Bad Music Video!!

Corinne Botz: Tiny bloodly doll woman.

During class last week we had the chance to go see a discussion led by artist Corinne Botz about her works and her newest book. While I'm not the photography type, I did find her work interesting, especially the series she had of tiny little blood stained crime scene dolls. There was something just so fascinating about the tiny things. The woman did have an annoyingly soft voice though, causing me to not pay attention to half of the things she was saying. She seemed to not really answer the questions presented to her, but rather mumble a vaguely related response.

The muffins were good, though.

What I Dream

From Homework

For this project, we needed to create a self portrait about who we are and where we are from, using the drawing tools in photoshop. I drew myself napping (Like I so often am), dreaming about general little doodles and my closest friends, whom I think of often now that I am at college. The background is an old map of Bensalem, PA, my hometown.

Creative Imagination (working title)

From Homework

IT FUNNY, BECAUSE JUST ABOUT ALL OF THESE ARE DRAWN IN THAT ACTUAL SKETCHBOOK.

HELLO DINO!

From Homework

Look at these photoshop skills. LOOK AT THEM.

Daaamn. Check out this super mega awesome hot girl who obviously has no bones!

PHOTOSHOP
Really.
What the hell sometimes, magazine people?

Personally, Faith Hill was sexy before you gave her the anatomy of Gumby. Photo manipulation on magazine covers is not always a bad thing. So what, JLo had a zit and they buffed it out. That's not the problem. the problem is giving women (and men) impossible bodies for the sake of making them look 'model-y'. Magazine dudes, models have bones too, alright? Alright.

It's rather ridiculous, what these people do. Look at Faith up there. They made her arm a toothpick, botoxed her face, gave her another arm, and curved her back. (Why would you want a more curved back? Mmm, them back humps be MIGHTY SEXY.) I understand smoothing out the skin, but when you edit everything else, it takes away the human element of the model, the beautiful element.

So magazine people.
Stop being stupid.

Now.

Scanner Face!

From Scanner Face

Ah, my scanner face. A fun project, but also a very annoying one. The face was the easy part. The hair was what wanted to be a total bitch. the colors are a bit wrong in the hair, only because there where way too many tiny little colors that, unless I wanted to sit and work on my hair for 12 hours, it wasn't gonna happen. Pretty simply process. outline with pen, fill, move over, repeat a bajillion times. Here is a WIP still I took:


WIP: Scanner Face

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WARNING. HIGH VOLTAGE.

From Homework

Delayed Blog is Delayed: Candy Depew.

Last Tuesday I had the privilege of listening to Ms Candy Depew for an hour of my life. She seemed like a pretty chill and cool woman, but her voice and laugh gave me the willies after a total of 17 minutes. Her vinyls were pretty cool. I like the fact that she pretty much sticks to the same symbolism in her art. Very one-trick-pony type feel, even though she is very diverse in her arts. I liked that. I sorta want to buy some of those little trinkets of hers. I wish she had brought some. Also, you can buy those MoneyMakers panties on her site, which amused me.

Philadelphia Adventures

On Labor Day 2010 I went on a magical adventure of dirt and trash through Philadelphia with my parents. We ventured out early in the morning to embark on a seven hour mission, resulting in 238 pictures and an empty gas tank. We started our day by roaming up and down Kelly Drive. Taking pictures of rowers, drawing picnickers, proceeding to freak out picnickers who realized I was drawing them. From there we headed to the art museum, were I snapped images of tourists running up the steps and then turned around to snap one of city hall down the Avenue of Flags. We then headed to City Hall and south on Broad to the Sports Complexes, just in time to be stopped by Phillies traffic. Taking a loop back north, we stopped at Ikea, where I had a view of the SS United States at port. After sketching and taking a few more photos, we headed to Geno's and Pat's, where I got a Geno's pork sandwich. (not a big cheesesteak fan) Then we passes through Old City before hitting the slums. We then found ourselves in the Northeast, where we stopped at the Linden Boat Ramp. We sat on the rocks before taking Route 13 back into Bensalem, where we stopped to get Rita's.

Observation: End of Week 2

I have been a Tyler student for two weeks now.  It's been interesting, for sure.  And yet, more or less what I expected.  Lots of hipsters and indie kids.  A few Scenes.  Coffee cups in the hands of everybody.  Chill professors.  Macs everywhere. 

Just as I had expected.

I do find it amusing, though.  Just how independent Tyler seems to be from the rest of Temple even though it is on Main Campus.  It's like it's own bubble.  Tyler is the only building where people skateboard down the hallway, and the only place where you have to worry about getting hit by a bike while inside.  It has it's own cafe with hip food, like sushi and hummus and Naked juice and those weird boxes of Indian food.  It's the only building that basically takes a day off from teaching. 

It's interesting really.  I am no longer phased by people just plopping down in the middle of the hallway and pulling out their laptop, or people stapling random things to walls.  I think I'm getting used to the art school-i-ness of it all.  Which is good, I guess.