Video Art

This assignment was by far my favorite this entire semester. Whenever I hear the world video, as a film major I go nuts. I started with the idea of filming someones eyes, just moving back and forth and using film filters and effects, then I decided to decontextualize the audio using three different voices and three different languages. There is latin, spanish, and french, for no particular reason. Then I was playing with the equalizer and audio effects to mess around some more. This was strictly a research project for me, messing around until I found something that worked together, but at the same do not work together at all. With all the messing around I think something with meaning actually arose. The complete and utter anarchy of the eyes and the unconditional languages and audio work together in some kind of form that I cannot really explain.

Performance Art

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For my performance art piece I went into downtown with 30+ onions, I sat on the corner of west kennedy by the bus stop and proceeded to cut 30+ onions. Yes i was balling my eyes out the entire time. In society when a grown man cries how do you see him? You see him as weak, vulnerable, and a baby. I was trying to make the point that just because your a guy doesn't mean your not aloud to cry. I was cutting the onions on a calendar board for a reason. I was showing that every day of the weak something bad happens in the world to someone where someone will get upset and cry. The onions itself stand for life, and the knife is cutting a piece of your life away making it upset. but my main point was its okay to cry man, let it all out. I got some people to interact with me, but mainly looks like what the fuck is this kid doing.

"The Giving Tree" Xerox Project

50 different copies of my hands, 20 copies of my hands with the items in my pocket, 10 with just the items in my pocket and 3 of my face. All these Xerox's resulted in a decontextualized man/tree figure. I call it the giving tree because the fingers look like leaves and the arms looks like branches. In the hands, or branches, are the various items that were in my pocket, giving them away. I decided that it would be better in public then bring to class because of the scary feel to it. Some of the reactions of passers were priceless while others were a little frightened. Its about 5 foot 7 inches, so its pretty intimidating up close. Here are the photos, if its still there its outside austin hall if you would like to see it in person.

Alan Ginsberg

To gather my information on Alan Ginsberg, I watched, and actually am currently watching Howl. As soon as I heard this quote in the movie, I looked forward to posting this blog post. Ginsberg said in Howl, "prophecy is not knowing that the bomb will fall in 1942, prophecy is knowing and feeling something which someone knows and feels in 100 years, and maybe articulating a hint that they will pick up on it in 100 years." I find this absolutely incredible. How he redefines a word, to his own relevance to his own life. Ginsberg life was very eventful. From the court case revolving around the relevance of his literary terminology, to falling in love with Jack Kerouac, to 8 months in a mental institution, to signing the papers for his mother lobotomy resulting in her death. Ginsberg is a mad man, he gives literally 0 fucks. He tells stories of taking peyote and walking down the streets of downtown, but all of his events of life are put into his poetry. He describes how to write poetry as telling the stories that you would tell your friends. Truly an inspirational man.

Howl

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5 Minutes of Art History

THAT FUCKING NEMO FISH IS THE DEVIL HIMSELF I SWEAR IT. Besides the devil Nemo, the art history was, how do I put it, informational. I hated watching 5 minutes of hell but I mean I wish i was taught more about some of the subjects in the video. We learned about Baroque and all the major art forms of history, but I was never taught about DaDa art. I wish i was because as of now the insanity behind dada has to be my favorite art form. But back to the video, I will never look at finding nemo the same now. Thanks a lot.

Radio Days

When I think of Woody Allen, I immediately think of Radio Days. It was Allen's way of reminiscing on the golden days of the radio. Several generations of family packed into a rock-away house with the radio always on sounds pretty much like the golden days of the radio to me. When I think of the radio i think of a Christmas Story and the Ovaltine commercial, which relates a lot to Radio Days. Now I mean growing up with a tv and an iPod, I couldnt really relate to the movie so I didn't really find it that funny but, it was okay. Entertaining to say the least. Put it this way, I didn't really watch the whole thing, got about through 3/4 of the way through and said fuck it.

Santiago's Showcase

The idea behind his concept was phenominal. I loved the idea of insecurities and issues printed on the students faces. It was even cooler to see the students at the showing and tying them to the pieces. But the mug shot piece was my favorite. I just had so many different thoughts on so many different levels. Why were these people arrested? I sat there trying to guess what each persons crime was. The way he related the piece to copyright and public domain blew my mind too. Overall, fantastic showing. I would have been more interactive if i didnt feel like straight shit, but oh well.

Dali Cranium

I was just so intrigued by Dali's "cranium" i did some research and found some pictures of the making of