MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU

I'm curious as to if he is paid to do this, or if he does all of it illegally? I'll get back to you on how my research is going.

An interesting take.

I'm Terrible at Drawing Hands.

I'm terrible at drawing hands. However I am making a label for a beer in Project Phoenix by Butternuts Brewery's Christopher Schell.

I have been practicing on hands while maintaining my strange taste in drawing, art, and perspective.

I thought I should show you.

 

It's progress.

Something I would like to try.

I would like to try to apply a pencil vs. photo to my mixed media art.

If you are one of the few people who read this unfortunately boring blog,

Do you have any ideas where I can start? Any ideas on how to go about this?

 

Photo was found here.

Natural Habitat - Emily Finger; Fingerprints Photography.

 Emily Finger is the owner of the Fingerprints Photography Company.  Extremely talented at such a young age, Emily is an avid photographer and digitally edits her own photos on Photoshop. She has an enormous portfolio of work admired by many.

            In her most recent show at Hartwick College she displayed photos of male and female models painted as animals. This is to represent the animalistic instinct that inhabits everyone. The models were beautifully painted, by Hartwick students.

            Each image depicts a different animal attitude. For example, a female and male model was painted as snow leopards. In one specific photo the female is glaring at the camera lens, looking straight at the viewer, giving off an intimidating aura. The male model is depicted as being infatuated with the female. The photo illustrates a natural claim and protection of the animal kingdom. It is an incredible series. It is up for a limited time in the upstairs of Anderson, outside of the painting circle.

Hot Head Cool Head.

John Bjerklie is an independent artist living in Brooklyn, NY. Bjerklie set up an exhibit at Hartwick College, Fall 2011. He called it, "Hot Head Cool Head." Made completely out of wooden planks and live recording studio cameras hooked up to televisions in both sculptures.  One of the sculptures is red and the other is blue to represent the hot and cool colors. During his presentation Bjerklie brought up how the question most commonly asked is if the sculptures were political. In his response he disclosed that colors do not represent anything political, however he enjoys leaving the pieces up for interpretation.

Sophomore Review - A Review.

            Walking through the lower Anderson hallway, of Hartwick College, during the sophomore review, two pieces caught my eye. The first was Amanda Mattson's collective pieces.

            The piece I found most conceptually interesting was the wielded egg and sperm that represented life. There were many sperm attempting to get to the core of the egg but were not lucky enough to make it. A solid piece that represents a new perspective on the race of life. I was truly astonishing. Amanda achieved a great perspective on shape and organic movement and her pieces were set in such a way that it created fluid development and personal involvement. The piece reminds the viewer about how life is formed while in society the beautiful process of creating life is distorted by the pornographic view on sex.

            Amanda’s presentation of her work was concrete and to the point. The detail and precision of her pieces were well represented. The story behind each one was extraordinary. As a viewer I was enthralled and entertained by the captivating display.

The Guerrilla Girls.

 

Fighting against feminism and racial inequality in the art world, the Guerrilla Girls took form in an anonymous group in the year 1985 in New York City. While attending Hartwick College I was blessed with the presence of Jane Kaufman, the last standing Guerrilla girl who has emerged from the anonymity of the Guerrilla Mask.  

I was invited by a dear friend of mine to meet Jane over dinner, I was unsure how I would react to her presentation. Would it be interesting? Would I like her work? Is she the movement? I can barely put into words how much I loved everything she had to say. Anything that she was challenged about had logical and intuitive responses. She treated the audience as adults, rather than immature college kids who can't take a joke once in a while, which was great! She spoke her mind, not ashamed of what she had to say.

Organizing protests and displaying protest art anonymously is a difficult task to achieve. Armed with a shopping cart, blanket, gorilla masks, and a look out, who would warn the rest of the group if the cops were near by the Guerrilla Girls set out to display a vast amount of momentous home-made silk screen prints of protest art across the city. A group of women walking around New York City at night wearing gorilla masks and putting up posters of protest art is impressively hard to get away with. The fact that the Guerrilla Girls have remained anonymous until just recently when very few of them decided to step forward and reveal their secret identity, much like a super hero.

After listening to her presentation on the Guerrilla Girls and seeing her own personal art I could not wait to meet her personally and discuss art. A few other students and I went to a restaurant with her and some professors along with their personal friends. Unfortunately I sat in the wrong seat at the table and could not comfortably speak with Jane. However I did manage to speak with Fiona DeJardin, the wonderful professor of the Art Sex and Pornography as well as the owner and artist of DeJardin Beads.
 A great meal passed by and it was time to leave after we had all finished crunching on cannolis. I took my final chance to speak with my new found idol. I explained that I did not have a good opportunity to lean across the table and speak with her and asked if there were any way I could e-mail her. Astonished that I had asked the question she graciously gave me her card and wrote her personal e-mail on the back. I was in awe, I did not think I had the courage to even form the words to ask. Jane invited me, as well as the other few artists, to her studio in NYC.  An incredible end to an incredible night with incredible people.

Vivian Maier

Vivian Maier died at 83. As a nanny, she was unknown for her talent in photography. After her death more than 100,000 negatives were sold at an auction. Many of her amazing and astonishing photos are from 1950s to the 1970s with mostly only a city and year attached.
Below are some of those developed negatives. Absolutely breath-taking.

 

Christmas Eve of 1953, 78th St & 3rd Ave. New York, NY

 Untitled, Undated

 

Untitled, Undated

 

January, 1953, New York, NY

You can find more of her amazing photos here.

Shakespear Insult Kit.

Hey! Quick Update!

So I have been under a lot of stress lately, with issues at home and school etc.etc.
A real funk.
So I started working on a stop motion animation with a few of my close friends. We are going all out for this and hope to have a foundation by the end of January.
I'll keep you updated with some sneak peaks!

Town in Lithuania makes a Christmas Tree out of Bottles!

 

The artist Jolanta Šmidtienė has helped Kaunas Lithuania decorate for the third year in a row now.
Incredibly using about 40,000 plastic bottles to form a recyclable Christmas tree.

A House made out of LEGO's

Picture it.
Now see it.

 

So Steve Jobs has a book out.... on paper. ;D

Painting on Flesh.

 

An artist who paints on people, to make them look like acrylic paintings. Astonishing, isn't it?

Check out more here.

My first photoshop stop motion animation.

Song - Plastic Castle by Ani Difranco.
I do not own the rights to the music used.


Enjoy!

Jimpressions

Night Before Christmas Through Celebrity Impersonations - Watch MoreFunny Videos

Check out this guy! 3.2 Million ink dots makes one Fascinating Video.

Hero from Miguel Endara on Vimeo.

Drawing from life.

For my sophomore review I was instructed to display a drawing from life. Of course I usually am just inspired by life and very rarely draw directly from life. So I panicked. I only have a photo of my progress image that I took less than half way through the drawing, but I will make an update post of the finished product.

Pixels

PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN. by onemoreprod

An INCREDIBLE video about pixels by Patrick Jean.