Inflatable Group Critique

For our inflatable we made a jellyfish. Overall it was a great success. Our location couldn't have been better; a jelly fish right by the fountain! There were a few problems though. The first would be our jellyfish was a little lumpy but we did our best in trying to create dome. Another small problem was our tentacles kept being blown under our jelly by the wind. Maybe if we would have had air moving through them the would have stayed put. The sign we made definitely helped people to know it was a jellyfish even though the tentacles weren't always super visible. The last minor problem was our vent hole at the top should have been a little bit bigger so we would be able to close our door all the way.

The Jellyfish group: Kim, Ollie, Selena, Lauren, Mirella

Lecture 9 Assignment

What is your favorite color?

Green

How important is the appearance or design of the following products in your decision to purchase the product?

new car:          somewhat  

underwear:    somewhat  

tv set:   not very  

winter coat:   not very  

What is your 2nd favorite color?

Yellow

"When you select pictures, photographs, or other pieces of art for your home, do you find you lean more toward modern or more toward traditional styles?"

traditional

"If you had to choose from the following list, which type of art would you say you prefer?"

Asian

Which of the following statements applies to you more?

"When choosing pictures, photographs, or other art for my home, I focus on whether or not I like the piece"

Would you say you prefer older objects or newer objects to collect or decorate you home?

newer objects

"Would you say that you prefer seing paintings of wild animals, like lions, giraffes, or deer, or that you prefer seeing paintings of domestic animals, like dogs, cats or other pets?"

wild animals

"In general, would you rather see paintings of outdoor scenes or would you rather see paintings of indoor scenes?"

indoors

Which of the following outdoor scenes appeals to you the most?

Paintings of:

"lakes, rivers, & oceans"

Which season would you most like to see depicted in a painting?

winter

Which of the following types of indoor scenes appeals to you most?

still life paintings of/domestic scenes with:

people

Do you tend to prefer paintings that are related to religion or those that are not related to religion? Not related to religion.

Which of the following statements is closest to your view?

"Paintings don't necessarily have to teach us any lessons, but can just be something a person likes to look at."

Which of the following statements is closest to your view?

"I prefer paintings that are different-looking if they're very realistic, I might as well be looking at a photography"

"Do you prefer paintings that exaggerate the dimensions or reality of objects we already know, or ones that feature imaginary objects which have no connection to everyday life?"

 featuring imaginary objects

"Do you prefer seeing bold, stark designs or more playful, whimsical designs?"

Playful and whimsical designs

Do you tend to favor paintings with sharp angles or ones with soft curves?

Soft curves

"Which patterns do you like better: geometric patterns or more random uneven patterns?" geometric paterns

"Do you like to see expressive brush-strokes on the canvas, or do you prefer that the surface of the canvas be smooth, more like a photograph?"

expressive strokes

Do you like to see colors blend into each other or do you like it when different colors are kept apart? It depends on the manner in which they are blended.

"Every color has a wide range of shades. Take the color blue, for example. An artist can use a bright, vibrant shade of blue, like a royal blue, a pale, muted shade of blue, like light blue, or a darker tone of blue, like dark or midnight blue. In general, which would you say that you prefer? when the artist uses more vibrant shades, paler shades, or darker shades of color?"

Paler

"In general, do you enjoy paintings that have a more serious or a more festive mood?"

festive

"And how about the painting itself - do you like it to be busy and contain lots of people or objects, or do you like it to be as simple as possible?"

 lots of people 

How about the size of paintings: do you prefer larger paintings or smaller paintings?

larger

dishwasher size

full-size refridgerator

full wall

"19"" television"

a magazine

paperback book

"Some paintings are of famous historical figures and others are of more ordinary people. Do you generally prefer paintings of famous people, or ones of more ordinary paintings."

ordinary

"Do you prefer paintings which are predominantly of children, of women, or of men, or doesn't it matter?" doesn't matter

"Thinking back to the paintings of people that you have like in the past, for the most part were the figure working, at leisure, or were they posed portraits?" at leisure

"Which do you think you like better, a painting of one person or of a group of people?"

a grou of people

"And from what you've seen, would you say that you prefer paintings in which the person or people are nude, partially clothed or fully clothed?"

doesn't matter

If you were given the choice of a gift - a sum of money or a piece of art that you genuinely like and which was of equal value to the money, which would you choose?

sum of money

Which one of the following would be most important to you in deciding how much money you would spend on a painting?

the degree to which you like the painting

What is the most amount of money you would consider spending on a piece of art you really like? if i had the means to the price wouldnt matter

"For each of the following names, indicate if your impressions of that artist's work are very favorable, favorable, or very unfavorable. Some of these artists are not very well known, so if you have never heard of someone, or don't know enough about their work to have an opinion, just say so."

