Candy Depew

For the lecture on Sept 21, the artist Candy Depew came to talk about her work, her apprenticing, and her style. I really enjoyed this speaker and her quirky presentation of just pictures of her work and then the little stories she had to go along with every picture. She is so accomplished as an artist, doing installations in big shows, creating a school, and also spending time in different areas exploring new means to her creativity. She creates such whimsical designs and it really changes the way a space may look. I also really was interested in hearing about her apprenticing of young artists, as well as taking on interns. She explained the difference of how interns may come and go but her apprentices (she has 2) are with her for life. I would definitely consider being her apprentice or intern, not only because of her amazing work but because it would be a great, opening opportunity. I wonder if more artists do that or if it is just a beginning thing with her. I am seriously going to look into it.

Text Assignment

For this computer assignment we were supposed to take text and make pictures out of them. One had to be abstract, one representational and one expressive. That last one I don't think I did correct so that's not on the slide show. Other than that, enjoy!

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Thoughts on Tues Sept 14 Lecture

The speaker was an artist named, Peter Hanley, who came to talk about, to be honest I am not very sure. I tried to latch onto the point of his speech but what I ended up getting from it was not what I think the intension of his speech was. I learned that he doesn't use a studio to do his work and that to do presentations he used a neat little program that is better than powerpoint for presentations called Prezi. The program in fact I thought to be actually one of the more interesting things about his presentation. It wasn't something that showed his points in a slide by slide basis but used zooming and web type setup to go from one topic to the next. It was really quite intriguing. But overall, I think the point was to highlight that you do not have to be conventional to be an artist? He seemed to be very interesting as an individual but I don't think I really took anything from it other than a new insight to a cool presentation tool.

Thoughts On Tuesday (Sept. 7) Lecture: Bauhuas Movement

The lecture on Bauhaus and its progression into today's society I thought gave great inspiration to us young foundation students. The whole premiss of the speaker's speech was talking not only about the history of the Bauhaus movement but also to highlight the fact that this was a movement determined to really get down to the bottom of what the principals of art were and what an art student really should be learning. Because of that the classic styles of art were there but not entirely focused upon. For the first time artists were able to use imagination and mix in the traditional teachings with the new ones. Then the speaker brought this to present day. Tyler is not just a place for success for a future career but also to highlight that an individual can use basic skills that the school will teach you and then apply it to a specific field. Along with that some great websites were introduced to hit the point that we may live in the "future" but there is a future beyond this one and people are doing things to improve it. One website that was suggested by the speaker to take a look at, I happen to look into thoroughtly and found that it is a competition for new and innovative ideas that people turn into actual products to better our society. 2010's winner was for "The Eyewriter", a mechanism used to help those with paralysis write and create and draw with their eyes despite their handicap. Truly is amazing.

I know for me, learning about and listening to that lecture has opened up some interesting thoughts to me as to what possibilities there are for a career for me in creativity. If you want to look more into "The Eyewriter" there is a 5 minute video on the website below and some information about it, I recommend it for sure. 

http://2010.futureeverything.org/abouttheawards/eyewriter2

Response to Videos from Foundation Computers

After seeing these videos, that tragically I forget the names of, however my idea to take notes at the time has saved me for this post, I really felt like this is our culture and it is as simple as that. Unless one lives underneath a rock, we all know about YouTube and other sites like it, dedicated to giving each individual a voice into the great space known as the internet. It is in this way that people feel they can get recognized for the simplest and most inane things. This includes what the one video from TED.com talked about with people taking songs that have already been made and remixing it. Remixing is to today what doo-wop started in the 1950s. It is all the rage! I think it is all for the entertainment value. Perhaps it is because originality is few and far between now but I also believe that it is all in good fun. It is not to steal someone's work to remix a song, it is for the sake of getting one's name out there. For instance, some friends have showed me a recent remix done to a news report that clearly was not meant to harm anyone but to just give light to a sticky situation. Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEvNS5TzvwM&feature=fvw

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Adventures in Philadelphia

In a little dinner excursion into the city, my friend, Josh and I encountered actually very little. I know the city pretty well so it was more me showing him around. We ventured to south street first via the subway. It was quite quiet there but we found some interesting stores and Josh had an awesome time at the comic book store. We ended up walking all the way to old city where we found some beautiful brownstones. From there we were desperately in search of food so we headed towards center city to a little Sephardic Jewish diner, of sorts, which they almost didn't let us into because the kitchen was closing, but we managed. From there we decided the city was pretty dead so we headed back. I know that I have had better experiences, as far as exciting goes, in Philadelphia but I did get some awesome pictures and some good quality time with Josh. Overall, love Philly, love old city the best, and it was a good day for sure.

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