EPIC FAIL

I still have zero ideas as to what I'm going to do for this final project. I need to find a pun-tum, something that really inspires me, almost makes me jealous of its creator. I want to cronstruct something using technology I havent before, like photoshop, or adobe illustrator. Otherwise, I have yet to come up with an idea or concept for the last one...

GROUP VIDEO

The difficulty for this assignment was A) getting the group together and talking B) coming up with a feasible idea that we could accomplish in two hours. We agreed to focus on a character and somehow highlight the most painful part of her life, in this case being schizophrenic. We wanted no dialogue, the focus was on the main character of the girl and her bouts of insanity in a normal, everyday setting. We managed to make it accessible to a wide audience and I'm happy with the end result. My favourite of the other groups was The Sounds of Boredom, as i found this concept or idea extremely creative and interesting.  

STOP MOTION

Searching through youtube at different stop motion videos, and trying to tack down an idea was extremely difficult. There is a wide range of things you can accomplish through stop motion and I realized this as I looked through all the different videos that exist online. I was especially intrigued by the post it note stop motion, and illustrated stop motion and wanted to somehow do both. Not realizing that I had chosen the most difficult ways to create a stop motion video I went ahead and came up with this wonderfully complicated and loosely autobiographical story that I would bring to life. Starting off, I realized how difficult it would be to do my original story, it would have taken me too long to finish, and had to cut it in half. The new ending was not as fitting as the old ending but there was no way that i could accomplish what I wanted to without taking forever to do it. All in all, I could have done a much better job. I think that at times the drawing and illustration was not on par with my normal abilities and I regret using post-it notes as paper....not ideal. I was thoroughly impressed by the other stop motion videos and the effort that people put into them. This inspired me to want to make another stop motion, using a medium other than post-it notes and pencil.

PETCHA KUTCHA

I was taken aback by the openness of this first project, being used to very specific guidelines, especially for a presentation. My initial reaction to Elaine Sharpe's daring of the class to "shock her" was to identify what kind of art shocked me and then share it with the class. Being already fascinated by performance art, i had no trouble finding shocking examples, and it was the art of the French artist Orlan who truly floored me. Her commitment to her practice, how she actually LIVED the art that she wanted to create is completely amazing to me. I went on to find other artwork that disturbed and shocked me and created twenty slides of this. The only regret i had from the presentation was how I misjudged the length of twenty seconds. I feel that I could have gotten my ideas across in a more coherent and clear manner if I had accounted for the time limit. I also would have liked to make it more personal, seeing other people's presentations and how they opened up more about their lives. Inspiration is intrinsic and so I see the importance of understanding yourself and integrating who you are into your art.