Pablo Picasso very unfavorable

Norman Rockwell favorable

Jackson Pollock very favorable

Salvador Dali favorable

Leroy Neiman favorable

Claude Monet favorale

Rembrandt unfavorable

Andy Warhol favorable

Georgia O'Keefe favorable

"If you could pick one type of person you'd most enjoy having dinner with, would you choose an artist, a television or movie actor, an author, or a sports star?"

an artist (Miyazaki)

"How often, on average, would you say that you go to art museums - more than two times a year, one or two times a year, less than once a year, or not at all?

 more than two times a year

The following are some reasons people have given in the past as to why they do not go to art museums more often. For each reason, please tell whether it is a major reason why you do not go to musuems more often, a minor reason, or not a reason at all:

1. there is not an art museum in my area:  major 

2. I do not have enough spare time:  minor  

3. I don't feel comfortable in art museums because I don't know alot about art: major  minor   not a reason not a reason

4. the cost of admission is too expensive: not a reason

5. I simply don't enjoy looking at art: not a reason

Would you favor or oppose spending more money in federal taxes than we do on the arts?

indifferent

Some works of art are displayed in public places. Do you think that average citizens should or should not have a say in determining which works of art are appropriate to be displayed in public?

not at all. They are not paying for the spot nor do they own it.

"When it comes to most political issues, do you think of yourself as a liberal, a conservative, or a moderate? If moderate, do you think of yourself as being closer to being liberal or being conservative?"

conservative/liberal

Which of the following income categories includes your total family income in 1992 before taxes?

n/a

What is your gender?

female

I believe that my answers are similar to some other American answers such as the question about the money or the art. I chose the money because as much as I love art I could use that money for better uses.

I think ones questioning the taste of the surveyor would help tremendously.

Big Idea Ideas

These are the only two i could think of...

this one i am going to wear im not sure if that counts as a performance...

 These two are one project and are to be wrapped in a pink ribbon in a destroyed crate

Exquisite Corpse

beautiful gypsy run green rat
green flower shrieking unsubstantial valerie
red rat ran crispy dog

For my pictures I chose :
green:

flower:

valerie:

Feminine Pictures

The flowers I know are very typical. I took pictures of the hill because it looked curvy to me and when I think of a woman I think of curves~

Metaphor piece

here was my metaphor piece it was meant to be a performance piece but apparently helium doesnt last s long in regular balloons... oh well i had to improvise so here :

Anyway if i was able to perform it  the loner balloon was going to float away...

my metaphor was: "Friends are balloons, If you dont hold them tight enough they float away."

Here goes my story line and mapping projects

As for my critique for this piece: I was told that i did a poor job on hiding the wood at the top of my piece (i honestly forgot that there are taller people in class xD)

I should of colored in the missing glass space with black.

Metaphor Proposal #3

this is the first one i did
 I was thinking of since I was in disney land  and in a pool at the time of my memory that i make a disney land hat out of balloons. Some would be filled with water and some not.

Mfah and Camh pics

PROCESS FOR WALL PIECE

Should I keep it like this I like the negative space i might need to break it some more...

Metaphor Proposal #2

This is my second Proposal for the metaphor piece. Its very much the same as the first but they are still somewhat attached and in the middle on both sides I was thinking of two pieces to represent separation. any ideas?

Metaphor Proposal #1

My first proposal for the metaphor. The two half circles is a tub split in half and the circles on top of them are balloons

Uncomfortable Video And Critique

Ill start with the bad things first:
 It was said that I should have saved looking directly at the camera until the very end of the video and it reminds people of the movie Jeepers Creepers.
The good things said:
the camera angle made my eye look like it was going into my skull and popping out. My eye looks uncomfortable. The video was abstract.

