I arrived at around ten thirty, and came to the realization that I should have arrived five days earlier, the live had already extended around two sides of the building, before the doors had a chance to open. However upon entering, all that time was well worth it. fortunately I was able to find the tables for schools i was looking towards rather easily, and got to, yep, you guessed it, wait in another line. hearing the conversations between young eager artists, and the persons on the other side of the tables, I quickly came to the realization that I had just walked into the largest game of show and tell imaginable,only I didnt seem to hear too ment kids get to speak about their work, just abstract voices telling them what it was they didnt have.

The atmosphere didn’t seem to help the struggling artists I feel, the buzzing loud nature of the room, emitted a sence of immediate urgency, and struggle. My actual review was rather short (in comparison to the people in front of me) and I feel horrible to say, that I didnt quite learn much new, I gathered that I needed some additional pieces to my work, but other than that, I felt like I was just getting fluffy words shoveled at me.

After that I cant quite say I remember every detail about the rest of the day, I remember having a great lunch, and the train ride home, but apart from that can only vividly remember long lines leading up to anticlimactic reviews.

9/12/10

This assignment brought new meaning to the phrase “these aren’t the Droids your looking for” for me personally. The few guidlines we had to work with was that our end result had to include a liter sized bottle and be able to ”stand” freely. with that in mind i went to work.

The first piece i constructed i designed after an idea i had for the infamous “100 pieces of art” project in which we explored the various forms of our personality, so for this piece i wanted to display the few traits that would explain a bit about me, ex. the pants, glasses, but its physical difference from mine shows more that there is more than one physical appearance for a person, just as they can have more than one personality.

the second piece i wanted to explore a way to communicate how i see mentality. Design wise this piece is almost plain but symboliclly its as complicated as a rubics cube. to explain the piece i need to first explain the colors, first the orange on the bottom half, orange is a color in the “hotter” side of the color wheel and is verry “punchy” when it is the only pigment, but i dulled it out with some white paint, so the reasoning for this is that by nature orange can be a great earth tone, which i express here almost litterally, i wanted it to symbolize a deep mentality, or understanding. i wanted it to show a thirs if you will for knowing what is real and graspable. the second half of the strucure is blue- which arrives from the “cooler” side of the color wheel, and i wanted it to display the opposite of the orange mentality, constantly grasping for what is not there, an endless search to discover what is beyond this earth what is beyond its own understanding. the third part of this ensamble is a pair of those gag-nose-and-eyebrow-attached-glasses, which in some ways (perhaps litterally) repersents som of us humans (to say nothing of myself). there placement is tilted between the orange and blue side showing our(and my) endless search to find the real, and the not, the question, and the answer.

Your first 100 images are very fun and cool! I think you should seriously consider pushing your cartooning narrative jawn much more. I think your approach would look great in your sketchbook (and beyond). Nice stuff, yo!

Mr. Miller