Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Monday, July 18, 2011
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Onra.
I've been pretty much only listening to this album for the past 3 days. Its fantastic. Onra & Quetzal - Tribute
Finished a collage today but havnt scanned yet. Will post it soon, hopefully with another, new collage.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Friday, June 17, 2011
Free Gein mixes.
SKINSUIT SESSIONS (ALL of EM) by abelGEIN
MIXES for FREE download!! by abelGEIN
Knuckle Children Promo Mix is such a good dubstep mix. Most of these other mixes are DnB mixes but they're equally as gritty and just as good.
MIXES for FREE download!! by abelGEIN
Knuckle Children Promo Mix is such a good dubstep mix. Most of these other mixes are DnB mixes but they're equally as gritty and just as good.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Monday, June 6, 2011
NFG Talents Mix
NFG Talents Mix 003 [KUNG] by NeurofunkGrid
Sweet neurofunk mix by Kung. In love with neurofunk. Free download of this mix by Kung.
NFG Talents Mix 004 [High Maintenance] by NeurofunkGrid
NFG talents mix by High Maintenance (free download)
NFG Talents Mix 005 [Hexus] by NeurofunkGrid
NFG talents mix by Hexus (free download)
Printer/Scanner/Copier on the way so I'll be putting more work on the blog soon.
After looking at a comic book artist's sketchbook, I've been inspired to go out into the world and draw more. Going to places and drawing nature, people, etc. Since its summer, I'll definitely be doing more of this. Today I bought a nice sketchbook that I can do wet media drawings in too so I'll probably be doing that soon. I want to go to the lily pad pond near lincoln park zoo in the coming days and make a day of drawing out of it. It should be awesome. Makes me wanna get a bike too.
Sweet neurofunk mix by Kung. In love with neurofunk. Free download of this mix by Kung.
NFG Talents Mix 004 [High Maintenance] by NeurofunkGrid
NFG talents mix by High Maintenance (free download)
NFG Talents Mix 005 [Hexus] by NeurofunkGrid
NFG talents mix by Hexus (free download)
Printer/Scanner/Copier on the way so I'll be putting more work on the blog soon.
After looking at a comic book artist's sketchbook, I've been inspired to go out into the world and draw more. Going to places and drawing nature, people, etc. Since its summer, I'll definitely be doing more of this. Today I bought a nice sketchbook that I can do wet media drawings in too so I'll probably be doing that soon. I want to go to the lily pad pond near lincoln park zoo in the coming days and make a day of drawing out of it. It should be awesome. Makes me wanna get a bike too.
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Morning Strut (Shigeto Remix)- Mux Mool
I havnt been collaging because I'm waiting to move. But I have been drawing. I'll be putting up some of my doodles and sketches most likely today. They are in the style of my collages and I'll most likely end up using them as direct reference for future collages. I'll be having my BFA show this upcoming Fall semester so I'll need as many collages as I can muster up.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Music thats rocking now.
Teebs-Wind Loop
Teebs-While You Doooo
2Pac- Ambitionz Az a Ridah
Forgot about 2pac for a very long time. Forgot about this track for a very long time. My brother had this album long ago when I was a wee lad and this was the first track on one of the discs. This was the track I heard the most. Its a good one. I'm usually not a rap guy but after listening to 2pac again a few days ago, flying lotus and all those guys make a lot more sense. I've been trying to listen to more rap recently just to put some of my other favorite artists in perspective. People like, Gza, Rza, Wutang Clan in general, Talib Kweli, etc.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
Thursday, May 19, 2011
My Collages and What They Mean to Me: A reflection of my concepts and views on materialism.
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People moved out of my dorm building and had to throw a bunch of stuff away in order to minimize shipping costs, excess stuff, etc when they went home or wherever they were going; I found a bunch of magazines and random stuff lying around in the designated trash rooms in the building.
I have so many magazines, I dont know what to do with them. I wont have to buy another fashion magazine for the rest of college most likely. However, that takes the fun out of it b/c most of the magazines I found were from recent months. New magazines will come out every month and have new ads and such.
It makes me feel kinda stupid considering my opinion about advertisements and how I despise them yelling at me all the time. I now find myself looking in store windows and at advertisements, but not in the way they want me to. I dont look at the product, I look at the reflections on the product, or the shape of that overexposed area of that person's skin, or something seemingly arbitrary.
It does make me feel guilty. It makes me feel like I'm consuming things around me. I feel like a glutton doing it, which is weird to say because its just information, but I feel like its kinda like McDonald's; its there, but I dont eat it because its bad for me. Advertisements are there, but they're bad for me because they impose this "ideal" image of people that I disagree with. I used to not consume them, but now that I'm using them so often in my work I have no choice.
In my life, I have to create that space for myself to confidently exist without the influence of "the perfect male image" that magazines and tv projects into people's brains. I believe that my collages are the same process done visually. Taking all those scary ideas of self-image and creating a space with them in which I can happily and contently exist.
