Free Post

I chose to use this as my free post because it is something I also drew. The initials are a friend of mine who lives about 12hrs away. We talk everyday and are visiting this summer! The initials mean a lot.

Self Portrait

I am calling this my self portrait because it is a coulage I created myself of a lot of the things that I feel describe who I am. I had a lot of fun creating it and it was fun to see the result!

Art and Human Behavior

Art and the Human Nature

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IATMj5fPOow

Art and the Human Condition

Art and the Human Struggle

The Art of This Culture

Chinese culture is one of the world's oldest and most complex. What makes Chinese culture so much related to art is that it is true to it's original culture. Art is the center to their culture. For every cultural event they have and recognize they use art. They use it to express their history, families, feelings, and so on. Their art commends their heritage. And they have cherished excellence in art.

I Love This Piece of Architecture

This piece of architecture can be found in Provence. I would say that this is one of my favorite pieces of architecture because of how complimentary it is of nature.

Poetry Slam

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz


Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz is is a boot-stomping wit-slinging sass machine, living and writing in New York City. Founder and host of the three-time National Poetry Slam Championship Venue, NYC Urbana (run out of the brand spanking new house of poetry, the Bowery Poetry Club), Cristin holds the title of youngest slammaster in the nation, a title she has held for the last five years ever since she founded Urbana at the tender age of 19. Cristin currently has written three books of poetry as well as three screenplays, including "Mutter," which ran the Grand Prize at this year's Philadelphia Film Festival. Widely anthologized and an experienced touring poet, Cristin's latest project is an oral history of the slam movement (co-edited by fellow slam vet Phil West) which will be Soft Skull Press in 2004. She is a member of 1998 NYC-URBANA (Team Member)1999 PROVIDENCE (Slammaster/Coach)2000 NYC-URBANA (Slammaster/Coach)2001 NYC-URBANA (Team Member)2002 NYC-URBANA (Slammaster/Coach)

My Right Brain, My Left Brain

http://homeworktips.about.com/library/brainquiz/bl_leftrightbrain_quiz.htm

Above is a website that you may find useful in discovering whether you're right brained of left brained. I took the quiz and below are my results!

You are a middle brain dominant student!
You are open minded but not gullible about things or people. You may run into trouble making decisions sometimes, while your logical brain plays tug-of-war with your gut instinct. You enjoy the arts, but you could also do well in science and math. You appreciate the beauty of all things in life, and are well-rounded. Middle brain students would do well on The Apprentice, since they can have a strong mix of gut instinct and an appreciation for numbers. You would have a strong career in business, but you may not go that route; you may be more interested in studying the arts and sciences in college. You would be wise to read over the characteristics of left and right brain students and consider whether you fall into the traps of either type. For instance, extreme right brain dominant students can get too bogged down in thought, while extreme left brain students can be rigid in their views.

Dance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv-cQrD4MS0

My Blogroll

Here are five other sites blogsites that are my favorites.

www.mickeswebb.se

www.flickr.com

jkirlin.blogspot.com

imageresponse.blogspot.com

imagina.mangasverdes.es/blog/

My Photographic Eye

The theme I chose from www.photofriday.com for this post was made for the January 5, 2007 challange. The theme is "Sisters"

This is my "big sister" in my sorority Leanne.

The picture above, with four in it, is of me and my three biological sisters.

Brandie, Sammie, and Mary Beth

The black and white picture above is my older sister Sammie, myself, and my youngest sister Mary Beth

To the right are my sorority sisters. Alpha Gamma Delta

"If you don't understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child."

My Photographic Eye

"Morning Routine" (theme from photofriday)

My Favorite Artist

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was born in a farmhouse on a dairy farm outside of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin on November 15, 1887. By the age of 16 Georgia had 5 years of private art lessons at various schools in Wisconsin and Virginia. Ateacher once said of Georgia; "When the spirit moves Georgia, she can do more in a day than you can do in a week" After receiving her diploma in 1905 she for left Chicago to attend the Art Institute of Chicago. O'Keeffe was hard to please and would continue to bounce from school to school, job to job, and place to place. She was encouraged by Stieglitz to return to New York. By this time he had fallen in love with Georgia and wanted to pursue a relationship. He being in an unhappy marriage, had moved out from the family home and into his studio. She boarded a train in June of 1918 to return to New York and Stieglitz...and to a new life that would make her into one of the most important artist of the century. Alfred's wife divorced him in September 1924 and he began to press Georgia into marriage. She was reluctant to do so since they had lived together since 1918 and had survived the scandal, seeing no reason to marry now. She finally relented and married late in December. By 1928 Georgia began to feel the need to travel and find other sources for painting. The demands of an annual show needed new material. Friends returning from the West with stories stimulated Georgia's desire to see and explore new places. Alfred had no desire to leave New York and Lake George...he hated change of any type. In May of 1929, Georgia would set out by train with her friend Beck Strand to Taos, New Mexico...a trip that would forever change her life. Georgia found the thin, dry air enabled her to see farther...and at times could see several approaching thunderstorms in the distance at once. She affectionately referred to the land of northern New Mexico as "the faraway"...a place of stark beauty and infinite space. Georgia would return to "her land" each summer until Stieglitz's death in 1946, when she would move permanently to her home in New Mexico. ---ellensplace.net

Fashion As Art

Fashion is art.

