art 382

The class was the first time I touched Adobe Flash, and we learned how to make a variety of animations, as well as a portfolio website and video game!! I must admit that was a pretty tough and glitchy process, but a very cool experience.

This is what I made for one of our very first assignments, a phenakistoscope:

Pretty awesome, ey!?

yumnaaa

Yumna Al-Arashi is a Brooklyn-based photographer. I stumbled upon her on the internet one day, and ever since, I have been a loyal follower of her's. I envy her lifestyle of meeting so many unique people and visiting numerous interesting places which give her the opportunity to take some pretty cool photos. However, some of my favorite works of hers are not photographs, but the montages of footages she takes and then makes into minutes long films (with, if I may add, the best soundtracks).

This is one of my all-time favorites:

InFORM & DeLIGHT

During Type I class today, the professor showed us a documentary film, "To Inform and Delight: The World of Milton Glaser". Milton Glaser is a New York based graphic designer. He is the cofounder of New York Magazine and is best known for the famous I ♥ NY logo. A lover of New York City myself, I was immediately intrigued, especially since I realized the countless times I've visited NYC and have seen the logo, I've never actually thought about who the designer behind it was. I also find Glaser's other artworks fun and witty, likewise is his personality. And anyway, any artist who makes good art and is from NYC instantly has a special place in my heart.

the logo

a cool illustration

his famous Bob Dylan poster

one of the typefaces he designed

"The Boy with the Arab Strap", Belle & Sebastian

Something I designed for type class.

Chris Jordan: Conceptual Photographer

E Pluribus Unum, 2010     24x24 feet, laser etched onto aluminum panels

Depicts the names of one million organizations around the world that are devoted to peace, environmental stewardship, social justice, and the preservation of diverse and indigenous culture. The actual number of such organizations is unknown, but estimates range between one and two million, and growing.

Dog and Cat Collars, 2009     60x67"
Depicts ten thousand dog and cat collars, equal to the average number of unwanted dogs and cats euthanized in the United States every day.

Skull With Cigarette, 2007     98x72"
Depicts 200,000 packs of cigarettes, equal to the number of Americans who die from cigarette smoking every six months. Based on a painting by Van Gogh.

Matt Vescovo

Matt: A brilliant instructoartist.

Frank Yang's sculptures

Frank Yang is a young Asian-American artist who graduated from the same high school I went to. He continued his studies at MICA and currently resides in Taiwan. Of all his artworks, including drawings, photography, videos, I really admire his sculptures the most. Here are a couple of my favorites.

"You are an artist of the spirit. Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly. Life is nothing but a dream, and if you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art."
—Don Miguel Ruiz

cat art

lol...

Hibernating

"You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book...or you take a trip...and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death), absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken."
Anaïs Nin

The study of type

Discourse on Method

Reading of all good books is like a conversation with the most qualified people in past centuries, who were their authors, and even a premeditated conversation, in which they reveal only their best thoughts...Almost the same thing as talking to men of other centuries is traveling. It’s good to know something of the habits of different peoples, so that our judge more fairly and not think that everything that is different from our customs is ridiculous and contrary to reason, make it sound like nothing seen.

However, when we spend too much time traveling, just making us strangers in our own land, and when we are too curious of what they were in past centuries, we are generally very ignorant of what takes place in the present.

Banksy

An amazing British graffiti artist. His work is truly the work of a genius; every single one of them.

Start off with a quote

"If I am not better, at least I am different."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau