Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
2/09/2009
1/24/2009
1/22/2009
Examined Life
OMGOMGOMG I want to see this!!!!!!!
OK. So I"m coming to the conclusion that philisophical debates fascinate me. Witness the brilliant, entertaining imp that is the mind Slavoj Zizek.
Plus I find his accent and lisp strangely charming.
This interview with Barry Nolan is CLASSIC! Especially the part where he tells Zizek he's like the Denis Leary of Slovenia.
12/25/2008
10/08/2008
holy crap it's frigging october!
Dear blog,
I've often thought about you longingly over the last couple of months, but, sadly, you keep jumping to the bottom of my list of things to do. Since my last post, not only have I started school, but I also started working 3 part-time jobs on campus.
Sigh. I know. Waaaaaah. Poor me, I have 1500 photos from the summer that I haven't gone through yet. Waaaaah. I'm basically working a 57-hour work week and paying for the privilege. Waahh. There's still a hole in my new home studio ceiling after 2 months of emails and phone calls to the builder. WAAAAAAAH!
Jeebus. All I can do right now is bitch and moan and it's so frigging boring that I almost fell asleep typing this out. With all the recent politicking and with the economy heading straight for the shitter, the last thing you need is to hear that junk.
So, until I get my shit together long enough to post again, please enjoy this little piece of Canadian heaven:
See more funny videos at Funny or Die
5/05/2008
4/03/2008
my brother got married last weekend!
i was a bridesmaid. sigh. i love my brother, my family, my new sister-in-law and her family, but if i ever get asked to be a bridesmaid ever again (especially when the wedding is planned for 3 weeks before the end of term), please shoot me. anyway, i'm having trouble uploading photos. here's a lovely video of the dessert table to tide you over.
3/18/2008
1/19/2008
art blogs, podcasts and netcasts, oh my!
Audio blogs, videologs, podcasts, videocasts, netcasts, whatever you call them, there is an endless amount of visual arts-related content out there on the Internet. Anyone with a computer who is interested in art, artists, process, design, history, theory, writing, new media and technology, should be checking this stuff out.
Not sure where to start? Well, I browsed through the 5 pages of the iTunes free podcasts visual arts directory and came across the following ones I think are pretty interesting. Don't have iTunes? Not to worry, all of these can be viewed using just about any web browser.
- Arts Now Podcast - BlogTO
The Arts Now is a weekly podcast all about the Toronto arts scene hosted by Ella Cooper & Amil Niazi.
- Academic Aesthetic - Aaron "The Art Guy" Smith
Art. Education. Technology. - the purpose of this blog: for me to ramble on about art, education, technology, and any combination of those I can manage." OK, so his video podcast may not be interesting or relevant to all artists BUT the section on his website that IS, is his Blogging & Netcasting Workshop.
- Art History Podcast - Learnoutloud.com
Each episode provides thoughtful analysis of the enduring artistic masterpieces that have become hallmarks of western culture.
- Book Artists and Poets - Steve Miller
These Interviews with book artists and poets, are hosted by Steve Miller, coordinator of the MFA in the Book Arts Program at The University of Alabama. The lively conversations are about craft, inspiration, careers, and aspirations.
- History of Photography - Jeff Courto
This podcast is recorded during class lectures for History of Photography, Photo 1105 at College of DuPage. The podcasts are intended as review for students in the class, but thousands of people around the world have found them useful to their education as photographers.
- For Art's Sake - ON networks
Although most of us don't think of ourselves as artists, the fact is that we are surrounded and influenced by art all of our lives. For Art's Sake examines the lifestyle, inspiration, and work of many different types of artists and art enthusiasts. From comic book artists who love to cartoon to gallery owners with a passion that drives them to exhibit the work of others, there is something interesting and exciting for everyone in the world of art.
- MOCA Audio and Podcasts
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles is online with audio tours, art talks and podcasts going back to 2006.
- MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Audio podcasts of art talks going back to 2005.
- Tate Events
This audio podcast presents highlights from Tate's wide-ranging programme of talks, symposia and live events at all four Tate galleries." The Tate also publishes over 300 hours of online learning video
- TateShots
TateShots presents a selection of short videos each month, with a focus on modern and contemporary art at Tate. You can watch TateShots online or download the films to watch on your computer or portable device.
- VernissageTV art tv
VernissageTV (VTV) takes you to opening receptions (vernissages) of exhibitions and events. Online, worldwide, on demand. VernissageTV provides insight to the social side of the art world. VernissageTV is based in Basel, Switzerland.
- WSPS1: Art Talk
Art Radio WPS1 is the Internet radio station of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center providing a 24-hour stream and on-demand archive of cultural programming. The station operates out of the historic Clocktower Building in lower Manhattan. Other WSPS1 podcasts include: DJ Sessions, Historic Audio and Sonic Adventures.
