I'M SO STARTLED!

So South park concluded their adventure in Peru this week. Artistically, it almost up to par with their 'heavy metal' episode. Some many different types of design were integrated into the episode. The houses and town were transformed into a simple yet stylistic 3D form, improved illustrations and animation(incan ruins and the people running), and even live motion with the Guinea pigs.

I was kind of surprised that they ended up killing more people in American than they did in Peru. That's kind of how it goes I guess. Peru's role wasn't as big as I thought it was, it really focused more on the cloverfield parody and craig. The show was a bit of a hit and miss, but funny nonetheless.

Understanding Comics

I really enjoyed looking back at this book. I haven't read the entire thing but I love the bits and pieces I've read over time. Comics are really what inspired me to become an artist. Reading Garfield and peanuts really inspired me to do my own little comics. I would draw them all the time in middle school but that's a different story all together.

I don't want to write too much about the scans we read, I have read chapter two god-knows how many times. I never really looked at it through the aspect of design so it was a different experience reading it this time through.

I have to say Scott McCloud is a genius and has a vast knowledge in comics and an extreme talent in being able to explain the nature of comics and design with such clarity. This really has sparked some interest in making my comic again. The premise for the comic was suppose to be music and relationships. It's a little broad so maybe I'll go for it this week. We'll see.

Purest form of Art

I found this interesting little piece here

I thought it was interesting because it ended up on the internet, gaining attention, and acclaim. It's funny to think what art really is, and if art can ever be 'PURE.'

I doubt the artist himself took the picture and posted it on the internet because that would be very hypocritical. But I do consider him an artist, and I do consider this art because it makes you THINK.

The picture actually made me stop, and think about art itself. I haven't been stricken with such curiosity in a while and I'm glad to have seen it. I guess since the picture ended up on the internet, the artist/s was sabotaged. There'll always be people there to question you and your art, and that's another great quality about art itself, that it can conjure up such great discussions.

Good job toilet-wall artist, ya done good pig, ya done good.

TV Shirts

I love these tv shirts. I think it's a really innovative approach to advertising, and not to mention a new way to sell out. It's lovely and I really look forward to see how advertising takes shape in the future.

This actually reminds me much of an artist who dressed a model with a dress that was full of tvs. She would play an upright bass while the tvs would play interesting images, it was all fascinating. unfortunately it caused her to develop cancer but her commitment to the arts was vastly admiring.

South Park Plugs Peru

So it finally happened. South Park takes a shot at Peru, Peruvians, and Peruvian culture. My friend had actually predicted this happening, i don't know how she was right but it finally happened. I'm of Peruvian descent just in case you're wondering.

This episode was a real test to see whether I could take a joke about myself, it wasn't directly against me, but it did make fun of me and my family's culture. I've been laughing at the shows incessant racism, prejudice, potty humor, and just outright twisted humor. I have to say, it has influenced me A LOT.

So I watched it and I have to say it was pretty funny. I wasn't too offended and actually laughed out loud when army personal in the cartoon couldn't find the a country called 'Peruvian' on the map.

I think a really important aspect of humor is being able to make fun yourself. Not in a self-demeaning way like a certain George Costanza, but in a throw a pie in your own face kind of way.

Speaking of which, I really hate peruvian pan-flute music too.

The Medium is the Massage therapy

So I was happy to find that the book, 'The Medium is the Massage,' a book by, Marshall McLuhan, was available at the Beaverton City Library. I rushed over there and picked up my copy. I was very interested to find that it was between books about historical black social movements and other social causes. I thought this was just going to be another artsy-fartsy book but something about its placement told me something otherwise.

I've read about half way and it's very stimulating, the aesthetic and the mental process of it. It's visual approach is very interesting, I very much like the 4 pages consisting of just toes. The backwards quotes are annoying but actually cause you to work, and read them in front of a mirror(or in my case a BRAND NEW MAC LAPTOP). Reading the quotes reminded me much of a kid and having to put my comics in front of the mirror to read and solve the secret mystery about something-who cares.

McHulan raises good points but reminds me of people who have subtle, paranoid on views about technology and the media. He's not crazy in the way a homeless man fears for his life because of constant fear that government radios are invading his mind. He had made his intellectual rant about what might happen, and what he thought was happening at the time. Even thought he wasn't right about everything he brought up very interesting, many that can be applied to the internet today.

I still open my laptop backwards sometimes. end.

Awesomeness, to the max.

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