Pimpstar rims

In our society today everyone is told that they need to be different and stand out. Most people choose clothes, music or phones but no matter what America still wants more. Something more that a person can do to stand out from the crowd is to pay about 12,000 dollars for some murdered out Pimpstar picture rims. These rims now have color and pictures.

Pimpstar rims have three skinny tubs of lights connected to the front and when they are turned on and spinning show a picture. The picture can be changed and customized with programing. The picture can even be changed to yourself or friends. This is so everyone can know how cool you are.

Color play a big part in these rims. Color from the days of people living in tribes was a sign of wealth and importance. Here it has the same effect. A person can have silver wheels or flashy colorful ones that are much more interesting to look at. Ironically causing other drivers to look away from the road. Color has always been desired and sot after. These rims are maybe not the greatest idea from peoples safety but they certainly are cool.
(picture found at http://www.slipperybrick.com/2006/10/dub-pimpstar-rims/)

CRAYONS

Mustard yellow, Forest green and midnight blue; all prodcuts of crayons. I think it is really interesting how people make up the names for each one of these different shades of color. Most of the time the crayon is linked back to an object that people can look at and relate to. Not to many colors are added to crayons every year. Most of the new names are rediculous. For example "inch worm" was added in 2003. When i think of inch worms i personally don't think of the color, green, when I hear the word inch worm. I tend to think of the action of an inch worm. So I think that was a bad choice. All in all it is still fun to see if new colors come out and what interesting names they are given.

Color

Color is in and around our lives all the time. Color is in the clothes we ware to our toothbrushs we brush our teeth with every morning. Colors are meant to send and speak a subliminal message to the eye viewing it. Such as pink is for girls and blue is for boys or red is for stop and green is for go. It is subconchesly driven into our heads that different colors send off different messages.
My group, for this project, explored a supermarket to find colors and how they can send not just one message but many.
For the first example I choose Johnson's Baby Wash. The bottle is a soft pastel pink. It looks very soothing and gentle. If I had a child I would want them to have a nice soft warm bath before I put them down to bed and this color says to me that Johnson's Baby Wash would make that happen.
In comparison to the pink wash these donuts are also very similar shade of pink. They look very exciting and tasty. They grab my attention because donuts are not usually pink. I could see them from across the room and they caught my eye but that didn't happen as fast when i saw the pink baby wash.
Even thow both of these items are the same color they send different messages to people. One says soft and soothing while the other says fun and exciting. Color is very interesting in the way that it can change our opinions and have our brain prejudge object before washing with them or eating them. I really liked this project and I think it was a very interesting subject to think about.

Iconography

This project was interesting because I never realized how difficult it is to simplify objects into icons. Its hard to get the idea across in the same fashion. In my project I picked a picture of a girl jumping with an umbrella. It was easy to outline with the pen tool in illustrator because of the practice I had from previous projects. I think that it looked very nice and I would like to incorporate silhouette in future artwork. Simplifying was harder because I felt the need to add more detail then was necessary to the image. I think the final outcome turned out well. Last was the elaborate and i thought that was really hard. I made snowflakes out of the girls and had them walking each other. I was kind of a twisted picture and I meant for people to have to stop and look closely at it.
All in all i really enjoyed this because it was something new and different. I think it was interesting to look at things and be able to simplify them. I have a greater respect for logos and other images that are similar to them.

The piece that e made today in class was a representation of LeWitt. We took pieces of paper and drew shapes on them that we picked randomly from a bowl. I didn't like how it turned out because when there are random shapes like that my mind enjoys patterns and there isn't any. I think that if it turned out to be more of a pattern i would enjoy looking at it more. I mite like it more too if we did it with big black markers or if all the lines where perfectly straight. I liked the idea but just not how our piece turned out.

I participated in Jake's activity with Chris and Chris's activity with Jake. I also did Sara's performance too. I had fun doing them, they were easy and didn't take to much time. Jack's activity i had to smoke a cig with Chris and we had to light them together. That was nice because i like doing that but it was really cold outside. Chris's activity was to give high fives really fast and walk back and forth. That wasn't to fun because Jack gives really hard high fives and it made my hand sting. Sara's was fun because i had to act like Diana and pretend to act like her. It wasn't hard for me because i live with her and see her all the time. Shannon had to be me and that was weird because she doesn't know me very well. It was nice to see the activities on paper and then see them come to life.
My activity was to stand on someone else's feet and then walk with them. Thiana and Sharron did mine and I don't think they really liked doing it to much. You have to talk to the other person and predict where they will put there foot next. I got this idea from when my dad and i would do something similar when i was a little girl. He wold always have me stand on his feet and walk with him. It was a little different now because the people were bigger and didn't know each other as well. It was fun to do all of these things and see them done as well.

Fluxus

Fluxus is a latin word mean "to flow". The concept of Fluxus started with composer John Cage in his experimental music of the 1950s. Cage explored notions of chance in art. Fluxus was named and loosely organized by Maciunas. The Fluxus community began in a small but global network of artists and composers who were already at work when Maciunas met them through poet Jackson Mac Low in the early 1960s. In its early days Fluxus artists were active in Europe (especially in Germany), and Japan as well as in the United States.
People who practiced Fluxus beleived in simplicity over complexity. Like Dada before it, Fluxus included a strong current of anti-commercialism and an anti-art sensibility, disparaging the conventional market-driven art world in favor of an artist-centered creative practice. In terms of an artistic approach, Fluxus artists preferred to work with whatever materials were at hand.
Fluxus is an attitude. It is not a movement or a style. Fluxus works are simple. The art is small, the texts are short, and the performances are brief. Fluxus is fun. Humour has always been an important element in Fluxus. Fluxus canbe done by anyone at anytime and is ment to express your iner feelings and movements.