digital eye in the sky

Wow, the immages of the agricultural landscapes from around the world are breath taking! I'm reminded of the conversations surrounding the nasca lines in Peru and how they may be signs and symbols used to communicate with the gods, or even extra terrestrial life. Looking at these new, vividly colorful immages, I think of what kind of message are we putting up for the universe to see. I think they're interesting an do portray a great deal of information about humans to the universe. Its monumental documentation of mans dissent from nature and perhaps, blasphemous overindulgence that may prove fatal to the survival of our planets many diverse species.

Cluckapede!!!

So my friend recently reclaimed his room at our apartment, and we've been doing alot of cooking lately. Sometimes, as you can see, it got a little out of control.   We made a monster.... two chickens and a cornish hen sewn together end to end with guitar string and stufferd with a magical stuffing of turkey, rare roast beef, kilbasa, baccon, ham giblets, potatos, onions garlic, and amis artisan bread crumbs. Four hours in the oven @ 375 and lovingly basted with a brown sugar/ baccon grease glaze. It was all quite tasty.....

Conceptual Semantics

This reading reminded me of the movie clip we watched in class from "Thankyou For Smoking" in the sense that if you argue correctly, you never sound wrong. Made me think about the use of medaphor and diverse it has become.This reading focuses on the insurance trial mayhem that followed 9/11 "Event." whether or not the two planes hitting the towers were of a single insurance claim or two separate claims for an insane amount of money in the aftermath of a tradgedy. I was just at ground zero a few months ago and it is still a hole in the middle of the city. I'm all for honoring those who were lost that day, their families,  or the many rescue workers that risked their lives, but I see it as a huge disservice to their memory leaveing the sapce as a horrible reminder of what happened. An enormous distraction while the economy gets swindled away by wallstreet bankers and brokers a few blocks away.  The real mularchy is insurance and taxes, which I believe are convoluted, tedious, and confusing for a reason so that the majority of people are preoccupied with hypothetical "what if's?" when the few at the top of the food chain secure their wealth and power.

Rebellion?

As it turns out, the inkscape software is even more confusing than gimp, so I did my best with what I've learned so far. The poster on the left is a response to modern culture's over dependance on tecnology and obsession with self satisafaction/ instant gratification via social networks. The poster on the right is my rebellion poster wherein the rise of the machines is a response to mans over exertion of technological advancement.

Dang ol' Kitty counter weight

So my cat likes to run in and out of my room whenever she feels like it and when I have the heat on, it's a pain in the ass to climb out of bed to shut the door to keep the heat in my room. so, after a bit of thinkin in the ol' brain parts, I fascioned a counterweight with a carabiner, some fishing line and a sock full of pennies. works like a charm....

Practice?

So I've been pretty sick and laying around the past two weeks and decided to practice some of this image manipulation mumbo jumbo. My buddy works at a nice restaurant and just had a birthday so I made him a card of him and his coworkers sauteing sum grenades and layin down napalm because the new resturaunt is doing so well, they are looking to expand...

Ted Talks

Milton Glaser and David Carson

Milton Glasers talk was about how graphic design can be used to convey different things, I think... It was very dry and boring. He talked about what we call art based on what we can see and percieve. I thought his last slide was interesting in which he picked apart text that read art is whatever remains:  I thought the David Carson lecture was far more interesting and lively. Carson talked about design as well but in an observational slide talk. He shows immages of his work and how he uses different elements like texture and perspective to manipulate the meaning. I particularly found the mickkey mouse "you parcked too close" slide amusing.