Performance Artist - Allan Kaprow

This might have no relevancy to performance art at all, but I was wondering if the guys from Jackass would be considered Performance Artists. They had skits, and would perform violent or just down right dangerous acts to themselves or to others. Mostly they did all of their skits in public. So would that be considered a performance art, or no because they don't consider themselves as performance artists?

Anyway Allan Kaprow was apparently a well renowned Performance Artist. He was born in August of 1927 and died April 2005. Allan was an american painter, and what they call a 'pioneer' in establishing the idea for performance art. Which means he had to help develop the "environment" for it which is also known as installation art. (Which I'm a HUGE fan of.) I love how performance and installation artists like to examine other peoples behavior and habits. It's all very interesting to see it be put into an art that is 3D. It's right there in front of you like a mirror to show the viewer how they react, or how their behavior and habits have contributed to the project itself.
Hopefully one day, I can do the same and become a serious installation artist or something like that.
Bye Brian!

"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Kaprow"

Logos! **make up blog!**

Logo - a sign, name or trademark to represent a company or whatever.

I'm kind of mad about this blog because I KNOW I did it. But it's not in with all of my other postings for some reason. I remember doing this I swear. I remember looking at advertisements on buses and etc. I remember gathering pictures of logos and symbols to get a good look on the difference between them.
Logo's like the Playboy bunny are ridiculously famous. Once a company has made it big with their logo like NIKE, no one else can take it in any way. One day the letter N will be a logo [for me of course] and no one will be allowed to use it anywhere. Just kidding. Symbols though are different like the Peace sign, or the Tree of life, or that hand thing from Star Trek that apparently I learned represents "Live Love and Prosperity". That was interesting to find out.
But yeah, if you want me to get an understanding for Logo's from this blog, then I understand it completely and I know what they are about and used for.
Bye Brian!

Positive and Negative **make up blog**

I could have sworn I wrote this, but since it's apparent that I didn't I'm going to have to try and remember how I felt that glorious day. Positive space white, negative space black. This lesson taught me that I absolutely hate illustrator. I don't really think the way a graphic designer would think, I can't really get my ideas to come out on paper or on the computer. So to do my project I remember just kind of winging it and clicking the pen tool all over the page. The first time I printed out my project it was completely wrong, my margins were off.. the whole damn thing was off. So.. since it takes two to tango, my second one finally came out to be a lot better. I was proud to even just finish something on the computer.

But to be honest, I didn't like this project and I NEVER will. =]
So long Brian!