Sunday, January 20, 2008

VERBAL COMMUNICATION VS. HORIZONTAL COMMUNICATION

verbal communication: individual struggle towards an idea. the vertical scroll of a blog. wholly personal, and in many ways secretive.

horizontal communication: collective ideas forming through discussion. blog-to blog communication (comments, video responses, textual response, class, etc.) horizontal communication is in many ways more honest than vertical communication because the idea is seperated from the ego.

i hope for you all to erase my ego, and hopefully i can erase yours.

unless ego is your thing.

now that i think of it, ego might be my thing also.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

double television


some friends and i sometimes enjoy watching two tapes at once with the sound muted on one. here is a photo of sophie's choice and bring it on playing at the same time.

note the parallel narrative structure (having sex=============thinking about sex while brushing teeth) that has been created by pure chance of the two tapes aligning.

is this entropic alignment the only worth you can draw from this? in what other ways can you harvest this medium? idk

google reader

nothing too art fart... i use http://reader.google.com to organize and stream all of your wonderful thoughts continuous. long live the intertwining of face to face conversation and bloggersation!

plans

i'm going to be creating some sketch comics in a series. each 'issue' will be drawn with ink on a large posterboard. i'm going to be exploring two-dimensional narrative movement rather than one dimensional.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

technology

technology is merely an extension of medium. It's a third arm for the artist; another dimension of expression. i don't necessarily view technology as a concrete medium such as prose or paint- it's a vehicle that allows modes of perception to gain a broader sense of communication. this fits nicely into the flow of multimedia approaches to art- technology provides both more magical tools to work with artistically (photoshop, instant video capture, word programs, spellcheck, margin adjust, font styles) and accelerated modes of transportation for that art to be spread to more people (blogs, youtube accounts, performance/show events on facebook)

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

summer 2007 performance

these are videos of a performance some friends and i made over the summer with old, deteriorated tape. the footage divides itself into two overlapping horizontal rows, each delayed by a short time- kind of hard to explain. cool effect with all the lights though. made with drums, two guitars, feedback, white el wire, various stencils, a fake tree, and a video projection of a slide show i made with pictures from the internet.


this is only the first few minutes, i can upload the rest if anyone wants! be patient, the first minute or so is just people talking, but you can see the projection well.

doodle poems

hello everyone! here are some drawing poems i have laying around my room...simple arrow doodle. i was thinking of exploring more arrow poem/doodles with more cognitive prose- maybe narrative drawings?
experimenting with combining words with arrows and texture. this direction might be too distracting/psychedelic
bark box. detail on a doodle collage w/ emma repp, caitlin ruggles. is anyone interested in collaborative drawing?