Final Monologue

here goes nothing

HmWork Part 2

The items i chose were:
Sight: family, grades, what the future could be, what i hope for the future to bbe
Sound: Laughing, phone calls, the sound of my brother mother sister and father, sighs gasps the clicking of a keyboard
Touch: Familiar embraces

2D HmWRK part 1

The 15 objects that I envisioned were: my dog, gumballs, raffel ticket machine, my moms car, a ferris wheel, rain, a windmill, basketball, my nephew, a bat (the animal), sparkler, a tornado, a thunderstorm, and a giant ball.
1) Actually I am about the same when visualizing people and objects its just when I havent seen a object before that it gets a little tough.
2) I am better at 3D objects interestingly enough. My imagination likes 3D when i try 2D..... nope just 3D xD.
3) its only when i envision nature do i actually have something of a background but other than that its floating in nothingness.
4) Hopefully its somewhere else because its kinda blank when i envision things.
5) In my field(animation) I would think it would be needed because say my boss wants me to design a character but he only gives me the bare necessity of what he is looking for. It is up to me to take what I a given give it a personality and a place. The mind is a great tool.

White space photos

Ill save my breath with an excuse on why there are only 3. Afterall, Excuses Are....

Modular Madness Proposal

here are my modular madness proposals in the end I chose to do the bottom one the top just wasnt that interesting to me after i had sketched it out...

Cardboard 3d proposals

In the end this was chosen as the design I was to do...

Mark Making Homework 1

Here are my mark making drawings had some fun doing these though i think i got on my roommates nerves...

Video Monologue peer review

I didnt really have any feedback from my group except to know what I am going to say ahead of time and to no be so afraid to curse. The monologue that we reviewed was my rant/story about heb and customers.

Story Line Revised~

Dear Indie:
            I do realize that this is some real bullshiz that I put myself through.  I go to class and I get work done. Most of the time I do rather well. Sometimes I do truly wonder what would happen if I rather than cross this line that I have pushed unto myself  fall short of it, of the expectation. I believe that that is what truly scares me: the expectation.
            I strive to do well for myself, I truly do. I also strive for my parents and my brothers who didn't get to finish. I strive mostly for my little sister. I don't really know if she still looks up to me like she did when we were little but regardless of that she still has a image of me. Whether that image is good or bad it is there. If I were to fall short of this line that I hold worlds above myself what would she think? Can I afford to let her down? If I fail will she still look up to me will that childhood image of the older sister disappear?
           I strive for my father's half of my family as well. No Moore has graduated yet and I am supposed to be the first. What if I let them down? Yeah they still have 3 other children to go through but that mar in my image is gone. I am but their temporary hope and I hope myself that I don't let them down. I don't necessarily like this all eyes on me thing. Maybe its in my head but its there nonetheless and I have learned to live with it.
           To fall short of the line would be to destroy part of myself that many people want to see in me. And honestly I am not too entirely sure that I wont fall. Until I do I'll have to keep striving and hoping and praying that I never fall short.

                                                Reality'sDaydreamer

Modular Madness!! Before and After

This was my initial plan for the piece it was to come out of the ground and out of the wall....

The white of the cups blended into the wall so it kind of disappeared...soo.
OBVIOUSLY I changed its location !!

During the critique of my piece I was told that I should of probably used the cups with design on them to put forth the vision of a actual church. I should of made it taller and I should of used some of the design cups for the snakes. I called it "Snakes in Eden"

MarkMaking part 2

Enjoy the marks!!
This assignment was somewhat enjoyable!

PS: I finally found the antishake for my camera wooo!!

Modular Madness Critique

Materials:
I do believe that because I used styrofoam cups that the piece works well. I am 100% sure that the piece could be made from other items styrofoam cups were just the most financially sound for me at the moment. I would love to try using some other medium! The actual use of the styrofoam cups was not really my problem it was the STATIC!!! I would like to see where to put things in advance and the cups would stick to my hand rather than the actual piece! We worked out our differences by the end. I discovered that I could indeed make bends and curves with styrofoam cups WITHOUT bending them. Hooray for playtime!
Concept:
I believe that I managed to keep the material's function and purpose in tact. Cups hold things, mainly drinks, except these cups prefer to hold each other! I do not believe that the viewer's view of the styrofoam cup is changed. Well maybe the viewer might want to build a rollercoaster out of cups!
Craftsmanship:I believe the way the piece is put together does not hurt the piece. I think it may draw away from some points but the points are still very noticeable in my opinion.
Process:
I do not believe my piece beyond average scale or materials (though I did use ALOT  of cups). My piece did change quite a bit from my initial imaginings. It was supposed to have legs and some kind of eye in there but I turned the legs to tentacles and made some crosses and built the illusion of a dome around it. Then the more I got into the piece the more it started to remind me of a church and the tentacles reminded me of snakes. (I'm seeing some symbolism here o.o ( completely unintentional by the way)) I believe that my piece is more ambitious in its final stage as it has more to it than my initial concept. The ending result is more ambitious in my opinion because what would of been a bunch of cups on legs turned into a bunch of cups  with psychedelic wiggly arms turned roller coaster turned snakes with crosses.
Form:
The two most dominant elements would be shape and color. The elements are important to the piece because of the where the piece is situated. My piece is near a stark white color and is set down on the brown mauve looking floor. As for the shape the coils draw the eye to it.
Similarity/difference and unity are both implied in the work. Crosses and snake like objects are in the piece seemingly living in harmony yet they are both similar and different in the meaning. You cant have one without the other.
Presentation:
I chose where my piece was because I have these white styrofoam cups next to some dismembered lawnmowers. and the white of the cups contrast well to the floor. I think my piece notices that the others are there but is like " HEY WORLD LOOK AT ME" kind of because you have all these colors around and in the middle you have something that is colorless.

