Grid Art Project

Luigi's A Dick

 

 

For some reason I always thought that Luigi was such a mean player. I've never even really played Mario Brothers. I don't know why, but every time I saw Luigi I just thought he was a dick with a green hat. Like Mario was the golden child and Luigi was a dick. So I decided to do my grid art project on Mario and Luigi.

 

This was the before:

 

 

This was my interpretation:

 



Steve Jobs Harvard Commencement Speech 2005

Steve Jobs never graduated from college. He was adopted by people that originally wanted a girl. His biological mother didn't want to sign the adoption papers, unless his adoptive parents promised to put him through college. Steve Jobs went to college and felt that all of this adoptive parent money was being wasted away on something he wasn't even sure he wanted to do. He had no idea what he wanted to be and didn't feel the need to be spending so much money on something that had very little effect on him. He still believes that it was the best decision he had ever made. Dropped out of college, but dropped in on classes that he thought was very interesting. Steve Jobs sat in on calligraphy courses, and when he was making the MAC it all came back to him. The calligraphy inspired parts of the computer, a computer with "beautiful typography" (Steve Jobs). If he had never dropped in on that single calligraphy course in collage the MAC would have never have had the beautiful fonts it does now. Even though Steve Jobs was the founder of Apple he was fired from the company after a falling out with someone he had hired to help the company. Sometimes you need to forgive and forget. Even though Steve Jobs was fired he believed it was a great thing. Sometimes when one door closes another one opens, and that's what you always have to remember. My favorite quote that I heard him say was "you can't connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking back. So you have to trust that he dots will connect somehow in your future." (Steve Jobs) This applies to every college student out there right now. Just because you fail a paper or drop out of college, that doesn't mean your future is ruined. You get in life what you put out, and if you give it your all one day down the road it will all come together.

TI99-4A

The TI99-4A was the first 16 bit processor. It was also one the of the first home computers going for about $525 which was a lot of money back in the 80's. The TI99-4A first came out around 1981. This computer was so important because it kind of set the bar for the rest of the computers being made. It was like the first stepping stone that really influenced the rest of the computers being made. It also had a new demographics chip that made it easier to work. It had places that you could plug things in and insert floppy disc for storage. The computer really set the bar and started the computer evolution. Many people built off of the way this computer was set up. For example, this computer had spaces to insert a floppy disc for storage and that helped play off onto Disc's. People thought that the floppy disc was good, but they wanted a way to store more information that that helped with the invention of the disc. It also gave the idea of, why not having a screen? This computer was really the gateway to all computers.

Alan Turing

Alan Turing was a British mathematician, who was very influential in the development of computer science. In my opinion without Alan Turing the creation of the computer would have been almost impossible. He provided the building blocks necessary to make the computer so successful. He developed the formation of the concepts of algorithms and computation in his Turing machine. The Turing machine was a model of the general purpose computer. Turing is also known as the Father of computer science. Lets face it without Alan Turing's making of the concepts of the algorithm and computation, it would have been many years before we started making computers. He had a huge influence on the way that the computers were made and how they worked. Alan Turing was gay, and unfortunately people didn't understand that being gay wasn't a disease or a psychological illness, and was prosecuted for homosexuality in 1952. He accepted oestrogen injections instead of prison and because of that is ruined his emotional stability. He later committed suicide. I only people knew back then what they know now, it would have changed a lot of peoples lives, and saved a lot of brilliant minds.

Gyorgy Ligeti's Music

I chose to listen to Lux Aeterna it was ten minutes long and all ten minutes I felt like I was floating through outer space. Its the kind of song that you would hear in star wars or in Star Trek. Its the kind of song that you would hear in a movie when someone is exploring the galaxy for the first time, or discovering something so amazing and new. It gives you a feeling of exploration and discovery. When I first listened to it I thought "I would never listen to this by choice", then I imagined where I would listen to this type of music. Movies came to mind when I asked myself that question. Then I pictured Star Wars and being caught in the drift of galaxy. I even ended up getting a little motion sickness, so I had to turn it off. This song is the perfect example of why motion films need to use music to emphasize movies. Without music you can't completely immerse yourself in what is going on. Music gives the movies that extra little boost in details, and especially and emotional response. Gyorgy Ligeti does that very well with his music, especially Lux Aeterna, it really helps you immerse yourself in what is going on. You can really feel what the music is saying to you. They say music speaks and Gyorgy Ligeti's music said something to me, and really opened up my imagination.   

