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#when i tell you this one was SO MUCH HARDER to make#coloring books are an underappreciated art form#bocchi the rock!#ijichi nijika#nijika's activities
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Top 5 early 2000s Charlie pics (so shameless of me, I just want to see pics). Also top 5 books.
I’m not complaining.
In no particular order:
1. He looks like a classic movie star and I love it.
2. Charlie smiling is nice no matter what, but I know from the rest of the set that he’s smiling at Mick, which makes it that much better.
3. I mean, do we even need to say why?
4. It’s neat to see Charlie in a space that he decorated, and it’s especially nice to see him looking so relaxed and comfortable in his own skin. This is 2000, so that good period post-‘80s drinking/drugs and pre-cancer, when he seemed to have more confidence than he ever had before or would again.
5. Isn’t it lovely to see an old married couple that still enjoys each other’s company?
I’m not sure if this is for the Stones or all books in general, so I’ll just do both.
(With the caveat that I’m a massive book nerd and asking me to pick my favorite is like asking someone to choose a favorite kid, so I’m just going a bit randomly and only doing fiction. Also, as before, no particular order).
Stones:
1. Life by Keith Richards
It’s biased, but he’s entertaining as hell/so damn bitchy, and there is Charlie propaganda galore.
2. The True Adventures of The Rolling Stones by Stanley Booth
An interesting view into the Stones as a cultural force, as well as their band dynamics, and Stanley’s obvious crush on Shirley is hilarious.
3. Sympathy for the Drummer by Mike Edison
Quite honestly, I don’t read a lot of band books/celebrity bios, and a lot of that has to do with the fact that the writing is trash. Totally not the case here. Edison has a very Hunter S. Thompson meets Tom Wolfe, gonzo/New Journalism style that makes the book enjoyable to read even just for the prose. Of course, the most important part is that it’s all about why Charlie Watts is amazing.
4. S.T.P. by Robert Greenfield
Like the Booth book, a cool view into the band itself and its cultural impact. The book he wrote about following them in 1971 is also pretty good.
5. Stoned by Jo Wood
Lots of great, candid photos.
Books in general:
1. My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
This is a novel about a miniaturist in the 16th century Ottoman Empire, but it’s also an exploration of religion, love, sex, violence, art, and everything else under the sun. The subject is already close to my heart, both because Islamic miniature painting is an art form I love and that period/place intersects with my professional life, but the prose is mind bendingly good. Each chapter has a different narrator, and it’s not only people that narrate, but the color red, a corpse, death, etc.
2. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Waugh is one of my favorite English novelists, and this may be my favorite one of his books. It’s sweeping yet still human, sad but still retains hope, funny and dark without losing any of its gravity. The description of Charles and Sebastian under the tree with Aloysius the teddy will haunt me forever.
3. The Collected Poems in English: Joseph Brodsky
Poetry is a little outside of fiction, but I adore Brodsky, so we’ll stretch. To be quite honest, I’m guessing that this is the best resource to read him in English, because I have all of his work in Russian, but please, read him any way you can. He’s criminally underappreciated outside of the Russophone world, and his work is just shatteringly amazing. If you’ve never tried anything by him, look up “May 24, 1980.”
4. Love in A Fallen City and Other Stories by Eileen Chang
This is a novella attached to a collection of short stories, and every piece deserves to be written. Chang shines a fascinating light on early 20th century Chinese culture and society, normally from an often little appreciated female perspective. Even though many of her works focus on relationships between men and women, she’s not any kind of stereotypical romance writer, and you get a lot more than cheap tears or saccarine happy endings.
5. Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy
It’s the voice that draws me to this book, and I think that’s also what makes it so engaging. Dr. Thomas More (descendant of the famous author of Utopia) is a southern doctor struggling day to day to look after his patients in a disintegrating country. He’s also an alcoholic, a lapsed Catholic, and a divorcee who lost a daughter and ricochets between women trying to find stability and meaning while waiting for the end of the world.
#honorable mention for ada by vladimir nabokov#thanks!#the rolling stones#charlie watts#keith richards#old married band#mick jagger#ask response#anonymous#ask game
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Top 10 Niche Interests
Fixations? Obsessions? This is incredibly hard because I have wayyyy too many niche interests, so instead of stressing about it, I tried to channel the 10 things that immediately speak to me and maybe aren't so obvious from what I post here, like how much I'm obsessed with wigs, doll furniture, incredibly specific blogs, all forms of clothing with pockets, swimming pools, whimsical bus stops, over-the-top bathrooms, etc. etc Instead, I opted for some specifics that feel a little more evergreen and long tailed, like, so LIFE-long tailed that it's tough to nail down when or how they became part of the national psyche. I thank @alienfuckeronmain for the initial tag, and I'm tagging her AGAIN for round two because I know she has a billion additional niche things, and she'll post them, and I'll scream because it'll trigger five other things I neglected to post here, and I'll probably post my own round two, arggggh, insert aggressive sighing. Anyway, I tag ANYONE who wants to do it, just tag me so I can see!
1. Indoor Trees
I have no idea why this concept PULLS so hard because houseplants are kind of meh to me, but you want to plant an entire-ass TREE indoors, in the place where you live? Me, too, and I'd add a conversation pit plus a combo gold/red bathroom, among other things, and, bam, we're in my imaginary dream home, which I have literally, constantly ALWAYS mentally constructed from the time I was about six or so. (If you're curious, it has multiple themed rooms, and the closest I've seen to it recently is the outstanding Dita von Teese AD feature, but Amy Sedaris’s apartment comes close, too). There are two (2) 1960s houses in Long Beach with magnificent indoor trees, but I can't find them online, so have this modern interpretation and cry with me about how I can't visit the multi-story fake tree inside Clifton's Cafeteria for a good long while:
2. Conventions of Fans of Any Kind
One thing that I don't think I'll ever lose is how much I *love* people who are fans of SOMETHING, people who have a passion and create something about it or cosplay it or simply gather to celebrate it and connect to other people through it. The Internet provides in all kinds of ways, but I'm talking specifically about IRL conventions and the way my heart pitter pats when I first walk in those doors, SWOON! And it doesn’t matter how big the convention is or how random, I've been to smaller events like CatCon and the My Little Pony convention all the way up to biggies like WonderCon and Comic Con, and I have yet to be disappointed. I might know jack shit about what I'm walking into, but I want to see the merch, hear about the panels, and check out the people who are fucking PUMPED to be there. Sadly, I think it's gonna be a lonnnnng time until these come back, but I can live vicariously through my old photos, sigh:
3. Dutch Wax Fabrics and African Fashion
I'm not the snazziest of dressers, but textiles, colors, and patterns have been an obsession that has soothed my visual soul for as long as I can literally remember. Wax fabric marries all three of those touchpoints, plus throws in a healthy dose of style, and I count myself lucky to have seen two big exhibits on the subject (this was one of them), oh, how I wish there were more! For sure, there's a fucked up underlying colonial/imperialist history here, but there's also humor and color and vibrancy, a reclamation of sorts, and multiple levels of fashion that take my breath away. I cannot do the different patterns justice at all, but the fan motif is one of my faves:
4. Hearst Castle vs. Madonna inn
These two fall into my #home tag because they're where I'm from, and they speak to me as equally sublime and ridiculous, camp and kitsch writ large and small, different (yet similar!) versions of Xanadu that two rich white men built as shrines to their own personal "taste." And the irony is that a lot of people shit on Alex Madonna for being tacky (the Madonna Inn is...uh, something else), yet praise WR Hearst for all the high-class art and architecture, most of which is fully lifted from desperate churches between and after world and yet they're both more or less the same concept (lodging for weary travelers, self-aggrandizement, questionable taste-mixing). Hearst Castle edges out slightly for me because it's bigger and has spectacular scenery and history, plus it gives me doses of LA noir thanks to the way Hearst killed a guy in a jealous Charlie Chaplin-related rage and Hedda Hopper covered it up, all kinds of old Hollywood shenanigans happened up there, etc. But I'm low-key an expert on both houses of the holy, I'm OBSESSED with both, and we can leave it at that. I mean, come on:
5. Snow Globes
I had to cull my personal collection slightly just to fit it all on the dedicated shelf in my bathroom, and I seriously need to refill all the water lines, but nothing beats a snow globe in terms of memorable souvenir, especially when you put it in a bathroom. The majesty!!! The jewel of my collection is the one from Sherwood Forest because WHY NOT celebrate a historic place and moment in the basic way?? He robbed from the rich to give to the poor, and the gift shop about 100 feet from the tree he hid in does the same! The circle of life! The irony of all the watermarks on this blessed image...protect:
6. Highly Specific Museums
Look, we can all agree that the more venerated museums in the world are a form of garbage in terms of what they represent, what they've done, and who runs them, but I'm here for the museums that collect and celebrate things that tend to get overlooked. There are too many to list that I love that are still thriving, so I'm going to say goodbye to four recently departed faves. RIP to the Pez museum, I'm so glad I saw you and purchased your stale candy souvenirs. RIP to the museum of terrible food, you were a pop up when Phoenix and I saw you, and I will forever think about the worker describing people literally vomiting during their visits. RIP to the currywurst museum in Berlin, I've had currywurst exactly once and it was not for me, but I respect the Journey you took me on, including obscure east German TV shows that helped make you so popular (??). Finally, RIP to the velvet painting museum, there's no way to mince words, the person who owned you was crazy AS FUCK and had zero clue how to run a business, but I'm so glad I saw you multiple times and purchased my own velvet treasure (not this exact one, but remarkably similar):
7. Liminal Spaces: Grocery Store Edition
Confession time for those who don't know me all that well, I'm a big time voyeur, and nothing fills my heart with joy like a walk at 7 or 8 pm, the witching hour when people haven't pulled the curtains, and I can scope out their decorations/furnishings without it being "weird." Another confession is how much I unabashedly adore grocery stores in other countries and will spend at least an hour wandering aisle by aisle, falling in love with how much everything is different yet completely the same:
8. Agatha Christie Novels:
As a child, I was a fairly compliant reader--I had to read something for school? Okay! For my mom? Sounds good! But the books that sparked the initial fire for me to read something purely for myself were second-hand (probably fourth- or fifth-hand, judging by cover art) Agatha Christie short story anthologies, which were the gateway drug to full Agatha Christie novels, then other mystery novels, and so on. But getting back to Agatha, I obviously loved all the stories, but every decade spawned incredibly good cover art (like, exceptionally good), and this particular artist's are right up near the top for me (I go back and forth on a lot of the '50s and '60s ones):
9. Scopitones
I link my obsession with scopitones both to my love of music videos in general and a shop in Austin, TX, that sold DVD compilations of them in particular, but either way, they're underappreciated and kitschy all in one! Francoise Hardy and the rest of the ye-ye's are my forever girls for this medium, but seemingly every country cranked them out, both actual set videos and "live" performances? If you don't know what they are, scopitones were machines that played music videos in French cafes in the '60s (??), so it was sort of your proto-MTV way to see your faves sing and dance. Oh, Francoise...so moderne!!
