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Battle of the Birds For my xerox art I decided to style it after Andre Masson's sand art. I tried to follow the same kind of process of trying to draw with my subconscious by involving chance. I cut out the general outline for the xerox images and then I randomly ripped and threw them onto the canvas. From there I started to rearrange them to try and form some sort of monster and I ended up getting the two bird like creatures. After I had those formed I took a bottle of glue and I started to randomly spread it around the canvas and then I flung sand onto it and waited until I thought the glue had dried before tipping it over to get rid of the excess. I added some red charcoal masks to distinguish the eyes and then more or less at random everywhere else. I titles it battle of the Birds as a play on Andre Masson's sand art Battle of the Fishes. 

Diabetes Symbol For my grid art I created the diabetes symbol using expired and or used diabetic supplies that I had. I thought that it was be cool to create the symbol out of supplies used for the disease it is advocating for. My reference image was used as more or less a general guideline and so the final product looks pretty different. I started off by making an actual grid on a poster board using yellow sticky notes that were about 2 x 1.5 inches - and after creating the grid I ended up cutting it to a size where it fit snugly inside a flat box (for safety and movability reasons). The art itself was constructed outside of the box. The first three rows were made by glueing down lancets; the next row is a combination of lancets and transfer guards; the row after that are all needle housings; and the final rows area all pen needles. I painted the lancets that make up the blood drop in the center red, although it dried into a sort of magenta. And I painted the second and t...

Hamsters Hamsters is a short flip book animation about, as the title obviously states, two hamsters. I wanted characters that were simple in design and would be easy enough to draw repetitively. There was not really much inspiration or thought to the original idea. I had just decided I wanted to draw something cute and this was how it started off. I have a habit of trying to involve some sort of story into my art so as I continued to draw each frame the story developed a bit more. Originally it was just going to be the first hamster being attacked by cherries, but I got bored with the idea after after drawing the third cherry and drew in the second hamster so that is could have some sort of interaction with the first one to make the story more interesting. 

It is pretty cool the amount of detail and complexity people are able to create with ASCII art using just a set number of characters. From a distance the more complicated ASCII art even looks like pointillism art. There are others as well where the image itself only becomes clearer the further away or smaller the image is from your view.  Browsing through some of the images the first thing that really comes to mind is the amount of thought that had to go behind each image - having to plan out which characters to combine together to create not just the general outlines of the images but the depth and lighting as well. It's difficult enough drawing something like this but to create it through the use of pre-determined characters is pretty wild. 

Ivette Torres Professor Roundtree Art and Technology March 1st, 2018 Kuri is described as being a home and companion AI robot. Originally built to be a security robot, Kuri's creators decided to focus on a robot for companionship rather than protection. Kuri is more or less a robot designed for interaction and entertainment. The biggest influence from previous decades for Kuri, and basically all robotics, would be the automaton. Automaton were mechanisms that performed human functions and typically, but not always, had a human-like aesthetic as part of their designs. Some examples of automaton would be   Jacques Vaucanson’s automan of a pooping duck in which he constructed a mechanical duck that would eat seeds and poop them out and  Wolfgang von Kempelen chess playing automaton – which turned out to be a complete scam but encourage other engineers to create automaton that could actually perform complex actions. (Kilson) (What Is a Home Robot?)   The ...

 Angel De Quinta’s blog Stage Door had a lot of broadway titles, many of which I had never heard of before and some titles which I was familiar with but as a movie and not as a broadway show - such as Sweeney Todd . Out of the broadway titles that I saw on the blog a few that I would label, in this context as my "favorites", meaning the titles I would be interested in seeing more of would be The Color Purple , Barnum , and Pippin . The biggest reason is that from the few clips and/ or the blog context that De Quinta had referring to them (from the few blogs I read De Quinta's blog seem to focus mainly on the people within the broadway show rather than talking about the show itself?) the storylines interested me and some of the song pieces I really liked. Especially with the song clips from The Color Purple , the woman from the old and newer productions all had gorgeous vocals (even if De Quinta seems to think the newer production is lacking). My interest in The Color Purp...

Ivette Torres Professor RoundTree Art and Technology February 13, 2018 Rulsaka was composed by Antonin Dvorak in the ending stages of his career, a period in which he focused more on mythical themes. The opera premiered March 31st, 1901 in Prague (Rusalka). The Opera follows the story of Rusalka, a water nymph who falls in love with a human prince. Rusalka visits a witch who gives her a potion to transform her into a human so that she may be with the prince but at the cost of her voice and should the prince betray her they will both be damned eternally. Upon seeing Rusalka the Prince falls in love with her beauty and takes her as his bride. Rusalka’s sisters cry in the distant as their sister is taken away from them. At their wedding reception, the fickle Prince becomes enamoured by a foreign princess and betrays Rusalka. Despite Rusalka’s attempts to try and win him back the Prince casts her aside and she runs off to the lake to mourn. Not wanting to be damned Rusalka soon as...