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Monday, May 16, 2011

Performance Art- The Jab

I am trying to get a video i made onto here from my friend's Ipod 4G and i am having trouble. The video is about the art of jabbing in boxing and mixed martial arts. The jab is under utilized and an important tool to use in setting up strikes and messing up your opponents rhythm. The video that i am still trying to put up talks about this and show me jabbing on my punching bag. Sorry it isn't up yet, but i am working on it.

Yoko Ono

Yoko was born on February 18, 1933. She is Japanese and is an artist, musician, peace activist, and is well known for her marriage with John Lennon. She is known for her philantropic contributions to the arts, peace, and AIDS outreach programs.

Jamie Isenstein

Jamie Isenstein was born in 1975 in Portland, Oregon, and lives in New York. She earned her BA from Reed College in Portland in 1998 and her MFA from Columbia University in 2004. Her performances, installations, drawings, and sculptures have been the subject of solo exhibitions at Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York (2007); Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe and Berlin, Germany (2006); and Guild and Greyshkul, New York (2004). Group exhibitions include those at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; and Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna. Reviews of Isenstein’s work have appeared in such publications as the New York Times, Contemporary, Art in America, and Modern Painters. In her work she uses inanimate objects such as a chair and adds something to it. In one of her pieces she transforms herself with a chair and makes her legs the front legs of the chair.

The Museum of Jurassic Technology

The Museum of Jurrasic Technology was pretty cool. It had a bunch of interesting things to look at and watch. I didn’t get any pictures of the things because I forgot my camera. I had pulled over in a neighborhood and when I looked in my rear view mirror, there was a police woman so I got out and my friends and I started to leave so she wouldn’t think we were doing anything. We walked to the museum from there and my friend had remembered that he didn’t lock his door, so we had to walk back. We walked to the car and then back to the museum and I then remembered that I forgot my camera! I was mad, but I wasn’t going to walk back to the car again so I tried to take pictures with my phone and my friend’s phone. It didn’t work out.

One of the things that was interesting to me was this display of three green flowers but the middle one had a huge spike in the middle. I don’t know why, but I found myself just standing and looking at it. I was thinking that how can something so beautiful be so dangerous and destructive. The flowers were engraved with designs that made it look like a crazy flower.

Another thing I found cool was a display thalking about a guy whos name started with a “K”, I think it was like Kiercher or something, but he was mesmerized by space, magnetism, and asteroids. He made this display with clouds and a meteorite that would glow. It looked pretty crazy. Something else that was crazy was a display that was called, “In the Eye of a Needle”. It was funny because it had a couple figures in the eye of a needle like a soldier and then there was Goofy! Yes Goofy from Disney. It was because the guy who made it was a musician who got to know Walt Disney and did some work for him.

Another thing that was pretty cool was the microscopes. Under the microscopes were these very little things, but when looked under a microscope, the things turned into a full picture such as a bouquet of flowers or a basket of flowers. I just found it amazing that someone could put a piece of work together that was that small. I also enjoyed the crystal balls that were glowing in the darkness of one room. There were little plastic men inside of them and the balls looked like little planets to me. What I got from it was that each person is surrounded by themselves and the world and needs to expand his knowledge to be free.

I enjoyed the trip over to the Museum of Jurassic Technology. I went with two of my friends and they said that they liked it as well. They found it interesting and fun. We all had a good time, except when the cop cam, but it was all good. I would recommend going to the Museum because it was pretty cool.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Nancy Popp

Nancy Popp (Performing Artist)

Nancy Popp is an artist that is based at Los Angeles who creates performance art, videos, drawings, and photographs. Her projects are supposed to investigate how things can be performed pertaining to things using geography and identity and its relation to the body and its identity. Some of her recent projects have been some street performances at the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, “The Audacity of Desperation” at Gallery Ps122 in New York, “Documental” at pilot Projects in Dusseldorf, “Checking Point” at The Rex Cultural Center in Belgrade, and “Performing Public Space” at Casa del Tunnel in Tijuana, Mexico.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Inflatable bodies

When we were assigned to go to Irvine and go to an inflatable bodies exhibit, I wasn’t sure what I was going to see. I was sort of expecting real life human bodies that would fill with air and expand. I thought this would be weird and how could people do that? We were told that the exhibit was small, but I didn’t know it was that small. I paid for 2 hours just in case I needed it and I was there for about ten minutes. I was upset that I didn’t have to pay for all the time, but it was only $4.

When entering the exhibit, I didn’t know what to do. I just started to take pictures and was moving around. When I started to move, the bodies inflated. It was pretty cool, but its not what I expected. The bodies didn’t look like bodies. They were supposed to be parts of the body of something, im not sure. They were pretty cool though. I forgot to get a picture of me with them, but in one of the pictures there is a glimpse of my friend Jesus.

The exhibit next to the bodies was cool. It had some paintings and stuff like that. My favorite thing was all the books smashed together sticking out of the wall. They weren’t on a table, but they seemed to sit there in the air. It must be crazy glue or something.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Edweard Muybridge

Edweard was an English photographer who spent most of his life in The United States. He is known for hie pieces of animals. He used to film animals and capture their everyday motions. He also invented his zoopraxiscope which is a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip.

He emigrated to the US, arriving in San Francisco in 1855, where he started a career as a publisher's agent and bookseller. He left San Francisco at the end of the 1850s, and, after a stagecoach accident in which he received severe head injuries, returned to England for a few years. While recumperating, he got into photography and really enjoyed it.