10. Cover Songs
I have so much patience and love for cover songs of any stripe, the more genre-bending and/or surprising, the better! My only minor beef is the trend in slooooooooowing down songs to make a point, but even those ones have a special place in my heart if they're effective. Live Lounge feeds my hunger the best, but my meta fave for representing this concept is Pulp's Bad Cover Version, which was already lyrically INSPIRED, a song about bad cover versions in terms of relationships, but then they did a video that was a visual "bad" cover version, with actors lip synching over an audio "bad" cover version, and all of it just worked? The cover for the single is someone in the band as a boy, making his own bad cover version of a Bowie album cover, it's meta meta meta, and I love love love, here's the video, if you're curious. In the more sublime cover category, I'm absolutely addicted to all of Orville Peck's covers, I truly hope he officially releases them sometime soon, but I wholeheartedly support any artist who does it:
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Week 3 – History of Design Post
HISTORICAL ELEMENTS OF DESIGN
By: Phomany Chanhdara
1. Berserk - Created by Kentaro Miura
I chose this specifically because Berserk has an amazing story and the design elements in creating this piece shows a progressive time compared to Japan’s historical art. Manga is quite popular and often underappreciated. On page 60, Art Nouveau: A New Style for a New Culture – there is a Japanese illustration shown in figure 2.5 titled, “Kitagawa Utamaro” which has a young woman with black teeth examining her face. “Stylistically speaking, the bold passages of flat color arranged in asymmetrical compositions, which lack any three-deimensional perspective spaces, combined with fresh, crisp linear elements, were all adopted by European graphic designers. Japanese artists rendered the figure – relying on black contour lines, which they combined with short, fluid strokes to produce details in the face.”
2. Cameras
“In order to meet demand, new technologies such as steam-powered presses, mechanized letterpress, lithography, and chromolithography enhanced the range of philosophies for the mass production of printed materials. Photography, perhaps the most significant invention of the century for graphic design, gradually made inroads during this period. [31 Elkison]”. On page 32, the book introduces the concept of “Photography.” Which is considered an important technological development. And it is simply regarded as “the ability to catch light”. Cameras make it possible to capture moments and cement memories and events into pictures. Phones have built in cameras and it allows you to capture images. We also have filters, allowing for us to alter color, tone, shapes, and such.
3. Posters
“Mass-market Advertising: The Broadsheet and the Poster”, page 41 -47 covers the topic of posters. Aside from printmaking and newspapers, posters became another form of communication. It tied together many social aspects, including politics and propaganda. Posters can be seen with creative fonts and illustrations to highlight points the author/artist is trying to create. This one above is a poster for kindergarten students learning about weather. Bold fonts, color, and pictures all help to create a visual impact.
4. Typewriting & Competition
Page 49 goes into further detail of how fonts came to be and the changes of lettering which used to be the standard. “Designed by Morris Fuller Benton (1872-1948), Franklin Gothic, was produced to meet the high demand for sans serif faces, as opposed to traditional serif types such as Garamond Classic.” Today, we have a variety of fonts. Given the internet, it is possible to download different fonts that suit your tastes. Google has plenty programmed.
5. Arts & Crafts Movement
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20140630-the-10-best-stained-glass-windows
Picture: Chartres Cathedral, early 13th Century
“Demand for stained glass reached its height in the late Middle Ages. The cathedral at Chartres, France, features sturdy flying buttresses that allow for huge windows, including the glorious rose window detailing the birth of Christ. The density of the composition bathes the interior of the cathedral in a deep, colorful glow.”
“[Morris’s firm, Morris & Co., found its greatest success in the manufacture of stained glass in the 1860s] (50 Elkinson)”. Stained glass shows elements of design by using “geometrically structured, decorative art objects and architecture from the late nineteenth century.”
6. William Morris’s Kelmscott Press
Pg 51-53
Image: A stack of sketchbooks
“In parallel to his work in other decorative arts, Morris reacted to the poor design of contemporary mass-produced books by establishing a press produced limited-run editions featuring handmade paper and expertly tooled leather covers.” Typography and book design was influenced by Morris. Other than paperback, there are hardcovers, leatherbound, and numerous techniques to bookbinding. To avoid mass production, technology made it possible to have e-books. And you can access it from any device.
7. Video Games
Image: Assassin’s Creed Origins
Video games show many elements of design. I no longer have my files of Assassin’s Creed Origins but I do remember being in awe with the graphics. There are plenty of other video games that have high quality visual aspects but I added this because this is from a series I enjoy. The colors have such an important impact and really pulls in your attention.
8. Digital Art
9. Company Branding
For this particular image, I wanted to show the branding of Coca Cola. Pre-covid, I went to the World of Coca Cola in Atlanta, Georgia with my pre-college program Upward Bound. Looking through all the images that I took, it was interesting to see the history of Coca Cola and how much the design has changed (however, it is still recognizable). The older stuff is considered vintage and nostalgic to older people. Relevant to branding, logos and advertisement have gone through significant changes over time.
10. Fashion Trends
https://www.vogue.com/fashion/trends
Clothing certainly has changed over the years. With the help of social media, there’s an influx of trends. Especially among teenagers. My style is influenced by my parents and the stuff that I like. In a way, clothing is timeless and I’ve learned that even when things are “out of trend”, it’ll come back in a decade or so. For example, I’ve always worn baggy jeans and to see it trending now makes me laugh. Especially since it is something that got odd looks when skinny jeans were the “it” of time.
11. Modern Homes
Lastly, this is a modern home in Wisconsin. I searched up modern homes in the state that I live in because I’m curious and all I’ve ever known are the houses in my neighborhood. One-two story homes and nothing like the picture above. Architecture, “the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction.”
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I had only come into the office as a favor. My old boss needed some files and I was the only one who could find them. The desk was broad and silvery grey and propped in the corner of a room with deep blue painted walls. His desk was next to mine and he typed frantically on his silver keyboard as I searched. Click. Click. Click.
The phone rang over and over as we worked, each time he would stop what he was working on and, with a sigh of frustration, answer. The events people kept him busy. Too busy for his advanced years, but that wasn't my business anymore. And that's what I told everyone who stopped by to see me as they handed me their welcome back gifts, small lego kits in crinkled baggies.
The sales reps had noticed when I hadn't come back to work, and even some of the other office drones were happy to see me again. Their smiling faces, lego gifts, and half-assed attempts at small talk before jumping into asking me for favors, was kind of comforting. A return to normal.
But I wasn't employed here anymore I explained again and again. Boss was overworked and underappreciated and I was only in for the day to help because he asked. He was good to me when I worked here, it was the least I could do, and could you please leave so I can finish and go home? Thanks. Yes, it was good to see you again, thanks!
The files were finished and he was again stuck on another phone call, so I swept up all of the tiny lego pieces on the desk. Why did everyone insist on handing me kits with tiny pieces? Such a pain to clean up. As my hand brushed across the smooth silvered desk, the legos got mixed with other debris. Mostly little grey bits of plastic and dust. I tried to pick the legos out of the piles as someone from sales walked up to let me know it was their turn to use the computer.
I tried to speed up the process, picking legos out of the pile and sweeping up the grey dust and debris, but the mess kept getting bigger and bigger. Finally I realized that this was pointless as the legos and dust could be sorted later, so I just shoved it all into a bag and stood up to leave.
At that moment, my old boss got off his last phone call and turned to look at me, his short grey hair and pale face glowed in the light from his screen. He smiled with a smile that screamed for a vacation somewhere tropical and asked if I would join him at the evening's event, some kind of fancy party for all the bigwigs to rub elbows and pat themselves on the back.
I never got to go to any of the events before, at least not the ones that mattered, so I agreed. As we left the dark room behind, we were immediately in the foyer of a mansion, burnt umber wood paneling waxed to a high shine lined every wall and floor, and party voices echoed from outside.
He walked with a quick and steady pace, his long straight legs always made me struggle to keep up, but today I didn't care. I strolled to the back garden at my own pace as my old boss disappeared into the crowd, intent on making his presence known to those who cared so he could go home without consequence.
I walked along, my boots sinking into the deeply plush grass, the whole place filled with people in cocktail attire and floating lights and lanterns. Everyone here was so full of their own self importance, caring only about making sure the others around them knew the right names when the money started moving later.
I watched, disconnected from the throng of self-importance and enjoyed the crisp night air, and the dewy gras beneath my heels, letting the tinny music fill my ears. Somehow I found a champagne glass in my hand and took a sip. Always too bitter, but you drank it anyway. Had to make sure everyone thought you were just like them after all.
Then the boss was back, looking much happier than before. He asked if I would like that ride home, and if I had enjoyed myself. I didn't have to pretend to care about their sales pitches, so I actually enjoyed myself for once, and told him so. He smiled warmly and we left the crowds behind.
As we walked to his SUV, he asked if I wouldn't mind stopping by his house on the way home, as he needed to pick up something for his daughter. I had nothing better to do, so why not? And we walked up to his door, just like that, the rich brick facade shone in the daylight.
He opened the door and beckoned me in to his crowded little living room. With a distracted wave he introduced me to his youngest daughter, a quiet woman with mousey brown hair and a sweet smile. She nodded at me amicably and returned to her book.
His living room had large reddish brown overstuffed chairs and a fireplace that looked like it had never been cleaned since it was built. But what was most striking about the room was that every surface and wall was covered in glass. Not panes or shards, but art and sculptures. There were small figurines and large twisted blobs hanging from the celling, stained glass paintings and colored bottles. Every corner stuffed with glistening knickknacks and stunning artworks.
The glass collection had alot of reds and gold and oranges. Some had a pearlescent sheen and others opaque or patterned, but mostly warm colors. The light from the windows shone and sparkled from every corner. Then I noticed that the room was bigger than I thought, stretching off into the distance, 100 feet or more. His house was way bigger than I expected.
But then again, he had been working his whole life for everything he had. I couldn't expect him to understand how much harder it was these days. His living room alone was so much bigger than where I lived. And suddenly I felt sad, small, left behind and unwanted. I let him know that I was going home, and walked out.
Home was a double wide trailer. Decrepit and falling apart. The carpet was thin and torn while the wallpaper peeled away to show the cheap plastic siding underneath. I hated this place, but it was 'home'. Wasn't it? There was no furniture, or really anything at all. Just a empty dusty room. I didn't want to be there, but I had to go to the restroom.
Even the bathroom was pathetic. The room was small, with no door, and the walls were rusted and flecked with scraps of old paint. With dismay I noticed that the toilet was gone, stolen again I'm sure, and all that was left was a small rusty pipe sticking out of the floor.
Well I'd peed in worse places, so I was going to do my business and leave, but suddenly a pipe in the wall burst, streams of water tearing through and soaking me to the skin. It was shockingly cold and I shivered as I tried to step around the quickly forming puddle and leave.
At the doorway stood a woman, heavyset and in her 50's. Her dark hair framed face twisted into a scowl as she put her hands on her hips. She looked so disapprovingly at me, and I could see the bags under her cold stare. I felt like I had messed up again somehow, which she confirmed when she spoke to me.
Are you finished yet? We don't have time to sit here and watch you fail!
...then I woke up.
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Week 12 Lecture
Recap + Decolonising Design
This week’s lecture we recapped about the previous lectures we had through the semester. Andy and Karen also added a bonus content with the topic of decolonising design. The idea of decolonising design is to open up our perspectives and look at questions of gender in design. Female designers are mentioned to not get as much recognition than male designers. However, nowadays female designers are thriving and getting more of the appreciation they deserve.
[Thought] This was the final lecture of the course, and after looking through at what has been discussed in the lectures, I realized how much it expanded my knowledge regarding the whole idea of design. I never really looked into how female designers have been underappreciated compared to male designers, but now I understand the issue more clearly and glad that is changing for the better of female designers.
Anni Albers
Anni Albers (12 June 1899, Berlin - 9 May 1994, Orange) was one of the most significant textile artists of the 20th century. She works with striking geometric patterns and her works are noted for a radical use of color that helped pioneer the Modernist movement. She studied under Martin Brandenburg and also with Paul Klee at the Bauhaus school, where she became a teacher herself. Throughout her life she experimented with materials and inspired a cultural reassessment of fabrics as an art form.
Tolu Coker
Tolu Coker is a young British-Nigerian Fashion Designer, Textile Designer and Illustrator from London. Following several successful stunts at Maison Margiela, J.W. Anderson and Celine, Coker graduated from the prestigious Central Saint Martin's Design school in June 2017 with First Class Honours. Mostly inspired by the politics of identity and social climates, Coker’s designs are influenced by her multi-disciplinary practice and artisan craftsmanship merged with the use of innovative technology.
Nina Katchadourian
Nina Katchadourian is an multidisciplinary artist whose work includes video, performance, sound, sculpture, photography and public projects. Her possibly most famous project is called the “Sorted Books”, in which Katchadourian rearranges the contents of private and public bookshelves so that the books’ spines read as a consecutive statement. Other series have featured such idiosyncratic subjects as subway maps, mascots of common cleaning products, the sound of popping corn, car alarms, birdcalls, and items available on airplane flights.
image 1 is from the lecture
image 2 https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/anni-albers-tate-modern
image 3 http://www.tolucoker.com/
image 4 http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/languagetranslation/sortedbooks-bookpace.php
Resources:
http://www.artnet.com/artists/anni-albers/
http://www.tolucoker.com/new-page
http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/bio.php
https://www.artsy.net/artist/nina-katchadourian
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May 25, 2020
Orchestrators of Attention
Hayati Evreni’s Persistence of Covid
I typically have a very vivid dream life. Whole evenings of movies with characters I’ve never met and settings I’ve never seen. It’s one of the reasons I so love to sleep. Every night, I have an imagined altered reality to look forward to. And most mornings, to keep the stimuli of these vistiations fresh, I regale Geoff with a detailed recollection of these colorful fictions. But last night my reverie was disturbingly similar to my waking life. Zoom calls with real music students that I’ve been teaching. The delivery of our commissioned fence mural, which is actually scheduled for this Wednesday. It’s like so much else during this period, where everything seems to be bleeding into each other. Days to Weeks. Work to Home. And now, even the treasured boundary between my subconscious and conscious life has been compromised.
The fluid nature of perceived time in our current reality is problematic in so many ways. We are animals who’ve found real comfort from the compartmentilization of our lives. Separate spaces for every endeavor, from offices to gyms to libraries. We mark time in dozens of essential ways, with calendars, outfit changes, meal routines, holiday celebrations, happy hours - most all of which have dramatically changed during Covid. This weekend, I read the best explanation for why we find the circular time that has been foisted on us so difficult. Man Booker International Winner, Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights is part travel-fiction, part-memoir. Each vignette is a musing about the human propensity to wander. Here, she explains why perhaps only those of us truly tied to natural cycles, like growing seasons, can thrive in circumstances like we face today.
