pun

I decide to create this pun "junk in the trunk". I got the idea for this after realizing I have been hit on multiple times for have a large butt. And every time a guy says "Dang girl you got junk in the trunk". And that makes no sense! I have a curvy butt however I do not store junk in it/ on it. And if I did then it would look like this. I thought it would be funny to take pick-up lines that guys use because they think they actually work and create a visual puns from them. 

consider an object.....

An object that I use daily and that I rely on is my cell phone.  I use the alarm clock on it to wake me up every morning. My alarm clock ring tone is MGMT "Electric Feel"

which helps me get the day started right. My cellphone tells me what the weather is going to be for the day. It lets me know if I need to wear rain boots or flip flops, pants or shorts. My phone sends me all my emails so can stay on top of the coupons that I get for Albertsons, cause living the college life I need to save some money somewhere. My phone also allows me to keep up with my friends on facebook. I can check my page when I need a break from studying all day in the library. It is crazy to think about my life without a cell phone. To remember that I went to school every day never once text messaging someone. I can not even go a day without texting one of my friends or family members now. I use to wear a watch but now I never do because my cellphone tells me the time. Wow I think technology might take over the world like in the movie Terminator. 

If I did not have my cellphone things would be very different. My cellphone keeps my relationship between me and my boyfriend together. I am in a long distance relationship and by long distance I mean 6 long hours a part from each other. My cell phone helps make it seem that he is not that far away from me. We talk almost every night and text every single day. If I did not have a cellphone it would completely ten times harder to keep my relationship strong. Yet I think how people use to stay in contact by writing letters and I would do that if I had too. 

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

I want to go to Peru! I have always been intrigued by this country and all it has to offer. It has a beautiful culture that has so much history. Actually the Inca civilization that inhabited in the Andes mountains of Peru is older then the Egyptian civilization. To be able to walk within the ancient ruins of Monchu Picu is my dream. To be in a place that is so rich with history. To be at the top of the mountain and look out to all of the stone buildings and the irrigation system and realize I will never create something as beautiful as this.

Lamas are one of my favorite animals. I think they are cute in a funny way because they have such big attitudes and spit on people. 

This country has inspired me with its radiant colors that are seen throughout all the textiles architecture in the towns and cities. The colors of the fabric that the peruvians make by hand is breath taking to me. It makes me want to use more color within my own art work.

I am planning on going to Peru next summer after I graduate. And I am so excited for this adventure to happen.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

With this class I have a couple concerns. My first concern is that I am not creative enough. I know that might sound like a stupid answer coming from an art student but I feel that is my insecurity. What if my ideas are lame and are not interesting to my classmates. And my second concern to be completely honest I fear critique days. The idea of having your work that you have spent so much time on being judged by everyone is scary to me. I have taken many classes that always have critique and I still have not become comfortable with it. I think that maybe I become to attached to my art work and I feel that it becomes a piece of me that I am showing to the world. I can handle constructive criticism but I feel that people sometimes do not know how to actually give constructive criticism.

With this class I want to actually start making my own art outside of what my professors want from me this quarter. I want to take "me" time to create what I want. I want to feel comfortable showing my art work to people and not be afraid if they do not like it.

Monday, March 28, 2011 Lecture

Professor Fulbeck's lecture left me with an understanding of what art is. After countless times in other classes trying to explain and argue an answer to that question that is asked of every art major I feel that he was able to give me an answer that I will hopefully convey within my own art work. This idea of "making meaning happen". This is a link I found that inspired me more with creating my art work and being considered an artist and not just an art student. It is an interview of Chicano Artist David Avalos.

Also another topic I found interesting was the concept of icons. Icons are depicted everywhere. On billboards to t-shirts to images being placed on bags. I feel that these depictions of icons are seen so much in a persons day to day life that they forget to appreciate the image or even the person being depicted. For example when someone has one of the many infamous pictures of the icon Marilyn Monroe yet they do not even know the name of one of the many movies she was in. Being elevated to icon statues might be the goal for some people. That is the goal for most celebrities in Hollywood. A great quote that conveys this idea is by James Dean, he stated "If a man can bridge the gap between life and death.  I mean, if he can live on after he has died, then maybe he was a great man.  To me the only success, the only greatness, is immortality." And ironically James Dean died at a very young age which made him become immortal as an icon that generations and generations of people to come will still idealize.