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Alternative Ink

So the trip to Alternative Ink was very interested! I would like to thank Leslie and Gary for the rides to and from! (I hope I got his name right! I am not very good at names...) The location is a little tricky to find but since it is a private studio, I think the location is apt! I was very surprise to see the digital prints of the paintings, etchings, sculptures, and photographs on the wall! A few I recognized like Vincent Valdez's painting of his brother. It was just fascinated by the level of detail they could achieve. I was so impressed with the Great American Hen etching (I think that's what it was called). It was so detailed and since it was an etching, it has to be clean and precise. It fooled me! I didn't know it was a digital photograph of one. Oh and the equipment!! I told my parent about it when I got home. A 1200 megapixel (1.2 gigapixel?) camera! I wish I had one haha. I really enjoyed the print of the currency. Foreign money really is so intricate and beautiful and they captured every line and color perfectly. I have to say, I am not too keen on glossy paper, but I would love to have something printed by them! I also really really liked the tapestry they showed us. Well, it was a print of a tapestry. This woman had sewn this piece and they photographed it there. The print looks like it's fabric. It's printed on paper but it is so convincing. I really enjoyed being there and learning so many new things! Oh and I just learned that Chuck is part of the board of directors to SRISA, the school I went to in Italy over the summer.

Sala Diaz

Ok~~ James Dunn and I had a little adventure! As we approached Sala Diaz, we were greeted by a pair of pitbulls. No one was inside and the door was locked so we had to inconvenience the neighbor a little. But we did end up watching the videos! They were very interesting and humorous lol. I appreciate that they were chronological and given the time they were filmed, the effects, like when he stops and replaces the image, were impressive. I really enjoyed the Black Tower video. It was so creepy and funny at the same time. It really held my attention I think, more than the others. It was about a man who is paranoid because this black tower is appearing all around London. He hides in his house avoiding the tower and ends up practically starving himself to the point of medical intervention. He then leaves to the countryside where the tower also follows and he ends up entering the tower. He then is dead and a female narrator takes over, noticing the tower after visiting the character's grave. So creepy!! The Slow Glass was very philosophical and I liked the metaphor of the glass being liquid and moving slowly, just as things around us change slowing with time. I thought it was a little too slow for me and I think that was the point. The Girl Chewing Gum reminded me of when I was a kid and we would mute the sound of our favorite children's movies, and make up the dialog and story. The World Association was very interesting and I found that I focused more when the word and the pictures came up together. It was very clever, like when "perfect" would come up, a cat would appear because it "purrs". Haha! It was very fun! I did enjoy John Smith's films. :>

It's 7:00AM

And I am done! I will print it out today so that I will definitely have it all ready by Monday! :D

EDIT: The VRC said I have to print it on Monday cause they weren't printing Thurs after 3... :(

WIP: Companion piece to Jamby/Ignorance

Mmmmm I really want to finish the most I can tonight so I can print this out tomorrow.
Bahhh~~~ I am really enjoy this painting. :>
But I love sleep so much! I have a 9:30 AM class tomorrow and I need to finish typing up a small paper for it.
By small, I mean like one page double spaced.
So! It's not that big of a deal. But I love sleeeeeeppp...
And I sort of need it. But this is my first all-nighter this semester so I think I'll be ok!

Finally!!!

I am finally done! I called the VRC on Thursday and they told me they would be closed Fri-Sun... Ugh!!! Well. That gave me more time to polish up my painting. I'm going to drop off the file Monday morning. They told me they would have the print ready later in the day. I hope so!! *-*

RIP

Mmm! I really liked this movie haha! It was very entertaining and I really had no idea people like Girl Talk existed. I really find copyrights to be annoying when it comes to these types of art styles. I remember reading in the packet that its common for people to appropriate over most things in life, including habits and relationships. Appropriation also happened throughout history, such as the Romans adapting the Ancient Greek customs and religions (I think that was one of the examples). So why hasn't it been an issue until now? Unless someone out right takes something mine and calls it their own (plagiarism of course) I don't see what the issue is. I would actually find it flattering for someone to take something I've done and produce something amazing from it! I guess because people have "something" to lose, mainly money. But do they really own their intellectual property or just those large corporations/record companies? Well we discussed this in class of course. Behhh! How would we change the copyright law though? Like we discussed too, everything has developed case by case, so it really depends on how stingy or laid back the "victim" is. Why does everything have to be black and white? :O