Sedentary people prefer the pleasure of circular time, in which every object and event must return to its own beginning, curl back up into an embryo and repeat the process of maturation and death. But nomads and merchants, as they set off on journeys, had to think up a different type of time for themselves, one that would better respond to the needs of their travels. That time is linear time, more practical because it was able to measure progress towards a goal or destination, rise in percentages. Every moment is unique; no moment can ever be repeated. This idea favors risk-taking, living life to the fullest, seizing the day. And yet the innovation is a profoundly bitter one: when change over time is irreversible, loss and mourning become daily things.
So, given that most people in modern society are far more aligned with the nomad/merchant class, it makes sense that we are sentenced to this inevitable grief once our “Just Do It”, “Follow Your Bliss” plans get derailed off-course. This analysis does not provide any solutions. However, I do think it absolves us of a certain culpability, so that we can stop blaming ourselves for feeling bad or for not handling the new norm as well as we should. Meanwhile, I think it can still be helpful to look for coping mechanisms, and I’ve found some from Jenny Odell, the unintended Queen of Quarantine who I crowned such after the cogent messages from her 2019 book, How To Do Nothing, came to be the perfect precepts for our time.
An avid bird-watcher, walker and observer, Odell is a proponent of slowing down to make space to notice. She calls her book a “field guide to doing nothing as an act of political resistance to the attention economy.” Her suggestions serve as antidotes to the distracting and fractured nature of attention that the limitless connectivity of our plugged-in lives demands. So, while most of us are still highly connected online, there are so many other ways in which we’ve become uplugged from life as we knew it. And I think she is suggesting that, perhaps, instead of seeing this as disconnection, or as an untethering, we can appreciate the space that this is creating for us to develop subtler forms of attention.
Odell describes herself, and all artists, as “orchestrators of attention”. She sees artists as curators of objects and ideas, re-imagined in ways that allow us to see things differently. I certainly turn to artists and writers to help me do this. And ironically, it is a circular journey of a different sort that brought me to her wisdom in the first place. Lately, I’ve found myself in a strange intellectual fractal. A quest for philosophical nuggets that has me spinning inside a loop of similar thinkers.
I regulary subscribe to BrainPickings, the source of many such nuggets. And that’s where I found Victor Frankl’s Yes to Life quote (from March 28 in this blog) about “the power to choose our response”. That newsletter also quoted Rebecca Solnit (Hope in the Dark), who I checked out further on Krista Tippet’s podcast, On Being. Looking at older episodes of this show, I found an interview with Ezra Klein (Why We’re Polarized), whose podcast just featured Jenny Odell on May 8th: On Nature, Art, and Burnout in Quarantine. https://www.vox.com/podcasts/2020/5/8/21252074/jenny-odell-the-ezra-klein-show-how-to-do-nothing-coronavirus-covid-19 This inspired me to purchase her new book, with its page 9 quote of none-other-than Solnit, again, this time from her book, Paradise Built in Hell. Back down the Solnit rabbit hole, I found another Frankl reference in this book, now from Man’s Search for Meaning. And so, the perfect circle was complete.
May 26, 2020
Unproductivity
Labyrinth project by Emily Carr university mentor, Kitty Bland, and student, Mary Rusk - https://www.ecuad.ca/news/2020/kitty-blandy-and-mary-rusak-find-focus-during-pandemic-with-meditation-pathway
Circular time makes me think of labyrinths. Mandalas of pathways that lead to nowhere, whose hypnotic ellipses draw our single-pointed focus towards the simple act of walking. I have always loved these places of reflection. And I find it erroneous that the term labyrinthian has come to refer to complicated places where we get lost. Because I feel that I actually find myself in such places. The only thing lost is a false sense of destination as the purpose in life.
Odell subscribes to a similar viewpoint in How to Do Nothing. Rather than a plea to escape reality, quit our jobs, or shrug our responsibilities, her book is an invitation to question what we perceive as productive. I think our current reality has many of us doing this. My morning walk has me literally “stopping and smelling the roses” each day, as I’ve seen so many others do during this altered time.
So, while it has encouraged me to see normally overprogrammed-teens watching sunsets and families chilling for endless hours on front lawns, I have also observed a pattern of apology amongst my peers, when they acknowledge having been “less-productive than usual”, during this period. So, I’ve taken to meet this only with permission. This is something I’ve increasingly given myself ever since my excessive drive, as a flutist, left me with a chronic overuse injury that was a wake-up call I’ve only recently been able to truly appreciate.
After this major uninvited “halting” of my career, I became acutely aware of how often people answer “How are you?” with “Busy.” Particularly artists, who have perhaps been undercompensated, underemployed and underappreciated for so long, it feels like being “busy” is a badge of honor that implies their work is in-demand. So, I get it. But still, I have made a point, since this realization, never to answer that question as such. Busy is not an emotion. The truth behind the word - feelings of anxiety, overwhelm and fear - are perhaps too telling to reveal. Because admitting them might mean we have to shift something. They might force us to slow down and stop busying ourselves, which is maybe the scariest thing of all. Because then, we have to face who we truly are when we are not “doing”.
To track my own “doing” during quarantine, I’ve been particularly careful about limiting my screen time. So, I check it weekly. But it was only this week that I finally went to the second page of the iPhone screen time data, where I found a strange categorization of time. It breaks it down into Productive, Creative, Social, Entertainment, Reading and Educational use. However, what they place in each category runs quite counter to what happens to be true for me now. Photos are listed as a Creative pursuit, however many of my hours have been frittered away deleting unnecessary shots (attempts to capture moments that might have been more mindfully spent camera-free). So, this endeavor doesn’t feel that creative to me. Whats App is marked as Social but, of course, it’s now become the arena for some of my most my productive work, since I’m using it as a teaching tool. And Notes is in the Productive category, even though, as a self-admitted list-addict, my worst time-waster is making and remaking these itemized scrolls intended to render me more efficient, when I can’t even imagine how much “productive” time I must have lost just writing them.
So, we all have something to learn from this clever street artist, whose balloon art gives us an important reminder.
May 27, 2020
Covid Art Museum
So far my “efforts” to do nothing more (as ironic as that sounds) have gone swimmingly. I deliberately cancelled one of my Zoom calls this week, two other meetings conveniently got cancelled for me, and I was left with many more hours to spend spontaneously. Some of these involved lying in the grass eating gelato. Others watching passerbys from my front stoop. And one I spent biking the new “slow street” circuit in Vancouver, which has been designated a car-free zone to create more safe, physically-distant space for cyclists and pedestrains to roam. That even our roadways are now on a diet from their usual busyness, seems to me a beautiful metaphor.
Of course, some of this time also involved digital daydreaming, as I prefer to romantically call surfing the web. But using the intentional lens of seeking artistic responses to share on this blog makes even this indulgence feel more guilt-free. So, this week, it landed me on a very cool Instagram page, full of visual reflections about this time (digital illustrations, photographs, sketches, watercolors and more). In fact, it’s where I stumbled upon the balloon art, above, which evolved into my entire week of blog entries. Quite a few pieces reference circular time in some way (above). And a remarkable number of them depict doing nothing (below). Jenny Odell is clearly on to something...
https://www.instagram.com/covidartmuseum/?hl=en
May 28, 2020
Hidden Symphonies
Udo Noll, a Berlin-based media artist and founder of Radio Aporee, a digital global sound map, documented before and during the pandemic
The music of my environment has always captivated me. In fact, I dedicate almost an entire chapter of my novel to birdsong. I love the voice memo feature on my phone, which I use like an auditory camera, as I travel. I’ve learned that this is not a habit many people share. Until recently, that is. Because it seems that suddenly, we are all beginning to listen more. Now, with less traffic, quieter commercial corridors, and other colluding factors, there is left an amazing amplification of the soundscapes which always existed behind the din.
Before Covid, a long tradition of deep listening has been cultivated by various sound artists. American composer, Pauline Oliveros founded the Deep Listening Institute in 1985 (originally called the Pauline Olveros Foundation). Here, she invited musicians to improvise and record, in particularly resonant and reverberant spaces like caves, to inspire extra-sensitive responsiveness.
In the 70’s, Canadian composers, Hildegard Westercamp and Murray Shafer, started the World Soundscape Project (https://www.sfu.ca/~truax/wsp.html), which recorded Vancouver’s sonic landscape to illustrate the negative effects of noise pollution, ultimately resulting in more positive guidelines for urban acoustical design.
