Amanda: really the only thing to saw is wow

Grid Art project

Fastest Computer in the World

The fastest computer in the world is currently the Fujitsu K computer in Riken, Kobe Japan which has a computing speed of 8.162 quadrillion calculations per second.

Singing In The Rain vs. A Clockwork Orange's Singing In The Rain

Featured in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange the main character of Alex starts singing singing in the rain, the classic song from the classic movie, while him and his gang are beginning the process of raping this women and beating her husband. The difference in the two is the context in which they are being sang. In the original version the main character is happy and in love, while in A Clockwork Orange Alex is taking part in a rape in which he loves to partake in. So they are both in love however the context is different.

Old Time Radio

For some reason my computer is unable to open any of the old radio shows. But in class we listened to the Orson Welles broadcast of H.G. Wells War of the Worlds. I found it fascinating how a broadcast caused such an uproar in some communities. They even stated many times that it was not real and just a story from a book and people still took it literally. I mean i can understand where their coming from becuase the way in which Welles told the story made it seem like it was actually happening, he told it in a broadcasting tone, which i felt was amazing. Overall dope story and dope broadcast.

Dali Museum

This past weekend i went to the Dali Museum in St. Pete with my folks. Apparently photos are not allowed to be taken but i got some anyway. I'm not a big art fan but this was the first time that i actually enjoyed an art museum, unfortunately i was not able to take a picture of my favorite piece which is the second painting in this group of 5 pictures.

Flip Book

Still Art Animations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMoKcsN8wM8&feature=related- this is another one from Blu they use a lot of different elements in order to create a cooler piece of art

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE70zzs75tE- this is a flip book animation of Sonic the Hedgehog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCKqCyP_qQ4- this is a stop motion video using post it notes about HOPE, its very cool and inspiring

Retinal Persistence

Retinal persistnce allows the human brain to store a visual image of something that we are seeing for a few hundred milliseconds. This allows for the brain to see the images as moving like in a flip book.
http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/i/i_02/i_02_s/i_02_s_vis/i_02_s_vis.html

Abelardo Morell' Photography

Abelardo Morell is a photographer who was born in Havana Cuba and is most know for his camera obscura photographs. Of his recent work these are my favorites. I love how he captured these beautiful images of a place that is close to my hear (New York City). I find it so incredible how he is able to capture the beauty through such a unique method that is over a hundred years old, its just incredible

Stage Door and Technology in Broadway

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BXKfT5FQ3E&feature=player_embedded#! time: 42 sec the arch of lights


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFcWrMVPo14&feature=player_embedded time: 33 sec fake umbrellas thrown in the air in the background

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFjxMGM36Hk&feature=player_embedded time: start to end, the screen with the computerized background

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaU8pXPWBqE&feature=player_embedded time: best seen at 4:10 microphone in ear

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AL3qpCbJqM&feature=player_embedded time: 6:04 the elevator

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nP1wx3eSfI&feature=player_embedded time: 2:47 Galinda flies
wires attached to her

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr2xIjDX_tg&feature=player_embedded time: 22 sec wall of lights

Dope Pics

I found these on my friends tumblr and felt that i needed to share them

Madama Butterfly video

I thought that overall the animation was pretty good, kind of weird at times. For example the metaphor with the fish. I have no idea why that was used. The director used the original music from the opera which I thought was a good tribute to the opera. The ending where the geisha commits sapuku was done really well. Instead of stabbing herself in the stomach the director chose for the geisha to completely strip herself to the bare metal of the doll was crazy, so sick.

Todays Version of "Bread and Circus" and Baroque themes used in Commercials

Bread and circus entertainment was a method used in ancient Rome in order to get the citizens of Rome to like the government and not revolt. The Roman's would allow citizens to come to the gladiator matches for free and while there receive a free meal (bread). The only thing in today's society that is close to that is probably a movie theater even though you have to pay for both the film and for food.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkB9OT2XVvA

Juan Carlos Delgado's Ice and Farineli the "castroti"

Recently Juan Carlos Delgado set up a exhibit in Columbia were he froze bronze sculptures over a period of weeks. He's creativity is what sets him apart from other artists that I have seen. Overall I really liked where his imagination took him with this piece. Farineli was a 18th century opera singer who was renowned as the best "castroti" in the world. He was called a "castroti" because he was castrated as a prepubescent boy in order to make sure that his beautiful voice would not change. This led to him getting a disease that is found in post-menopausal women. I understand why they would do this but I feel that the act of castration is barbaric and its not right to take a mans "junk" away from them.

Juan Carlos Delgado

Recently I have explored the artwork of Columbia artist Juan Carlos Delgado. A lot of his pieces left me wondering what was the meaning behind the art. A lot of his work did not evoke any emotion in me. However a lot of his pieces were out there but that added to the uniqueness of his art. For example these red faces. This piece left me wondering how was he able to create this piece. I realized that a lot of his art is about how he places the objects within the piece for example the room filled with the photographs of fire. I feel that the placement of the photos around the room added more of an effect then the photographs themselves. Overall I really enjoyed all of his pieces of art.