From birth to early childhood there wasn't much stress to us in this world. We lived the happy life with laughter and fun; through the coming ages we started to experience stress and much worries. Whether your in college or not something has put stress in your life, but you can't just stop and dwell on it and let it effect you negatively LIFE GOES ON! Sometimes you just have to tell yourself to just relax, everything will just be fine in the end. Don't give up.....

*I actually tied in my Dr. Seuss book project with this art project as well. In my Gateways class, I had to write a book telling a story of my first year here at UT. I experienced a lot of stress and freaking out when it came to some classes, but in the end it all worked out. So the book is a little motivation for myself when I experience some stress in college thinking nothing will get done. In reality everything will get done it just takes time and you will feel a huge relief when that time comes!

My fun trip!

I hope everyone is enjoying their Thanksgiving break because I am! I wanted to show you guys some pictures of my fantastic trip I took New Orleans before our break. I really didn't think there was going to be so much art around the town, but there was and I loved it! I wish  I had more time to actually go inside the art museums, but when I do go back I will make sure I visit some of the museums.

 This was actually a little book store we found of the cut of Bourbon St. and it was just crazy inside with books from the floor to the ceiling! We could barely take out a book from its shelves because we were scared all the books would fall!

 

 

 

This piece was outside of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art

I first seen this piece across the street when I was walking, and at first I thought it was a lock of hair till I walked across the street and noticed it was rope all undone. I forgot which museum this was.      

 This was a huge window inside the Hyatt Hotel which I was staying at, I thought it was pretty neat!

I thought I should share this!

So I found this stop motion video and I loved it so much I wanted to share with you guys!

Performance Art Project.....

So here's my performance art video!!!! I'm glad the class liked my video and laughed at some parts. I wish I could have got a scene at the mall or Walmart; that would have been awesome. This project was pretty fun to make, only thing I hated was to depend on others to help me that was the worst thing about it. Overall I think it turned out great though, it was a learning experience. I plan to make more videos in the future. I liked the video Vito did when he followed people around. That's pretty interesting especially since I'm a person that always watches other people and my surroundings.

Also I'm a little bummed out I won't be in class Thursday to watch everyone's performances and the reactions from the class and others. I hope every one post their video ASAP so I can watch them all.  I'm going to New Orleans to represent UT and the Helios program at a leadership conference Thursday morning for a whole weekend so I'm really excited! Its my first time heading to NOLA, so I'll take tons of pictures and post some here. Good luck on your videos!!!!

Here's the link to my video : http://youtu.be/ushRFfmxPds

Performance art artist....

We are now in the beginning of our next project "The performance art". This was my second day looking up performances, and I just wasn't finding anything I actually loved and could relate to in a way. So today I just searched performance art videos, and Jay Z's 'Picasso Baby' came up. Jay Z is a well know rapper in the hip hop industry, and recently on his new cd he has a song named 'Picasso Baby'. By listening to the lyrics, Jay Z is saying he is pretty much the  modern day Picasso. He also names many other artist and art pieces in his lyrics as well; He is a walk of art!
So I came across this link about 'Picasso Baby' and I was informed that Jay Z did an performance art piece to this song in an New York Art Gallery. They said it was a 6 hour performance, and it actually made a debut on HBO.  I found a link that included a 10min video of his performance and of many other things. I found this very interesting and awesome. I think everyone should watch this clip, it just shows how Jay Z really is. I always thought he was a  little uptight, but he just seems energetic, happy and fun! I wish I could have experience this performance, just by watching this in my room I could feel great vibes! Also one more thing Marina Abramovic attended this performance, I think this is great! We just talked about her performances in class, there are also many other artist that attended and I'm sure you will recognize them. This piece is great and there's so much discussion that could talk about this piece. This is a must WATCH!!!!

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/jay-zs-picasso-baby-a-performance-art-film-makes-its-debut-20130803

Copier Project....

Yesterday's class was very interesting! I loved getting a chance to see everyone's work, it showed that everyone are creative and different in many ways. I think all the projects came out great. I'm pleased with my project, but as I was telling the class I wish I could of copied my tattoo in there. That would have been awesome, that was my idea in the first place, but my friend never came through to letting me use his scanner or copier. I'm glad the class gave me the idea of using a scarred breast or even breast to add in the project. I guess I wasn't thinking too extreme :(. Anyways I'm excited for next project!  
Here is my project

What do you think about this?

Well I grabbed The Minaret today while getting lunch, and I run across this story titled "Naked for Charity: Airline and Rowing Team Release Seminude Calendar". I was very curious to read this story since I just recently got on Tampa's Rowing Team, how exciting! Well anyways I read this story and the women and men's rowing team at Warwick University posted nude for a charity calendar. The women's calendar supports the Macmillan Cancer support, while the men's calendar supports bullying and homophobia in schools. I don't know how to feel about this, I think its a great cause, but I don't know if I could do this. What do you guys think about it?

Here's a picture of some of the women, you can look up more pictures for both. "Warwick Rowing Nude"