Acoustic ecologist, Gordon Hempton says that silence is not the absence of sound, but rather the presence of everything. In the short documentary, Sanctuaries of Silence, he offers tools for seeking silence amidst noisy urban life.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUxMdYhipvQ
But his suggestions probably never could have predicted Covid, which has achieved this result with alarming swiftness. British sound artist and field recordist, Stuart Fowkes has been tracking the soundscapes of this disquieting time on his website, Cities and Memory. https://citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds/
Here, you can click on one of 3,000+ global coordinates and listen to everything from empty flagpoles, and ticking radiators, to kites flying. Anyone is welcome to contribute, using #stayhomesounds. And this is my own addition to the catalogue:
Bullfrogs mating: https://youtu.be/ZoKT-RlDfs8
The New York Times, has tracked the music of the pandemic in another interesting way. Measuring by decibels (below), they compare the soundscape of a normally busy Manhattan street, before and during quarantine. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/22/upshot/coronavirus-quiet-city-noise.html
Pre-covid nights sound more like quarantine days, averaging around 64 decibels.
Another bi-product of the pandemic is a trend towards birdwatching. The world’s attention was brought to birding this week, due to an unfortunate racist incident that occurred in New York’s Central Park. Christian Cooper was drawn to the park because of the orioles and yellow warblers he could find there. While birding, he politely asked a woman if she would kindly put her dog on a leash. When she refused, he insited and she proceeded to call the cops. Cooper was armed with little more than binoculars and a camera. But apparently, his crime was being black. The woman was white. Luckily, he caught her ridiculous cry for help (“I’m being threatened by an African-American man.”) on camera. The video immediately went viral and resulted in her being fired from her job. Graciously, he remarked today in the Times, that this punishment did not fit her crime, and while he wants to hold her to account for her racist behavior, he doesn’t believe that “her life needs to be torn apart.”
Whatever her fate, if this time inspires deeper listening for you, let’s hope your soundscape walks are far less eventful than his was.
May 29, 2020
Covid Shuffle
Brooklyn’s usually bustling Fort Greene Park, during the pandemic
From the beginning of social distancing, I have been quite fascinated by the complicated choreography we are collectively participating in. I would give anything to be an eagle, looking down from above, just to witness the maze of interwoven patterns that our sidewalk dances create. And I am not the only person interested in this do-si-do.
If you search “six feet apart” on YouTube, you can’t imagine how many musicians, famous or otherwise, have composed new songs with this exact title (IE. country singer, Luke Combs, teen pop star, Alec Benjamin). It’s just one of many things that illustrate the uncanny global resonance that is happening right now, even while there are still vast differences between the ways people experience this pandemic.
Personally, I’m partial to this rap, written as a PSA for UNC Health, by The Holderness Family, a modern-day Al Yankovich-style parody band comprised of former FOX sportscaster, Penn Holderness with his wife and kids. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XjfCeY4D2QI
Deeper into this search, I found another music video, by a different family band in LA, called Haim. These three Grammy-nominated sisters have written the song, I Know Alone to express how quarantine living has felt for them. Meanwhile, they appropriately dance to their lyrics six feet apart.
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.vulture.com/amp/2020/04/haim-i-know-alone-video-album-release-date.html
In the dance world, old colleagues of mine, from Flagstaff, Arizona, will host a virtual Festival that starts this Friday, May 29th, featuring original socially-distant choreography from movers all over the Southwest. Fittingly, it’s called the Six Feet Apart Dance Festival.
https://canyonmovementcompany.org/cmc/upcoming-events/
Documenting the Covid shuffle in a very different way, Toronto geographer, Daniel Rotszdain created a “social distancing machine” to demonstrate just how difficult a genuine 6-foot radius is to maintain in public space.
And finally, this hip hop dance compilation, made in 2019, could be the anthem for our times.
MC Hammer’s Can’t Touch This - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJskIJGEsd8
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Taking This Fine Jewelry–Making Class Taught Me More Than How to Paint a Diamond Necklace
I’ve never had a steady hand. Whenever I hold a pen, a fork, or a delicate glass cup, I tend to shake a bit. It’s been this way ever since I can remember putting my first crayon to my first coloring book and pushing nervously on the paper. I have always been an anxious person. So, when I found out that the class I would be attending at L’École School of Jewelry Arts would involve creating our own detailed rendering, I was, in a word, shook. I thought I would be playing with emeralds or learning how to lacquer, maybe setting stones, too. Making a painting isn’t exactly the jewelry-crafting lesson I’d signed up for when I heard that the school, which is supported by Van Cleef & Arpels, would have a residency and exhibition on New York’s Upper East Side from October 25 through November 9. In hindsight, though, I learned much more than I anticipated, not only about how fine jewelry is first conceived, but also about the value in putting down my phone, softening my grip, and making something from scratch.
After walking into the school at 9:15 a.m. on Monday (slightly tardy due to early-morning work emails and being rushed, as always), I was ushered upstairs and handed a clean white jeweler’s coat to wear over my clothes. Entering the quiet, intimate classroom, I took my seat at the work table along with five others. They were all women, most of whom worked in the jewelry business with the exception of one aspiring designer. Our teachers, a visual artist and a designer for Van Cleef & Arpels, would be lecturing us about gouache, which is a type of watercolor paint used to create highly intricate renderings of high jewelry for the craftspeople of a jewelry house to work off. Outside of the initial process of choosing gemstones, the gouache is the very first step in the process of creating a one-of-a-kind piece of jewelry. It is a craft that has been done since these high jewelry houses were founded, some as long ago as the late 1800s, like Van Cleef & Arpels.
Gouache is still used today, only in the couture jewelry realm, and even as new technologies have been utilized in the workshops, these paintings remain true to their origins. The process begins with a sketch of the brass mock-up from the designer, after which the artist shades in the drawing with a pencil and later, paints a separate sketch, mimicking the lines and shading of the first, with the gouache so that the jewelry appears in an almost 3-D form. It may sound quite simple, but the technique requires training and years of practice to perfect. There is no school for gouache and as such, it’s a profession that often attracts those outside of the jewelry-making realm, like architects and illustrators.
We started our class by studying gouaches of necklaces, rings, and brooches, some that were from Van Cleef & Arpels and others from houses like Cartier and Boucheron. Currently, Van Cleef & Arpels has three in-house artists who specialize in gouache. The teachers asked us to identify the subtle differences in each image. Some were printed on light gray paper as opposed to black or white, both of which were used in the 1940s and ’50s but were later discovered to drown out the color of the stones, whereas the neutral gray lifted everything.
Next, we were prompted to explain where the light was coming from in each picture—the correct answer was the top left corner, which is always the case and is indicated by the small white line detailing on the stone. If there is too much white on the painting, the depth of light cannot be deciphered, and the actual piece won’t be finished with the correct amount of shine. In essence, the beauty of the final necklace, brooch, earring, ring, or bracelet is dependent on this artwork. Also, the table is the main facet of a stone and a jeweler in the workshop will know how to cut it based on the angles and clarity of the one featured in the gouache.
None of these images are altered digitally, save for the copying of gouaches that are now used for marketing purposes. This point the instructors made very clear: Absolutely no computers are used. It takes about a week or more for a gouache artist to sketch and paint a single piece depending on the size and detailing involved. One gouache we observed had an entire forest scene carved into the main diamond pendant, with similar motifs on a few other stones, and probably took close to a month to interpret. Our class was going to make a gouache in a little over an hour, and I, the cynic with the shaky hands, was perplexed as to how.
I took my seat again and we practiced, mixing the correct amount of water and paint (it’s tricky to find the perfect consistency) and with a thin brush, using it to trace minuscule black lines on a page. My straight line was a tad squiggly. I went on to the L-shape and still, not so smooth. I had a tough time at first and one of the instructors could tell. She leaned over my stiff shoulder, which was hunched down almost on top of the table, and whispered: “Remember to breathe.” I laughed, took a second to sigh some out air out of my lungs, and went on to the S-shape. That turned out much better, as did the square, and I realized that in this line of work, patience really is a virtue.
After the tracing, we were given a tiny brass bow, which was placed under our main light source. There was an outline of the bow on our gray paper and we were to shade it in using a pencil. Again, it was about studying exactly where the light was hitting from the top left corner, which dips and curls of that small twisty bow were visible to the light and which weren’t. Then, we went on to paint a smaller outline of the bow just next to the sketch. It required one layer of white watered-down gouache paint first, followed by a mixture of black and white for the shaded edges and later, a stark white for the surface lines. In between each step, the gouache artist must wait for the different layers to dry. We didn’t get into color, but applying the exact pigments of whatever stone or metal is to be used for the final piece would be the final task in the laborious process.
