beale center

oh my goodness the beale center was definitely an experience. so krysta and i arrived at UCI around 4 pm. little did we know that this center would be sooooooo hard to find. we walked around the entire hour looking for this building . half an hour after getting there we decided to ask a student to help us find it. He asked alllllll of his friends and no one had heard of the beale center. boy was this a mission! well five minutes before 5 ( which is when it closes) we found it and ran in! and im sorry to say this, but we were pretty disappointed. we had gone through all that trouble to look at three pieces of blow up balloons that moved and lit up when you walked around them. ONLY THREE!!! we couldnt believe it but we looked at all of them, walked around all of them, and tried to figure out what they were. after snapping a few shots with them we were told the center was closing. i cant wait to read my fellow classmates blogs on this, to hopefully find some insight on what we looked at :) pictures will be up tomorrow

ahhhh

wheres the text on jeffrey?!?!?!

jeffrey shaw

robert raushenburg

i was so surprised that robert wasnt one of those artists that grew up knowing he wanted to be an artist. As a child he wanted to be first a minister and then later a pharmacist. later when he joined the marines he realized how well he drew and then later after leaving the marines he decided to study art. his main love was for pop art, and hated abstract expressionists. because of this he tried many new ways of painting, and this later became what he was known for. he also termed a new form of his art. He called it "combines", these were meant to express both the  "finding and forming of combinations in three dimensional collage."

his pieces are definitely never boring. all of them have eye-catching colors, shapes, pictures, and designs. i definitely felt like he was putting his thoughts into his artwork. almost like a map of his brain in some cases, but i dont mean literally. my perspective of it is that it shows how crazy people think and how many different ideas we can process at one time.

who is this person?!?!?

alright so it was pretty easy to find some videos and pictures of comet morigi, but when i first started looking this person up, i wasn't even sure if it was a girl or boy!! But comet is a Japanese girl :)

Comet doesn't see "in-world" or "real life" she only sees them as being two types of realities. This to me is a littttttttle crazy, but she obviously loves it. From what ive read her sim is very life-like and even gestures as she talks.

Some of her landscape art is very different and is never at a site specific place.

this is the "sunken museum." she did this art piece as an instillation that doesnt exist anymore.

"She has sunken the museum INTO her environment work. That is a work NOT IN the museum."



another video :)  
http://vimeo.com/8135493
http://vimeo.com/8001637
Comet Morigi was born and lives in Tokyo, Japan. (she tweated about being there for the earthquakes) Most of her work are environmental simulations, and are either really detailed or kind of dream like. She has been a resident in second life since 2007. I also found out that besides are she teaches japanese as a second language and wants to look into a translating sim service.

comets videos :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=OTFMxvr4u9Q

particle wind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=OTFMxvr4u9Q

Flex art

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ZOLJEMIu4nc

A foggy forest "a foggy forest for the residents to enjoy dancing"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=0jt_LtnxBSw

another foggy forest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMMN4Dd5RhY&feature=player_detailpage

Wind observatory

COMET! MORIGI!

SOooo far ive gathered a few things on comet morigi but havent really posted anything, ive been pretty sick. First ill start off by saying that comet is a second life artist. Like in many of his pictures comet shows what you see from a museum< not what you would see in one. Comet also has a few videos. Her art makes you look at things from a very different perspective. instead of looking at what is in front of you, you are forced to look beyond that and look around what is in front of you. In a few pictures ive looked at you see islands through the windows of a museum,or the ocean. Here are just a few pictures showing this

this next picture is of the meteorological observatory

comet describes that the red-black shows the density of the cloud cells. 

im going to try to post some of the videos and hope it works

second life is.....

sadly addicting, even though we have no idea how to do anything.  but were chatting with a bunch of crazy new people who also have no idea how to work this thing. this is the only thing keeping me entertained while ive been in bed for the past two days. being sick=living through my second life. lol jk. we decided were going to start a business here :)