Pumpkin Spice Cookies

Hey everyone, so a few people asked for the recipe for the cookies I made today.

Pumpkin Spice Cookie

1 (18.25 oz) packace Spice Cake mix
1 (15 oz can solid pack pumpkin
1 large egg
1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup chocolate chips
optional: cream cheese frosting

*Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease cookie sheets. Mix ingredients until well blended. Drop rounded teaspoon fulls onto prepared cookie sheet. Bake 10-15 mins (ovens vary). Allow to cool on baking sheet 5 minutes before moving them to a wire rack.

Http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/05/simulated_swimming_pool_with_room_i.html

Grasshorse

Hey so some of you may be interested in this. Grasshorse is a local animation company that has worked on a lot of big budget shows and some lower budget things. I know some of you are interested in drawing characters. I met the owner and he is a really nice guy and loves to take on internships for Iowa students. I would check out the reel they have showing off some of their best work. And guess what! The owner did all of the backgrounds for PowerPuff Girls! They are based out of Washington, IA, just about 30 minutes south of here on HWY 218 (380).

At a seminar two weeks ago he and BudCat Creations (our local video game company) talked about how to get into animation and what companies are looking for. I like that these companies are local because it shows that you don't have to move to California or the coast to be able to take part in cinematics or gaming.

Carlson & Co. Kaput

http://lindsaypollock.com/news/bloomberg-news-koons-‘dog’-fabricator-carlson-shuts-as-recession-hits-big-art/

Oh Mikey!

Here's the link to a really weird but funny Japanese late night show:
Oh Mikey!

It's a pretty crazy show about an American family moved to Japan. It's in Japanese but there are English subtitles. the show is just ridiculous. Our tech guy Steve told me about it when he saw I was doing videos with the Sims. He's pretty sure that Old Navy took their modelquin idea from this show. I really like it because it's so awkward considering they never really move (unless you go to 19 mins in the show you see their legs moving under the sheets). I usually don't like weird Japanese stuff but this is really good! At one point the parents get into a fight and you just see their heads all twisted and their wigs falling off. I love the concept to this, whoever made it did really well with the jokes in it and emphasizing the awkwardness of the mannequins. I still haven't made it through more than two episodes, they are pretty long. But if you have time to watch it I would really recommend it!

I think that Mark will especially like this website:
www.theircircularlife.it

It shows a 24 hour span of a couple different locations.

Eyjafjallajokull

this is a really great collection of images from the volcano that erupted in Iceland. It's pretty amazing stuff.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/more_from_eyjafjallajokull.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByXKe9EXmQs

The link to my second Sim video.

Grabbing Video from the Internet

for all you mac users, here's a program that some of you may find useful for getting video off the internet. It's called TubeTV, I've had it for awhile now and it works pretty well, mostly for YouTube, but will occasionally work on other website.

http://www.chimoosoft.com/products/tubetv/

I thought this was really funny

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/4nybKe/www.metro.co.uk/weird/816969-police-hunt-the-midnight-knitter-wool-graffiti-bandit

Other Side, Break

When I was in Geneva, I saw this piece by Clea Coudsi and Eric Herbin. Pretty Nice.

Franz Erhard Walther

When I was in Geneva, I saw a great retrospective of the artist Franz Erhard Walther. The exhibition, at MAMCO, was in French, so I was stuck looking at the exhibition without any contextual information, which was an interesting exercise.

His work reminds me of color field paintings meshed with Oiticicia's Parangoles



meshed with Erwin Wurm's One Minute Sculptures.



Though incredibly formal, contained, and constructed, these objects are full of potential energy, experience, and movement. The exhibition was structured so that the two first floors were full of his sculptural blanket sets without any contextual information, while the last floor had images of the blanket sets in use. It was interesting, since they look like modernist paintings, to think of painting as full of potential energy, experience, and movement.

Can't get rid of your memories? Call Death Bear.

A shadowy, masked New Yorker relieves people of painful remnants of their pasts: love letters, photos, even underwear. To the man under the giant bear head, it's performance art.

Mug Shot

I was checking out some random art exhibitions online and came across another variation of the Mona Lisa. Relatively unimpressed, I clicked into it to see what was so special about this one. I saw it was really pixelated and was still...unimpressed.

So I kept looking further into the piece and came across one of the most amazing/creative ideas I have ever seen.

Coffee cups! What?! So tight.

David Lee Roth- Runnin With The Devil (Vocals Only)

http://www.chunklet.com/images/upload/6/audio_file/Runnin'%20With%20The%20Devil.mp3

Pollock

 http://www.jacksonpollock.org/

This is seriously the shit. Just enter the site and move your mouse around to create your piece and click to change colors. So worth your time.

The Sims

Here's the link to my Sims movie on YouTube if anybody wants to watch it again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCYluZiOWUM

Aaron's presentation photos

MUTO

I've been following BLU's artwork/graffiti for quite some time now and always find myself coming back to this video. Really take the time to watch all of it. If you are familiar with any kind of animation, you can really appreciate how long it would have to take to create something like this.

He's been working since about 2000 all over Europe with his surreal, almost disturbing monster graffiti characters--definitely dominating the street art scene. He's served as one of my major inspirations throughout the process, so I'm sharing the love. Check it out.

Quarter Mile

via http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2010/02/22/quarter-mile-groove/

people in the glass box

http://www.dekhona.com/news-currentaffairs-videos/cfgebvqwr

this was the preformence piece i was talking about in class about the girl living her day to day life in a glass house.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/623340.stm

this is the artical about it too

Sonic Warfare

You might find this interesting. Check out the link.

Grease!

This reminded me of Robin's work on Thursday!

Welcome to Intermedia I

Hi there Intermedia-tarians! Welcome!

Intermedia I is a hands-on studio course designed to introduce a variety of approaches, methods, and processes at work in contemporary conceptual artmaking. These approaches include (but are not limited to) sound art, installation, video art, site-specific work, and performance. Through in class exercises, readings, presentations, and sustained projects, students will develop a critical vocabulary, historical grounding, and most importantly an individual approach to looking at and making work. This course satisfies the 3-D requirement for a B.F.A..

We meet Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:30 to 12:20. I look forward to working with you all, seeing your work, and reading your research!