In the end, my bow didn’t look half-bad. A soft bell rang just outside the door and class was over. I was proud of myself for calming my nerves and actually taking three hours to finish something with my hands. Because who has time for that anymore? The art of craft, especially in fashion couture and high jewelry, is about making something pure out of nothing in a world where we depend so heavily on technology to guide us through our overstimulated and overworked lives. I may not ever become a gouache artist for a historic Parisian house, but learning about what goes into this underappreciated art form and how these painters are responsible for the initial concepts of some of the most exquisite pieces of jewelry in the world, I now understand why they do it.
I have never been crafty. I love art and design and fashion, but I’ve never taken up ceramics, knitting, or the like. Maybe it’s because I’m in tune with my shaky nerves, or maybe it’s because I too often refuse to slow down and turn everything else off. The L’École class gave me a chance to use my hands to create something unique, something that didn’t require an iPhone or algorithm or YouTube video. Craft is as prevalent a trend in fashion now as it ever was, and after painting that little bow shape, I realized its value.
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Superhero
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Like jazz, comic books and much more specifically the superhero is often a wholly American art form. Also, like jazz, it becomes an art which has been underappreciated. As a result of very good of superhero films just like the Dark Knight, Iron Man along with the X-Men, superheroes have begun to enter the understanding the general public. The following can be a list of the most effective superheroes that comic books have to offer. The list is designed to give you a place to start to the new reader. I have devoted to the essential components of the characters that I believe get them to significant or interesting. I tried to differentiate between good characters as well as a good story or even a good run of issues when I could however in some instances characters happen to be so significantly defined by a set or an issue that they can made the list. Enough using the preamble, here we go:
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From New York Times best-selling author of the Dinotopia series, James Gurney, comes a carefully crafted and researched study on color and light in paintings. This art instruction book will accompany the acclaimed Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist.James Gurney, New York Times best-selling author and artist of the Dinotopia series, follows Imaginative Realism with his second art-instruction book, Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter. A researched study on two of art's most fundamental themes, Color and Light bridges the gap between abstract theory and practical knowledge. Beginning with a survey of underappreciated masters who perfected the use of color and light, the book examines how light reveals form, the properties of color and pigments, and the wide variety of atmospheric effects. Gurney cuts though the confusing and contradictory dogma about color, testing it in the light of science and observation. A glossary, pigment index, and bibliography complete what will ultimately become an indispensable tool for any artist.This book is the second in a series based on his blog, gurneyjourney.com. His first in the series, Imaginative Realism, was widely acclaimed in the fantastical art world, and was ranked the #1 Bestseller on the Amazon list for art instruction.'James Gurney's new book, Color and Light, cleverly bridges the gap between artistic observation and scientific explanation. Not only does he eloquently describe all the effects of color and light an artist might encounter, but he thrills us with his striking paintings in the process.' --Armand Cabrera, Artist
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Senior Thesis Proposal
1. Theme
The theme of this senior thesis proposal is ‘resistance’. The word resistance by definition means, the refusal to accept or comply with something; the attempt to prevent something by action or argument. In September 2018, I started the Resistance Campaign to bring awareness to sexual assault not only on this campus but to also bring awareness to the issue and how it is overlooked in the black community. I would like to further my campaign and continue that theme in my senior capsule. This capsule is a continuation from the previous semester which was initially modeled after an incident that happened to me in Bowie, MD. The collection is crafted as a representation of my different types of style which ranges from trendy business casual to an edgy femme. The collection will feature an avant-garde and feminine flair to the average pantsuit, dress, jumpsuit or blazer. This collection features fun and bold colors, symbolizing and embodying confident women wearing the clothes underneath. Lace, linen and cotton blends will all be incorporated within the capsule, with embellishments of pearls, colorful zippers and of course, the word “resistance”.
2. Research
Over the course of the past few years, I have been growing my brand but also expending my knowledge on activism, socialism and how to become more involved in the community. Since being in college I have grown to have a stronger voice as an artist which has transpired in my artwork as time has passed. Initially, I was very fond of artists such as Kara Walker who illustrates images of rape, racial injustice, the disadvantages of the black community and a variety of other topics. Her work was so influential and so politically and emotionally charged that it was beautiful work to see. Another influential person is Kerby Jean-Raymond who uses his clothing designs to promote advocacy. Even though his social media and runway pieces, he addresses topics such as police brutality and injustices in the black community. Artists with a free voice such as theirs have drawn me to read and educate myself more on artists and authors who were just as influential. Currently, I am reading a book called Pussy by Regena Thomashauer which talks about the inner power a woman has and how beloved a woman should truly be, not only from her counterparts but to herself. It is extremely rewarding to read a book such as this because it talks about how a women’s power and uniqueness get overlooked an underappreciated in our society. A new study posted on September 16, 2019, by CNN stated that 1 in 16 US women was raped for their first sexual experience, and yet rape is still treated as if it’s a minute subject worldwide. Expressing advocacy and awareness through different art forms is needed and I want to do my best to convey this message through my work.
3. Concept
The mission of The Resistance of Bowie State University is to be a liaison for Bowie State students and administration as an advocate for sexual awareness and safety. This campaign strives to bring social recognition about sexual assault to the student body, faculty, and administration to better security and knowledge on its campus for all genders, sexualities, and diverse backgrounds. The Resistance provides a safe haven for social interaction, activism, and acknowledgment through education, awareness, and advocacy. By using different art forms and creating clothes that illustrate freewill and advocacy, a larger and more effective message will be shown that influences a community to take accountability for their actions in an interactive and informative way. By exposing more people to activism art and fashion, it can provoke feelings within the audience to influence them to further change their actions or mindset on a worldwide issue.
For this collection, the target market consists of women who know what they want and know what is right from wrong. This collection is targeted towards women aged twenty-one to forty years of age. The Resistance represents a woman with a voice whether vocal or not, is always ready to express what she is feeling through the clothing she wears. She enjoys feeling unique and understands that confidence is a major aspect of her femininity. Being herself is her first choice always and will always be true to herself. She is a goal-oriented woman and will stand up to any task when she is needed. She strives for the betterment of others, as well as herself, by promoting well-being for all. Her attention to detail and passion for everything from her education and career to her art and community make her strive for more every day. Her annual income is $60,000 – $80,000 a year, with her educational status being some sort of college degree or higher. Her ethnicity is a broad spectrum ranging from African American, Middle Eastern or Caribbean, to Hispanic, Asian or Caucasian. She enjoys volunteering and reading in her free time to better her community and learn more about activism. Her marital status ranges from single to married, and she is comfortable with being independent if she chooses. She is an all-around dynamic woman who chooses her happiness and her freedom of expression over anything else.
4. Plan
After properly sketching and having the outfit ideas for the collection, I would need to decide which pieces from the line I would use as interactive pieces of clothing. These pieces would include shirts that speak if a person’s heart races or clothing that would change color. Because I want the underlying message of this campaign to be informative, placing programming software within the articles of clothing would be accounted for. I would also like this to rent out a venue in Washington DC to display all aspects of the campaign. Showcasing the different art mediums will not be able to be displayed in the student gallery and by hosting an event off-campus I can reach a different audience of people to better promote myself and the clothes. For the off-campus event, I would love to have a casting call to recruit models. The main issue with that is model cost, and properly sizing the models. If I cannot get the correct models, I will have a showcase at a select venue in Washington DC. For the senior showcase on campus, I can recruit people on campus in the following VCDMA majors (such as graphic designers, animators and music tech) to help with my promotion and set up. For both on-campus and off-campus events, I would need to talk to different coordinators and people in charge of different venues to discuss ticket pricing, opening night plans, spacing options and other amenities for a perfect show.
5. Budget
I would like my clothes to be made with nicer materials so fabrics would cost between $500-800 for the entire collection. I would like my collection to be hosted at Culture Coffee Too in Northeast Washington, DC which would also cost about $150 an hour (and would be rented out for a three-hour period). The LilyPad Arduino or other technology I would be using in the clothing can easily be obtained because of the VCDMA department. I have an adjustable mannequin at home, but otherwise, I would probably have to pay another fee for mannequins used at an off-campus venue as well. Promotion such as business cards, and flyers would not cost as much.
