Foundations night response

Maya Deren
#1 Visions of flowers, shadows on walls
Running after capped phantoms stolen flowers
A knife to be stepped upon
Beware of keys transforming into knives

Anri Sala "Time After Time"
#4 Starving horse on sidewalk. Cars drive by. Brighten horse image fade. Black silhouette in front of night and city landscape. A step, turn of the head. Blur horse foot slowly lifts, uncomfortable? Why so hungry looking? I'm hungry. Two bright pinpoints of light emerge from blue-grey murkiness. Slowly become smaller. Sound of approaching truck. Look back up lights small again until insignificant. I'm hungry. Dog barking. Focused but no light to shine on horse. Is it paused with just noises? Oh, blur again. Only one pinpoint of light this time. Car honking. Dog barking. Is a car going to go by. Focus in time to see yes..horse lifts up head again. Flitter of tail. How come it doesn't move? Trained? To tired? Doesn't care. Blue again.Another car with blur. Truck. Zoom in. Lit horse. Car honk. Clanking of chains from truck. Oh, horse lowering head. Is it ok? Poor horse :( I don't think it wants to be there anymore. Over.

Pipilotti Rist "I want to see what you see"
#3

Pierre Huyghe "I Jedi (Devils Mountain)"
#5
A mountain
not a fountain
with music nearby
do not fly
for the devil's countin'

The ensembled piece
drips with lease
the mountain in half
does not laugh
but cries without cease

David Claerbout "La Moment"
#6
Crickets chirping at night nearing trees? Not sure how to "extrapolate" on this. Trees never nearer til now. Freaky horror-like music. In a forest will there be a dead body with blood dripping from a gaping mouth? Cat appears and goes away. Sad day. That was the monster.

William Kentridge "Automatic Writing"
#2
A man breathing naked the music chaotic and reminiscent of a train station. Crowded subway.
Illustrating the words of fleeting moments that happen perchance but not to us but others.
Human body is a living thing. Pulsating with life and breath. But every breath is death.
Window for the soul are the eyes they say, but also our actions deliver.
Reflections of moments that never fade but are engraved into our very thoughts.

~Alex

One Minute Sculpture

For Foundations
~Alex

Substrate

"Every artist was first an amateur. " ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Here are my substrate pics. arrrg.

 Cows & Cows & Cows

~Alex

Nobody ever did,

or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices." ~Alfred A. Montapert

Here's my response to Linda Davidson's lecture

"Driveby 5" series 2006-2008

"Oregon",  graphite drawing. 2001 80"x30"

"A Snag in a Fog of Words" (back) 2006

Linda Davidson's pictures, as compared to her words, seem to match up with each other. Some might need further explaining though.
For the pictures, such as the "Driveby" series the viewer can tell by the title and image that it represents a memory or scene of going by scenery while in a fast moving object such as a car or train. Davidson's graphite drawings at first, I personally thought, were black and white photographs. Her other piece "A Snag in a Fog of Words" might not have been as noticeable to tell what it was really about (at least to me) but to the viewers such as myself it's quite nice to look at.
Linda Davidon's words though ad depth to the experience of looking at her pieces. She talked of doing abstract drawings and doing visual play on shapes. Davidson has never been trained as a painter. "A Snag in a Fog of Words" she explains was also typed about her handling being middle-aged and believes that "one image effects another image" for her inspiration.
Her "Driveby" series is about "the moment and its passing." She believes that history gives you a context of struggle if many people to make sense of the world and clues to who had power during that time period along with how people reacted to that power.

song of youtube of the day:Electric Sky Orchestra- Mr. Blue Sky

~Alex

There's no retirement

for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it." ~Henry Moore
Coulda sworn I already posted this..
Pics for Peru culture homework...

 Machu Picchu

Here are some more...

The road of life

twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination." ~Don Williams, Jr.

Here are my inspirational artists. I know we are only supposed to do one but I liked these folks so much ;-;

Pettrybyos

All I know of Pettrybyos is the available information from their deviantart account, which is..They're from Finland aaaand...

• Interests: Ghost stories
• Favourite movie: Battle Royale
• Favourite band or musician: David Bowie
• Favourite artist: Rudolf Koivu, Hugo Simberg
• Favourite game: Bubble Bobble!
• Favourite gaming platform: PS, PC
• Favourite cartoon character: Calvin

The reason I chose this artist is because I enjoy  I guess more of their lack of color and think that they're style is cute.  I also believe that they're watercolor is wonderful as well.

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Locklit
is 17, female and from Finland as well...and that is all the information available on her.

What I enjoy about Locklit's work is the use of vibrant colors and sometimes limited palette.

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& my favorite of faves...
Deathofrats
22, female and from Canada.

• Current Residence: Toronto, Canada
• Interests: drawing, psychology, fiction
• Favourite band or musician: Sakanaction
• Favourite artist: Mucha, McQueen, Amano, James Jean, Ooyuki Shiwasu, Rowland Emett, Igarashi Mikio
• Favourite poet or writer: Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
• Tools of the Trade: Watercolours, photoshop 7

Deathofrats' is one of my favorite watercolor/ink artists because of the way she uses her colors. The brightness and use of negative and positive space or colors are fantastic to me.

Here's a crazy mcdonald's ad from Japan. Ahhhhhhhh....
McDonald's Japanese Ad

~Alex

Time is like

a handful of sand- the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers." ~?

What? Updating this? yes -blows off the dust- hurhum.
Well here's the picture of me doing something with my temp tattoo for class (not original at all :v )

very sketchy huzzah
I'll prob, maybe, do a better pic >>

Here's some notes on the visiting artist for Wednesdays Foundations, Keith Negley...
He's an editorial illustator, he's freelance and works in corporate finance, does work for the New York Times. He says that editors can't be picky with what you give them because of their time limit.
His main focus is to do something with his time. "If you want to do it, you will do it."
Internships are a big thing. He did three or four of them, one was with an illustrator who had adobe illustrator and paid him to trace over his sketches.
Keith Negley enjoys to work with less than four colors, he puts all the colors on one layer (blue on one, orange on one, &c.)
Said that a big thing is to not say "no" to your clients because if you say no to many times they wont call you again.
For his works he makes his own textures but does reuse them as well.
As an editorial illustrator making to many idea sketches and sending them in could be detrimental because then the client may not know what to choose and then have you mock up a few of them, so you're creating more work for yourself.
Always into propaganda posters. Forces you to work with negative space; figure/ground.
It's about how little you can live off of...in the beginning.
Interning is huge.
Work comes in waves, for three months he could only have to work for 10 hours and then all of a sudden he could be jam packed with work.
Black and white pictures tend to take longer.
Shellac is great.

& I leave you with this..."Premake" Up! (1965)
later!
~Alex