Faniel: Well my winter semester is over, so I have some work I can show, but I'll also talk a bit about some artists whose work I've seen around, cause I've definitely not done enough of that lately.
I may have mentioned being in a class called Monster, it's a class in the Painting major (and actually I took it to learn painting,) but basically all of the assignments were open to any material, except a sound project and this movie: "Oh Deer"
The antlers in the movie were the piece that i had made the previous week for the prompt "metamorphosis." I'm pretty happy with how both turned out, and thankful to have had good partners in making the movie.
And for proper art. Here is work by Jeffery Vallance. These are from a series of little reliquaries that kind of relate the personal sentimentality of some artifacts to the sacredness of pieces of holy figues or whatever. I think stuff like this is clever and sort of comforting in a non-superficial way.
I'm not feeling talkative enough to write a really wordy post, so I will leave you with some rad illustrations by Andrew Schoultz, who I think Alec might have introduced me to. Very "cool" style of illustration, seems very marketable. -Daniel <3
i saw this movie Dragonslayer i think two nights ago as part of the unknown pleasures american film festival here it's a documentary about skreech sandoval not sure if it was "good" but it won a prize at sxsw so maybe it is
one thing i can definitely say was that it had a rad soundtrack that was done mostly by mexican summer and had bands like best coast, real estate, thee oh sees, jacuzzi boys, and a lot more
i liked it i think the best parts were probably the shots of him skating pools in fresno it made me want to skate and actually be decent or something or just have a good time i like movies that make you want to do things
even though i think those were the "best parts" i mostly liked it because it wasn't too much about him being skater even the parts that had him at skate events and things seemed to focus more on him as a person maybe it seemed "real" to me because it made me feel confused about him whether i "liked" him or not documentaries should do that maybe, be somewhat objective and let you decide things instead of michael moore-ing it
anyway here's a vid of him skating a pool if you can see the movie i'd recommend it probably if you like mexican summer and you like skateboarding it's short so you won't get bored
I made this for my "Monster" class. The assignment was to create a piece about beauty and/or repulsion. I made an anthropomorphic pig that's supposed to look at the differences in the symbolic meanings of pigs and fatness in western and Chinese cultures.
i'm still in berlin and have 2 weeks left here things here seem kinda slow and rainy and cold, but
it's hecka rad
i'm really excited to come back in the summer and go to a ton of shows and drink coffees at the tables outside cafes right now i'm just psyched to get back to school and hang out with my friends 'n' stuff though
2012 seems like it'll be pretty cool i'll meet up again with Daniel and the rest of my buds from high school probably i miss them a lot 2011 wasn't bad though i feel like since i have "blogged about music" i'm supposed to do a best of list that doesn't make sense to me though, there's still so much i haven't heard i don't even feel able to do a favorites list, i'll just forget rad stuff so i made two mixes eleven songs each jamz and then some chill jamz
New year, new groove. Tomorrow I go back to RISD and the next day, Wintersession starts. Wintersession is six weeks of elective classes, and it's meant to be a kind of break. I'm taking a painting course and a film course and will maybe be looking for ways to be a bit more enterprising than I've been in the past months. In old news: I think I promised to show some more work of mine, so here is a drawing from my first semester drawing class, and a link to all of my assignments from that class. Some are more conventional, and some are experimental to varying degrees. My work from other classes is not so well organized so I may take a while on that.
Life has been good, except for Alec being trapped thousands of miles away all the time. There's always the internet anyway. Above all, I am excited for 2012. And if it's the last year of human existence, it had better be a good one.
