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/

Say what you actually want to

this is what the world of facebook is turning into. Self Expression: Try it! Say what you actually mean for once.

Ok Go

This music video pretty much amazed me. Not even really sure how they managed to do it. I'm assuming it is mostly done digitally.

Post It Fun

Here's another stop motion video but this one the artist used post-its. it amazes me how much time people put into to make a 2 minute video. but it is definitely awesome.

Random

So the other day in my Organizational Communication class I was introduced to this pretty awesome website called random.org. We used it in our class to randomly assign groups or our upcoming. Our professor just had to put in the number of students in the class and how many groups he wanted and then he gave us each a number and we saw on the screen what group our number was in. It's supposedly 100% random. So I looked around on the website when I got home and there's actually a lot of random things it will do. Take a look for yourself and explore randomness :)

Stop Motion

We've been learning about stop motion in class and so I watched a lot of youtube videos encompassing this and found this one to be interesting and I liked the song that goes along with it. Enjoy.

I am Free

This is street art that someone wrote. Kinda inspiring. I think sometimes we forget the little things in life that other people aren't fortunate to have or experience.

Digital Fun

University Of Hertfordshire 2006 Digital Animation Showreel
Uploaded by Solrogers. - Watch original web videos.

I found this while just searching the web. It was created by a variety of students and I just thought it was pretty cool to see how advanced our digital animation has gotten. The characters and objects are able to move and appear so real life. I also love the one question that is asked during the video.

Burger Grease

I'm not sure if this is gross or artistic...

Blind Painter

This is crazy. It shows that we can do pretty much anything and it just depends on how bad you want it.

We're All Weird

I found this on StumpleUpon and thought it was very fitting. I think that we're all weird and have weird qualities but people are usually just too scared to attempt it or show their weirdness to the rest of the world because they care too much about what others think. So here's my permission to everyone: BE WEIRD. Actually, just BE YOURSELF and if that's weird than so be it.

Save The Words

This is a pretty cool website I found which is called Save The Words and it's made by Oxford Dictionaries. You basically just scroll your mouse over 100s of challenging words and it will give you a definition, the word used in a sentence and you will have the chance to sign an oath saying you swear to use the new word in a conversation the next day. check it out! SaveTheWords

Welcome to My Blog

Hello Fellow Bloggers,

You are currently looking at my creation: Laugh, Smile, and Run Away. This blog isn't going to have rules or guidelines. This blog isn't going to always make sense. It's not going to fit into a certain genre of blogs. This blog is going to be a compilation of my thoughts, my worries, my hopes, my randomness, and my creativity.

The title of my blog "Laugh, Smile, and Run Away" is an original title and was created to describe how I live my life. I love laughing and am constantly smiling but at times I just need to run away from reality. Life is to0 great to stand around half paying attention and not enjoying it.

That's pretty much all I have to say but I will leave you with one of my favorite quotes:

"It is better to be hated for what you are, rather than loved for what you're not." - Andre Gide

Greatest Fear

Searching for Answers

I Can Do Anything