Writing assignment from the Portfolio Synposium lineup

This was my writing assignment. Hearing directly from them gave me more inspiration to continue what I do.

"Being there and listening to what the artists are saying makes me realize that it takes a lot of hard work and knowledge to do what we want to do in the future. I spoke to a industrial atuomobile designer and an architectural designer and i am amazed by the work already done around us. I was looking through the architectural designing portfolio and i was amazed to have been there at least in one of the designed building. All the information and images they showed to us was pretty nice and crazy good.

I have been thinking about my career a lot and its been about the same thing: finishing college, getting a Bachelor's Degree, designing cars, and making a good living. By just being here at MIAD, i have begun to think if there was anything else i want to do besides automobile design and if architecture design would suit me best. But for sure i am still staying in the design area. I haven't thought farther than that and doing it will take some time since I am a bit lazy and busy.

Unfortunately I did not make any further research on any of the artist becuase I have been busy with hmwk. I believe I have heard and seen enough from the artists themself. Their information is good enough for me to think about it. Further research is unesscary for me right now. All i need to do is think and decide. I'm thinking right now and deciding will take a bit. I hope everything works out in the end."

Muzik

I would probably go crazy without music. I love R&B, techno, trance, rap, hip hop, and some country. Music motivates me to move further on. It helps me run another mile. It fills my ears with the beautiful mix of voice and sounds. I like to do a lot of things that are not related to making art like dancing. I love dancing but unfortunately it is too hard. Music to me makes the world a little bit less boring. here is a music video that has been inspiring me all these years to keep my dancing dream alive.

Here is another video I am recently listening to. 

How does art get done?

I was rereading the article name Art and Fear and I was connected to this phrase: how does art get done? Well if you think about it, everything around us and the things we make is never a finished piece. If everything were completely successful, completely finished, what would we do next?

Here is something i drew on my arm while voluntarily face painting for a event at the John Micheal Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The event has a lot of artist bringing in their own work and selling them to the public. It was a great event. While face painting, i painted Avatar the airbender on my arm and i copied the image from the Internet. To me, this was complete becuase I was satisfied with it. I liked it the way it was. I could do more, but I didn't want to.

Shinique Smith's piece name Floaty

I have to say that the trip to Madison was great. Maybe it was the long ride in the coach itself that felt better than being there at the museum. I always love riding buses, especially coach buses because it brings me memories during high school where i was in a pre-college program where we went to field trips in all kinds of buses. It was great. Back to the artist name Shinique Smith, i thought her pieces were creative and wild. her pieces does not seem to be specific or in a way she kind of lets the audience imagine what her pieces mean. I think most of her pieces were good and meaningful while some are not so much. Here is one of her piece name Floaty that i thought was good. It reminded me of some sort of Japanese animation design from Studio Ghibli's film productions.

You will be amazed!

I was amazed to have watch this video. I still can't believe this is all real and all have been done by actual people with talent. The song adds a good touch to the awesome-ness. Please watch this video.

Inspiration

So many things inspired me that even humor inspires me like the image i found. i love this image and i love star wars. The technology or fantasy involved in star wars intrigues me and motivates me to think more of design.

Super Sprayer

I found this video of this guy spray painting. At first, i thought he was just fooling around. Having watched the rest of the video, i feel like he just did a magic trick and i feel very tricked. I have never worked with spray paints before and this guy makes me feel like I want that experience. Check out this video!

More cars

I love cars and music. Mixing these together got this video i found while stumbling. It's pretty nice and full of good beats!

Another Tony ousler piece

This looks like a frog to me with human features. I just like how the eyes move seperately and how the noises it makes are wierd. Lets play it agian!

Cars

Cars fascinate me, especially newly design ones. They're my motivation to continue what i do. I love cars and here is a photo i found on the net. I want to make this kind of art in the near future.

First Assignment

Part one:

In my terms, I cannot really place myself in historical context because I do not know where to place myself. I may be a bit of between, but maybe not. I haven’t thought about this lately because I have been concentrating more on what I love than where I am in historical context. I often see more of myself in the present, working my way towards the future.

I never thought I would end up going to an art college, especially here at MIAD. I never thought of my future at all until high school. My college life seemed like it was going to end up at a public university. My friends and teachers persuaded me to work harder and do more practice at the things I love. I never thought I would go into the fine arts field.

I began taking art during my freshman year because a good teacher of mine recommended me. I always liked doodling and drawing things for fun and when I began producing good pieces of art, all I thought was that I was good at it. It was until my junior year that I took it a bit more seriously and doing that has paid off in college. 

