Just Keep Going, You Got Nothing To Lose

This is along the same idea I have for my thesis. Answers to simple questions generated from an everyday interaction.

DIANE ARBUS is the SHIT

Last week our thesis proposals were due and I was kind of up in the air on what exactly I wanted to do. Taking 5 classes this semester and in the spring is a heavy load for me to take on because three of them are actually studios. I feel like Im not able to give it my full 100% because I have so much work for each class. I am constantly thinking of ideas for this project and everything I think of has to do with photography. I have decided the basis of my project is going to deal with photography.Taking this interactive design is also giving me ideas recently that I never though would be possible. Combining photo with an interactive piece to me would be something interesting. For now my main goal is to get as many different portraits as of people as possible. It doesn't matter who they are, how old they are, and what they are wearing. I want to do full body portraits so I can crop into them if needed. In the end I want to put all these photos together to make one book. I have been looking at a lot of photographers and Diane Arbus really sticks out to me. Most people find her work extremely creepy and many say she is the "Photographer of freaks". I like the fact that she photographs people who may not have the best looks, but have interesting features. In her photos you get a sense for who these people are and the problems they may face. I want to work with this awkward america that we live in. I am attracted to people and how weird they may or not be.

Quadrature

Atif showed us this video during a class lecture as a visual for a new project we were about to start. This is a project that he was a part of that he worked on in turkey. This was a MFA group project that took about 2 weeks long to finish, could only be worked from dusk to dawn. Its crazy to see how you can take such simple shapes and make them come alive. This shit is insane and feel like the building is about to crumble. This may be one of the coolest things I've seen in a while. It blows your mind. ENJOY!!!!

Chance Show p2

This last Friday we were able to start hanging the work in the assigned rooms. Our room went pretty smooth for the fact we had to hang 3 pieces from the ceiling. Altogether we had about 13 pieces in our room. I had said earlier that I thought the 3 windows would take a way from the room. After taking away the boards and letting the light in the room looks great. I really like the interaction between the natural lighting and the pieces. Most of the pieces have a lot of color so the changing light outside gives different looks to the pieces inside.

Chance Show p1

Last friday as class we started currating the Chance show. I will say it was pretty interesting process, but it could have went a little bit smoother. The room my group was given was the last room in the back left. This room isn't the biggest of rooms and has a set of windows on one of the walls. The theme we decided on had to deal with work that had repetition, color, and was linear. For the most part we got all the pieces we wanted and were able to figure out where everything was going to go by the end of the day.

Yuki Matsueda

I was stumbling again and found these real awesome pieces by Yuki Matsueda.

Occupy Wall Street

I decided to take a trip to "Occupy Wall Street" just for the hell of it. I really had no interest at first, but I thought it would be a good place to grab some photos. After walking around the city for about an hour we finally found the protest. All I can really say is that it was interesting. Here are some photos from that day.