Sunday, November 9, 2008
Saturday, November 8, 2008
I never read. I just look at pictures.
This blog started as homework for my Digital Art Class, but boredom and a wall full of pictures has convinced me to start back up on my own. Maybe some one will like it, if not, Oh well.
Monday, May 7, 2007
My Culutural Events
Why post in a nice timely manner when i can post about all five events in one go?
My first event was the Student play in the White Room called life under water. It was intresting as far as student plays go. The idea was that there where several over indulged rich white high schoolers who where tired of there lives and wanted some thing more. What that more was never made clear, but it deffinatly wasn't the lives of there parents who where simply fitting about the place and having affairs with each other. In fact, one of the mothers was having an affair with a man who decided to join his bording school tennis teams current pursit, an upscale male version of a call girl service. That's a life anyone whould want to emulate!
The secound event was Mark Cooly. He talked about his instalation American Dreams. It's about American consumerism and the wars that have been waged by the American government. It's pakages of toys and other bits and peices that have packageing that talk about the American relationship with these contreis and the connection we have militarily. One example was things that were made in Vietnam. I thought that this peice was very cool. I liked the way it was prestnted, as object that where actually for sale
The third event was the talk given by Andrew Kiepter. His peice was a little weird for me. It was three sounds played on a loop and an image played on a screen. Becuase of the diffrent time of the sounds and image, the peice would never repeat, in our life times anyway. I like the idea, but the sounds were to strange for me. Maybe I would have liked it if i had seen less of it. It was played for a while.
The fourth event was going to the Walters over Spring Break. There are two things I love at the Walters. One is the room designed like a Dutch "chamber of wonders" that are set up like the 16th century noblemens room. I particulrly like the gian natulus tusk hanging on the wall. There is also a section for midevil or islamic art that has a saber that is split down the middle so that the attacker can get two cuts in with one blow. I would say that would be very useuful in a time of war.
My last event was the Antropolgy talks given at Historic. There wasn't much said that i didn't already know. Silas talked about the discovery, archeology and reconstuction of Cordea's hope, one of the first shops in the area. While they were looking for it, they found anouther building on the site and couldn't figure out for a while which buiding was which. Ruth talked about the archeology and constuction of St. John's site. Henry talked about the Facade of brick on the Vanswearigen buiding. Basicly what VanSweringen did was build a cheap and mostly sturdy building and then made it look nice. Henry likened it to putting lipstick on a pig, but VanSweringen's lipstick actully made the pig look good. Finally Tim talked about the formal building in the chesapeak. This was a short talk as there are very few building that are formal in St. Mary's CIty.
And that was my cultural quota for the semester.
My first event was the Student play in the White Room called life under water. It was intresting as far as student plays go. The idea was that there where several over indulged rich white high schoolers who where tired of there lives and wanted some thing more. What that more was never made clear, but it deffinatly wasn't the lives of there parents who where simply fitting about the place and having affairs with each other. In fact, one of the mothers was having an affair with a man who decided to join his bording school tennis teams current pursit, an upscale male version of a call girl service. That's a life anyone whould want to emulate!
The secound event was Mark Cooly. He talked about his instalation American Dreams. It's about American consumerism and the wars that have been waged by the American government. It's pakages of toys and other bits and peices that have packageing that talk about the American relationship with these contreis and the connection we have militarily. One example was things that were made in Vietnam. I thought that this peice was very cool. I liked the way it was prestnted, as object that where actually for sale
The third event was the talk given by Andrew Kiepter. His peice was a little weird for me. It was three sounds played on a loop and an image played on a screen. Becuase of the diffrent time of the sounds and image, the peice would never repeat, in our life times anyway. I like the idea, but the sounds were to strange for me. Maybe I would have liked it if i had seen less of it. It was played for a while.
The fourth event was going to the Walters over Spring Break. There are two things I love at the Walters. One is the room designed like a Dutch "chamber of wonders" that are set up like the 16th century noblemens room. I particulrly like the gian natulus tusk hanging on the wall. There is also a section for midevil or islamic art that has a saber that is split down the middle so that the attacker can get two cuts in with one blow. I would say that would be very useuful in a time of war.
My last event was the Antropolgy talks given at Historic. There wasn't much said that i didn't already know. Silas talked about the discovery, archeology and reconstuction of Cordea's hope, one of the first shops in the area. While they were looking for it, they found anouther building on the site and couldn't figure out for a while which buiding was which. Ruth talked about the archeology and constuction of St. John's site. Henry talked about the Facade of brick on the Vanswearigen buiding. Basicly what VanSweringen did was build a cheap and mostly sturdy building and then made it look nice. Henry likened it to putting lipstick on a pig, but VanSweringen's lipstick actully made the pig look good. Finally Tim talked about the formal building in the chesapeak. This was a short talk as there are very few building that are formal in St. Mary's CIty.
And that was my cultural quota for the semester.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Site Map
Here is a site map for a site with 6 pages (and a seventh for acknowledgments)
I was wondering if it was possible to make a site with more than 6.
Monday, April 16, 2007
Ocean City
Words Associated with Ocean City:
Ocean
Tourism
mini golf
crowded
sand
boardwalk
Dolly's
candy Kitchen
kitchy
cheap
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Web Site parody
The Ideas I have are both political and not
The political ideas are for The War on Terror, the war on Drugs, and Internet nutrality by parodying the ICANN website.
The non-political ideas I have are on Ocean City, Maryland, and Myspace.
I also stumbled up on this while I was looking and thought it was amusing. The only thing is that it is a real site.
I think
The political ideas are for The War on Terror, the war on Drugs, and Internet nutrality by parodying the ICANN website.
The non-political ideas I have are on Ocean City, Maryland, and Myspace.
I also stumbled up on this while I was looking and thought it was amusing. The only thing is that it is a real site.
I think
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