Tricking ourselves to be more creative:

Different ways we could try to trick ourselves into being more creative that I though of were:
Focusing on how to approach each project uniquely so we will be more inspired because it would be more of our own ideas rather than the assignment.
Imagine that these are projects we have chosen to do in our free time, try to get ourselves to think they are.
We could just quit school and create art for ourselves, similarly to people quitting their jobs to work for themselves.
We could just stop looking at our grades telling teachers to file them but that we don’t want to see them, going cold turkey from them may make us less addicted to them.

4/20/10 Response

interesting: it was interesting to see and do the in process critique of other students ideas for the street art. I also thought the critique of our absent image projects was cool and I like seeing what iconic images people chose and if there was a new meaning created from the images as parts were removed, I really enjoyed that project.
learned: I learned about the artist who created the image Obama's hope posters was based off of during our absent image critique, which was cool because i had never even stopped to think that that had been based off of something and I always really liked that poster.
ideas: I got the idea to make a tissue paper garden on the chain-link fence by the tennis courts for my street art project.

4/13/10 Response

interesting: It was cool looking at the different types of street art, I really like the work that Steve Lambert does, and I really like the signs he's creating.
learned: We didn't learn much I just got some different ideas about what I could do for my street art project.
ideas: I want to use the absent image project or some other image to make a moveable mural using cardboard to create a mural that people can get rid of if they don't agree with it.

Absent Screamer

Response to Stealing the Mona Lisa

Have you ever felt someone was looking at you?
Yes when you look and see someone looking at you and then you make awkward eye contact and both look away. I think this is similar with artwork with eyes except when you make eye contact with it it doesn't look away and you are also want to keep looking.

What do you think of Leader's argument?
I think that he makes an interesting argument. I understand what he is saying about an image looking at you but instead of feeling like an image is looking back at me I feel more like it is a good image that is catching my eye. I thought I was really interesting that when pieces of art are vandalized that it is usually the eyes that are destructed first.

Do you make images to distract people?
Yes I think in a way thats why we all create images, to give people something to look at distracting them from whatever they were looking at before. I want to make images that stand out against other images.

Tessellation

4/6/10 Response

Interesting: It was interesting learning how people can illuminate parts of images, it would be cool to try this on making other projects like poster design.
Learned: Today we learned how to get ride of parts of images, which was really cool.
Ideas: Some ideas I have for my project would be get ride of Audrey Hepburn from the Breakfast at Tiffany's window, or Nighthawks, or take Marylyn Monroe out of the Andy Warhol squares, or to get ride of the person in the Scream.