MP 3 :)

The objects I used are the jewelry pieces I wear everyday. Each piece has a special meaning to me, so I decided to do four different photoshop images. Each image has a different piece of jewelry in it and is placed in a setting that is associated with the place where I got it. I think knowing the story behind each image is crucial to understanding what the original object is and what is in the picture.

I wear this bangle everyday and it has the words "Amore, Amour, Love, and Amor" on it. I love this bangle because I also have "Amore" tattooed on my ankle. I bought it with my girlfriends on my 19th birthday at this little boutique in Granville. Everything is made from France at this store, so that is why I decided to place the bangle around the Eiffel Tower. I love the word "Amore" because my dad used to sing to me the song by Frank Sinatra. This is why I have the musician playing and the lyrics from that song coming out of his trumpet.

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For this image I used my Evil Eye Necklace. A few summers ago I lived in Istanbul and worked as a nanny. The family I nannied for bought this necklace for me, so it means a lot. I picked a picture from the Grand Bazaar where the necklace was bought. These plates are typical for Turkey, so I tried to make the charm look as if it were one of the plates.

For this image I used my Tiffany key necklace.  For New Year's 2011, my roommates and I went to New York to see the ball drop.  We all got matching Tiffany's key necklaces.  I tried to create a scene out of Breakfast at Tiffany's.  I placed Holly Golightly looking at the modern day Tiffany's with my necklace on display in the window. 

For this image I used my two silver rings I wear everyday.  I went to Anna Maria Island for spring break this past year.  One of my best friends and I bought these 50 cent rings at a flea market there, and we both wear them everyday.  Rod and Reel is a famous restaurant there, and we went to breakfast there a few times.  We also rode bikes to get around the island which is why I decided to use the rings as the bike's tires.

Blog 7 :)

This article by Kaprow reminded me of an article I have had to read multiple times in every sociology and anthropology class.  I can’t remember the author or the name of the article, but it was written in the 1950’s and it goes on to explain a culture in the way an anthropologist observes a new culture.  At one point it states that these people put a stick in their mouth, wash it vigorously then spit into a porcelain bowl everyday.  It isn’t revealed until the end of the article that he’s talking about Americans and that this is simply us brushing our teeth.  Obviously we have routinized brushing our teeth because we do it every day and it becomes normal, but seen through an anthropological perspective it sounds weird.  Kaprow’s perspective of brushing our teeth is that because it’s present, of the moment and not an object that it art.  

My Map :)

When I first started this project, I knew I did not want to use an actual map because that meant nothing to me.  The route I take to class everyday would most likely not be on a map anyway.  I take alleyways and hardly pay attention to where I'm going through checking emails, facebooking, twittering, and listening to music.  Life was one of my favorite board games growing up, so it popped it my head to use that as a basis for my map.  In a way it is still a type of map because it takes you from point to point b.  I then added in Ohio State landmarks onto the board game - Mirror Lake, the Shoe, and the towers.  I then added pictures of what I saw everyday.. some I had never noticed before and others are what I notice to help me know where I am.  Then I added the sunglasses because I always where sunglasses everyday, so my view is always behind a pair of sunglasses. If I had a little more time I think I could have perfected the pictures to have a more exact alignment with the boardgame.

Cardiff, Miller & the Power of Sound

This article about Cardiff and Miller I found interesting because I never thought about the use of sound as art.     I have always felt music is an art, but it does not seem that what Cardiff and Miller do is create music-- it's more of a manipulation of sounds and sight to create an out of body experience.  The idea of the walk through the train station is interesting especially to be there yet hearing someone's else's experience of the place. Also, I found the Forty Party Motet to be an interesting concept.  Who knew that listening to another human being’s sounds could induce a grown man to tears at an art museum.  It also intrigues me that the woman who spends the most time with this piece as a security guard claims that people struggle with this piece of art because “some people have no sense of peace.”  I think I would like to experience this for myself to see how inner peace has a correlation.  

 

Blog 4 :)

I really enjoyed “Nipple Jesus” by Hornby.  I liked the comparison of Nipple Jesus to his wife, Lisa.  He stated that Nipple Jesus was beautiful from far away, but as you got up close it was rough around the edges.  The article also led me to the question of what is art because Martha’s artwork was not what she had made physically but the reaction to it- more so the idea.

            The only issue I had with this article was that when I finished reading it I felt sorry for Dave.  I felt bad that he had invested so much hope for this piece of artwork and ended up so disappointed.  He had fallen in love with this artwork because he thought it was beautiful in its own right when the physical piece of art was not the point.  Martha’s point was to show people their intolerance to something different.  The picture was comprised of nipples but as a whole it was still Christ, and the onlookers had stamped on Christ. 

This experience was different than the other experience because I was focusing more on how the picture was taken rather than what I was taking a picture of. I enjoyed making the "Sam" Collage. My favorite is the close up of my friend because it was so much fun to take.

Walker and Barrett Articles :)

The first article, Big Ideas and Artmaking by Walker explained that there must be a bigger meaning behind the art.  I think this idea is important because otherwise you just have paint on canvas which anyone could do.  Obviously it takes a certain skill or natural talent to be able to paint a scene or draw the human body, but these basics can also be taught to some extent.  Without emotion or an idea behind a perfectly painted landscape then you have nothing- it would be a very boring painting.  The artist puts meaning into that invokes emotions into the person looking at the art.

            The only issue I have with this article is the “What’s wrong with this Picture” paragraph.  This section states that the student is wrong because she thinks Kandinsky’s work represent chaos when it supposedly does not.  I have taken art classes before, so I know that in the art world there is a right and a wrong at what each painting is supposed to say—however if this girl thinks this painting says “confusion” I don’t understand why that’s wrong.  Art speaks to every person differently

The second article, “Interpretating Visual Culture” by Terry Barrett brought up interesting points about detonations.  I thought it was interesting that there were so many contradictions within each image.  For example, the Destiny’s Child Rolling Stone cover conveyed sex yet girl power and was advertising the Dali Lama all at the same time.  Another contradiction is that real bears are frightening yet teddy bears are the exact opposite.  I liked how the analysis of the Ohio State and Michigan t-shirts went in depth.  I never thought about how blocky letters could represent a lineman or scroll could represent academic excellence.

            I think the conclusion was a bit of a stretch.  I do not believe people “will be unwittingly buying, wearing, promoting, and otherwise consuming opirions with which we may or may not agree.”  I think that would require images and advertising to be so obscure no one could understand it.