Art and Technology Flip Book

 

Mark J Stock

Mark's collection is amazing. The fact that you can manipulate liquid on a computer, by using algorithms is so creative and outside of the box. My favorite piece of artwork of his is the CF_11_1179. It looks like its flowing even though it is a print. The fact that this picture is made by a series of intricate numbers set in a specific order is one of the most interesting things that I have ever seen. When you look at this picture you can seen anything that you want. It really opens up your imagination. The way that the colors are manipulated and placed really takes your imagination on a ride. I think that this is why I like this one that best, it makes me think of so many things when I look at it. I think of a field of flowers, or something magical like, fairies, or a genie being released from a bottle. These types of art are a way of opening peoples imaginations. Some of these creations are just absolutely breath taking. I love the fact that he was able to make all of these pictures unique in their own ways, also the way that he was able to create their movement without them even moving. At first glance you think that these pictures are a paused video, but they are really just pictures created through special mathematically calculated algorithms. Your mind sees them as moving and even though your eyes are looking at a still image. You perceive the movement without even seeing it moving. It uses your imagination in the portrayal of the image. These are really some of the most unique and beautiful pictures I have ever seen.

                                             http://markjstock.com/p101.html

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud was very influential to film in its early years. Many film makers made movies based off of his theory of dreaming. Film makers started creating movies through the sleep walkers eyes. The entire movie was like a dream. It was dark and distorted; it gave off an eerie effect. The painted eyes onto their eyelids, to show them "being awake while they are dreaming". It was creepy and brilliant all at once. The fact that they were able to portray something like this in a film with no sound or color is amazing. Its weird to think that Sigmund Freud would have such an impact on film of all things. It created a gateway to new ideas in film making. Some of the best movies come from abstract ideas like these. Painting the eyes on the eyelids to make it look like they are dreaming while sleeping was they type of technologies that they used in order to perceive certain things in their movies. In the early days of film they had to become very creative in order for the audience to understand what is going on in the movie, or what they are trying to act out. Sigmund Freud was a hot topic to early films.

Old Time Radio

 

Radio shows back then are so different from radio shows now. Now all you hear is strictly what the radio host thinks you want to hear. Things like music, weather alerts, traffic updates, and talk shows. The radio is more interactive now, asking fans to call in and let them know what they think of that days show, or give a request for something they want to hear. They even give away free things on the radio today. Its not as much or a necessity today as it was back in the day. Listening to Webber and Fields Routine through old time radio you realize how different it is back then, from now. People listened to the radio like we watched TV. They had many different varieties from comedy to action. Listening to Webber and Fields routine really helped me open up my imagination. Your really have to imagine everything that they are saying. They have to over exaggerate their voice in order for you to imagine what they are saying. Its like a show made just to exercise your brain. Webber and Fields routine was a comedy act that really kept you laughing. It's interesting to see what they found funny then, and what we find funny now. It is really different. Their bickering and name calling is a fun routine to listen to. I love the crackling in the background, it makes you feel like you are back in that time period sitting on the floor with your family listening to Webber and Fields yourself.  

 

http://www.otr.com/comedy.html

 

 

The Great Train Robbery

The Great Train Robbery was one of the first films ever made. These films did not have sounds to them usually, sometimes people would play music in the background. Most of the time though the music that you hear, is music that someone added to the film afterwards. I think that this is one of the best made films of its time. The explosions that you see like with the dynamite and the guns firing does a really good job in portraying what it actually looked like. the audience probably thought that they were going to be shot just watching it or that the people that were shot were really dead, because this was something completely new and different, unlike anything that they had ever seen. There actions and movements had to be so severe and over the top, because since there is no talking the audience had to be able to tell what they are doing. This made it easier for the audience to tell what was happening in the film. This also made the film more of a comedy as well, seeing the actors jump around. This was a great film for their time.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc7wWOmEGGY&feature=youtu.be

