Photo Final

NY Library gets two porfolio

The New York Public Library recieved two important portfolios for its photography collection.

One was Robin Bowman's The American teenager with an extensive showcase of American Youth with over 200 photographs and interviews. Another is the William Meyers Outer Bouroughs: New York Beyond Manhattan, a collection that made up of 86 black and white prints foucusing on the less celebrated neighborhoods of new york like the bouroughs of Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens.

Art and Space

A show entitled Light Years: Photography and Space Open tomorrow at the National Gallery of Victoria. The show focuses on space travel in the '60s and 70's and the picture from it.

"The 1960s and ‘70s were an exciting time for the artistic and scientific exploration of worlds beyond our own. They were ‘light years’ in which people looked up to the skies and beyond, in a real and an imagined sense, and through photography discovered additional dimensions"

This show coinsides with the International Year of Astronomy and the 40th anniversary of the walk on the moon.

A Huge Gift!

New York Philanthropist give donate a huge gift to the Auckland Art Gallery. The Large donation includes well-known paintings by Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Gauguin and Piet Mondrian. There are 12 paintings in this donation and the city as well as the country of New Zealand are overwhelmed with grattitude for these precious gifts.

Time Magazine's 100 most influential people

Leaders & Revolutionaries

Edward Kennedy
Gordon Brown
Christine Lagarde
Thomas Dart
Avigdor Lieberman
Joaquín Guzmán
Nouri al-Maliki
Hillary Clinton
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
Boris Johnson
Norah al-Faiz
Elizabeth Warren
Paul Kagame
Nicolas Sarkozy
Angela Merkel
Wang Qishan
Xi Jinping
David McKiernan
Ashfaq Kayani
Barack Obama

Builders & Titans

The Twitter Guys
T. Boone Pickens
Ted Turner
Tessa Ross
Carlos Slim
Brad Pitt
Meredith Whitney
Suze Orman
Lauren Zalaznick
Timothy Geithner
Nandan Nilekani
Stella McCartney
Jamie Dimon
Sheila Bair
moot
Alexander Medvedev
Alan Mulally
Robin Chase
Jack Ma
Bernie Madoff


Artists & Entertainers

Rush Limbaugh
M.I.A.
Sam and Dan Houser
Kate Winslet
Werner Herzog
William Kentridge
Penélope Cruz
Lang Lang
John Legend
Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio
Gustavo Dudamel
Jeff Kinney
Tavis Smiley
The View
Zac Efron
Tina Fey
Tom Hanks
Jay Leno
A.R. Rahman
Judith Jamison


Heroes & Icons

Michelle Obama
Chesley B. Sullenberger
Richard Phillips
Seth Berkley
Michael Eavis
Leonard Abess
Hadizatou Mani
Rick Warren
Van Jones
Somaly Mam
Rafael Nadal
Suraya Pakzad
Jeff Bezos
Tiger Woods
George Clooney
Brady Gustafson
Sister Mary Scullion
Oprah Winfrey
Sarah Palin
Manny Pacquiao


Scientists & Thinkers

Nouriel Roubini
Amory Lovins
Jon Favreau
Dambisa Moyo
Dan Barber
Yoichiro Nambu
Roland Fryer
Martin Lindstrom
Barbara Hogan
David Sheff
Steven Chu
Paul Krugman
Connie Hedegaard
Daniel Nocera
Stephan Schuster and Webb Miller
Nicholas Christakis
Doug Melton
Paul Ekman
Shai Agassi
Nate Silver

Times Photos of the week

Dancer performs in Eurovision

Demonstrators descended upon Brighton, England on May Day to call upon Britain to close its arms factories and stop supplying Israel with weapons

Duncan Thompson and Sammi Gardiner get married in a Star Wars wedding on the Isle of Wight.

A performer puts her head in the mouth of a crocodile at Thailand's Sriracha Tiger Zoo

Pacific bluefin tuna swim in a fish tank at the Tokyo Sea Life Park.

Computing PowerA scientist checks computer chip sets in a microwave lab in Shenzhen, China.