Use
Cost
Yards/Amount
Linen
Shirts/Jumpsuits
7.99
3
Cotton
Shirts
14.99
10
Polyester
Sweatshirts
11.99
6
Cotton/Poly/Spandex
Blazer/Jumpsuits/Skirts
19.99
10
Poly/Cotton
Blazer/Jumpsuits/Skirts
7.99
5
Nylon
Dress/Embellishments
5.99
4
LilyPad Arduino
12.99
6
Total Estimate:$587.56
6. Create
Initially, everything would be made by me using simple sewing machines and fabrics. I currently am starting my collection for my senior thesis to potentially grow and partner with other well-known companies. This will take place between October 2019 and December 2019 to hopefully be taken public by March 2020. Since I would like to later make this into a profitable business, I would continue to promote my work through social media and create a website committed to the movement. If the demand for my brand increases to a point where doing everything myself is too chaotic, I will then either formulate a team to assist in creating my product or get in contact with manufacturers that can efficiently handle the work while still maintaining profitability. If I do take the approach of making an agreement with a manufacturer, I expect them to withhold the same level of quality that fits my company’s standards in order match my more reasonable prices due to the quality of the clothing being provided at an estimated price of $75-300 an item. Currently, I have the entire collection sketched out properly with colors, fabrics, and inspiration. The mood board for the collection is completed as well, along with a blog of inspiration pictures that is featured on Tumblr. Everything is regularly updated to show my progression on how I want this collection to flourish.
7. Promote
People use social media for many aspects from sharing moments with friends to funny memes and other cultural aspects, and also to announce and promote events. I plan to create multiple different versions of flyers for my event(s) in order to post on both my personal and campaign-focused Instagram page. This is an easy and free way to get people to notice what is happening in the area. Advocating Bowie Students on campus through local means such as face to face also helps with gaining the desired exposure. By the time we have reached promotions, I will have ideally made stronger connections on different levels in order to help promote my events in both social media and local interactions. Also, brochures and posters are two visual ways of getting people to come where graphic designers can also be beneficial. I also understand that people continuously use Facebook as well as Twitter which will advertise to a wider audience of different age ranges. It would significantly increase the number of people who see the event flyers I am posting as well as making sure that more people at least see the information. Even if they do not attend the event, from continuously seeing the brand's information you can become familiar with the work and content created.
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Early Rock Art of the American West: The Geometric Enigma
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Early Rock Art of the American West: The Geometric Enigma
The earliest rock art–in the Americas as elsewhere–is geometric or abstract. Until Early Rock Art in the American West, however, no book-length study has been devoted to the deep antiquity and amazing range of geometrics and the fascinating questions that arise from their ubiquity and variety. Why did they precede representational marks? What is known about their origins and functions? Why and how did humans begin to make marks, and what does this practice tell us about the early human mind?
With some two hundred striking color images and discussions of chronology, dating, sites, and styles, this pioneering investigation of abstract geometrics on stone (as well as bone, ivory, and shell) explores its wide-ranging subject from the perspectives of ethology, evolutionary biology, cognitive archaeology, and the psychology of artmaking. The authors’ unique approach instills a greater respect for a largely unknown and underappreciated form of paleoart, suggesting that before humans became Homo symbolicus or even Homo religiosus, they were mark-makers–Homo aestheticus.
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Class March 29th
By Annemarie and Leigh
Blog Post Day Covered 3/29; Due 4/5
Today, the Philosophy of Art Education Part III was due. Students displayed their Part III artworks on the counter and wall of the classroom. Later on in the class period, each student critiqued another student's final artwork by writing their opinion on a 3 x 5 card. Who would be critiquing who was chosen at random.
At the beginning of class we watched a trailer for the movie “Geek Girl”. The Art Education Department is showing this film on Tuesday April 3 at 6PM. This film seems like it connects to this courses assigned reading “Why Our Daughters Should Play More Videogames” by Samantha Parent which discussed the importance of getting women involved in the computer science industry. This movie also seems like it connects to some of themes we’ve touched on in class such as videogames as visual culture and how videogames are considered works of art. “Geek Girl” focuses on alternative culture such as cosplay and fandom. They point out the fact how these outlets are used to express identity. It also points out how geek culture is mostly male dominated, particularly in the realm of video games. Female “gamers” are always looked at as inferior by the gaming communities. The film trailer also touches on the effects of cyberbullying on geeks, “geek girls” being prime targets.
The classroom environment was noticeably different today because the table arrangement was a small group arrangement as opposed to our normal U-shaped arrangement. I think that the U shaped table arrangement normally facilitates our classwide discussions/ activities. However, today students spent a majority of time working independently on their own individual lesson plans. The desks had more of a small group arrangement to facilitate lesson plan feedback in small groups and one on one feedback with the professor. Small groups of students, or pods tend to work best for group activities, explorative learning and experimental learning, subjects we have touched on in previous classes. We have spent time thinking about the arrangement of our classrooms and how they can affect the classroom dynamics. We predict that this setup will be less effective for larger group discussion but more effective for small group projects.
The museum photographic scavenger hunt project was also due today. We spent time toward the end of the class period looking at everyone’s photos from the scavenger hunt. I think the photographs that got the greatest responses out of the class were the ones with captions added, because they were funny and the use of humour was engaging.
The lesson plan idea I (Leighann) came up with for the museum photographic scavenger hunt assignment is “Meme-ing at the Art Museum”. The premise of the lesson is: Students will be making their own memes (a total of five memes) by taking photographs of artworks that interest them and adding funny captions to them. The captions will be added through either snapchat or a Meme Generator (https://imgflip.com/memegenerator). An optional element of sharing their memes could be included in this lesson (for example uploading the memes to a social media platform like facebook/instagram/reddit or sending it to classmates through snapchat). At the end of the museum trip, the student with the funniest memes will be the designated “Meme Lord”.
From my own experiences doing other scavenger hunt type activities while on field trips to museums in high school and college, I think teachers often give assignments that are dry, boring, and have a definitive set of right and wrong answers. Instead of enjoying their time at the museum, students end up spending most of the time running around trying to identify and find specific works of art. I think it’s a good idea to create an activity for a museum field trip that’s more engaging and explorative so that students can actually have fun while on the trip.
In the wake of us developing our lesson plans I thought it’d be helpful to post some resources that might help with lesson plan idea development:
https://www.deepspacesparkle.com/
Deep Space Sparkle is a site that the host teacher I’m observing recommended for lesson plan ideas. The site has a lot of interesting podcasts and has a variety of art lesson plan ideas which can be filtered by grade level, medium/technique, and subject.
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Lab-Kids-Printmaking-Media/dp/1592537650/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522391300&sr=8-1&keywords=art+lab
Another resource that my host teacher showed me are the Art Lab books - there’s a ton of these books available; Art Lab for Kids, Art Lab for Little Kids, Paint Lab, Collage Lab, Drawing Lab, Print & Stamp Lab, and more. I actually purchased the “Collage Lab” and “Print & Stamp Lab” books and I think there’s a lot of cool project ideas, techniques, and visuals that could help spark ideas for lessons. I’ve noticed that a lot of the projects in these two books utilize cheap, recycled, found materials and upcycled/unconventional tools.
For my lesson plan (Annemarie) I am doing a long term project with grades 10-12 about the surrealist movement, which I will call “Are you Surreal? The idea behind the lesson is that student will be selecting unrelated images from magazines which they will then collage. This collage will be a reference for a full color surrealist painting. I aim to have students understand how surrealists took seemingly random images and juxtaposed them in one piece to create an alternative reality, many times resembling a dreamlike state. I want them see how when looking at these unusual images our brain starts making connections between the subject matter. They will be learning technical skills such as underpainting and collage as well as the history and concept behind the surrealism movement which I believe to be an underappreciated art form.
My experience with the scavenger hunt was interesting, much different than an unguided walk through the museum. Having grown up in philly in an art loving family I have been to the Philadelphia Museum of Art countless times. I have the location of every room memorized, I know where my favorite pieces are and recognize most of the permanent collection. Having specific prompts forced me to search through a museum I thought I knew in and out. I walked through slower, taking note of not only the pieces I like, but the ones I didn't like too. The scavenger hunt item I had the hardest time with was finding a piece that reflects my own personal work. A Lot of pieces reflected parts of my personal work, some in design some in material. I finally decided on a case full of old carving tools because overall I love the process of working in a craft medium like metal better than any end product.
Since we were discussing the set up of classrooms here are a few links which I think will be helpful.
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/seating-arrangements
Teaching Channel is a forum for teachers to post and discuss issues and strategies in the classroom. This site has videos and articles in all common school subjects as well as a Q and A where you can search common questions or post your own for responses from other teachers.
The link above talks about seating arrangements and workstations.
https://teach4theheart.com/podcast/
Teach 4 the heart is a great podcast which discusses strategies for minimizing problems in the classroom. Subjects include methods to calm a disruptive class, how to counsel a student and how to create classroom shakeup and more.
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Hyperallergic: A Doodler Who Taught Himself to Paint
Chuck Boyce, “Urb” (2016), oil on canvas, 28 x 22 inches (all images courtesy Edward Thorp Gallery, New York)
Edward Thorp has always had a knack for finding artists. He has given shows to the under-appreciated (Henri Michaux and Eugene Leroy) and to those who gained a lot of attention then and now (Eric Fischl and Katherine Bradford).
