'I Heard Sh- On the Radio (I Remember The Days)' - Nelly Furtado

The title of the blog incase your wondering was a song that Nelly Furtado released back in 2002? 2003? sometime there and it wasn't one of her most popular ones, but It's one of my favorite songs from her 'Whoa Nelly!' Album.


Anyhow...WAR OF THE WORLDS HOY SH- THAT’S AWESOME!!! Ignore me that was so cool to listen to the actual radio recording. I mean that part where the reporter was broadcasting “500 meters, 400 –“ then to the part he dropped dead (or shot himself I might not have heard that right in case) still for an old recording it still has powerful impact.

Radio to me used to be a big influence on my life for years, that is until the radio stations played sucky music. I mean I like a lot of new music, of course how could I not, I love music. Plus having good friends who are musicians I often hear music and I’ve learned to have deep felt appreciate and just a like, and most of the time I have a like (why the only reason Britney Spears is useful) ahead of time, if I offend anyone with my rantings about who sucks and doesn’t I’m sorry, but I cant pretend I don’t). But I mean lets be honest a lot of music is just for the sake of listening, not appreciating.

I guess I really was into it when I was in the 6th grade… that was.. 10 years ago? Almost 10 years ago, (god saying that makes me feel so old and I’m only twice that). But I remember when Mandy Moore started coming into the scene and all this other junk, and I can remember Country Grammar when Nelly came out into the scene (I still have that song in my ipod, I can't help it, its one of those songs that bring you back to that time period and the radio really helped me remember those times and memories, the exact moments I heard it play for the first time and what video game I was playing at the moment) Yeah often I'd have my radio playing while playing my video game… Back then radio was really the best, it seems like since then it hasn’t been as… great. It’s become the same stuff over and over (since I am a techno and dance freak and that stuff is a lot more repetitive), but it’s more…. Like a broken record that often you hear a tiny scratch noise in a different spot so often, but it’s like… even then it’s still the same thing… Since then I really haven’t turned on a radio since.

I mean during the night while I’m up and after I leave the Television on, I’ll catch music videos on VH1 (I’m sorry MTV sucks now, I grew up watching Beavis and Butthead and when Daria used to come on but nooo kill the good shows, I mean even rock of love and all those dumb reality shows are more interesting, yes I watch them. Stupidity helps me to concentrate believe it or not seriously). I mean VH1 is just as bad but at least its tolerable music) but MTV3 looks really cool, I have to say (I’ve heard of it and had no idea how really interesting it was especially after seeing David Grad speak that one afternoon). I mean I’ve lost reason for it. A lot of the music or anything I find out is strictly off of Youtube, from my friends or if I catch the song while watching T.V. shows, etc, that’s the extent, or when I buy compilation dance disks, but that’s really it.

HOWEVER, I must say trips back and forth to Key West I have made this year, my best friend has to be.. oh I forgot the station, but they play 80’s and 90’s music and that makes me so happy. Plus in printmaking when we’re working, all my classmates agree to just have this one station splay… now for me 80s music sounds best on the radio, no matter if you have it on an ipod or not it just… doesn’t have that quality where you feel like your hair is super frizzed up and that Flock of Seagulls hair do, the clothes, oh yes and the eyeliner, ah the 80’s. But I mean the radio to me brought that time back, although I was a baby during the 80’s (I only got to live through the last 2 years) still it majorly impacted my life. I remember listening to the radio since I was a kid and I was always carrying a mini radio or I always had to have a portable radio with me somehow, I always carried a small pink bag that had the little mermaid on it that had cassette tapes up the wazzu in it.

Plus I never realized how impacted it made a long time ago, that wasn’t until I watched HAIRSPRAY and finally getting to see DreamGirls (which if you haven’t GO RENT IT! It’s awesome and Jennifer Hudson is totally off the hook, I mean I knew how she sounded, but wow she was totally amazing In that movie), but seeing how what was heard really impacted people, and all that tragic events occurring behind the scenes of pirating and copying… You don’t realize these things until you see them in person and it’s really tragic we’re loosing something so tragic and wonderful at the same time.

Its’ really sad I don’t rely on that as much anymore… it’s like a great part of me died I can’t get back… so hopefully somehow I find a way to get it back into my life again.

200 Frame Film Project

Here is my 200 Frame Flip Book Project:



When I have an opportunity with any canvas I kind of go overboard.
And instead of the small portion of the page, I invaded the entire page.

This lovely projected ended up being two $1 websters dictionaries since I thought one would hold off (wow I'm so bright eh?)

