Sunday, May 2, 2010

Una Ardillita



Will she do it?! Stay tuned!

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Luminaria



I don't think I posted a blog on Luminaria but I think I should! It was a lot of fun, first of all haha. The weather was amazing! I want to thank Leslie and Joseph (I believe that was his name!!) for helping me out with the set up and everything. I'm really bummed that his projector was stolen though! :( But yes. It was very interesting. I don't think I was prepared! I had my two digital paintings up and most people really enjoyed the male rabbit. Many asked me if I had any cards or a website but... I didn't! Boo. Many people took pictures but I didn't get to take any because my phone sucks haha! If you guys have any pictures from that night, I would love to have copies! I did wander around and looked at other people's works. There were so many wonderful pieces! I particularly liked the clean and precise square frames with the words that would appear as you moved. I don't remember the artist (boo!) but I really liked it because from far away, it just looks like different colored boxes, but up close, there are phrases and words that appear and disappear as you move from one side of a box to another. I wish I could have seen more of the performances though! We were mainly inside keeping people from creating their own "entrances" through the curtains. I didn't get any negative comments, at least not to my face, which I kinda didn't like. I don't know! I wish I had more constructive criticism from people but it's ok I suppose since most of them were "lay" people. Oh! And I met the former mayor, Mr. Phil Hardberger! But... since I'm weird and out of the loop, I didn't realize he was the former mayor until my boyfriend told me! Hahah!! So awkward... lol


Short Films



Haha! I really enjoyed all of the short films we saw last Monday! Although I didn't understand all of them, they all kept my interest. My favorite one was The Astronomer's Dream by Malcom Sutherland (of course!). I know that animation is very popular but I am almost always drawn to it. No pun intended. Ha!.. It's just so imaginative and fun! I think I giggled throughout the whole piece. I really liked the drawing style and the little city inside the spaceman ship. It reminded me of ancient Central and South American civilizations. Another short film I was drawn to is 200,000 Phantoms by Jean-Gabriel Périot. Its eerie photographs and poem about Hiroshima made me feel sick to my stomach but at the same time a little confused. I like the Japanese culture and all the Japanese people I know are very nice but I still know what they did to other countries, to prisoners of war, and to their own people. I know our country is far from perfect but our screw ups, as far as I know, are in our textbooks. We remember what we did to others so that we can some how reconcile. Japan tortured, raped, and killed many people in the neighboring countries, including Korea and China, and yet they fail to mention this in their textbooks and they have not, to this day, formally apologized for their war crimes. But. Even though they have not reconciled, I don't think they deserved what happened in Hiroshima. It was, in hind-sight, a quick way to stop the war. But it destroyed so many lives!! It makes me so upset. Anyway. Those were the films I was attracted to the most. I did enjoy the other ones as well though!