Why Paint?

Early last week I went to the painting seminar. It was really interesting; it was an open discussion on painting's importance in society and to ourselves. Everyone who attending had good ideas on what it meant to paint something and why it's still valuable, they were all really passionate about how they felt as well. I liked that, and agreed with many people. Personally I think the propose for painting, well any art for that matter, is that it fills in the gaps of communication between people. I also had who gives a shit mentality about painting. You do it because you do it. Somewhere between the "who cares" to the communication aspect lies the gray area that painting lies in.

Wordle...

Peter Hanley and South Philly

I really enjoyed  lecture on September 14, 2010. Peter Haley made some compelling points: art isn't where you make it, it all is made in your head! and more specifically it's not the tools you use( computer, paint, pencil.....) it's how you use them. I checkout his website after the lecture, I have to say his work it pretty cool.

I feel like art events don't have to be a structured thing. I consider a large group of artist getting together to hang out as an art event, the conversation always goes to: art, what they're working on, art they like and so on. I have been friends, who make various types of art(film, painting, dance, acting...)  and we have gotten into some pretty heated arguments on art. Being in the art world is about networking. It's exciting meeting new people, seeing what they do, and learning what their latest endeavors are. Anyways....I went to south Philadelphia and met some awesome art people with cool innovative ideas at a social gathering in the UArts area.

Goodies

Beautiful Losers Trailer
 This is a documentary on several artist during the '90s. It is by far one of my favorite movies(I watching multiple times a month); it is very inspiring. Every time I watch it, I just want to drop everything and make art. I highly recommend everyone to watch this!!!!!!
( It's on instant Netflix if you're interested)


Ambach and Rice
 This is a art gallery is Seatle, WA. I don't really rememmber how I stummbled accross it; I think I saw a tid bit on intresting show they were doing and ever since I always look at their website perioditcally. The link is of a awesome show they put on a while back.

 Threadless

Analogous To The Fall
Of That One Empire
(Gap Shirt)

2004-2005
shirt in which all
of the thread has been
removed excluding the
pinstripe pattern
dimensions variable

 I'm sure a lot of people have heard of Threadless already. I especially like their Artist Series. I think it's cool that accomplished artist are putting work onto t-shirts. It's a simple way to just your work out there, everyone wants to wear cool, creative clothing. It just goes to prove art is every where.


The Art of Being an Artist
 While interning at an art gallery this summer, the owner gave me this website to check out. I like it because it gives an inside look at the working artist life and offers good advice.

Art:21
 Again this probably something most have heard of and seen. I like to watch it to get inspired and ideas. PBS has the episodes on their website. I more frequently watch their podcast though; it's little 5 minute or less segments at a time. It's nice to see what contemporary artist are doing right now.
(All the seasons are on Instant Netflix in addition to being on the PBS website.)

 

Illustrator took me a while to get the hang of; i think that was the result of my poor memory of Monday's class. Once I got the hang of it I could easily play around with fonts and effects to get the look I was after. After going this, I feel like I am more comfortable using Illustrator for other classes as well as this one.

I LOVE ART SCHOOL

I have to say, I had a wonderful first weeks of school at Tyler. I'm mostly just excited to finally be here after working for this for almost two years. It was worth every second of hard work and every opportunity that I gave up to be able to come here. The first week when I started getting assignments I was over flowing with ideas and could not wait to start working on things. I spent most of last weekend working on homework happily; it was so much fun! Although its been lot of work, I don't mind doing it; I enjoy it. The problem I'm having right now is trying to fit it all in each day; it would be a hell of a lot easier if there where about four more hours in the day. Having extra hours would enable to me to get my eight hours of sleep in along with working as long as I've been wanting to without wearing myself out. I'm learning that I can function on less sleep than I ever have, not because I have to in order to get things done in time. it's mostly just out of excitement to be making something.

I am just trying to be.

Helvetica

I honestly never thought that, that much thought went into a font. For some reason it never occurred to me that people create them; I have thought that they just simply exist without realizing that they were created by someone. It makes sense to me now. It's like, "Of course, someone made it!" People just don't think about fonts, they're just something that is in the computer. My generation has been spoiled when it comes to how accessible we are to things as simple as a font, and how it easy it is to manipulate fonts that already exist because of how technology has progressed over the years. I really find that fascinating; before it would take hours and hours on ends to create fonts with pencil and paper.

"Bad artist copy. Good artist Steal."

Watching The Remix Manifesto, the Pablo Picasso quote "Bad artist copy. Good artist steal." immediately came to my mind. Good ideas are stolen from something else, twisted, and become an entirely new thing. Art is sharing.  Art is to share with the world so they can take it from you and put their own spin on it; that is how it has progressed over the years. I am OK with others taking my ideas and concepts and making them their own by taking them to the next level. Even though the documentary focuses on the music of "Girl Talk" the idea corresponds to visual art. Copy righting was a good idea when it first came to be, but over time it has just become nothing but red tape holding people back, in order for others to make money. Copy rights defeat their purpose; they were created in order to motivate people to create, but now it only holds back the creation process.