Jessica Hische!!!

 So the other day in computer class we went to a open lecture talk thingy with this designer/ illustrator lady whom i had never heard of, this person being Jessica Hische.  I was sort of apathetic at first because design is not of the utmost interest to me.  I looked through her work briefly before we went down and thought it was just a lot of text and a little illustration.  but when we got to the lecture i was pleasantly surprised at how interesting and informative Jessica really was.  She was not to much older than us went to Tyler school of art and is doing lots of work out in her field today.  she had a lot to say about how to persevere in the art business world, even though I don't plan on going into the same line of work as her.  Also after warming up to her personality I could really relate her work to her in an interesting way and had more of an appreciation for what she has made.

more composit stuff

this needs work but this is where i am with it now.

ya I was there...

SO ya i was at the moon landing, ya totally.

SCAN YOUR FACE!

So yep, This is an illustrated self portrait from a scaning of my face.  I looked really angry.

lecture series catch up

OK so honestly I have been going to lectures but I have not found many very informative it has all been very generalized talk about how you should get equipment and get a studio space and really make your own work and path in life, Yes the other speakers were practicing artist but I feel they dident have much to say and ended up repeating themselves for an hour. I will talk about Candy Depew who is a designer/ artist from Cleveland Ohio who actually revived her MFA degree from Tyler, which always makes me happy to see practicing artist making a living that went to the same school i go to now. She works with a variety of things. She combines vinyl graphics with porcelain pieces of art she created herself as well as fabric and other design elements. She has been to many interesting art facility including European Ceramics Work Centre in DenBosch the Netherlands as well as residency in the Kohler Arts/Industry Program in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and at the clay studio, Philadelphia.  She has created her own line of panties to fund her making of art and is constantly taking on new projects.  I also thought it was really awesome that she takes on apprentices in her line of work.  Here is a link to her web site http://www.candycoated.org/ definitely something to check out.

TED talk from Mike Rowe

Well in this ted talk the guy from dirty jobs talks about one of his experiences on a farm in the mountains.  He was to help castrate lambs and did his research on how they do this.  It is supose to be that you tie a rubber band around the tail and scrotum and the part would just fall off after a while.  But the farmer he was observing first did it a more unorthadox way.  He simply cut the tail and pushed on the penis to reveal the testicles and bit them off with his mouth.  He then showed what happened with the rubber band in comparison.  the lamb seemed to be in extreme pain and was unable to walk, and this process with the rubber band could take over a week. where the lamb who just had its balls bit off seemed fine and the bleeding had stopped.  It just goes to show you how we perceive things one way in ignorance.  He also went into how we perceive jobs that are gross in this bad light and that the way our country is run and how every body looks down on manual and nontech jobs. 

warning sign

Here is a warning sign i designed in illustrator. You can hang it on your wall kids!

text drawings

A few text drawings one is a spiral with rambling text of what ever came to mind at the moment, another is based on the Conney Island skyline and uses the words from a man talking in a song called sleep by God speed! you black Emperor. and the final one is just stretching the word stretch.

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Text image

For this assignment we had to make pictures from purely using text. This first one is an abstract dipiction of thought.

videos and junk

So with the whole Alison Chang scandal I have to agree with her lawyer that Virgin mobile should not have used her picture. This is not to say that i don't agree that using other peoples pictures from the internet is not ok. I just think that in a corporate advertisement they should have the permission of the people in the ad and the photographers full consent. But for personal and creative purposes I think it is fair game to use a image regardless on the internet. It just comes to when someone is using the image to make money or advertise a product I think the person who originally made the image or the person in the picture deserves some sort of credit.



As for this TED talk I really agree with what Larry Lessig is talking about. I think that there are to many restrictions being placed on sharing media on things such as youtube and photo bucket. I Personally have a documentary i made about Autism and posted it on youtube in 3 parts. The last part had credits with a song called Oxygen by the Artist Willy Mason. The videos audio was muted so now none of that video can be heard. The funny part is that the song is condoning commercialism and corporate greed and letting our children flourish, yet who ever has rights to that song flagged it because i had the song.

slideshow of adventure

For my adventure me and a few pals went to the atomic comics on south street then we walked around a little and saw a really awesome art gallery with a show called dumpster divers. It was all sculptres made from trash and found objects and i love this kind of stuff.

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south street adventure

outside of he magic garden

this is possibly a decoy of where batman parks the bat-mobile

this is jacob he is waiting for alex...ERG COMICS

mask

more awesome masks

bangin on a street light... Doug reference, yes?

These next few images are from a gallery on south street full of trash art, I believe it was called dumpster divers,this intersts me greatly because this is sort of what i want to do one day as an artist. well i sort of already do it now, so i hope to do it on a more grand scale.

I really enjoy the street art in philly as well making stickers is a great pass time in my book

wooly street lamp!