Stephanie Rabins

For the last two weeks of term two Stephanie Rabins came into my English class to help us create a documentary on WWII veterans. Stephanie Rabins is also a great documentarian and has created a video called, "We Take The Train." Here is the link to the video: 

http://stephanierabins.com/video-/view/9036

End Of Week Reflection

What Did I Accomplish:

• Finished video
• Started on design for gallery space
• Researched different video artist

Discover:

• That after with a video/piece of artwork I become to be unaware of how bad or good the video has become

Struggles:

• I had a little difficulty with sound and trying to fit the sound with the video because it was somewhat hard to manipulate on the new iMovie because I'm not that used to it

Looking Ahead: 

• Finish on how I want the final product to look
• Make new art

End Of Term Reflection Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4hwqr8suZw

208 Square #6

Anatomy

Critique Two

Today we got into groups of three and gave each other feedback about each other's work. Our group was: Sammy, Arjun, and me. The feedback that people gave me were as follows:

• Keep going in the same direction
• My organization really has made the project work

Reaction to Art & Fear, by David Bayles & Ted Orland #2

Conceptual Words:

• What is the artist trying to achieve? 
• Does he/she succeed? 
• Was it worth doing?

Ideas & Technique:

• Provocative art
• Challenges
• Emotional investment
• Direction to reach
• Harder to think of that new idea
• Creating something cool rather than something conceptual/meaningful/intellectual 

Craft:

• Copies
• Art lies embedded in the conceptual leap between places
• Craft are rules/instructions
• Perfection

New Work:

• Evolution of your progress/work
• Old work shows the important issues or the history of yourself
• Progression

Creativity:

• “Nowhere in this book does the dreaded C-word appear” Pg. 100

Habits:

• “Habits are the peripheral vision of the mind.” Pg. 100
• Get a lot of bad press because it is something that the artist is comfortable with
• Habits are imprinted are the all ours?
• Forgery
• Habits are style
• Style is not a virtue

Art & Science:

• Two separate things
• Insight
• Science is control
• Opposite of math, not one answer
• Art: Self expression for the world
• Provocation
• Driven by inspiration
• Desperation
• Relationship
• Conceptual jumps
• View point shifts in perspective
• Self-Reference

Quotations:

• “The answers you get depend on the questions you ask.” - Thomas Khun Pg. 93
• “Yes there is a difference between art and craft.” Pg. 97
• “But is the Mona Lisa really art?” Pg. 97
• “New work doesn’t make the old work false - it makes it more artificial.” Pg. 99
• “When your tool is a hammer everything looks like a nail.”
• “Your growth as the artist is a growth toward fully realizable works - works that become real in full illumination of all the you know. Including all you know about yourself.” Pg. 112

My Side Notes:

• Some artists don’t challenge themselves, they go the route that is safe and that they know well

Questions:

• Is what they are trying to say that it is easier to discover something that already exists? Confused about Pg 96
• Does it take imaginations to craft?

Experimenting With Miniature Photography

     For my final project I am working with mini people so I thought I would experiment with miniature photography. I took one of my photos, blurred some of it and sharpened the saturation.