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All Her Names

For my final project, I chose to create a poster inspired by the short story “All Her Names.” This story stood out to me because I related to the idea of being a different version of yourself depending on who you are with. My goal was to create a minimalist representation of a scene in which the main character, Alicia, a graffiti artist, was chased away by the police and their flashlights. I enjoy creating minimalist art work, and I thought it would create an interesting point of view of a complicated scene. I used two geometric shapes to emphasize the importance of the typography or in this case Alicia’s K-SD tag, and to serve as the police flashlight. I chose to repeat the tag K-SD as a connection to the story’s title, “All Her Names.” Alicia has many names, many personalities, and many secrets that make her who she is. Each color is meant to represent a different version of Alicia. I really enjoyed exploring how to create a piece of art based on the vivid stories within Sabrina & Corina.

Reading Response 5

I really enjoyed reading Sabrina & Corina. There were a lot of very powerful and moving stories. Being set in Denver, each story became relatable and I was able to visualize the settings and ultimately made the entire book very real. The craziest connection I had to this book was in the story “All Her Names,” they mention the King Soopers on Speer. My house is right across the street from this King Soopers. Overall, each story was very well done and I enjoyed reading the book as a whole. I am excited to use these stories as an inspiration for my final project.

taybacon

The idea for Put Your Phone Down came from a modern problem majority of the world is facing. We cannot put our phones down. Too many people are spending too much time scrolling, liking, and retweeting. Constantly living our lives to refresh our feed. There is more out there for us. We are not a shallow species, we were made to think critically and feel deeply. There is an infinite amount of activities on Earth yet we find ourselves spending our precious time on social media. As life comes to an end, no one finds themselves on their deathbed wishing they had posted more. We yearn for time with loved ones and days to finish the bucket list. With such deep sediment I wanted to bring the issue to a different type of light. It was not enough to ask you to consider how much time you spend on your phone. I had to relay how ridiculous we look wasting the hours away. Spending hours disengaged on your phone is as pointless as holding a piece of fruit. If you mindlessly scroll for two hours you will have accomplished next to nothing. In the same context, if you hold a banana for two hours you will have accomplished about the same. Of course, there can be times for both engaging in social sharing and holding fruit; but I am speaking on mindless scrolling. The times when you look up and say, “it’s been twenty minutes”? We were created for something more than this. To learn, love, adventure, create, and beyond. We owe it to ourselves to spend our time on this Earth wisely, it’s limited and tomorrow is not guaranteed. With this project I hope I can share a lighthearted laugh along with a fresh perspective on social media. I encourage you to engage deeper with the world around you. Do more than hold a piece of fruit.

brandonml

One minute performance

For my one minute performance I decided to draw something, I drew Princess Hibana from the anime that I’m watching Fire Force , I enjoy drawing and it’s one of my favorite hobbies, may not be one of my best but I really liked it.

Song: Tank!-Seatbelts

Ps: i forgot my pen for the outline lol.

jestesmsu

“performance”

ejwoj

Title: Video of me reacting to the video I made for this project.

The making of art is an experimental process. As artists, we constantly test out ideas, mediums, colors, and techniques to get a feel for what works to best to express our intention and… what does not. This project was one such example of this, and an example of how concepts can evolve over time.

Initially, I believed that I had a very solid concept for this project. I created a story board and shot the video. It did not work, but I still believed in the concept and enacted it in a variety of ways in hopes of producing something that would adequately express my initial idea (the clock projected in the background of the video was a leftover of my initial attempts). By this point, I had watched several minutes of video of myself and decided to record myself watching the videos 1) because of the boredom that came with watching bad videos of myself and 2) the intrigue and curiosity about my reaction during this painful viewing session.

Ultimately, I felt that the video of me watching the other video had more to say than the initial video I created for this project.

One Minute Video : Some Dishes are Harder to Clean

This video is a commentary on the increased responsibilities and obligations associated with growing up and becoming more independent. College is a time to explore this independence and take these new tasks head on. While doing the dishes is a simple and trivial task, many people including myself were never asked to do the dishes when they were a child. Doing the dishes may be an easy transition but there are many things that become increasingly difficult like dealing with taxes and ultimately finding what your future career will be. At times, you have to smile through the pain and embrace these changes. It can sometimes be overlooked how hard this process is for some people even though it is one of the most important changes every person will go through in their life. The assumed monotony that comes with adulthood can be overwhelming but is something that we as young adults need to take on ourselves....... even though my girlfriend did just ask me to do the dishes for her.

VERB LIST

To Throw

To Toss

To Fight

To Fall

To Flip

To Run

To Jog

To Eat

To Drink

To Smile

To Listen

To Manipulate

To Control

To Breathe

To Believe

To Slide

To Arrange

To Buy

To Drop

To Crush

ejwoj

Supercut: Time Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about time. About how precious it is, how I’ve taken it for granted, how fleeting our days and hours and minutes and seconds can be and how they can change in an instant. And, about how this year has gone by so fast, yet it has also been going. by. so. slow. How do we frame time? What does a year mean? How and where does (or will) this fit into the spectrum of our lifetimes. How will we (or I) reflect back upon this time? On a time when our mountains are burning and our city is disappearing. What will I make of this time? How resilient am I, and how will this change me? These are questions I’ve been thinking about, so, with this project, I use cuts of spoken word videos to capture some poetically spoken thoughts on time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f57TE9XY-0w&t=24s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsPe7ghk4tM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEu2XWDCBto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wppaWo96amU&t=144s

jthomp2020

I like how you include all different kinds of people and speakers to offer multiple perspectives and ideas about time! Interesting concept.