  

Stop Motion Integration

Stop Motion is an amazing way to create videos and movies, that have a different touch to them. Stop Motion has become more popular recently. Some movies are now trying out Stop Motion. For example, The Corpse Bride, Coraline, and even a new movie coming out called The Box Trolls. How Stop Motion works is you take an object and move it one piece at a time, and every time you move it you take a picture of it. At the end of all the movements you put the pictures together to essentially make a movie, or video. My favorite Stop Motion video's come from vine and usually involve Legos.

 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oCxaXRW7R0

What is Vernacular and Pictorial Photography?

Vernacular Photography- is experimenting and making new things.

For example, Leisure Diving:

 

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/ff/67/02/ff67022bd0b801d108de21b523db27db.jpg

http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2011/07/26/1226101/891538-leisure-dive.jpg

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0XMKKpQjhcCmFRryu59rCDyVnWWhxExgdu3aH2UsBB9_0_3ZxiYtZ4xTG1IAwV8tziIXWsv6_o_wZQld74258jDSk1N9ig8N4YnZplw45hNwo1G4MsXRj91tu4i8c-PkjgavsVXwPEJqd/s1600/HotdogginDive.jpg

 

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=leisure+diving&qs=n&form=QBIR&pq=leisure+diving&sc=8-14&sp=-1&sk=#a

 

Pictorial Photography- things that were already done and are being remade.

 

For example,

 

http://www.baumanrarebooks.com/BookImages/58589b.jpg

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2175/2368791605_9a56e703cc.jpg

https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3901/14552495213_fa2116b9f3_z.jpg

 

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=pictorial+photography&FORM=HDRSC2#view=detail&id=0FCDD11894C574B98018AEF745D268F1C2B1D91C&selectedIndex=35

 



Abe Morell

Abe Morell was a very talented artist that took the normal 2-D picture and flipped it; literally. He used the device camera obscura to project real life scenes from outside to a wall in the room. Not only was the picture just as detailed and beautiful as the scene outside, it also moved just as everything outside did. The camera obscura was the beginning of film. Not only did he make beautiful pictures out of the camera obscura, he made multiple positioned pictures, of something falling or moving for example.

http://www.jacksonfineart.com/images/artists/largest/729.jpg

http://www.virginia.edu/insideuva/2001/07/images/Morell,Abelardo.jpg

http://www.swiatobrazu.pl/userfiles/image/abe-morell-2.jpg

http://dev.abelardomorell.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/CO-Umbrian-Landscape-Over-Bed_00_slide-188x188.jpg

 

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=abe+morell+art&FORM=HDRSC2

Behind the Scenes of Wicked

Wicked was one of the biggest and most difficult broad way plays to put on as a director. Not only would it be difficult to put on because of its size, but also because of the tone that it has. It could go from very moving and serious and then switch to a very pop and light and funny. Its not like there are long transitions in between the two either, it really can go from serious to silly very quickly and that's hard to direct. The directors and the actors really need to be on the same level, both as learners. Learning something new every rehearsal about the performance. "It's like wedeling a stick of wood" Joe Mantello. It starts off as nothing and after working with it more and more you get a final product. That is exactly how a performance starts out. You have to allow people that work differently, achieve the same goal in their amount of time" Joe Mantello. Not only is Wicked a performance, it is something that everyone can really relate to and become inspired by, especially through the character Elphaba. She is someone you can really appreciate with her self-confidence, strength, and ability to believe in themselves. Wicked truly does have a "profound effect on peoples lives" Joe Mantello.

