April 28th acc.

I collected about 30 thoughts this week.

eating ads

6'x3'x2' mix media

I decided to do my piece on advertising and how it attacks us wherever we go. It is always in our faces. I decied to do my piece as an interactive piece. I installed it in my friends house where 4 girls live. Everyone uses the fridge to eat, but the ads are so in your face that sometime you might just lose you appetite. I meant for people to realize how rediulous ads can be and how americans are so gullable to comsumerism.

Arnaldo Morales

its cool that Arnaldo pulls his art from his one life experience of being sho in the head and he explores fear, aggression, etc. I mea it is terrible that he went through what he did, but it's cool that it instantaniously changed his views on art and his own life. His art seems exciting! I like that it either evokes the viewer to run from it or join it. I would like to see how i would react to his work, i would be the kind to back off from his work.

Daniel Joseph Martinez

I like that he not only creates he evokes emotions and thoughts through his work. Many artists like to focus their work on social issues, but Martinez wants to involve his audience. He wants to involve their emotions in his work. I really like that he incorporates his aud in his works. The piece he did called "The castke is burning" was very intriguing. I wondered why he choose to write "In the rich man's house the only place to spit on his face." I like that he allowed latino faculty and students to vent complaints about discriminatory school policies. Overall, I respected his work, and the menaing behind it. I found him to be an intersting artist just becasue he is SO unconventional, and he likes to be known as the, "Tactical Media Stategist." He defies rules, and he disrupts convention.

Accumulation April 25th

My friends have gotten extremely random through this whole accumulation thing. I mean not that they're not already weird, but...seriously! im enjoying my chice to sccumulate there thoughts.

Accumulation April 18th

collected 52 quick thoughts from friends this week:)

Accumulation April 11th

i collected a little over 30 thoughts this week

April 28th

Today was fun to see everyones pieces. I found this piece to be the hardest to decided what to do. I had the hardest time, and it seeemd like I was not the only one after talking with everyone. Everytime we walk in to a critique everyone says theres are terrible, but really they are actually good and interesting. I really liked my feedback, and I completely aggree that I need more to push my idea on being eaten by ads in life. Plus I thought the idea to place a mirrir in my oiece to show that "look u are the comsumer." so you havnt fun!

April 23rd

I missed today and I will do an article...

April 21st

Todays class was fun; but it made me feel uneasy. The images we looked at were a little over the top, and intense. The use of the body is always in interest to me, I find it so georgous. When flesh is shown through in a piece of artwork manys times will it be charged with being pornographic. I completely dissagree; I find that when nudity in done in todays work is out it is classy. Its out out there to use the function porn does, it is displayed better

April 16th

Barbara Schrieber came to visit our class today. I think that she was my favorite of all our visitors in class. I enjoyed her bubbly personality, and her extremely interseting work. I love how she does smaller paintings, she seems to be so practical. If she doesnt have the money or health for some materials she finds another way to get her job done. I really enjoyed watching her show she children pieces. I love her humor through art, there is always a time to be funny:) she seemed like a very cool lady. everyone in class that day seemed to be engaged and intersted by her work, and if she could keep all of our attention for that long; she must have been intriguing and talented.

April 14th

In class today I was so relieved to hear our blogs were pushed back. To be completely honest I don't remember what we did in this class:) I think we had a discussion like we usually do, and this may have beent he class we talked about our schedule, and our next project.

Yeah, I think that was it. I was happy to see our final wasn't on May 2 like the syllabus said, because I am going to be out of town. Anyway, I'm pretty sure we just discussd the plans for the end of the semester. It was nice to get organized.

April 9th

I had so much fun in class today. I loved visiting the Picket's house and seeing his work environment. It gave me great insight into how an artist lives, it was fun for me because I knew his wife Lauren from my graphic design meathods class. I also, got to go to smelly cat on my way and I thoroughly enjoyed my coffee. I found his mural to be ASTONOSHING, it was beautiful. I had fun asking questions about the prosess and juust racking his brain with little questions I had. It was an overall beautiful day and we were outside and enjoying the art. It was fun!

April 7th

It was a nice an relaxing day in class for me. I got to sit back and just give classmates feedback on their work, since I presented mine on the wed b4. I enjoyed seeing everyones work; I really enjoyed Sheldon's piece about his childhood.

Accm.

these are the thought i collected this week

April 2

I really enjoyed seeing how other students intrepreted the assignment of time. Everyone seemed to have a different twist on things. It was fun to hear, and see; but when it came for me to present I felt confident with my piece. I had been told to not be so literal, so I stepped out of the box and was definetly not literal. I was kind of disapointed with my critique; hearing what everyone had to say kind of put me down. I am used to critiques and not taking things personal, but for some reason it kind of bothered me. I'm worried I'm not going to get a good grade, and I really tried to take my last projects critique and utilize it. I guess I just still didn't do what I needed to.

March 31

I thoroughly enjoyed the guest speaker on Monday this week. His work was very different from anything I had seen before. I had trouble understanding it at first; he was explaining it but for some reason I just didnt understand how wedging clay made those images. I think I kind of understood it by the end but at the same time I was still a little confused. I found that to be fun abouthis work. Not always being able to understand art makes it fun to look at. I also thought he was an intetesting character, I like how different his style was.