The Big Chart

http://homepage.mac.com/clintwynn/thebigchart/thebigchart.html

Clever video with a design-y twist.. to follow up on our design filled class last week

Tonight's visiting speaker 7 PM!!!!

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Bring your papers all nice and stapled and with a cover page and all that.

See you then

Happy Halloween

Hey everyone,
Is everyone excited for the Halloween Howl at the School this Friday? I was wondering how many people still make there costumes? It seems like Halloween has changed a lot since I was a kid and probably it has completely changed since people my parents' age were kids. When I was younger I would always wear a homemade costume. There is a pretty cool website that has DIY projects on pretty much anything:
http://www.instructables.com/

Comfortably Numb.

So did anyone go to Laser Spectacular: Pink Floyd last night?
well in the last minute i decided to, it was sick! highly recommend it,
I'll be sporting the wicked 3d glasses all day every day.

check it out...
l a s e r s p e c t a c u l a r.

Makes you feel like god...

Not sure if this is legitimate posting material, but I figured this was far too cool to not share. In an effort to give this some relevance to the class, it's interesting to see how altering the speed and perspective of our reality can drastically change what we perceive as ordinary. I dream of a Google earth where we can see things unfold like this.


The North Wind Blew South from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

What all the cool kids at ACAD will be doing Friday at lunch, and what you should be doing too!

So me and my friend Emily are having a art show at the Ivan Gallery (in room 118) next weekend. It is an installation with all sorts of secrets in it. The opening is on Friday from 12-2, and everyone should come down and check it out. And donate some secrets and read some secrets. I would post a picture of the flyer I made, but I can't figure out how, so I might later on.

Sorry for the shameless plug, I am just really really excited.

More Beuys

More John Cage

HI! or LO!

So last class Rick had a little spew on sneaker culture and painting / altering shoes when he brought up the topic on high and low art. I thought I'd post up my depiction of that, this is a pair of airforce hightops that I just finished up on commission. Been working on altering and painting shoes for the last few months, definetly gives a little breathe to the constant work on canvas and paper....

Something worth questioning..

Sorry for hogging all the blogging, but I have to comment on the so-called "Movement Movement". I would like to first applaud the critical audience members calling out some interesting points such as what sort of movement they are actually trying to create.

My opinion is that this is a simple group activity, nothing more. The whole idea that they are trying to challenge rules or "break" social conventions is completely out to lunch, as a few audience members illustrated. It seems that this an event about breaking the rules, as long as nobody breaks the rules that were agreed to by the event coordinators and the museum management. "Bringing your dog is a bit of a stretch" one of them said. "No spitting" was another. Ridiculous. If you want to challenge the system, you outright challenge it. You don't proceed with lengthy discussions and compromises in order to get permission. Bring on the flash mobs, I say.

As the guy in the green hat mentioned, there is an election happening as we speak. Why not make this event worthwhile and base it on a political platform? Why wouldn't they substantiate this whole project by giving it some tangible meaning? My guess is that the museum would never allow a politically aimed project in the doors.

Another ridiculous point was mentioning sponsorship from Nike as being improper due to questionable business practice but then saying they were sponsored by American Apparel. If these girls knew what they were talking about they would be well aware that American Apparel is involved in some pretty shady operating practices as well. "We were into a short shorts thing" was their reasoning. Please.

I think (or hope, rather) that the steam is being let out of this balloon really fast. It's all fine if their intentions were to simply get a large group of people together in order to have a bit of fun at the museum and run around, but to attach arbitrary meanings to the event is plain old silly.

Forgive me for my ramblings, but I have a hard time swallowing "movements" that are not based around a critical analysis of it's own intentions. So please, challenge this perspective if you will.

For those interested in Grafitti.

Saw the first documentary on TV a few months ago and it was excellent. Wicked beats as well. Included a couple other clips from different docs. that seem pretty good as well.


Next: A Primer on Urban Painting
http://www.nextthemovie.com/


Style Wars
http://www.stylewars.com/


Bomb-It!
http://bombit-themovie.com/

Message to Rick: If we can get a hold of one of these is there any way we could show one of these films in class one day?

Pictures for the words.

Did some digging around to find some of the videos relating to the videos or artists within the book "Broken Screen". Here's clips from the artists in the first chunk of the book. Just a warning, some of these are not family-friendly.

Eija-Liisa Ahtila:
Not sure if this film was discussed in the book but gives you an idea of her technique.

Robert Altman:
Live interview from the 70's(?)
A later interview from 1996. There are two other interviews before Altman, but the first one is definitely worth watching too.
Read this if you watched the first interview.
The trailer for "3 Women".

Kenneth Anger:
Mouse Heaven (2004)
Scorpio Rising (1964)
Kustom Kar Kommandos

John Baldessari:
I Am Making Art
Inventory
I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art

Matthew Barney:
Interview
Drawing Restraint 9 Clip
Couldn't find any full videos but here's some clips from the CREMASTER cycle they talk about in the text.
Cremaster 1
Cremaster 2
Cremaster 3
Cremaster 4
Cremaster 5
Cremaster 6 Haha.


That's all I got. Pretty much everything is on youtube if you want more, it is great.

Vince Musi

I went to the Vince Musi talk on Saturday. Vince Musi is a photographer of National Geographic fame. He talked about how he got started in college. I thought it was interesting how he failed his photography course. He ended up taking visual communication instead.
He says over the years he has developed a "voice" in his photographs. I think developing a voice can be applied to any medium. It will be interesting to find out what my "artistic voice" will be. I also enjoyed some of the questions at the end. One was especially funny,
Someone asked "What advice would you give someone just starting out in Photography?"
Vince says "Be a doctor."

MST Festival starts today

http://www.mstfestival.org/mst4/mst02.html

Visiting Artists October 9th

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