So thus why I have a lovely video instead, I didn’t completely crop so where you only saw the actual book text, to me that’s overly perfectionizing, and I'm not a perfectionist. I want my work to be best to my standards, but I don’t hold this “make it abosultely” perfect. I guess it’s the anti-aesthtic thing I have going on (although a lot of my line work is completely aeshetic...go figure?)

So yes it’s ‘kiddish’ cartoonish, not my style with, but I was going for a … random visual (when you watch you’ see what I mean). The entire concept was a play by ear type of thing, which is normally how I work.

When I bring in the original book (well 2 books into one), I warn everyone its extremly dirty, (as in charcoal and pastel galore) Why I taped the outsdes with painters tape so when everyone touches it hopefully no one will be….. er… attacked by the massive amounts of powder and other substances.

Here are images of what the book looks like ( I know so crafty this girl is).

(It goes from the Front, interior of the Book, and of course it's backing).

What Really Happened From 1950 to 1971?

I meant to add a post, but ergh way to much work, but that’s another rant for another blog on another day. So class was cool (WE GOT TO SEE HITCHCOCK’S BIRDS WHOO!!!) ignore me I love that movie and all the other stuff we watched. But I guess this post, since my brain is broke beyond reason, is geared toward the question we have about in Class, what happened from 1950 to 1971 (Sometime around that time span). It’s hard to really say. Culturally, the world began to break from traditional roles, and lean toward exoticism as Mozart did for one of his operas using the Harem for the theatre. To me what happened was a revolution that seems to occur, or a phenomenon that seems to happen. Call me strange, but I Always feels this sense of déjà vu when something dramatic changes, like as if I’ve been sometime in a place before where this event happened? I firmly believe what happened is something that has a permanent place in history, it’s this permeant need for humans is that of fear and desire which always lingers in revolution. It’s that idea of the sublime coming full swing from the NEO-CLASSIC era back to this era. Thus proving my theory to what happened from those time spans. As humans we have a tendency to drive toward the things most damaging, back when it was the ‘fall of the south’ as our professor mentioned in class while Watching gone with the Wind. There is this sense of glorifying a moment in history where everything wasn’t all roses and dandelions. Even in horror films, and thrillers. Most people like going to the movies to see sex reinterpreted in a way that even they can’t, it’s this desire and need for that ‘perfect’ thing. Horror flicks, the thought of having a man-eating create who feasts on flesh, we want to turn away but we cant. It’s this never ending craving for the things most foreign. Why movies like Clockwork Orange, bring out a scary truthful side to this theory. I mean it makes sense, why is it as much as we hate war, we continue to thrive in it? As lovers, why is it that when our lovers shed tears of sadness is when we consider that to be a beautiful thing? It’s that kind of oxymoron… The things we need to stray from are the things we crave for most or live in. The novel 1984 proves that, such a grim and dark story, but was well respected and looked at for that huge possibility coming true… In our own form in a non-sexual way, we are possibly masochists and sadists in the sense of striving to chase after these ideals that leave to these continual revolutions.

PHOTOGRAPHY.... WHOOO!!!!

I want to scream OH MY GOD, but I can’t I'd look like a loony, but then again when aren’t I? Seriously. I’m so excited to hear about photography in our class last Tuesday, since I am a Photo major and a lover of film especially. I’m not a big film buff, but I love movies. Sometimes I become seriously analytical about stuff its sad really. I really enjoyed this class so far, even though I know a lot of people we’re bored (no offence guys) but I was excited to watch old films. I mean from everything from the daguerreotype to the brownie camera created by Kodak, I love all of that stuff. My favorite artist was not just of Dali and all the other people I have mentioned before (if I did), but I am a real big fan of Edward Curtis (incase for those of you who don’t know, he photographed images of Native Americans out west during the late 19th century – early 20th century). Photography is really great, even the films we watched (ha! I’m sorry old films are awesome, to us thee may come off extremely kitschy and boring, but it was they were their entertainment back then (It forces you to go back and look at what humor and ‘sexy’ was back then). I think its really neat the imagery of the brothels and speakeasies and all of the ‘underground stuff’ it is so nostalgic and really wonderful (well to me anyhow), and also in general what was being photographed. To me it was so enthralling; it makes you want to think also about Matthew Brady’s images he took during the civil war and the ones he had took of Abe Lincoln. How can you not feel liberated in the sense this is the closest you’ll ever be to a deceased president who didn’t exist during your time? It’s very cool to… well to me, it really got me all giddy and all that flowery unicorn, Hello Kitty puked everywhere feeling (and its good not bad, I assure you, but I’ve always wondered that age old question… what does Hello Kitty’s puke look like? Well, maybe perhaps we’ll find out some day).