Reading Response 4

thequiltedsail

Art Project 3: Love Your Existence

Artist Statement

For this project I wanted to create a relaxing and philosophical short work of video art. I chose to focus on nature, mainly aerial footage, because I thought it lended itself well to the subject content. The audio is from an artist named @MoStFeAr, which also featured the lecture by Alan Watts. It was a much longer clip that I trimmed down to include the most poignant section of the track. I wanted to focus on ephemeral forces of nature that complimented the subject of human existence. Birth and death are the main components of both the audio and visuals, which I thought were represented well in each of the selected clips. I hope Watt’s ideas captivated you and the video complimented his brilliant and profound words. Works cited is located in the description.

cameroncoyhis

Art Project 3: One Minute Supercut

Title:

A Little Saying To Get A Laugh.

Artist Statement:

Do you often hear people respond with this when someone says something like “Man, that test was hard” or do you find yourself saying this phrase? I’m a victim of it because it’s a phrase that never gets old and I am known to joke around sometimes whenever I’m hanging out with my friends.

It was definitely a challenge and disappointing having to shorten the clips to where I had to cut out the main body of the joke. But, I think that the shortened clips came out good because it can make someone wonder what was said to make Michael Scott or the other office workers to say “that’s what she said.”

I hope you enjoy my video!

Fun Fact: “That’s what she said” is said 51 times between Season 2-Season 9 of The Office.

*If there are any problems with the video or Youtube takes it down, please let me know*

Here’s the link for my supercut video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEd-KFiJKLI

Sources-

The Office: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClzJkv3dpY8&t=119s

jestesmsu

Dancing Fools. Audio: Frank Zappa - Dancing Fools - Jestes Edit Video Sources Coldplay - Violet Hill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8zKtcKCaG8 The Telegraph - Dancing politicians: the good, the bad and the awkward https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdt1IrTOYSc Inside Edition - Don’t Quit Your Day Job! Politicians’ Most Awkward Dance Moves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hezRFsKBOEI

Greetings from the Future explores the progression of the eSports world and how streamers, like timthetatman, are changing the face of gaming and are becoming role models to people around the world. Using clips from timthetatman's intros on YouTube, I intended to show how these large personalities are drawing in attention from people of all ages. Now with over 2.5 million subscribers, Tim is one of the largest and most popular gaming and even overall YouTubers. His videos are examples of how eSports gaming has been gaining traction across the past few years and will continue to be recognized as a professional and competitive sport in the years to come. Gaming is reaching a peak within this global pandemic, where kids an adults alike are unable to go out and participate in organized sports. Every kid with an Xbox or a Playstation now aspires to be like timthetatman or other famous streamers and these kids now have shifted their focus away from idolizing their favorite athletes. Will this continue to be the future of gaming? Will this eventually be the future of sports themselves?

source channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/timthetatman

Music Video Exercise

Reading Response 3

In the article, “Making Art: Form and Meaning,” Terry Barrett describes the idea of implied motion. This idea can be taken in so many ways that it is really exciting and very appealing and engaging to viewers. A way to define this idea is a piece of art that doesn’t actually move, but when it is looked at the viewer is tricked into believing that the artwork is moving in some way. One of the most common forms of implied movement is a series of artworks that are each individual frames. When put in order or within a video that has time between each frame, the mind can fill in the gaps and see the movement between each frame. Also, Optical Illusions are one of the best examples of implied movement. Patterns and designs can trick the eye into seeing movement within them. While they aren’t actually moving and never will, people will believe that they are. This can be applied to all kinds of artwork, digital or hand crafted. Implied movement adds a sense of participation to the viewers eyes and can ultimately make an artist’s work that much more interesting. This is a fun concept that I want to play with in my future art.

In the article, “Projection: Vanishing and Becoming,” Sean Cubitt speaks to the influence that projection has had on art over time. He describes how the use of projection is arguably one of the first forms of art. Everyone and everything always have a shadow, whether from the sun or from a light, or a fire, shadows have always existed. Shadows can be seen as works of art even to something as simple as a shadow puppet. Shadows can be manipulated by many things and can serve as great pieces of art or inspiration for artworks. For example, in one of my other classes, a girl came in with a large piece of plywood covered in clothes and shoes. I was interested to learn more about it but I didn’t see anything beyond the pile of clothes. Then she turned the lights off and shined a light behind the clothes and the shadow cast on the wall was a perfect silhouette of a woman laying down. I was amazed how much the idea of projection added to her work.

Bruce Nauman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=lyiRIHKuybUhttps://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=737345049975413

Roderick Buchanan

https://vimeo.com/259701254

Christian Marclay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0ZLrW2dmAw

Wolf Vostell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nURfYNB15gw

Dara Birnbaum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJhEgbz9piI