Thursday, December 21, 2006

foodings; not paintings




This is a peice I did in artmaking but it gets its own post because its still an idea in progress.

[apologies for the glossiness, i used a wash of rasberry vinagret when it was done]
This peice was done off the premise of using no paints whatsoever. Specifically because one of the reasons I don't like painting is because it leaves the artist totally dependent on the paint-companies, who can then charge whatever they want. I think thats a bad way to make art, hence why i often like using found objects or reoppropriating object in the way they weren't intended.
>This peice was made using:
Brown- Soy Sauce- microwaved to get the water out, then used as water color
Blue- toilet bowl blue-water-maker as water color, toothpaste
Yellow- mustard
Red- Ketchup, Hotsauce, M&M
Green- M&Ms, mustard + toiletstuff
some are combinations of the above.
Below are some pictures of my work-station when making this- I like it because the pallet is unusual for painting.. because there is no paint.

Artmaking projects

I wanted to post up projects from this past semester, but unless they are ideas that I'm still working, I'm just going to post them in one post (post- there- 4 times in one sentence).


This is a painting made from a song. The song is "Hey Pachuco" by the Royal Crown Revue (also known as the song from the Mask). I painted the different musical parts of the song as I saw them visually.
I don't like painting that much- its slow, uninteresting to me, and I'm not too great at it.


This peice is just experimenting with smoke-painting, using burnt paper, and spray paint at an angle. Its not anything special really, just some playing around


This is a peice made totally out of fabric peices donated to me by White Lotus (furniture store on Hamilton St in New Brunswick). Its just fabric and hot glue. No concept really, just alot of playig around with color schemes and composition.

[maybe ill put the pictures up here, later though]
There are three small collages, not that great (and my teacher let me know, don't worry). On the subject of natural vs man-made. nothing too deep.

art? fork art!


[i can't figure out for the life of me how to make those come out right and i just ran out of patience]
Using plyers and hot glue, nothing to complicated I just wanted to post this up.
fork art.

light "guard" ideas

here is a lightguard:The thing about them is that it is not that hard to take them down and put them back up, so there are a few ideas that i have had for them:
>The first idea I have already done- i took the one down in my room and we put a bunch of christmas lights into it and ran an extension cord along the ceiling and turned the main light off and the christmas ligths on- that was awesome

>The other ideas I had have to do with using the lightguards as installation peices throughout the dorm- because they are in all the hallways.
---One idea is paint them, with regular paint or watered-down (and so semi-transparent) paint- and that leaves alot of things open- an eye-ball is an easy obvious one. but you could do the earth, just plain words circling or spiraling, etc.
---Another idea is sort of a play on stenciling- if you make a stencil and tape it (using minimal amounts of clear, scotch or packaging tape) to the inside- you use the light to draw out the stencil- keeping in mind that i think you'd have to do it backwards but thats not really a problem because a stencial can be made normally and just flipped. but you now have a really simple place to get your stencils so many people will see them and this (unlike the paint) is non-destructive.

[in case you are someone reading this who could potentially get me in trouble for any of this- i hope you are enjoying my JOKE website. its a place where i post things that i would NEVER do in real life because I don't damage school property, i just like to indulge in fantasies here on the internet because it isnt real].

picture says enough.




banksy. graffiti.artist. check out his other work on my links (see the right).

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

magnetic tape dj

alright i got this idea... im not sure from hearing about this women who made a shirt by weaving together magnetic tape and then attaching the 'magnetic reader' from a tape player to the end of a pen and rubbing it along the shirt.
-later i found out about Laurie Anderson, who did a similar project, attaching the magnetic tape to a bow and using it like a violin- she is a musician who has made cds and tours.
-I did a similar project (before i knew about laurie anderson, not that it matters) and took apart a tape player (below)


-isolated the 'reader' peice (below)

-i took clips of magnetic tape and attached them, like bows, to paper clips (below)

-instant DJ
-you run the bow along the reader at a certain speed (it take some playing around to get the right speed) and you can replay the tape as it was meant to be heard- but you can run it faster or slower as you want, you can also scratch and repeat parts as you want to hear them.

possible ideas are pretty endless- furnishing the reader into a nice little box, with the reader sticking up would be easy- then making a bunch of 'bows' or 'samples' of whatever i want (keeping in mind that, though it would be difficult, i can record whatever i want onto tapes with no difficulty). then i can sample instruments, clips of voices, famous movie quotes, etc. then i can have a set of bows, labeled and marked where the quote starts and potentially become very good at the instrument.

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Update: What about a magnetic tape VJ?
Idea riding on the tail of the above project:
>if I can do this with an audio tape, can you do it with a video tape?
-could I mix visual and audio?
-Reid says that a vcr is much more difficult to mess with- not that I don’t believe him- but I got a vcr and im going to find out for myself (the next I get some free hours)

Saturday, December 02, 2006

no clever title here

okay, this is random idea. no concept, it might just be funny. but i'd like develop some sort of concept for it before i do it.
simple: run a line from third floor rooms on each side of my dorm, and hang something from the line.
>idea: underwear/undergarments from people all over the dorm.
>use: strong rope or wire (electrical wire?) + clothpins or paperclips?
>sign: it would have to be water proof and tear proof and non-offensive enough that it wont get taken down right away.

>sort of different idea: use that space- visible to so many people- as an area for an installation or just to hang a sculptre, what if I don't hang clothing... i hang...
-cardboard cutouts of something?
-of people? i have britney spears and shakespear

signs:
-surprising facts:
did you know: every 7 seconds... etc etc
- hang the sign in segments, in between the segmants hang peices of something related to the subject
-like people who die of hunger and hang leftover food
-people who work in sweatshops and hang clothing made in sweatshops
-NOLA? DID you know: it tooks FEMA # days to etc/ #,000 people died / etc.
-hang with clothing, mardigras.

.... more to come. i like this idea.

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update on this idea:
i just mentioned this idea in the room to eli and shriane, and shriane came up with a really good idea-
steal a one pair of underwear from many people in the dorm and put them up there as an april fools joke.
-write "april fools" on the underwear in black tape
-put up early april 1st!
>how to get underwear? use roomates against each other! (i hope no in the dorm reads this)- ask a roomate to help me get his/her roomates underwear for a practical joke, then ask the other roomate also.
use either my room and tony's room- or daz's room and third floor lounge or bobby/eric.

road to omelas

i have an idea for an installation peice, based on a story by Ursula Le Guin, called "the Ones who walk away from omelas". its a short story, really easy read- very interested, you can find it here - its a pdf on that site.
once you read it, this will make more sense. But I'd like to simply reenact the basement with the child. have a dark, dirty basement, with shit everywhere. mop and buckets in one corner. make a bad smell, so viewers smell it. in the other corner, a small child- on its butt, holding its knees- facing the corners, so you only see the back of the childs hear- androgenous haircut. problem; the story says naked... making a naked body would be really difficult, clothing would be easier but really difficult at the same time. plaster carving?
and maybe a constant whinning taped-looped.

and... give out a copy of the story? maybepost the end of the story somewhere in big letters... and give out a copy of the whole story?
or not and just give out a copy of the whole story.
hm.