Great Recession of 2008 vs Stock Market Crash of 1929

The first stock market crashed in 1929, also known as Black Tuesday was the most devastating stock market crash of the United States. Not only did it lead to a Great Depression that lasted around 10 years, it left many without a job and out of the streets trying to scavenge up food. This all started when people started taking out loans to invest in their stock when it rose. The market got caught up in a speculative bubble because shares kept rising and people believed that they would continue to do so. Prices rose almost 400%, but this wasn't the only bubble that the stock market came across. " In March 1929, the stock market saw its first major reverse, but this mini-panic was overcome leading to a strong rebound in the summer of 1929. By October 1929, shares were grossly overvalued. When some companies posted disappointing results on October 24 (Black Thursday), some investors started to feel this would be a good time to cash in on their profits; share prices began to fall and panic selling caused prices to fall sharply. Financiers, such as JP Morgan tried to restore confidence by buying shares to prop up prices. But, this failed to alter the rapid change in market sentiment.  On October 29(Black Tuesday) share prices fell by $40 billion in a single day. By 1930 the value of shares had fallen by 90%. The bull market had been replaced by a bear market."  http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/76/economics/wall-street-crash-1929/  The stock market had completely collapsed. Not only did the Stock Market fold, but so did so many community banks. All the money that people had borrowed to invest in their stocks was lost when they crashed. The people couldn't afford to pay back the banks. This started the Great Depression of 1929. Recently we experienced a The Great Recession of 2008. Fortunately our technology is so advanced that it didn't cause the entire market to fail and send us spiraling into another great depression. Economist Paul Krugman who wrote the book "The Return of Depression Economics" says  "I'm tempted to say that the crisis is like nothing we've ever seen before. But it might be more accurate to say it's like everything we've seen before, all at once: a bursting real estate bubble comparable to what happened in Japan at the end of the 1980s; a wave of bank runs comparable to those of the 1930s (albeit mainly involving the shadow banking system rather than the conventional banks); a liquidity trap in the United States, again reminiscent of Japan; and, most recently, a disruption of international capital flows and a wave of currency crises all too reminiscent of what happened to Asia in the late 1990s." http://www.stockexchangesecrets.com/us-stock-market-crash.html. Many people to this day don't even know that we experienced another economic set back. Unfortunately many others did as unemployment rates jumped from around 4.6% to 5.8%. And it had continued to increase since then.
In 2009 in jumped from 5.8% to 9.3%. Fortunately it started dropping in 2010 and has continued to do so. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0104719.html
                                                               
                                                                        1929

 

2008

Bread and Circus

Bread and Circus is a metaphor that was made in Ancient Greece. The term "Bread and Circus" means choosing food and fun over freedom. In Ancient Greece instead of Broadway and Opera they had Gladiators, fights between men and wild animals, and also warships fighting each other in an arena. When these fights would go on they would hand the people sitting in the crowd bread, to ultimately distract them from the real issues that were going on. This was a way for who ever was ruling at the time to keep the people happy without causing an uprising.

  

"Madame Butterfly" Cartoon

The cartoon "Madame Butterfly" created by Pjotr Sapegin is the perfect example in how opera music can capture your emotions. Even though there is no talking in the entire ten minute cartoon you can tell exactly what is going on, and you know exactly what the mood throughout the cartoon is. Whether it went from hopeful, when the Asian woman was waiting for the sailor to return back to her. Passionate, when the sailor and the Asian woman were making love; or even pure sadness, when the sailor returned with his family of all the different colored children he had taken from the women he had gotten pregnant, and then took her child as well. Opera is so fascinating and diverse that it can take you from being extremely happy to extremely sad. This cartoon is a great example on why you don't need speaking in opera's, because the music tells the story for you.

The Birth and Life of Opera

The Birth and Life of Opera was a very eye opening documentary. Normally when people my age tend to think of opera they think of a man or women singing very loudly. There is so much more to what opera is. There was and still is so much politics, passion, and excitement that goes into an opera. There almost wasn't even an opera. The first attempt called "Daphne" by Rinuccini and Peri was unsuccessful. The pairs second attempt also just couldn't catch on. Could you imagine if opera never even existed? There are so many feelings that are expressed through an opera; love, hate, passion, despair. Opera was also involved in a lot of politics. Aida was actually one of the plays that inspired Hitler's troops to think that Ethiopian were racially inferior and had them ready to march over and conquer them. There are so many hidden messages inside of opera's that tell stories that the people can't. so example, in the opera "Le Mariage de Figaro" it shows how rich people usually would treat their servants like slaves. It also showed how they believed that they could do whatever they wanted with them. Another example of how involved in politics opera's were the opera "La Muette de Portici" actually stirred up a revolution in Belgium. Opera has evolved in many ways throughout the years. Not only are opera's in Italy they are all over the world now; China, The United States and much more. Composers have modernized the way opera is sung in many ways as well. The can-can came from the opera and so did many other types of performances. I believe that opera will and always will be a huge part of the theatre.
  

