7.10.2011
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9.08.2010
X-Post
I'm keeping a blog as part of my film class this semester. So far it's proven rather time-consuming, so I probably won't be posting very much at You're Just A Stupid Little Baby Who Ain't Got No Teeth for a while. If you're interested in keeping up with my other blog, please see the link below:
High Tech Folk Art - my video blog
High Tech Folk Art - my video blog
8.05.2010
Scrap
"Robert Murphy...used to sum up the difference between modern societies and the small-scale hunter-gatherer communities in which human nature took shape in this way: "everyone is famous in a tribe." He meant us to understand that, for human beings, the need to be recognized is almost as basic as food."
from Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It by Thomas de Zengotita
LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME!
from Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It by Thomas de Zengotita
LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME!
7.08.2010
Digital Photography #3
[This was a project for a digital photography course I took last spring. /// Final Portfolio!]
Inspired by Abu Ghraib and fashion models. [Click to enlarge]
Inspired by Abu Ghraib and fashion models. [Click to enlarge]
Digital Photography #2
[This was a project for a digital photography course I took last spring.]
This project was very process-oriented for me. The end product is about reproductive technology / becoming post-human / cyborgs, and the process is almost a literal interpretation of the idea of having sex with a machine. To create the images, I turned off all the lights in my apartment, stripped naked, and pressed various parts of my body against a scanner, which "read" my body in pieces. These pieces were then processed further and stitched together like a digital embryo. TRIPLE X RATED! [Click to enlarge (OMG WTF LOL)].
This project was very process-oriented for me. The end product is about reproductive technology / becoming post-human / cyborgs, and the process is almost a literal interpretation of the idea of having sex with a machine. To create the images, I turned off all the lights in my apartment, stripped naked, and pressed various parts of my body against a scanner, which "read" my body in pieces. These pieces were then processed further and stitched together like a digital embryo. TRIPLE X RATED! [Click to enlarge (OMG WTF LOL)].
Digital Photography #1
[This was a project for a digital photography course I took last spring.]
For this project, I used photographs of my computer screen in a gay webcam chatroom. Here are two versions of the final product. I wanted to use different bedrooms, but I had a deadline. [As always: click to enlarge.]
For this project, I used photographs of my computer screen in a gay webcam chatroom. Here are two versions of the final product. I wanted to use different bedrooms, but I had a deadline. [As always: click to enlarge.]
6.28.2010
Visual Inspiration: Ida Applebroog
One of the things I like about Ida Applebroog's Photogenetics series is its process. The artist starts with a lump of white clay, which she molds into a strange, lumpy, semi-human figure. The figures look unfinished and awkwardly built, and she rightly compares one of them to the Venus of Willendorf [one of my favorite things].
Next, she photographs the figures with a black background, usually posing or reclining in some [creepy, awkward, weird!] way. Then she adds hair, facial features, cigarettes, or whatever to the images in Photoshop. There are usually very few additions, but the added features dramatically transform the figures.
After printing out large copies of the images, she will sometimes add a little paint or other material. In the case of Bettie, she added some silver glitter to the braces. The end.
I saw her do this on Art21.
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This last picture is obviously something different, but I like it too because it fits in with my last post:
Next, she photographs the figures with a black background, usually posing or reclining in some [creepy, awkward, weird!] way. Then she adds hair, facial features, cigarettes, or whatever to the images in Photoshop. There are usually very few additions, but the added features dramatically transform the figures.
After printing out large copies of the images, she will sometimes add a little paint or other material. In the case of Bettie, she added some silver glitter to the braces. The end.
I saw her do this on Art21.
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Vera Mae
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Betty
Visual Inspiration: Laylah Ali and Matt Leines
I don't know why, but I really like art that's stuck in the second dimension. It might be a rebellion against the drawing books I looked at as a teenager, which all pointed to good "shading" as the ultimate goal. Stark lines and solid colors were not privileged.
It could also be that a 2D image on a 2D surface feels more honest. Or that the solid blocks of colors are just easier to process. Whatever the reason, here are two artists who paint with the graphic quality that I like. Their work seems to come from other worlds, each with its own mythology and history. I love that! I also love that there seems to be some need to translate these two-dimensional images into three-dimensions.
Laylah Ali: [her 2D work has been used to create dance performances]
Matt Leines: [his 2D work carries over into semi-2D installations in 3D spaces]
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It could also be that a 2D image on a 2D surface feels more honest. Or that the solid blocks of colors are just easier to process. Whatever the reason, here are two artists who paint with the graphic quality that I like. Their work seems to come from other worlds, each with its own mythology and history. I love that! I also love that there seems to be some need to translate these two-dimensional images into three-dimensions.
Laylah Ali: [her 2D work has been used to create dance performances]
Matt Leines: [his 2D work carries over into semi-2D installations in 3D spaces]
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6.11.2010
The Aesthetic of Virtuosity
The aesthetic of virtuosity, art typical of Western European cultures, attempts to manage the energies of its own internal system such as conflicts, harmonies, resolutions and balances. It bears the presences of qualities and internal meanings. It is dedicated to the validation of itself. Its task is to move humans by means of achieving mastery in content, technique, feeling. Western art is always whole and always "in power." It is individual (not communal).
Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza (90)
[I just realized that, when taken out of context, this quote sounds rather neutral. I should have included more information. I might come back to edit.]
[I just realized that, when taken out of context, this quote sounds rather neutral. I should have included more information. I might come back to edit.]
4.10.2010
4.05.2010
Collateral Murder
My friend Liz posted a link on Facebook to this website:
On the website you will find a video from Wikileaks. I recommend watching the video and showing it to everyone you know. Here is a description:
Wikileaks has obtained and decrypted this previously unreleased video footage from a US Apache helicopter in 2007. It shows Reuters journalist Namir Noor-Eldeen, driver Saeed Chmagh, and several others as the Apache shoots and kills them in a public square in Eastern Baghdad. They are apparently assumed to be insurgents. After the initial shooting, an unarmed group of adults and children in a minivan arrives on the scene and attempts to transport the wounded. They are fired upon as well. The official statement on this incident initially listed all adults as insurgents and claimed the US military did not know how the deaths ocurred.
This war needs to end.
Wikileaks has obtained and decrypted this previously unreleased video footage from a US Apache helicopter in 2007. It shows Reuters journalist Namir Noor-Eldeen, driver Saeed Chmagh, and several others as the Apache shoots and kills them in a public square in Eastern Baghdad. They are apparently assumed to be insurgents. After the initial shooting, an unarmed group of adults and children in a minivan arrives on the scene and attempts to transport the wounded. They are fired upon as well. The official statement on this incident initially listed all adults as insurgents and claimed the US military did not know how the deaths ocurred.
This war needs to end.
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