Project 6- The Giant Pink Bow

        While trying to think of how I can relate my Project 6 to my identity, the first thing that came to mind, was a giant pink bow. My entire life, I have loved bows. To me, these bows represent myself. Since I make my bows myself, and I have an extensive bow collection, each one has a story. Every one of my bows are unique. Some of them in the sea of the other, flawless bows, are not perfect, but they are still still beautiful and unique. I relate myself to those imperfect bows. I know I have my flaws, but I don't focus on that. Usually, when someone (usually girls), sees a bow, it gives a sense of happiness. That is something that I want people to feel when they see me. Through my techniques of trying to form myself in bow form in Blender, I wanted it to reflect the imperfect bow. It is still beautiful, but it is unique. I used pink to help radiate that happy feeling. Although I did struggle with creating the form, in the end result, all I saw was me.

Reading Four- A New Aesthetic

While reviewing "The New Aesthetic" blog, there was one post that really stuck out to me. This post was Inactive Account Manager: After a Google User Dies, A Will for Their Google Data. This post showed how Google almost creates a will of some sort for online data. I was able to relate this back to the reading, though how some sort of collection of data can become related to real life. It was odd to think about, and made me look at the power of google in a whole new way.
The reading made me question:
1- To what extent is the virtual life, becoming real life?
2-How much information does Google hold, on everyone's life?

Project 4-Emulation

While creating my video emulation, I wanted to make it personal, but also something fun. Figured if I didn't know what I was doing, might as well make something that would one way or another make me smile. The artist I chose to emulate was William Wegman, with an excerpt from the video, Selected Works (excerpt). This "Two Dogs One Ball" excerpt from this video caught my attention because honestly, it involved dogs, and I have an obsession with my dog. ,I enjoyed that my one dog, being compared to Wegman's two dogs, was really humorous to me. The fact that the two dogs were different in every way intrigued me, and made me smile. The choice to add audio, while the original had no sound, was simply because I thought it was a requirement. If I thought I could have left out the audio, I would have. I chose to make the video black and white, since the original was black and white, and filmed where I could find a simple background, as the video as well. I also used a ball to catch the pug's attention, as Wegman did in his video with his dogs.

(The second video posted is not Selected Works, but it is the part of Selected Works that I chose.)

Artist Emulate Change-Project 4

Instead of Yoko Ono's piece, I have changed my artist to William Wegman. The video I chose to emulate of his, isSelected Works (excerpt). In this video, there is a piece from his Two Dogs and one Ball. I chose this piece because I have a dog, and honestly, there is nothing more that would bring me more joy than doing a project like this with my big eyed pug. I enjoy the comparison between my short and chubby single dog with a small snout, with Wegman's two giant, fit dogs with quite the large snout.

Reading 2

1- Since video artists had some rather graphic art, and art that, for the time, was very different, how did society react to this new form of art? Did they find it intriguing, or at the bottom of the totem pole when it came to the quality of the art? Did they find it avant-gard, or not interesting?

2- It seems as though video art sprang up around the same time as Pop Art. I know that Pop Art was meant to be seen by the mass media. Since video art was new, did the artists want to make it seen by most of society as well? If so, did they try to take advantage of most Americans have televisions at home, and try to get it into the television media, so it could be seen by a wider audience?

Project 4-Artist to Emulate

The artist I chose to emulate was Yoko Ono, through his film, Yoko Ono - Eye Blink (1966). I was intrigued by how he created subliminal messages, that travel through the eye, that was as quick as a blink, and incorporated the eye itself. He took a simple part of the human body, and made that the main focus of the video. It made you think of why he chose the concepts of the human eye, and how we see hidden messages. It made a simple video of just an eye and words, and made it something with complex meaning, that makes one think about what just happened. 

Reality/Fantasy-Sound-Project #2

      We kept our videos the same, but shortened the reality video, for we wanted both videos to match up in time, as close as possible. Our goal was to represent our video themes (i.e.: reality and fantasy), through the sounds on garageband, Sound Bible, and a recorded sound from ourselves. We wanted the reality to be fun and up beat, which would be more like real life, while the fantasy video would sound dream like.