Viles Testing the swine flu in Mexico

Time Magazine's Top Ten Yo Mama Jokes....

1. Yo mama so fat she fell in love and broke it.
2. Yo mama so stupid, I said Koolaide and she jumped through the wall.
3. Yo mama so fat, she sat on the rainbow and skittles popped out.
4. Yo mama so fat, people jog around her for excersise.
5. Yo mama so old her social secruity number is "8".
6. Yo mama so fat, she eats "wheat thicks".
7.Yo mama so fat she step on a scale and it said "...to be continued"
8.Yo mama so fat she got baptized at sea world.
9.Yo mama so fat she jumped in the air and got stuck.
10.Yo mama so old she knew burger king when he was just a prince.

A Hand Transplant??? What really??

The first person in the United States to recieve a double hand transplant is...

A pastry chef from florida just got a hand transplant. He lost his hand due to a strep infection that spread to his limbs and stopped the blood flow and caused both his hands and feet to fall off. Both him and his family are looking forward to regaining his independence since currently he isnt even able to simple tasks as in brushing his teeth, or combing his hair.

Ok so I know that my generation has a texting problem but this is ridiculous

A girl in Sacramento sent 303,000 text messages in one month...thats 7 messages a min, 420 an hour, 10,080 a day...All with her new iphone.
She is a Straight A student, and has a full time job and is able to keep up with her texting...

She said in her defense..."I cant help if Im popular"...give me a break that is ridiculous. Luckily her parents had the unlimited plan other wise it would have been over three grand.

Stalker of a College Student Caught

The Westleyn University Junior that was slain was killed by her stalker. He turned himself into police after seeing his photo. He apparently stalked Ms. Justin-Jinich one summer when they took a summer course together at NYU. He sent her 38 harassing emails and numerous phone calls. Ms. Justin-Jinich contacted the police but never pressed charges.

Kelli Connel Project

Self Portraits

The Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

This is the most anticipated event of New York high society. This years exhibition was "the model as a muse". Therefore it was no surprise to find a large number of supermodels as the center of attention.

Paris

An Art Teachers Tragic End...

The couple were vactioning in Southeast Asia when near the end of thier trip things took a deadly turn. The couple splurged on a resort hotel and soon both of them fell sick to the point where the womans fiance had to put her in a shopping cart and push her to the hostpital where she later dies from unknown causes.

Water from the spillway

Self Portraits

This is exciting!

The Obama Administration is reopening the crown of the statue of liberty! The Bust Admin. closed it shortly after Sept. 11, 2001

Idea for Final

 These photos are something that i responded to and something that i want to explore with my final. 
Anne Lebowitz Dream Portrait Series

Texture

Emulating Chuck Close

The Swine Flu

Sunday was a public healthy emergency was called. Twenty cases were confirmed in the U.S. Flu experts dont have a lot to go on and are aware that this could be a letal strand that could be come more dangerous if it continues to mutate. The emergency that was declared is what Homeland Security calls a "standard opperating" proceedure.The best advice is to wash your hands frequently, to cover coughs and sneezes and to stay home if they felt ill

Artist Statement

  My curious nature leads me to explore all variations of art and photography. Through these outlets I contemplate what exactly home and its relationship to a person could be and its role in shaping and influencing that person. To some there is a strange comfort and warmth that is tied to what they associate as home and there are so many variations to what ‘home’ could be to a person.  My work is about exposing that warmth and variation. 

200 artist's studios condemed

Thanks to a near fatal collapse of a fire escape over 200 artist lost thier studios that they were renting at below market prices. The building was condemed.

A 37 year old jewler was pinned under the concrete stairs. She was descending the stairs while they collapsed on April 10th.

The building owner says that he is working as hard and as fast as he can to get the artist back in thier as long as it is still feasible.

MOMA lawsuit

Heirs of an expressionist painter is filling a suit against MOMA for failing to release three of the artist paintings. The painting were left with a dealer when the artist was fleeing the Nazi's in Germany and the paintings were sold to the museum from a woman who inherited the pictures from the dealer. 

