Wednesday

In our era of such advance technology, our ways of communicating our thoughts and ideas are heightened and easily shown to everyone in the world. Networks such as Blogger and Facebook, make things so easy for us to express ourselves, and the fact that we add video clips, images, and pretty much anything else we wanted, makes it that much more effective. This whole "friend" system furthers that point as messages that start with one set of people and location could be completely different within a short amount of time. It really is interesting to find out how to complete strangers could be connected to each other without really knowing it. Everything is laid out for us, all we have to do is write our opinions and anyone can see or read it. Whether this is used properly and to its maximum effect is completely up to us.
For example i could post my artwork in such networks, and people could see it and talk about it, but it is up to me what networks i post them on and who i want to send them to.
Themes such as personal identity and personal space can easily be applied and carried out because, a physical presence is not required. All someone has to do is photoshop images and create a story to be a completely different person. and personal space can be easily invaded through advertisements and spam.

tuesday

One of my favorite presentations was the crocodile hunter performance, on ucsb life. I thought it was really well planed out and surprisingly relevant to the way college students live their lives here. Hiding in the bushes was really professionaly done, and really comedic on different situations. The accent was dead on which made everything in the video fall right into place and work effectively.

One of my least favorite ones would have to be the one about the Christian girl. i still think that the idea was great and well said, but i felt that as for the video presentation went, i thought it could use some revision. I think it was the lighting that really through me off, I felt like it really affected the way her documentation was portrayed.

Monday

The final was kind of difficult sometimes. i completely blancke out on the artist's names, but i felt like i was able to write about what they were about. as for the presentations, I thought they were really enjoyable, watching what other sections were up this whole time. i really like the follow the leader video, I thought it was well planed out and really funny. I also wanted to apologize for my handwriting, having pens taped on to my fingers really made it difficult to write legibly. however it was interesting taking a final in such a non-serious way.

Sunday Alternate persona

For my alternate identity, i decided to modify my hand so that it could function as drawing/doodling utencils. i spend most of the time in the painting studio so i wanted to play with the idea of being able to paint with my fingers. I really like to doodle and i figured I would experiment with different things like paint brushes, chalk, sharpies, and pens.  At first it seemed like alot of fun, but after a while my fingers started cramping up and loosing blood circulation as i tried to do everyday things. luckily i spend most of my time at the studio so it wasn't too bad, and at times worked to my advantage...painting was pretty interesting, and fun trying to paint with brushes taped to my fingers. i then moved on to some chalk, then some sharpies and pens. I ended up doodling on different objects and surfaces. The responses i got from people were minimal, i just got some stares but nothing to crazy.

Artist!

If i wanted to be an artist i would probably choose Gabriela... from the band "Rodrigo y Gabriela". They're not really that well known, but I've always wanted to play guitar the way Gabriela does. i love guitar and I've been playing for about 6 years now, so every time i see a new style or technique i want to learn it. and every time i see the music videos, im amazed at how great she plays and gets every rhythm, and beat playing so harmonically to the rest of the instruments. And i just really like how she plays the guitar with different hand techniques that creates percussion along with melody.

Vilain!

I think i would choose to be Bowser from super Mario. I mean...he's a dragon. how awesome is that! plus he has all those goombas and turtles as henchmen, who would do anything for him, even walk back and forth all day until Mario touches them...e,very loyal and determined. I would love to have turtles, they're so cute. It would be awesome to have people do my homework and read my boring art history reader and then write those 3 pager responses on them.

I not much of a villain, nor do i really want to be i dont want to spend my awesome powers worrying about how i can take over the world or destroy other people, it sounds hard and not as exciting.

Thursday Hero!

If u had to pick a specific super hero i would want to be Superman. He can do anything! and it works out well because there is no Kryptonite lying around in the real world, so no weaknesses. being able to shoot lasers from my eyes would definitely come in handy when i want to kill a spider. And being able to fly would make my transportation to and from the art studio to my apartment so much more convenient.

If i could be any super hero i want to be i would really like to be able to be one with powers to turn back time. i think its ridiculous how fast time goes by, and sometimes i just don't have enough of it. it's stressful and there's nothing i could do about it now, i think being able to back in time to fix things or just have some time to do the things i want to do, would be pretty nifty.