Buffalo Bill Stop motion final version!!

Quote of the day

Blowjobs are for boyfriends...and jewlery

-The genius behind this gem wishes to remain anonymous. This quote was spoken at 12 am this morning in front of wilder hall.

Art Event #2 (oops I thought I posted this a while ago)

Jane Kaufman  was once a member of the feminist group known as the guerilla girls. Kaufman came to Hartwick to discuss the reason, or rather necessity for this group. Emerging in the late seventies and through the eighties, the guerilla girls fought discrimination towards female artists and artists of color, (among other things). They were a group of anonymous females who took the names of dead female artists as pseudonyms and appeared in public wearing gorilla masks.  There modes of protest involved using posters, stickers, books, printed projects, and actions that expose sexism and racism in politics, the art world, film and the culture at large. Humor was used to get across the information, incite discussion, and show that feminists can be funny. They wore gorilla masks to focus on the issues they were discussing rather than their appearances. Jane has recently come out as a guerilla girl, having this information and learning what the guerilla girls were all about allowed for great insight into her private works of art. You could still see the humor used in the former guerilla girl posters, but the issues seem to broaden. My personal favorite was the Virgin Mary chocolates with the cherry, I believe the piece was called “Immaculate Confection; The Cherry is Still Intact.” Not only is the subject matter funny (similar to older guerilla girls works), but the work itself shows a great deal craftsmanship and attention to fine detail (particularly evident in her needle points). On the whole I liked Jane Kaufman’s speech; she was saucy old lady with sharp wit and intellect.

Rough Draft of my Buffalo Bill claymation

Movies quoting movies

Here I have Carrie(Sissy Spacek) covered in pig blood at the prom. The quote is from Mean Girls, if you know both these movies you will get the humor....If not google the plots of both.

Yay racism in the media!!!

 Examples of racism from then and now! It is ingenious if you think about it, so accessible.

Stop Motion Test

Me and my good friend Meryl decided to do a little pracitce run for our stop motion in digital class, enjoy!

I love the French and their craziness

Do you like jazz and pop/rock? Do you have trouble listening to them at the same time? Look no further, you have found Pink Turtle, a French band that does jazz covers of American classic rock and pop in english.....the result is pretty cool.

Embelishing your kntting

Use this pattern to make apliques, pins, garlands...whatever...People love little things like this, a great way to make a few extra buck$ around the hollidays for all of crocheters out there

A new and slightly off putting perspective

Eff my life

I cannot throw cylinders worth a damn right now, I resort to youtube when all else fails

Winter is coming, new and cheap way to knit easy garments

Just follow the rest of this lady's videos for this hat, they are good instructions.

tUnE-yArDs

Stop motion+video=awesome music!!!!

Rainbows for ever...Things that are gay....what?

Guuuuuurrrrrrrrrrllllll

Ice Cream

College Athletes

Whatever this is

Ceramics

Here are some pictueres of my lattest ceramics works

Things that are cute

Cute

Cuter

Cutest!!!!!

Visiting Artist

Today in my Ceramics class we had an amazing visiting artist come in to demo for us. Her name is Martina Lantin and she is an awesome functional potter. Her work centers on its function within the home and in relationship to the user rather than as a separate piece or collection. Lantin celebrates human error in art, not one of her pieces is exactly alike; they are altered and distorted creating a very personal connection to the user. I particularly liked the way she treated the bottoms of her pieces, she adds a little button of color at the bottom where none would expect there to be, this speaks to her unique sensibility and reasoning when creating pottery that coexists with the home, something she refers to as "pot psychology."

Work from digital class

So these images are from my digital class, the assignment was called the teeny tile project. We were supposed to generate 8 digital images using Summo Paint ( a great online and free version of photoshop) and have the class vote on which ones they  like the best and should ultimatley be ent to sweden(I think) to get printed on tiny ceramic tiles. The first image is the altered version of the second image, I took the picture myself...not too shabby if I do say so myself ;) Anyway this is the image that my class voted for, enjoy.