Microbiologist Raul Cuero

I love the way that Raul Cuero talks about how it doesn't matter what background you come from; rich or poor, you can make something of yourself. Not only does he say that everyone has potential in yourself, he believes that you can use your creativity to explore your intellect. He believed that through your creativity you can change your outcome of what you're expected in life. I agree when he says that you can use your creativity to open new doors in your intelligence. So many kids now are staying in doors, playing videogames and watching TV, cutting off that creative spectrum in their minds. Instead kids need to get outside and observe nature and take every little thing in. Raul believes that you should do everything with intensity, without fear of failing in the process. To many people are afraid now of failing and they lose that intensity in their work. Anything that you do good in life takes time, nothing good comes quickly. Anything that you do well you learn by doing. Hands on knowledge is the best knowledge that you can acquire. There is only so much that you can get from reading a book or looking at pictures. The only way that you are truly going to learn something is getting out there and applying what you have learned through hands on. That is how you really burn it in your mind. I agree with everything that Dr. Raul says. Everyone has potential, and through expressing and feeding your creativity you can do anything you put your mind to. Also hands on is the best way to learn. Anyone can read a book, but applying what you have learned in a book is different when you add it to your real life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZugtaO85T_Y&feature=youtu.be

Viewing Juan Carlos Delgado's work, I saw a new way of multimedia. A way that the art is physically manipulated by outside factors. Juan Carlos uses the cold to manipulate the way that his artwork is perceived. He sculpts a piece of artwork and then uses a freezer to freeze the humidity in the room to cause ice to grow around his artwork, encasing it inside a frozen layer of ice. The way the artwork is made is so delicate, because it is relying on so many factors in order for it to stay pristine. You would have to rely on the refrigerator to keep working, and the electricity to stay on. If any of these factors fail to work the artwork is distorted and will never be the same again. This is an example of multimedia because there are so many factors contributing to the way that his artwork is made. Its also a live piece of artwork, that is not 2-D, it is 4-D in the way that it is shaped and made.

 

    

Are we still in the Baroque Era?

The Baroque Era started around the 1600's and carried all the way until around the 1750's. Some people though still believe that we practice some of the Baroque Era characteristics today. The Baroque Era consisted of the most glamorous of everything. Once money had been introduced to the people, the rich had to have the best of everything; big hair, beautiful dresses and accessories. I believe though that we still have ways in modern day in which the Baroque is still in cooperated. For example; My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding. The women dress up so drastically that sometimes they cant even fit through the frame of a door. Really any wedding women dress up in extreme ways to feel the most beautiful that they can. The wedding dresses, hair and accessories are very Baroque, but with a modern spin on it. I believe that it will always be in cooperated in to modern day, as long as there is money flowing. Most wealthy people will always want to show off how wealthy they really are in certain ways. Having bigger, better and flashier things than people who don't have as much money is one way. That is how the wealthy people in the Baroque Era showed that they were wealthy.

No Viable Solution in Movies

Having no viable solution means that something impossible comes along and saves the day. A great example of that is in The Wizard of Oz. The Wicked Witch of the West captures Dorothy and her friends and threatens to kill them all. She starts to by lighting the Scarecrow on fire, Dorothy grabs a buckets and dumps water on the Scarecrow. When Dorothy does that water also splashes on the Witch, which causes her to melt. The Witch even says herself, "You cursed brat! Look what you've done! I'm melting! melting! Oh, what a world! What a world! Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness? Oooooh, look out! I'm going! Oooooh! Ooooooh!" (Wicked Witch of the West. Wizard of Oz.).