Tuesday, October 30, 2007

What the hell are they doing?

So Brian put us to the test with our performance skills, and Matt and I are pretty damn good. We decided to do the wagging tail all the way into the safeway parking lot. It was slow at first but once we started going so did our performance and it looked a lot better. These two guys that work at Safeway were like "What the hell are they doing???"-- not to mention Sara and Joel weren't far behind us doing the same thing and also had mirrors in their hands. The four of us not talking to eachother all doing similiar things probably got people to ponder what the hell was going on. Afterward we tried the shaking hands thing which wasn't as good as we expected. We decided to go inside of the store and meet half way and just randomly start shaking hands. So we did it, but all we got were weird looks while we were standing in the frozen food section asking eachother if it was warm yet. Which it definitely wasn't. After we decided it was warm we moved on to the last proposal; standing back to back making faces at eachother with the mirrors. We walked all the way out from the back of the store into the parking lot and so on. People's faces were just so funny. They didn't know what to think. I then decided to hop inside my little red van, with a cart attached to it. As Matt pushed me around as if I was a real car, I honked the little horn and was having a fake road rage at people. After parking my truck I pretty much threw myself out of it... looked around, and walked away. That was pretty good too. I like the thought of Performance Art, especially if it's humorous because I dig it I guess. It might have not been a life changing experience but it definitely did get me to think about the form of art performance. But this activity was a fun one and I love doing group projects especially when they are goofy like this one was. GOOOO BRIAN! =]

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Futuristic Musuems???

Article number one was trying to push the idea that a "Newseum," will pretty much be the hottest thing since sliced bread. The Newseum will be online so that the viewer can just click and click and click away at things they want to see. But are they really experiencing it?? Won't that take away from the experience of seeing these sometimes amazing artifacts. Isn't that just a lazy way around doing something educational? Going online to me would take away from the artwork or whatever the object is. I'm seriously a hands on person and sure I could reference from the website which would be a completely different story, but to benefit myself and to learn more about the object I would definitely have to just get up and go see it. There's no way that museum's will die out as long as there are still people who are willing to learn and explore things they've heard but have never got to see. [Which is one of the reasons for a museums] Article number two talks about expanding museums. I'm probably going to contradict myself here a little bit so hang in there. I think that expanding a museum is a good idea in ways because there are still so many people that like to check out museums, besides little kids on field trips with their school. The crowds of people to me are what take away from the experience. I was at the Liberty Science Center and there were just so many people that I could barely see the exhibits and some I had to just skip considering it wasn't worth me shoving through a billion little kids and adults to get to it. So expanding would be good for space issues like that. This way there's more space for everyone. But also if you make a museum too big and worry about cafes and gift shops [which are over priced and over placed in many museums] that it takes away from the whole idea of it.
In some museums you end of walking by 3 cafe's and 6 gift shops that all carry the same thing. I'm sure they're making bank off of that but is it really necessary? Plus with the museum being so big besides the cafes and gift shops - there is so much stuff how can you possibly remember all of it? Or take it all in, in just one day.

I guess that's all I really can say for now without confusing anybody and myself haha

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Patterns

I did the research for the floor tiles, wall coverings, fabric prints and Islamic Architecture and I've come to a lot of conclusions.

Wood floor tiles seem to be all about textures.
Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

Ceramic floor tiles seem to be more about design and the look then texture. Even though all the tiles have their own texture. What doesn't?
Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

Fabric prints can be about anything. They can show a texture, a culture, and even a design.
Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

Islamic Architecture is all about patterns. And it's all gorgeous.
Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

All these different things do have one thing in common though. They are all used for design. After seeing the Islamic Architecture I'm thinking about trying to mimic a pattern from there. I'm not sure though, I might just make my own also which wouldn't be so bad I HOPE!

Ok, well now you know =]