I Love Penguins

This is from the national geographic archives. Penguins are pretty amazing.

Art Experience #2

For my second art experience I went to SUNY Oneonta's current exhibit in their Art Gallery. The exhibit included student artwork and was titled "Eccentric and Redefined Design." The two student artists that it included work by Jon Giebler and Hannah Colburn.

Hannah's work was titled Graphic Identity Series and included an assortment of illustrations of designs for different objects such as designs for wine bottles, a theater and book jacket, and a Human Rights poster. I thought Hannah's work was very detailed and definitely showed off Hannah's talents and creativity. I especially liked the Human Rights poster which was a map of the world in the background and then silhouettes of people of all sorts and ages in front of the map showing that we're all different and from different places but share the same place and deserve the same rights.

Jon Giebler's work was very different than Hannah's. He used a lot of photoshop and there was a least one image on an eye in every piece of work. Jon's work gave me an eerie and almost creepy feeling because the eyes were almost watching you from every piece of work. He had one piece titled "nuclear family" that showed a portrait of a family affected by nuclear and portrays how the world is changing.

Overall, it was interesting to see student's work and creativity other than the ones at Hartwick and I left with an overall sense that the world is vast and changing.

Art Experience #1

One of the requirements for this blog is to attend 2 art events and talk about our experience. One of the art events I attended is the Art that is currently in the Foreman Art Gallery in Anderson Theater.

The exhibit is called "Impressions Multiplied" and includes art work from Burt Gulley and Ina Kaur. The art of these two artists were extremely different and provoked very different thoughts and emotions for myself.

Ina's artwork was very detailed and included a variety of different shades and shapes. A lot of circles were used and it was very textured. In Ina's artist statement she discussed how the purpose of her art was to show "influences from the past, present, east and the west." Her art could be classified as the "in between space" or the "grey area." This is exactly how I felt while looking at her art. The overall image is unknown to the onlooker. It asks the onlooker to interpret each piece as they wish and it also allowed me to see a combination of art that was influenced from various aspects and cultures.

Burt's artwork was very uniform, linear, and included a lot of shapes and various shades of Black, White and Blue (which was the title of his part of the exhibit). I enjoyed Burt's artwork because it was very organized and specific. The onlooker could tell he spent an immense of time contemplating each line and angle but when looked at quickly it was just lines and rectangles. It made me realize that even the simple things, like shapes, take time to create.

Flickr and Youtube

I've had a Flickr account for about a year now but have recently updated it with some new photos and the mosaic tiles we designed ourselves. Check out my Flickr page here.

Also we had to create youtube accounts and post the stop-motion videos we created which was a re-creation of a Scooby Doo episode. Each student was given two 15 second clips and re-create them anyway we wish. Check out my youtube account here.

FOUND

I found this fun website called foundmagazine.com. It's basically a website where people scan little notes or photos they have found in random places. It's almost like a PostSecret but with things that people have found. Check it out. It's pretty FUN !! :)

Letters I'll Never Send

I found this website through StumbleUpon and it took up WAY too much of the time that I should have been doing other work. It's called Letter's I'll Never Send and it's just a site that people can send their letters to instead of the actual person they want to send it to. I'm not sure how I feel about it. I think that it's a good idea so people can say what they really mean and feel but at the same time I feel like if it's that important to them to type it out then maybe they should actually be telling the person the letter is addressed to. Decide what you think it's about: Letters

Talking Tree?

Look at what the technology world is coming to! There is now a Talking Tree! Scientists hooked up a tree with weather, dust, and light meters so everyone can now tell how it is "feeling." The meters are sent to a computer which then translates the numbers and scientific terms to normal people words and posts it on facebook, twitter, the talking tree website, and various other means of communication. The tree talks to people via media. CRAZINESS. Check it out: http://talking-tree.com/