Category — Artistic Encounters
Sidekicks
Some significant figures throughout history are overshadowed by other individuals, although they have played their part well. Even though they contribute to our culture in a major way, the public might not directly recognize their accomplishments. These individuals are known as sidekicks. My collage will be about all the sidekicks that made a difference even though their better known counterparts overshadowed them. The sidekicks that will be included will be the ones that have affected American culture and have changed the outlook of the masses.
September 28, 2010 No Comments
A Clash of Cultures
America is a cultural mixing pot. I walk onto 5th Ave. and look around. I see Germans, Italians, Japanese and even some natives. What I’m looking at aren’t the people, however, but rather a technological innovation brought about by them – cars. There are more to cars than most people would begin to imagine. To me, the history behind how most of these automobile companies came to be is more fascinating than the history of most civilizations on our planet. BMW started by building airplane engines, Ferrari sponsored racecar drivers, and Volkswagen, which literally means “People’s Car,” came from a government program under Adolf Hitler. My collage will combine all of the best automobiles from the world’s most famous companies into “one” supercar.
September 27, 2010 1 Comment
Woodcrock
What is real?
Dandelion Fiction is.
What’s Dandelion Fiction?
I had no idea, but someone in the universe wanted me to find out.
As I stepped off the subway car onto the dingy and dirty Fort Hamilton Parkway station in Brooklyn the other day, I absent-mindedly stared at all the graffitied advertisements that desperately clung to its walls. I paid no mind to most of them, unamused by the artistic improvements made by passersby – the usual mustaches, the blacked-out teeth, the devil horns and obscenities. But then I stopped, and did a double-take; one ad was ripped out, leaving behind a sad little frame with blank paper. On the paper were the words, “Dandelion Fiction is Real.”
So, of course I took a picture and looked it up. Whoever was the campaign designer was genius, all it took to spread the word was a sharpie and a message.
Typing in the words “dandelion fiction”, I got some strange results. But the first two or three were links to music sites, and a myspace for a band by the name.
Dandelion Fiction, as I found out, is a strange, strange band consisting of a man named Daniel F, who proclaims to play “daxophone, electric bass, singing, loops, pencilina, washboard, clackers and whackers, wizard of fuzz, dad’s old classical guitar (painted red with black spongemarks for a reason no one can fathom), etc etc.”
I wish I could say I listened to a few tracks. I couldn’t get through a single one. I sampled a few, but could not bear to sit through three minutes of Daniel F. singing “of course/off course” on a loop in his Weird-Al Yankovic voice with a backdrop of eery animal screeching, bad clarinet playing and demonic yelling. The words and the anger do not connect or make any sense.
Well, atleast they have some great advertising team.
September 15, 2010 8 Comments
Street Photography
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September 2, 2010 No Comments
Collage Project
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September 2, 2010 No Comments
Artistic Encounters
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September 2, 2010 No Comments