1/07/2008
Happy New Year!
Yeah! So 2008 already, hunh? Yep. I've been mostly avoiding my usual EVERYTHING in order to eat, drink, and be lazy for 3 weeks. Anyway, I started a new semester at school today.
Class #1 :History of New Media Art
Course Description: This survey course offers a history of the relationship of art and media from the beginnings of photography and avant-garde cinema to contemporary digital and video art practices. The course examines technological developments that have affected and transformed perception and representation including time-motion studies, industrialization (Taylorism), mass culture, and global electronic networks (Internet). The influence of new media on various avant-garde movements including cubism, constructivism, surrealism, dada, and on the stylistic innovations of collage and montage will be explored. Selected writings on art and technology by key thinkers of the twentieth century will complement a visual and intellectual survey of artworks.
The first video we watched was of economist and communications smarty pants Herb Schiller. He's so cute I want to carry him around in my pocket all day.
And we finally bought a house. Closing date is mid-February and living with my parents is not as bad as I thought it would be, but still pretty meh.
11/15/2007
finally! now i own a piece of raymi!
hungover-raymi and i had coffee today. i really needed a batman t-shirt and she really needed to sell one, so it worked out great for both of us. read this and this if you want to know what happened.
PROOF!
current status of my panel painting. 75% done!
finally found something besides purses and accessories in H&M that doesn't make me feel like a big fat pig. ignore the socks. imagine opaque tights and cute shoes 
when i was in 23 i used to have this recurring dream where i could sing like this. someday i will get over my singing in public issues. sigh.
11/14/2007
least bloggable day ever. here, watch this...
thanks to dougal for introducing me to the mighty boosh.
nanageddon - part 1
nanageddon - part 2
nanageddon - part 3
11/12/2007
11/06/2007
an appointment with destiny
ok so i was going to post some images of more homework but blogger won't let me...in fact blogger has crashed twice in the last 5 minutes... so, i'm not sure how much time i have so i'll just leave you with the song that i have been ocd-playing on my ipod and computer over the last 4 days.
Clinically Dead - Chad VanGaalen
Clinically he was dead
But the motor inside his head was still working
So they plugged him into a machine
And let his brain dream
But people cannot tell you
There's no way around it
People cannot tell you
There's no life without that
And it's another prank call
In the middle of the night
And it's a silver white moon
And it still shines bright
And it's another prank call
Why don't you put up a fight
And dream on
Dream on
Dream on
Clinically I was dead
But the modem inside my head was still working
So they put me into a machine
And let my brain dream
So people cannot tell you
There's no way around it
And people cannot tell you
That there's no life without that
And it's another prank call
In the middle of the night
And it's a silver white moon
And it still shines bright
And it's another prank call
Why don't you put up a fight
And dream on
Dream on
Dream on
11/04/2007
day 4 - oh joy
This is the view from my kitchen window:
From the way my week has gone, this blog is going to end up being a repository of whining and bitching. BO-RING!
Instead I'll tell you about my homework for Painting Studio. Here's the project description:
Contrast Diptych
Materials: compositional studies; 2 supports (any size) with gesso or other preparation; acrylics (or other media), mediums, equipment; mounting and hanging equipment.
Process: make preliminary studies demonstrating variations on your theme; select and execute, making changes and additions that suppport your subject as you work; hang the work in various relationships using mounting equipment.
Examples of Contrasts:
- complexity/simplicity
- organic/geometric
- warm/cool
- large/small
- interior/exterior
- transparency/opacity
- painterly/graphic
- boldness/subtlety
- linear/curvilinear
- depth/flatness
- heavy/weightless
- male/female
- accent/neutrality
- activeness/stasis
- public/private
- irrational/rational
- representational/abstraction
- romantic/classic
- asymmetry/symmetry
- textural/smooth
- acculturated/primitive
- blah/blah/blah/you get it
I also have to construct my own supports instead of buying them ready made like I've been doing so far. Sooooooo, I'm doing 1 support in door skin and pine and the other support in plexiglas.
I'm still working out the actual painted part.
11/02/2007
the second day of the rest of my life
i know this is kind of a cop out post, but i'm so busy today and all i want to do is sleep forever. i lost a night of sleep on tuesday night working on homework for my alternative media and techniques class. poor me.
anyway, i'll take a dave grohl and cee-lo sammich to go please.
also, please enjoy the intensely lovely floral scanner art of katinka matson. 
9/04/2007
OMG YOU GUYS!
So school started today and I figured it's about damned time I make a little time to post something here. In the last 4 weeks, we moved out the last of our shit, did a cosmetic reno of our condo, put it on the market and now school.
Poor blogger, no deliciously boring content to process...for so many weeks, days, hours. Le sigh. I love you all my 4 loyal daily visitors.
I'm contemplating ditching the whole poopeeshmoopee shtick and just using my real name. but I can't decide.
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