These are several designs that were popular for these past few seasons.

Just like any other type of art shadding, shape, deminsion, and all types of materials are used within a "piece".

Just like any stereotypical art, these pieces can be judged and classified for a specific taste.

I Am Having Another Catharsis

I graduated high school in the spring of 2008. Throughout school my major activity, sport, and time devotion was cheer leading. I cheered from the time I was able to at the age of 5. I cheered with the same girls pretty much the entire time I cheered. Two since I started, picked up another one in 6th grade, another in 7th and finally one our freshmen year of high school. Obviously from cheering all these years together friendships were made and tested. By our senior year my relationship with everyone of these girls had failed. I was able to accept that, finish out my senior year, and just work toward my life long dreams. Too bad they weren't able to do the same. My entire senior year was a constant battle with them. I had to defend myself every time I turned around. Event today 9 months after graduation and over a year since we cheered together they still pick open the sore. I logged on to my facebook profile recently and to my surprise there were some old cheer leading pictures from junior year. Not so surprisingly the same girls I had struggled with senior year were in it and had tagged myself as "Crazy Bitch". I was so mad. I wanted to leave nasty comments like they had done. I wanted to call them up and let them know just how stupid and immature they were. I wanted to meet them somewhere and just beat their head into the concrete. But I ignored it like I have been for the past two years now.

Art On You Tube II

This art i found on you tube is trully amazing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0hwMEe-v28

Meet this Artist I Know

The artist that created this was, Leanne Duffey, my big sister in alpha gam! I believe she trully is an artist. This is one of many peices I have seen from her. She is very creative. She created this piece over the summer. The idea came from inverting colors on photos off her computer. This is a self portrait

On the Graffiti Beat

This graffiti was discovered a step off the carrollton square. The graffiti was painted on the side of a garage in 2005. I do believe that this particular graffiti is a work of art. This took very much talent to create. This is just as much art as it would be if it were on a canvas. I personally do not know what this art means, but to the creator this has meaning. This is art.

Class Mate's Dioramas

Sarah Shouse's diorama on the pet population evoked a strong emotion in me. I would hope that people would consider simply having their pets fixed rather than just killing them off. Sherita Bolden's diorama on the invisible children in Africa taught me something I did not know. There are children in Africa being taken and used for fighting! Tyler Cochran's bowling ally of his life was very creative. The diorama showed the things in his life that have influenced him and was displayed as though it were a bowling ally. I have something to say about the diorama which displayed President Obama's moto "change", a lot of people are still talking about how they are so against him being America's president; well he is and that's the end of it so accept it. The diorama displaying abortion i considered to be a propaganda for the information it had within it.

This Music Video is a True Work of Art

I consider Meatloaf's music video "Anything for Love But I Wont Do That" a work of art. The video tells a story of a love that is forbidden. It's almost the story of Beauty and the Beast. The main character who is a beast is madly in love with this beautiful woman. The video shows his struggle for not being able to let her know, but also shows that she does know and will act on that notion.
http://www.imeem.com/powerballads/video/W7mz_R58/meatloaf_anything_for_love_but_i_wont_do_that_music_vid/

Art on You Tube I

Follow the link below to view some interesting art with latte's!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDZs__m5iAI

I'm Having a Catharasis

I have a really great friend who is always as nice as she can possibly be to everyone. She would never purposefully hurt someone. She would even take up for someone who maybe wasn't her best friend but knew what was being said of that person was wrong. So it blows my mind that someone would intentionally hurt her. I am very passionate about my relationship with my friends. They are the ones I look to when I need anything, whether I want to tell them some good news or I need someone to cry or vent to they're the ones that are going to be there. So for anyone to hurt my friends hurts my just as much. My friend was intentionally hurt by a co-worker of hers. The co-worker always played the 'friend' role towards my friend, but behind her back conivied and talked about her. It all came out when the co-worker showed everyone just how nasty she could be by sleeping with my friend's boyfriend. When I found out about this it took all I had not to call the co-worker at that moment and let her know exactly what I thought about her. I had to hold my emmotions in for my friend, I had to give her time to figure out what she wanted to do about it, and until then i'm just holding it all in.

Why I Believe This Film is a Work of Art

The curious case of Benjamin Button is more than a film made for entertainment purposes. I view the film as a work of art. There are several artists that worked on this piece; there is the writer, the director, the actors/actresses and so many more. Leaving out not a single detail of such an amazing and unusual life is what creates the art I see. The story of Button's life is a masterpiece in it's own, not to mention bringing that story to life on film. Below is a link that gives you a glimpse of the art within the film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvX5bJD29mc