His most recent discovery is Chuck Boyce, who, according to the press release (which I suspect the artist wrote) is:
[…] a self-taught artist who began painting a decade ago, in his sixties. A dissatisfied middle-aged graduate student and a decidedly “underappreciated” poet, he found work as a free-lance writer, an assistant to a high-end antiques dealer, and (most importantly) a father. Eventually, habitual doodling in his notebooks led to a concerted drive to make, of these casual scribbles, the artifacts we know as art. Humans do this: it staves off etc. and etc., and is fun to boot.
What the press release does not mention is that this is the first time Boyce’s work has ever been exhibited. The show, Chuck Boyce: Recent Paintings in Thorp’s Project Room, is well worth visiting, particularly since the show closes today.
One other fact that I want to mention is that Boyce is the co-author of the 740-page reference book, Shakespeare A to Z (1990). Boyce may be a self-taught painter, but he definitely has absorbed a lot of art — particularly the work of Karl Wirsum, Barbara Rossi, Max Ernst, and Stuart Davis. Boyce paints in oil on modestly sized canvases that are little more than 24 inches high and 20 inches wide. He sets his flat forms (or imaginary personages) in an abstract landscape divided into two or three areas (which roughly translate into land and sky).
Chuck Boyce, “Dolly” (2015), oil on canvas, 28 x 22 inches
In “Dolly” (2015), the horizon line is diagonal, starting in the lower left quadrant and crossing to the upper right. Each outlined area is marked by a different linear pattern done in a different color. A salmon-colored sky and purple ground peers through the large openings in the multipart form. It does not take much imagination to see how Boyce moved from doodling to making paintings. And yet, despite the simplicity of what he does, each of the paintings has something particular about it.
I did get the sense that these images derived from doodling but that Boyce realized he could do more with this method of mark-making and began to paint. I would say that he is a neat, restrained doodler, and that he never fills in any one area too much in terms of pattern and color, just enough to make it distinct. It’s hard not to get the feeling that he is learning by doing, while, at the same time, making it up as he goes along.
What this show has going for it is that, while he could have, he has not become formulaic. In “Urb” (2016) his most ambitious canvas, Boyce depicts an aerial view of a street, which divides the canvas vertically, with buildings and rooftops on both sides and a skyline visible just below the painting’s top edge. Different perspectives and patterns have been joined together to form a dizzying mishmash that simultaneously evokes walking down a small town street, flying over a city in a helicopter, and looking out from an apartment window. The colors and lines are solid, forming a patchwork of shapes, which run from schematic representation to abstract patterning.
“Urb” shows Boyce wrestling with space, trying to figure out how to create it, but with little thought to consistency. The result is charming, forthright, and inventive. And while the view is not instantly decipherable, neither are city streets.
Chuck Boyce, “Morning Watch” (2016), oil on canvas, 25 x 18 inches
In “Morning Watch” (2016) — the other painting that departs from abstract figures set in a flat abstract landscape — Boyce superimposes restless, meandering blue lines over a yellow and white checkerboard pattern. Squeezed between the blue lines and the yellow and white squares is a partially obscured red circle, presumably the eponymous watch.
While the chaos of the network and the regimentation of the checkerboard offset each other, the round red outline of what is presumably a faceless pocket watch is forced between them, a hopeless mediator. The meandering blue lines cross over each other so many times, like trails made by drunken ants: they hold our attention in a slower way than the figures in the landscape do.
In each of Boyce’s paintings there is something to think about as well as look at. It may simply be the way he puts his composition together, but in the best of them, something more happens. He is a self-taught painter who is also formally inventive. That is not always the case.
Chuck Boyce: Recent Paintings continues at Edward Thorp Gallery, Project Room (531 West 26th Street, 2nd Floor, Chelsea, Manhattan) through today.
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B2MeM 2017: Text-Only Prompts and Colorblindness Accessibility
Below the cut, you will find each prompt on each path, from start to finish, in text-only form, including a section on how the gameboard is set up to aid users with colorblindness.
Red path: long path for fanworks (31 prompts, 4 Acts of Kindness, 3 Wild); jump to Red path
Purple path: medium path for fanworks (13 prompts, 1 Act of Kindness, 2 Wild); jump to Purple path
Green path: short path for fanworks (6 prompts, 1 Act of Kindness, 1 Wild); jump to Green path
Yellow path: Fanworks recs (8 prompts, 1 Act of Kindness, 1 Wild); jump to Yellow path
Orange path: Nonfiction (8 prompts, 1 Act of Kindness, 1 Wild); jump to Orange path
Blue path: artwork (8 prompts, 1 Act of Kindness, 1 Wild); jump to Blue path
Jump to Colorblindness Accessibility
Red path: Long path for fanworks
Freedom
Major life changes
Lost on the road
“And the night shall be filled with music And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, and silently steal away.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Act of Kindness
Dreams
Lost trust or betrayal
A meteor/shooting star
“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.” Sarah Williams
“He chanted a song of wizardry, of piercing, of opening, of treachery…” JRR Tolkien, The Silmarillion
Obstacles
Torture
Wild
Tales and song by the fire
Act of Kindness
“She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies…” Lord Byron Despair
“The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.” Haruki Murakami
“The world withers and the wind rises; the candles are quenched. Cold falls the night.” JRR Tolkien, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son
Wild
“How long is forever?” Lewis Carroll
Act of Kindness
“when he first stood near her and recognized her dimly through the shadows, like one who, at the beginning of the month, either sees or thinks he has seen the moon rise through clouds.” Vergil, The Aenid
“The Road goes ever on and on, Down from the door where it began…” JRR Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
A new Age begins
Faith
Foresight
Wild
“This was the Noontide of the Blessed Realm, the fullness of its glory and its bliss, long in tale of years, but in memory too brief…” JRR Tolkien, The Silmarillion
Remembering
Hope
“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” Edgar Allan Poe
“The morning will surely come, the darkness will vanish, and thy voice pour down like golden streams breaking through the sky.” Rabindranath Tagore
Books
Act of Kindness
“I will not say the Day is done nor bid the Stars farewell.” JRR Tolkien, The Return of the King
Minas Ithil and Minas Arnor
Time of the day
Purple path: Medium path for fanworks
The full moon
“I love the silent hour of night, For blissful dreams may then arise, Revealing to my charmed sight What may not bless my waking eyes. “ Anne Brontë
Tyranny
“That’s the advantage of insomnia. People who go to bed early always complain the night is too short, but for those of us who stay up all night, it can feel as long as a lifetime. You get a lot done.” Banana Yoshimoto
Wild
The Darkening of Valinor
“On silver necklaces they strung The flowering stars, On crowns they hung The dragon-fire, in twisted wire They meshed the light of moon and sun.” JRR Tolkien, The Hobbit
Things that go bump in the night
Wild
Folklore, folk tales, and old wives’ tales
“The gods were gathered on guarded heights, of doom and death deep they pondered. Sun they rekindled, and silver Moon they set to sail on seas of stars.” JRR Tolkien, Völsungakvida en Nÿja
Day and Night
Inclement weather
“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.” William Blake
Act of Kindness
“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” John Steinbeck
Green path: Short path for fanworks
“It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.” Stephen King
Wild
Animals
Lost and found
“We go, we go, we go to war, to hew the stone and break the door; for bole and bough are burning now, the furnace roars-- we go to war!” JRR Tolkien, The Two Towers Darkness falling
Act of Kindness
“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.” Mahatma Ghandi
Yellow path: Fanworks recs
Favorite character
Underappreciated Fanwork
Favorite book
Wild
Favorite relationship
Creators Who Are New to You
Favorite setting
Topic of your choice
Act of Kindness
Favorite genre/art style
Orange path: Nonfiction
Worldbuilding
Analyze a chapter or passage
Act of Kindness
Personal essay
Compile a list of sources on a specific topic
Multimedia
Meta on fandom
Character study or Ship manifesto
Wild
Take a stand on a question or issue
Blue path: Artwork
Black and white
Abstract
Act of Kindness
Primary colors
Minimalist
Limited palette (your choice of colors)
Tolkien quote
Realistic
Wild
Secondary colors
Colorblindness Accessibility
All paths intersect the red path once, save for the purple path which intersects twice. The red path is the only path that has intersections with different color paths.
Red path: long fanworks path, starts in upper left, no dots, single line of connection between squares
Green path: short fanworks path, starts in lower left, one dot
Yellow path: fanworks recs, starts in lower right, three dots
Blue path: fanart/graphics, starts in upper left, four dots
Orange path: nonfiction, starts in lower left, two dots
Purple path: medium fanworks path, starts in upper right, one dot in each lower corner
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