The German painter was George Groz

The paintings:

"Portrait of the Poet Max Herrmann-Niezz"

"Self Portrait with Model"

"Republicans Automatons"

the flu and a really busy semester....

So this semester has been really crazy for me not only have i been uber busy, but i have been battling several viruses. So if the blog is lacking a little bit it is because of both of those but I am trying now to get caught up....

Corpus Extremus (LIFE+)

This is a show done by Stelarc, an artis who wants to transform his body into a "portal for the internet". His show is about the wonders and horrors of "Post Natural History" and a way in which technology is blurring the traditional notions of life, death, and identitiy. One example of the strange things that you can see in this show is a goat that is gentetically altered to produce spider silk.

What is that in is arm? Well it will one day be an blue tooth enabled ear.

Alphabet Art...art inspiring children in the library...

In the over crowded schools of  New York a new charity project funded by the Robin Hood Foundation is inspiring student to come to the library. So far the administration has built 62 libraries in low income neighborhoods. Some of these have come with the works of well known artist. Some of the libraries we illustrated with murals from famous artist. 

Hitler's other side, the struggling artist...

Thirteen painting that are possibly the work of the Adolf Hitler. It would be pre WW1 when he was in Vienna trying to get into art school. The paintings are estimated to sell between $580 to $1448. 

Another reason why cannon is awesome...

The newest Rebel camerea from cannon has a really cool feature not only is it an awesome still life camerea but it also records in Hight Deffinition too! The only draw back is tha the Ti1 doesnt record sound bites.

Although its April Fools day this is no joke!

Obama gave Queen Elizabeth an Ipod when he visited Buckingham palace. The Ipod came loaded with video and photos of her 2007 trip to the United States, as well as songs and accessories. She also recieved a rare songbook signed by the composer Richard Rodgers.

How many of these have you read? Me I have read....

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (X)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (X)3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (x)4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (x)5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (X)6 The Bible - (x)7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (X)8 1984 - George Orwell (X)9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ( )10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (X)11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (X)12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (x)13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (x)14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (X)15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier ( x)16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (X)17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk (x )18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (x)19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger ()20 Middlemarch - George Eliot (x )21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (x)22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (X)23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens ( )24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ( x)25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams ( )26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh ( x)27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (x )28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (x)29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (x)30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (x )31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (x )32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (x)33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis ( x)34 Emma - Jane Austen (x )35 Persuasion - Jane Austen ( x)36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (x )37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - ( )38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres (x )39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (x)40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (x)41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (x)42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (x)43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ( )44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving (x)45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins ( x)46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (x)47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy ( )48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood ( x)49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (x)50 Atonement - Ian McEwan (x )51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel ( )52 Dune - Frank Herbert () 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons ( x)54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (x)55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth ( )56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (x )57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (x)58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley ( )59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon ( )60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (x )61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (x)62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (x)63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt ( )64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (x)65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas ( )66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac ( )67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy ( )68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding ( )69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie ( x)70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (x)71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (x)72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (x)73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (x)74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson (x )75 Ulysses - James Joyce (x)76 The Inferno - Dante (X) actually read the Divine Comedy77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome ( )78 Germinal - Emile Zola ( x)79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (x)80 Possession - AS Byatt ( )81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (x ) -82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell (x )83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker (x)84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro ( )85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert ( )86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry (x )87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (x) -88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (x)89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (x )90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton ( x)91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (x)92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery ( )93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ( )94 Watership Down - Richard Adams ( )95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole ( )96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute (x )97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (x)98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (x)99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (x)100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (x)

Hey guys just an update about the visual art society...

we are going to canton next weekend to sell art work!

If you want to enter your work stop by the art office and pick up an application...there is a $20 fee for entrients that are not going to canton to sell...1/4 of your profits will be taken out to support the visual art society. We are taking up art all next week in the art building....


