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Scratch

Here is the link to my Scratch projects. http://scratch.mit.edu/users/n02332914


I remixed a game by ljyhwasa670, by completely revamping the background by changing the colors and I also cleaned up the line work of the maze.  For this game, you have to try and go through the maze without touching any of the black or you will be returned to the beginning. I also remixed it a second time but changed the background to Marilyn Monroe and changed the end smiley face to a Monroe style face. I used Monroe to tie into my photoshop magazine cover project.  
I also created a racing horse animation and a curious dog animation. The dog animation was the first thing I created on Scratch so it's very amateur.  The horse race was the last thing I created and I created the backgrounds myself and got the horse and rider from google.  I photoshoped the horse and rider and added them to the animation.  Then I went onto garageband and made a horse race themed song and them compiled them all together and had my end result.

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Documentary

          For my documentary I explored the question, does technology influence art making? I interviewed 3 different people here on campus and asked them questions about their art making and if they use technology or like technology when they're creating art. The overall poll was yes, every one of them used it and it influences their creative processes. I even talked about my own art making and how it influences me, I spoke briefly about how in high school we were assigned a project in my painting and drawing class to pick any song and draw/paint a picture from it. I did strawberry fields by the Beatles and I really enjoyed this project because everyone's project was different and unique.  It wasn't a still life or something boring like that where every project was the same in the end. This project was a little more difficult than the others because I didn't know how to really use iMovie but I got the main stuff down, I wish I could do fancy things with it but I liked my end result.

Mashup Project

For this project I started with the idea of beauty and what is beautiful in each different culture around the world. But after exploring the idea and ideas surrounding it, I decided to mash up a three lingerie advertisements of Giselle Bundchen which were very controversial in Brazil and mix it up with angry men and loving men.  The commercials were two different ways to tell your husband/boyfriend bad news; 1. with clothes on and 2. in your bra and undies. Obviously you can see why this is so controversial.  So I mashed up the advertisement and separated the two parts of the commercial and after the part where Giselle tells her husband bad news with clothes, i put a short clip of a very angry man and after she tells the bad news in her underwear i had some sappy man telling her that he loved her. I think my mash up is comical in a way but also shows the superficiality (if that's the right word) of the world. It shows how if women, you do things in your undergarments, you can get your way with anything. And I personally don't think that's right at all (well, maybe if I looked like Giselle) but it's sending out the wrong message to young women and women in general.  I think it really brings us back to before women had rights.

Tim Lefens Lecture

 

             http://www.artrealization.org/index.html

Last night I was able to attend the Tim Lefens lecture.  I was a little skeptical at first, but I ended up really enjoying what Lefens had to say.  He is the creator of A.R.T. which stands for Artistic Realization Technologies,  wrote the book “Flying Colors” and created the two very valuable techniques used all over the country for special needs people; the laser technique and the point system technique.  During his lecture he spoke about his feelings about art and how people look at art and how they judge it.  Also he spoke about these three theories he had; the death bed theory, the truncated pyramid theory, and the two plateau theory.

 This first theory consisted of if you were locked in a plain, white walled room and only had four hours to live and you knew you were going to die and at the foot of the bed was a big blank wall what would you want to paint there? What would be the last thing you would ever want to see? This really got me thinking about my own personal life and what my family and I have been going through for the past couple of days and reality of death and dying and got me thinking, what would be the last thing I would want to ever see.  When I was fifteen I almost went blind, and being an art lover I was devastated that I was never going to be able to see or make art again.  Thankfully I recovered but it is still in the back of my mind quite often.  His second theory, the truncated pyramid theory, is about how only so many people can be on top of this competitive pyramid and how Andy Warhol tried to bring down the level of art and sliced off the top end of the pyramid and now everyone is equal and on the same playing level.  He also mentioned that Warhol and Duchamp aren’t “good” artists and that their artwork isn’t high art and I kind of agree with this, even though I am a HUGE Warhol fan, sometimes I look at art in a museum and wonder, why is this here? Why is this considered good or exquisite?  The third theory is about having two plateaus with an endless gap in between.  And being an artist you had to jump the gap and try and reach the higher up plateau.  What if you didn’t make it? At least you tried.  Lefens says, “It takes courage to let go and make the leap to the higher plateau.”  This theory means that you have to take chances in your art.  To not always play it safe and to take risks and go beyond what you normally create.  This theory definitely applies to me in my painting classes here at New Paltz.  I have always painted on the ‘safe’ side and never really applied any wild colors to my paintings and being here, I have learned to paint outside of my comfort zone and be more experimental n my color choices and enjoy painting in this new way. 

I also liked what he had to say with being yourself when your painting and not to let anyone judge you.  Also, this letting go of reality and falling into another place and experiencing art with new eyes.  And his secret to finding real art is in this process of letting go and losing yourself and you have to trick yourself to not be in the literal world anymore.  Overall, I really enjoyed myself at this lecture.  It was very interesting to hear his opinions about art making and everything else he had to say.  And I really loved that his message was to be yourself in your art and don’t let anyone else bring you down and if you’re passionate about it then the product will be good.