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.