24.2.08
Why blog, why about art?
Why Blog?
I am required to blog at least 150 words per post once a week for my english class. It was either blog or do web design, my teacher chose blog. I am pretty sure I swore off "blogging" in 6th grade when I got suspended from a certain private school for making a website using expage.com called schoolsucks. They didn't like me there anyways.
Why about art?
Well, I love art. I chose a really cheesy name for this because I was hoping not too many people would search for art blogs and find it. Back to art... I have grown up around it. I like to think of myself as being well-cultured. I think almost anything can be art. My mom loved musicals and plays and took me to every play that went through ASU's Gammage Auditorium for about 7 years. It was okay. I liked some, thought some were amazing, and absolutely hated others.
My parents took me to museums every weekend and asked me what I thought about it. I liked talking about the pictures the best. I guess thats how my photography interest started. Many of my friends and some of my family members and family members-to-be are artists or heavily involved in the art community in Phoenix, Boulder, Scottsdale, and Bisbee, among others.
I have several favorite artists, mostly photographers, that I will probably post about more than once. I like "post" better than "blog," I feel like an idiot saying "blog" for some reason. Anyways, I like artists that do something different or combine several styles. An easy example would be Damian Marley, he combines, tastefully, reggae and hip hop. I probably wont be talking much about music and I can only stand Damian for so long but hey... it got the point across. I also like artists that capture or create a moment that is different and interesting.
Hope my "posts" as I have decided to call them aren't too boring.
I am required to blog at least 150 words per post once a week for my english class. It was either blog or do web design, my teacher chose blog. I am pretty sure I swore off "blogging" in 6th grade when I got suspended from a certain private school for making a website using expage.com called schoolsucks. They didn't like me there anyways.
Why about art?
Well, I love art. I chose a really cheesy name for this because I was hoping not too many people would search for art blogs and find it. Back to art... I have grown up around it. I like to think of myself as being well-cultured. I think almost anything can be art. My mom loved musicals and plays and took me to every play that went through ASU's Gammage Auditorium for about 7 years. It was okay. I liked some, thought some were amazing, and absolutely hated others.
My parents took me to museums every weekend and asked me what I thought about it. I liked talking about the pictures the best. I guess thats how my photography interest started. Many of my friends and some of my family members and family members-to-be are artists or heavily involved in the art community in Phoenix, Boulder, Scottsdale, and Bisbee, among others.
I have several favorite artists, mostly photographers, that I will probably post about more than once. I like "post" better than "blog," I feel like an idiot saying "blog" for some reason. Anyways, I like artists that do something different or combine several styles. An easy example would be Damian Marley, he combines, tastefully, reggae and hip hop. I probably wont be talking much about music and I can only stand Damian for so long but hey... it got the point across. I also like artists that capture or create a moment that is different and interesting.
Hope my "posts" as I have decided to call them aren't too boring.
19.2.08
Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle
Matthew Barney is a film maker, photographer, sculptor, video maker, drawer, and performance artist. His most famous work is a series of films called the Cremaster Cycle. I wish I could explain what it is about, but I can't because I can't understand it. His films have no famous actors, no dialogue, and varying styles of music. Unfortunately, they are not available for sale that I have seen and they are only screened for several days in cities around the world. One of his films that you can buy part of is called The Order, which is his third film.
Many of the images in his film are crazy and unconventional. He is innovative and out of this world. In the part of his films that I have seen, it shows him collecting pieces to a puzzle, each of which is hidden on a different level on the Guggenheim Museum. I can't actually believe that the Museum let him use it as a part of his film. On one level, he throws large plastic statues into a hole over and over and over until eh thinks it is perfect. On another level, he runs around a band playing loud obnoxious punk rock music while many extras create a moshpit that he navigates through. You can check out the trailer on his website: http://www.cremaster.net/its difficult to navigate the website and find the trailer, but i'm sure that it is somewhere.
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