Personal Symbols

Rittenhouse Art Show

On Saturday I happened to stumble upon the art show that was at Rittenhouse. It was awesome!!! I had no idea that there was an art show going on this weekend but I'm so happy I found it. It inspired me even more to be an artist. While walking around and looking at all the different artist, styles, and techniques that were used I really got a sense of just how broad the art world is. You can do anything with art, use any materials ect., to look amazing. One artist I talked to graduated from tyler! this made me so happy because her work in my opinion was the most creative. She used fabric, beads, and jewels to make images. Not only were they creative but they were so beautiful. If I had the money I would have supported her and bought something. I really wish though that I didnt have to leave to go to work. I would have walked around more and looked more closely at everything. I also would have talked to more artist as I went around instead of just a few.

My Illustrator Family

The complete me

Wordle

My Cyberspace

ok so i'm not into photography that much, but I find my self always on this website to spoil my boy





I live in Philly HELLO, I should know about its art scene!


a little bit of everything, everywhere


I'm really into folk art

I Love this place

Lecture- Peter Hanley

,Ok so this isn't going to be a long post, see I didn't get to see or hear much about the lecture on Peter Hanely. I had a class to go to at 11. So I basically only saw fifteen minutes of his lecture. From what I saw he seemed very interesting, if not weird at times, but then again aren't we all weird at times? Yes, I believe we all are. So anyway, I looked him up and I really wish I got to hear more of what he had to say. I withdrew from the class that interrupted lectures so I'm excited to see the next one. I believe they said Candy Dephew (sp?) is coming. I better do my research first.

Helvetica

I never really thought of typefaces like this before. I never thought of them as a profession, a passion, and a planned constructed craft. They were always just words to me. But now I realize that typeface can affect emotions, attitudes, and the way we view things. Helvetica is something that has been in my life since I started learning how to read, but I never really paid attention to it. I never looked at a sing and thought "that's helvetica." I never even heard of helvetica before this was a requirement to watch. But I'm glad that I was finally introduced to it as a young artist still in training rather than later on in my career. This film made me realize how important text can be in art, especially graphic design. And it really made me realize that text, whether reading it in everyday life, or incorporating it into art can be taken granted of. I wont take text for granted anymore, not after watching this film, which was oddly good. When it first started I thought it was going to be dull and a drag to get through, but it really wasn't.

Memoir

I'm in love with tall sunflowers.

A Remix Manifesto

Usually I'm not a huge fan of documentaries, but this one I was really drawn to. The first thing that really caught my attention and drew me in was the list at the beginning; the list that stated 1) culture builds on the past 2) the past always trys to control the future 3) the future is becoming less free and 4) to build free societies you must limit the control of the past. It made me think and I started to realize that these statements were correct. I especially believed this after the Walt Disney example. I never realized that Disney recreated different elements from the culture into his characters that children and adults can understand, then became a  hypocrite when other people were trying to use his idea. They weren't stealing or copyrighting his idea. They were simply using it as a creative outlet for themselves. It's like saying I can not go to an art museum or a gallery and not be inspired by a work of art, and possibly use some of the elements in the work of art. I feel like thats impossible, not to be inspired by the elements around you. That is what I feel Girl Talk is doing with music. He is not taking an entire song that already exist and calling it his own. Instead he is taking several songs, breaking them into fragments, and mashing them together. He is creating an entirely new song and I believe that he has the rights to do this. It is his own works of art that were inspired by songs from the past. The only reason the government has a copyright law is due to money. Everything has to do with money in todays society. Pity.