Lightscribe design for Bumbershoot and DaveMatthews Band

During the 3 day weekend of September 4-6, 2010, my wife and I are going to make a visit to Washington. On Saturday the 4th we will be in George, Washington to see Dave Matthews Band, Alberta Cross, and Ben Harper and Relentless7. We're very excited because we have never seen Dave and have always wanted to. We will most likely be camping out at the Gorge. On Sunday Sept. 5, we will be attending Bumbershoot Fest in Seattle, Wa. We're pretty excited to see Rise Against, Hole, and Weezer. And finally before we leave on Monday, we will go check out Rem Koolhaas' Seattle Public Library. It should be an amazing time! Anyways, here is a picture of the cd:

My Portfolio is done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wish me Luck!

Takashi Murakami (not Kanye West)

We talked briefly on Takashi Murakami this semester, so I decided to look him up for my last sculptor. However, I like most for his cover art for Kanye West and some of his designer stuff. I wan to make it clear that I don't like Kanye West. He's kind of a Douche. Yes, I am a hater of Kanye. Anyways, I like Takashi Murakami's work on the cover of graduation and the single stronger. Its pretty cool. I like his use of color. They are very vibrant and loud. His has a distinct style that looks like it is mostly influenced from culture. I also included a museum looking exhibit that he put together that is influencing for our museum project. They are little toy sculpture. He also uses a lot of vibrant and loud colors on the toys.

Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois' work is also very amazing. My favorite from her is probably her most famous one but I think its pretty amazing. Its the huge spider resembling sculpture. It is very creepy and cool at the same time. Plus, it looks amazing in front of Gehry's Guggenheim. She, like most amazing sculptors has a great attention to detail. I did not find a lot of other work that I could appreciate as much as the spider, so I chose just to put a pic of her and two pics of the spider at different locations. Not gonna lie, the picture of her is a little weird. But whatever. I bet she's got a great since of humor. This might not be what she was going for but, I see the huge dick sculpture that she's holding and the pubic hair looking coat to maybe connect that way...

Rodin

So, Rodin is pretty amazing. Probably one of the oldest sculptors I have thrown up on this amazing blogesphere. He has incredible attention to detail for his time. However, I don't know a lot about him and am not at a period in my life where I want to study about a lot of sculptures. So my favorite piece by him is the Thinker. This is mainly because of the Will Ferrell sketch on Saturday Night Live. Will Ferrell is a nude model/homeless person who has two positions: The Thinker and The Stinker! Sorry to say but that's why. Also he probably worked very hard and I can definitely appreciate his work because of that. Here are three that stuck out to me:

Powerhouse Exhibit (Possibly some Extra Credit)

So, I was in class one day and heard Laurie say that she would offer some extra credit to people who attended a powerhouse art event. Naturally I thought, hey I may need some Extra Credit so I'll go. I'll be there, I won't be squared. So, not wanting to go alone, my friend Hyun Kim and I went. It started at 6pm so we decided to be fashionably late 6:30pm. Then we walked in, only to find a bunch of "older people" standing around, conversing and drinking wine. I looked at Hyun and I don't know what he was thinking but it could have been along the lines of what the hell are we doing at an older people's swinger party... Alright maybe that was me. So, we hung around for a bit, and did not find any art. granted we were on the 1st floor, we didn't see anything but a bunch of older people. We hung around for another 3 or 4 minutes and then decided that we were not going to be the fresh meat of the party. Just joking. But seriously....

Japanese Graphic Design (Extra Credit)

This Extra Credit was assigned long ago.... However, I'm gonna talk a little about it anyways. I was a graphic design event at the VAC. Which was pretty cool because I got to drink some New Castle and check some art out. I'll be honest, I did not get what I expected out of it. I went in expecting some pictures that were altered and maybe some ridiculously altered videos like the stuff in the move the Grudge. I dunno why, but that is what I expected. When I got there, there was only one person's work that somwhat resembled that. There was a girl on the right who had pictures of herself blown up enormously that were altered with color. I thought they were great examples of rendering in photoshop. The coolest project that I saw was an interactive video with bouncy balls made by one of the girls there. It was pretty cool. Her video drew everyone in to participate and through bouncy balls at the wall of the room while a video showed her and a few other people throwing bouncy balls to. It was my favorite part of the night. Those were the 2 projects though that stuck out in my mind.