from Patti

Okay - this may be a first and a last blog - Just lost everything I just wrote.  %#!!!#.  I am too old and too set in  my ways.  I am on the down slope of life - so I only read and watch what interests me.  Just remember - what goes around comes around so some things you see as new - I've seen before - maybe just under a different name or venue.  It is good to explore and wonder and make life choices and ponder....you never stop learning, however, I've found my moral compass and values and at this stage ...my feet are planted.  My one suggestions - if you are going to watch anything - try PBS.  They have good theatre - Masterpiece Classics like Downton Abby and the Mid-wife.  Excellent musical programs - enjoy the classical and symphonies.  The art 21 series are excellent.  And Sesame Street is good for a simple no brainer - who doesn't like Big Bird!  And read the Bible it has all the drama, vengeance, vice, forgiveness, poetry, musicality and it knows man.  For even though the material values, products, sites, etc. have changed....man has not changed from the beginning.  We still are consumed by the seven deadly sins....that we tend to repeat over and over.   Everyone is still looking for a loop-hole.  You all are young - go explore - find yourselves - but keep your moral compass with you at all times.  Keep an even keel - and you'll fair well.

Crossdressing comedians reimagined in Legos, and meat flowing through a tube.

If you are reading this, two things are true:

1. I figured out how to post here.

2. I didn't screw it up.

I've never used a blog. Never really had a need for one. Seemed about as useful as learning to crochet. For this first post (or attempt at a post,) I will just share a couple of my favorite videos ever, and see how it goes.

The first is simply one of Eddie Izzard's comedy skits, brought to life with Legos. It also happens to be one of the funniest things I've ever seen. The second is the video for "Sober," by Tool. It's an older song, but the imagery in the video is my favorite of all time.

Enjoy.

Death Star Canteen

Tool - "Sober"

You know what? That was so easy I think I will throw in another video. As I typed the title, I was reminded of the song "Imagine" by John Lennon. Of course, I prefer the version by A Perfect Circle. They added an ominous feel to it. 

(*The singer in A Perfect Circle is the same guy from Tool: Maynard James Keenan. He is also in the band "Puscifer." Busy guy...)

"Imagine" - A Perfect Circle

On Bed Rest

As I am sick in bed with a terrible sinus infection I was watching youtube videos and came across this really cool one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jfS2rybDOg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJq3FgLvhPc



This is one of my favorites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2GvZHvJ90o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZTUV54VHuE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_4B3rbjAaw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYwjRsNFW6M

I love how this artist mixes art, music, and dance!!! LOVE It

From Christina

Malory! :)

I really love to travel, so in my hunt to find a cool place to visit, I came across this website.  I'm posting an article specific to art.  However this website has a lot of neat articles and places in the world you would of never thought existed!

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/art-saved-in-world-war-2

On a totally different note.  I found this artist who uses shattered glass to create art! And so I googled deeper to find this art exhibition that's all about glass art. Below are two more links that show that exhibition.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/02/shattered-glass-animals-by-marta-klonowska/

http://www.glasstress.org/home

http://www.modernism.ro/2011/11/14/glastress-2011-a-world-of-glass-at-the-venice-biennale/

Hope everyone enjoys looking through the links! :)

This is Amber! :D

Since the subject of music has been introduced by Twilley, I'd like to share a musical work of art that is a continual source of inspiration for me. I find it to be oddly tragic and uplifting at the same time. It's funny how music can change how you feel. This song is from the movie Cloud Atlas, which I highly recommend.

Hope you enjoy!

Brittany Twilley digs Emily Kai Bock.

& you might too.
After looking up the music video professor Alex brought up in class on Wednesday, Arcade Fire's Afterlife, it's awesomeness made perfect sense when I realized it was directed by none other than Emily Kai Bock.  this is her. & her camera.
There are clips of some of her other big projects in the video above, including her videos for Grimes' Visions & Majical Cloudz' Childhood's End (from one of my favorite albums of 2013).
Here's a personal favorite...

TIL NEXT TIME...

Brittany Twilley says Hello

so i'll be the nerd to start this page off & post a few things...

A big part of this whole seminar class is kind of based around the idea of teaching us to engage in conversation about art & actively explore what's going on within our world. Unfortunately, I've noticed it's not always so easy to strike conversation with peers around the topic of art (especially contemporary art) unless it's in direct relation with some in class assignment. So in thinking about what to post today I wanted to relate art to music, something present in nearly all of our daily lives & something I personally enjoy probably just as much as I enjoy visual art (too bad I wasn't born musically inclined).

Since Warhol & the Velvet Underground (probably even before), visual artists have been developing a pretty notable relationship with music.

take a look at some of these album covers...

Lady Gaga's ARTPOP | Jeff Koons

Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation | Gerhard Richter

Katy Perry's Teenage Dream | Will Cotton

the Velvet Underground's the Velvet Underground & Nico | Andy Warhol

the Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers | Andy Warhol

Talking Head's Speaking in Tongues | Robert Rauschenberg

Patti Smith's Horses | Robert Mapplethorpe

Grizzly Bear's Shields (& B Sides cover too) | Richard Diebenkorn

Glasser's Ring | Tauba Auerbach

There are plenty other examples but the point, is that we see fine art in more places than we maybe even realize. I encourage you guys to check out some of the music & especially artists above if you haven't!

This last one, Glasser's Ring, brings me to one of my favorite contemporary artists, Tauba Auerbach, who's relationship with musician Cameron Mesirow went beyond this album cover. Check out their collaboration...