and im backkkk

welcome back blog world,
after searching the internet and deciding i didnt feel like reading my stupid livejournal from years past, i toook home here in a place made up for my freshman class.
I cant believe that was already 2 years ago. I remember hanging out with my upperclassmen friends who were juniors and seniors and now here i am a junior hanging out with my own freshman. so strange. i feel old.

sidenote, poor poor ortley, look what the storm did!
today they started trucking in 1200 dump trucks full of sand to bring it back

Poem :)

All I Really Need To KnowI Learned In Kindergarten
by Robert Fulghum

All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten.
ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten.
Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School.
These are the things I learned:
Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think someand draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.
Be aware of wonder.
Remember the little seed in the styrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die.
So do we.
And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned -
the biggestword of all - LOOK.
Everything you need to know is in there somewhere.
The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation.
Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.
Take any of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down withour blankies for a nap.
Or if all governments had a basic policy to always put thing back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.
And it is still true, no matter how old you are -
when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

Word Design

Pictogram

if I was not going to be an art teacher, I would have wanted to be a pastery chef, and make wedding cakes :)

Collaborative Presentation

Telepistemology: Technological Agency

Telepistemology: Technological Agency investigates the fascinating world of interactive digital art work. Interactive media is fairly new to the art world and it is imperative that the public be exposed to it. Kenneth Rinaldo and Ken Goldberg’s work engages the viewer and transforms him or her into a participant. Their work exhibits the boundless possibilities now available with the advent of the internet and robotic technology. Both artists employ digital technology in an inventive way and completely immerse the viewer in the work. However, Rinaldo and Goldberg present their work to the public in different manners. Kenneth Rinaldo creates structures installed directly in the gallery, like “Autopoesis” which is large enough to fill an entire room, where as Ken Goldberg works primarily over the internet. For example, despite the physical garden in a gallery setting, “Telegarden” required participation through a website; people all over the world could take part from their own homes. These two artists were chosen for the Telepistemology exhibition because they exemplify the new growth of art combined with technology and make it possible for everyone to participate directly with that new growth.


Kenneth Rinaldo Websites
http://kenrinaldo.com
http://accad.osu.edu/~rinaldo/
http://arts.osu.edu/

Ken Goldberg's Website: http://goldberg.berkeley.edu/art/
The Telegarden Website: http://www.telegarden.org/tg/
Ouija 2000: http://goldberg.berkeley.edu/art/ouija/ and http://ouija.berkeley.edu/
Tele-Actor: www.tele-actor.net
-TeleTwister: http://teleactor.berkeley.edu/tele-twister/index.html
Legal Tender: www.counterfeit.org

Self Visualization

"Parable of the Garden"

The current exhibit, “Parable of the Garden” is a very strong exhibit in my opinon. An exhibit that features new media artwork from Central Asia, I was drawn to a Video piece entitled “Earth.” “Earth” (2006) by Simin Keramati, an artist from Tehran Iran, is a video installation that focuses on the personal as well as possibly social constraints an Iranian women is placed apon. The video installation features Simin Keramati as the main object of the piece. During the video, one observes Simin sitting being buried, very slowly. Over the course of the video that focuses on the process of her being buried alive, one is aware of the sounds of the sand pouring down on her. For me, this sound was very unsettling. The message behind “Earth” was very emotional and powerful. In my opinion, I believe this piece was in a sense, a self-portrait. She was her expressing a situation in which she is being constrained by, a situation in which she is passive towards. Although, I believe she is focusing on a personal issue, I also think that she could be setting herself as the face for all women of Iran, and the issues in which they face daily. The act of burying one’s self alive and allowing this to occurs shows a sense of desperation. A sense of self desperation, yet a sense of hope. I believe this piece was the artist reflecting back upon a time where she once felt this form of constraint. This piece, when not exhibited alone, is 1/4th of a piece of hers entitled “The Four Elements.” I believe this piece is very strong when presented in its own sense, yet I believe when with the other four it gains a different strength. In the “Parable of the Garden” there was another part of the series entitled “Water.” (2007) This piece featured a glass of water with a piece of paper with a message written. Over the course of this video, one observes the water erasing the contents of this message. One is unaware of what the message says, however Simin said that was not the focus of the video. Since water is often thought of as a purifier the process of the water destroying and creating something new was a very powerful message in my opinion.