Also we have a blog its thevisualartsociety.blogspot.com

Picasso Settlement

The judge said that he was deeply troubled by the secrecy concerning the Picasso case. The Museum of Modern Art and the Guitenhiem gave a secret amout to the hiers inorder for them to continue to own the two works of art. The heirs demanded that the amout remain secret. They claim that the two paintings were force to be sold because of the Nazi regime and now the hiers demand the paintings back.

16 Bodies Found in New Mexico

IN Alberqureque, New Mexico 16 bodys belonging to young women were uncovered when a woman was walking her dog, most of the bodies belonged to prostitues. This uncovered a darker side of the new mexico city. Among these girls was a young girl from Forth Worth who was a hairstlyist and had traveled from Texas to the city for a fresh start and dissapeared three days later.

The face of Shakespeare....well maybe.

So little is known about the bard of Avon especially what he looks like. A portrait was unvield last week that could possibly be him, but the jury is still out. So you are looking at what cold possibly be Shakespeare.

MY Self Portraits.

I emulated Anne Lebovitz, Herbert Bayer,Eward Munch, and Leopold Bolly

Random Things About Me!

1. I have been sick since last thursday. Thats why I miss class and the critique on monday. I just have larengitous.

2. I have no time this semester at all. I am always busy.

3. I am New Member Ed. in my sorority, and Treasurer of he visual art society.

4. I am from a small unconsolitdated comunity called Harleton that is east of here, it is only 45 mins. from Shereveport, LA.

5. My parents have a small farm back home we raise goats, chickens, quail and I have a horse.

6. This is my first photography class ever, and I feel like I am doing horrible in it.

7. I have no tattoos or piercings other than my ears at this moment.

8. I am named after a charecter off of a soap oprea my mom and my grandmother used to watch together.

9. My parents and grandparents used to have a dairy farm together until they went bankrupt when the price of milk dropped and the price of feed went up.

10. I am from the country and at times I have an accent from it.

11. Neither of my parents went to college even though they are both really smart.

12. I hate math

13. I want to be an art teacher one day.

14. I love playdoh...for my birthday I got pink glitter playdoh it was awesome!

15. I love to color in coloring books...it helps relax me..i dont know why its just something I have done since I was a kid.

16. My Birthday is on Easter this year.

17. I love Mary Blair. look up her art work!

18. I plan on visiting Italy for a spell when I graduate.

19. I took my first plane ride this January, to a regional confrence with my sorority.

20. My Middle Name, Marie, is a family name.

21. I am so ready for spring break, because spring break is kicking my butt.

22. My favorite book is the Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemmingway

23. I love to read! When I  have time to my self you can always find me with a book in my hand.

24. I have two sisters 

25. I am behind on my blog..

N.Y. C. Stargazing...

two men who have never met each other before have one goal in common, the want to turn the lights off in new york for one night to look at the sky above.

One is an istallation artist, the other is an amature astronomer. They both want to give new yorkers something that they have never seen before the night sky from new york city.

Obama challenging teachers

Obama was praised for his educational speech, but that is not all he has challengened both teachers and teacher unions for better teachers. He points out that while there are flaws in our educational system and standardized testing is flawed it is better than nothing. I agree inorder to promote better education we need competition, and making sure that we have the right teachers out there who are not only teaching the material but are effective in getting the subject matter across to the students.

Teching Hsieh

An exhibt at the Museum of Modern Art in New York is dedicated to the artist Teching Hsieh. He was an illegal alien who channeled the alienation he felt into art.

So in 1978 he built a cage inside a loft to live in for a year. He shut himself up, and did not allow himself to do anything: read, write, listen to music, or watch televison for a year. He spent most of his time thinking. His cage is on display in the Modern Art Museum. This is not his only performace art piece. He also chained himself to a female artist for a year, he spent a year punching a time clock hourly, and also spent a year on the streets.

Each day he drew a line in the wall with his fingernail.

Hsieh is inspiring to me because he is able to channel his feelings of alienation into his art. He feeds off these emotions and channels them straight into his art.