Roberto Baciocchi

Roberto Baciocchi is an Italian Architect who is most notably known for designing Prada stores. While being gone last week, I was able to see the Prada store in Las Vegas Nevada. It was pretty cool inside and out. He is normally known for making the stores look out of the ordinary. This was pretty hard to do in Las Vegas but I think he accomplished it. Here are some pics:

Smokers- By Eli Craven (Extra Credit)

I've walked pass the Good Damn Projects art exhibition a few times and ignored it but, one day, I was leaving class early and decided to take a gander. Its definitely a cool idea to have an art showing in a locker rental. Also, I thought that the art that was being displayed was very interesting. It shows a bunch of different people smoking throughout the years. They are mostly advertisings of people smoking cigarettes. The pictures are set up symmetrically and lit up from the top of the locker. It definitely brings questions to anyone walking past this opened locker in the PAW Building.

Smokers- Eli Craven

Smokers

Good Damn Projects: Art Exhibition

Dead and Broken-Scars and How I Got Them

The plan!

Artist Statement

Patrick Kane

The art of hockey...




I know hockey is not considered a form of art, but in my opinion, there is something artistic about it. I chose Patrick Kane to represent the art of hockey for this journal entry. He is so good with moving the puck, it seems like his hockey stick is his paint brush and the ice is his canvass.

Oscar Ramirez

Oscar is one of the best painters I have met. He has a very unique use of color and thinks of some crazy stuff. He is mostly inspired by Salvador Dali and other great artists of our past. He is also inspired by nature. He is a student at Boise State University. His unique style is very inspiring. Here is his page: http://throughthearts.weebly.com/index.html



Journey

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Untitled (pencil)

A Subtle Reverie

Utugi Tae (Extra Credit)

I liked Utugi Tae's work at the Library show. I'm still learning a lot on how to alter photographs with photo-shop. I liked her's a lot because it was more of what I was expecting to see at the VAC. It was kinda funny, because while I was in the Library, I ran into my friend Hyun Kim and he was able to help translate even though he is Korean. Utugi's work first grabbed my attention because of how she makes the bold colors come out from the white background. I was very interested on what her meaning was for her work so, I had Hyun ask her. She said that she was very inspired by a newer fashion back home. She told me the name of the fashion but, I didn't write it down. Utugi also said that in the fashion the models paint their faces white so that is why she has her face painted white in all of the pictures. She also said that the "Outcast and Straw Man" was significant for how she felt in High School. She said that she was popular in high school and then one day, people started picking on her. In the "Outcast and Straw-man," she turns it around and the straw man signifies a person who previously picked on her. So she is basically getting him/her back. It reminded me a witchdoctor cursing someone with a voodoo doll. We didn't want to take too much of her time up so I can only speculate what the meaning is of the other two pieces.



Outcast and Straw-man





Adam Council, Hyun Kim, Utugi Tae

A.F.I. A Fire Inside

I'm listening to the new cd from AFI. Its pretty good. I think its way different from their old stuff. plus they the main singer looks way different. Good stuff though.