Also Edweard Muybridge (every time I see him now I just think about all the interactions all these influential people had in the world of photography and even in art and documentary in general). It was great to hear Photography was acknowledged (last semester I heard someone say it wasn’t important to Art History at all and my jaw dropped) I felt a bad pain in my heart. Seriously, I was offended. Not just as a photographer, but as a lover of art.

Now unto my 200 frame animation! Fortunately, I thought of an idea after like 2 – 3 failed plans. Hopefully it’ll be successful, and I’ll get to do something really nifty I’ll be proud of!

B-R-O-A-D-W-A-Y

I apologize for the horrible lack of postings lately. It’s sad, I am always blogging to my friend on my personal blog, constantly going ‘omg I told this girl to push f5, and she literally pushed f + 5 omg how dumb” and talking smack about people, but even that I have been failing at (Why my social life sucks) that’s what I do and I’m proud of my horrible smack-talk skills, but I only do it to people who deserve it so I'm doing good for the world (I’m kidding). My point is for all the classes, I'll make up the posts finally. I hate falling so far behind, it annoys me so here we go, I apologize for anything that seems out of place or date.


It sucks we didn’t get a chance to further explore Broadway other than the small pieces and parts we saw. As I said in my other post where I talked bout Broadway, it is amazing. I mean even if you are not a fan of theatre, or even opera, you got to love Broadway. There are so many shows I would kill to see live, I mean I am getting the opportunity to see Monty Python, which is, although I like it and I’m sure the songs are funny, its more of the shows that I think are just made for the sake of it and good choreographers. Ok I’m being mean, but for the past several years, and I’m even including Monty Python although I really sure I’m going to enjoy it (and trying to be honest about as a person who is learning how to properly critique work even my own), inspiration is coming from places you normally don’t expect that might come off strange to a lot of theatre goers; I don’t know if its good or bad. I haven’t seen some of them such as The Wedding Singer, although I love the movie, and same with Legally Blonde. For some reason to me I don’t think I’ll see either. Broadway to me, the seriously good shows, are the ones that had something behind it. I mean even though Chicago was about those brief seconds of fame, it was very good and very Broadway-esque. Cabaret of course, Camelot (I’ve always wanted to see, I heard Julie Andrews was beyond amazing in that a long time ago, how can you say she isn’t. I love her). Then of course one’s like HAIR and the Phantom of the Opera, and these other shows to me had important meaning to them and those are the ones I feel you truly cherish.

So I hope someday I can, minus Monty Python, be able to experience one in person. I would so go see either Sweeny Todd, HAIR, Rocky Horror Picture Show, or a Chorus Line… which I'm sure I will since Tampa always has stuff. So hopefully, ill get to someday.

The Internet is a Human Sense? Who Would Have Thunk It?

After reading the article received to us about the MIT students creating a way to enhance the human sense through creating a way for humans to interact with technology (I liked the idea that our senses come from something we have seen on the internet or other media and how it incorporates into how we react). Thus in saying that, I appreciated Pattie Maes idea of creating a way for our ‘senses’ to interact by having a wrist band read labels to even see if it has any peanut extract (it just enables us as the users to look at information that normally would take a lot of time out of our fast-paced lives to read a label (I know I make it sound like we’re lazy, but I can vouch for that I’m so lazy its pathetic)) and have just green or red flash in response to whether the content is in the food or not. Even possibility for other devices to enable easy interaction and to gain knowledge with the world, was really interesting.

When watching the videos, I knew it somehow had a quality similar to a phone or something quite similar, but it was still so interesting to read about how they created a way for the ‘computer’ to react, not just by physical human interaction with the machine; it was done through the human’s interaction with everything else. After reading the article I got somewhat a feel of the technology, but actually seeing the invention on the video helped give a better perspective (I’m so dyslexic like that, plus I have bad ADD, plus being an artist I’m a VERY, very visual learner). Especially the part with the email, how amazing is that to just draw with your finger in the air the @ symbol to read your email which normally takes at least your fingers interacting with the technology physically or even to have a pad be projected on your hand so you can call people through the phone. To me as an artist, when you think about this, it can lead to great possibilities in interactive media. I mean, yes we have machines created for artistic uses, but by using the projectile, or the same ability as creating an @ with your finger, you can create one of a kind works of art, like a technological version of a monotype, or interactive media that is evolving with its use that it of course is another one of a kind thing. Very spontaneous. So the possibility of having a ‘non interacting’ media can truly create wonders not just for the technological, but also the art world as well. Yes of course there is the flaw that it is so much like a phone and the projection ability is soon to be available to all phones, but at the same time it creates this need for artists and the like to want to find ways to take that and invent something new with that, and even those in just the technological side to it. So the availability will create this want to push it a step further, I can’t wait to see what comes from this.