I could’ve majored in the mathematical field or biological field, but I chose not to because I know I am an artist. I love math and science and learning how to combine them with art makes me happy enough to be studying in fine arts. I believe art can be everything and everywhere depending on the perspective. I made all of my decisions to being here is because I want to do what I love and still benefit me in the future.

Part two 

As an artist, I am more of an observational person who likes to visually record a moment onto paper.  I always liked drawing from what I see and watching other people draw what they see makes me understand their perspective. This makes me realize that art is a way of explaining whom we are and how we are different from others. I like to use what is already given to create a good piece of art that is visible, understandable, and clear. In a way, I like to extract shapes from paper and make fine cuts. Being intricate with blades has always been a part of me. I love doing what I do, as long as I am satisfied from the piece.

I like to produce clear, understandable, and visible art from what I see to show the audience my perspective.

Inspiration

What inspires me is technology and art. Mix theses two together and you get this video. I think this video is amazing.

The crazy design and idea in this commercial just makes me want to continue my art more and more until i am able to create some great piece of art or idea on my own. I have always been interested with technology and science and so i hope to incorporate these two studies into my art. 

I am more likely to be inspired by contentment because with joy, I willl not likely be happy much and happiness effects my inspiration very much. My desire to do what i love inspires me a lot more than something I don't like.

I am more likely inspired by personal situations or my past. I find my past to affect and effect me a lot today to inspire me enought to change myself for the better. Some past are meant to be left alone, but memory is a pain in the butt sometimes and I can't really do anything about it.

Interactions with humans seems to be more important to me than non-human i think. I am not really sure on this because I have not really taken notice on this before.

Being fatigue seems to bring me pain and pressure and stress and so this only makes me think of how to not be in this state again in thr future so I would choose rest. Resting I believe is a state of recovery where I am able to look back into my memories and be inspired. Resting I believe brings me new ideas.

I have never been "high" before and I don't plan to so i guess it would have to be sobriety and being sober has been me all these times.

Nature has a stronger hit on my than culture because i find nature to be natural and colorful and beautilful. Nature inspired Takashi Murakami and so it can for me.

I would say familiarity and mystery seems to inspire me through abstraction and clear art. I like to be inspired by things I am familiar with, but with something that is a mystery could be a good choice for me to take.

Production is like designin for me and I like designing. Productions inspire me to design an architectural building and it feels great.

I am much more of a person who likes to stay in the present becuase the past makes me too emotional and sad. Feeling like way too much emotions makes me float in space and stop. It would feel like times has stopped because I will be thinking of all the past that I miss. This makes me sad so I choose to be inspired by the present.

Being happy is what makes me feel better about my art and so this inspires me more greatly than anger, but facts inspire me more than feelings because facts are amazing and scientific sometimes and it makes me feel like, "WHOA!...I DIDN'T KNOW THIS!"

Sometimes I inspire myself more and it seems to be heading that way this semester and it feels good. I feel less from others because I am picky. I am only greatly inspired by certain art pieces with certain ideas. Unless this involves commercials than yes. Transformers 3 commercials are AWESOME!

Tony Oursler

Tony Ourlser's work seems familiar to me. If I recall correctly, one or many of his work has been in the Milwaukee Art Museum back then. It was interesting to see faces projected on items like dolls. Since our connection to other people is mostly through facial expressions, Tony Oursler lets us make the connection the projected items. Very interesting.

Ping pong

I wish I was as good as these people at ping pong. Enjoy!

Gillian Wearing

When i first flipped through the book and saw Gillian Wearing's work, I was astounded and only by her works with signs. For some reason I connected to those drawings to myself and realized more than just that photo. There were gaps and I filled them in unintentionally in a click. To me, this was something new and amazing. I was connected to this one.

I am not very much of a photographer at all, but this photo touched me. I feel like we are going to be in his spot one day looking for a job while they go scarce. The world is crazy these days and money seems to make the world go round. We have to educate ourselves in order to further educate ourselves even more just to make enough money to live comfortably. Sometimes I wonder if I am working too hard. 

First Day of Class

The first thing i noticed when I walked into the Understanding Visual 2 class was that more than half of the classmates were females. I have nothing against females or anything like that. It's just that i have never had a class with that much girls. I am still new to everything around me.

A lot of people expected this class to be boring. I thought so too. I don't mean to, but it was according to how the teacher taught the class last semester. The first thing that surprised me was that the professor for this class asked us why we don't have our kit with us. I was shocked. I thought we were going to read and sit for the whole semester. I guess it is really different this time. I was happy. It made me smile.

We didn't do something as incredible as this, but we did do something similar.