I chose these three criteria firstly because I had a war with myself choosing exactly what I wanted to use. I started to think plates then I went to spoons then I thought about legos. The list is endless Concept wise I did not know what I was doing until after I had started and made some altercations as I went along this process. I also chose Craftsmanship because I had the hardest time choosing what  and how to bind. Toothpicks were brought to my attention and it didnt work to well with me. I tried paper clips that didnt go over so well either. After the failed attempts I went and cried in the shower (ha Kathy) and went with the ever so tempermental hot glue gun.

Falling short journal excerpt

Dear Indie:
            I do realize that this is some real bullshiz that I put myself through.  I go to class and I get work done. Most of the time I do rather well. Sometimes I do truly wonder what would happen if I rather than cross this line that I have pushed unto myself  fall short of it, of the expectation. I believe that that is what truly scares me: the expectation.
            I strive to do well for myself, I truly do. I also strive for my parents and my brothers who didn't get to finish. I strive mostly for my little sister. I don't really know if she still looks up to me like she did when we were little but regardless of that she still has a image of me. Whether that image is good or bad it is there. If I were to fall short of this line that I hold worlds above myself what would she think? Can I afford to let her down? If I fail will she still look up to me will that childhood image of the older sister disappear?
           I strive for my father's half of my family as well. No Moore has graduated yet and I am supposed to be the first. What if I let them down? Yeah they still have 3 other children to go through but that mar in my image is gone.
           To fall short of the line would be to destroy part of myself that many people want to see in me. And honestly I am not too entirely sure that I wont fall. Until I do I'll have to keep striving and hoping and praying that I never fall short.

                                                Reality'sDaydreamer

my two dots and my nakedness o.o

sweet memories
As for the critique for our group, here it is:
Theme/Human element:
For our theme and meaning I believe it is quite obvious that we went with streakers. However, streaking was not our initial game plan we used paint and made our dots a little too abstract to get their meaning through. As for the human element what better way to show that we are human than to be as naked as the day we were born? We gave ourselves a 5.
Craftmanship:
For craftmanship we gave ourselves a 4. Instead of getting the actual photo files from Katy we got the picture files from her blog and the result was a grainy pixelated picture instead of the clean crisp pictures we should of had. Also those of us who did use the blog  picture there was a white strip that draws the eye away from our compositions.
Whitespace:
For whitespace we gave ourselves a 5. With Katy's quick thinking we used some tarps and laid them out  and then Katy oversomething (so not a photography major so Ill spare myself the embarrassment) so you would not be able to tell that the floor was not white.
Selection/Revision:
Luckily we had Katy so we only had redo a few shots. I was kind of sad because the original composition that I had wanted to do was darn near impossible but I am still happy with my results.
For Group effort we gave ourselves a 3. We had a absence and a lack of communication but once we got started we were on a role!

Human Dot Compostions: The Streakers!~

 In this one I had a fascination with Katy's camera and wanted to watch it blink... I am amused by the smallest things xD

This was our second attempt at the human dot composition project. Our first attempt had burst into flames before we even finished. It was too abstract and the message of our dots wasn't going through.
In our second attempt we appear as naked as the day were born... just with umbrellas! Hana's and Alex's poses are great right? And Dante was just too funny! This project got me out of my comfort zone just a little wooo! I am definitely keeping these as memories!