I've been hesitant to discuss the conceptual aspect of my work on my blog because I like to let it marinate in my brain a little bit before I explain it. But I thought it was about time to bring it up. I enjoy this way of working so much that I think my intuitive reaction to my content is extremely important, especially as my content changes. If I'm going to continue using this process, its important to know my initial response to the content I'm using now so that when I change it, I can have some groundwork in which to understand why I might be using certain imagery in certain ways.
It is definitely still a learning process. Its a self-discovery process that is really exciting to participate in. I tend to lean more on the side that collage is still a sort of subconscious thing. I started with surrealist collage and learned a lot about how I think about certain ideas. For example, I rely on animals as pure things more than people. Now that I know this about myself, I can use it in my practice more purposefully. It is the same with this new imagery I'm using.
I am taking objects and giving them a new purpose. I'm taking objects I dont normally use, perfume, high heels, nice clothing, models, advertisements in general and putting them in a place where I can interact with them comfortably. It's not an escape from the objects, but a coping with the objects that I am forced to live among. A respect for their importance, but refusal of their input. An admittance to their influence, but denial of submission to that influence. I am not a slave to these objects, they exist to serve me, the artist, the human.
I would be really interested to see what would happen if I used medical magazines, outdoors magazines, hunting magazines, etc. Even magazines like technology and gaming magazines, things that I'm interested in. I think in the beginning I'd try to keep my ideas within the realm I've already created for the imagery I'm using now, just to have purpose and meaning already in the work, but I know that the meaning would evolve over time with the imagery. I know for a fact, even though I like technology and gaming, the reason I dont look at sites like kotaku or gizmodo or get magazines for these things is that, even though they're about things I'm interested in they are still advertising to me. They still "pitch" an idea to me through some stupid headline or through editing in the articles and I dont appreciate that. Dont withhold information from me just because you think I wont be interested. Tell me the whole story up front or dont say anything at all. Leaving out details is lying by omission, and it is unappreciated.
All magazines pitch ideas, they all are big advertisements. Even if I were to change my imagery to only using hunting rifles, the idea that they are still objects that are sold and marketed to me while I'm cutting them out of the magazine would linger in my brain more than what the hunting rifle does and why people use them. Which is really too bad. Tools are interesting objects. If this is the case that I cannot escape the marketed object, I may have to create my own images in order to give them the breathing room necessary for their narrative nature to come through as themselves and not sold objects.
No matter what object or person I cut out of any magazine, the fact that it is in a magazine and being pitched to me destroys any trust I might have in the object. I almost never trust anything I see in advertisements. Why should I? Because it's telling me to? Because theres a cute girl in the picture? Well, I know that if I were taking that photograph of that girl, I'd have my client's interests in mind and I'd be telling her what kind of person she is, what objects she'd use, and what kind of music to listen to; not to mention how sexy to look in order to make low-lifes buy the product she's holding. Its not actually her presenting the objects, its some preconceived, prepackaged, processed idea that is not genuine.
I know for a fact that this outlook comes from having a commercial photographer, cinematographer as a father. I wouldnt change it for the world.
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Short Update:
Working on a few new collages. Trying to challenge my image making a little bit, so some of them are total flops. I'll upload them anyway. I'm also starting to see repeating shapes and patterns in how I deal with the space.
School got out, and I've been kinda vegging a little bit in the idea that I dont have much to do until today.
Track I'm bumping:
People moved out of my dorm building and had to throw a bunch of stuff away in order to minimize shipping costs, excess stuff, etc when they went home or wherever they were going; I found a bunch of magazines and random stuff lying around in the designated trash rooms in the building.
I have so many magazines, I dont know what to do with them. I wont have to buy another fashion magazine for the rest of college most likely. However, that takes the fun out of it b/c most of the magazines I found were from recent months. New magazines will come out every month and have new ads and such.
It makes me feel kinda stupid considering my opinion about advertisements and how I despise them yelling at me all the time. I now find myself looking in store windows and at advertisements, but not in the way they want me to. I dont look at the product, I look at the reflections on the product, or the shape of that overexposed area of that person's skin, or something seemingly arbitrary.
It does make me feel guilty. It makes me feel like I'm consuming things around me. I feel like a glutton doing it, which is weird to say because its just information, but I feel like its kinda like McDonald's; its there, but I dont eat it because its bad for me. Advertisements are there, but they're bad for me because they impose this "ideal" image of people that I disagree with. I used to not consume them, but now that I'm using them so often in my work I have no choice.
In my life, I have to create that space for myself to confidently exist without the influence of "the perfect male image" that magazines and tv projects into people's brains. I believe that my collages are the same process done visually. Taking all those scary ideas of self-image and creating a space with them in which I can happily and contently exist.
I've been hesitant to discuss the conceptual aspect of my work on my blog because I like to let it marinate in my brain a little bit before I explain it. But I thought it was about time to bring it up. I enjoy this way of working so much that I think my intuitive reaction to my content is extremely important, especially as my content changes. If I'm going to continue using this process, its important to know my initial response to the content I'm using now so that when I change it, I can have some groundwork in which to understand why I might be using certain imagery in certain ways.
It is definitely still a learning process. Its a self-discovery process that is really exciting to participate in. I tend to lean more on the side that collage is still a sort of subconscious thing. I started with surrealist collage and learned a lot about how I think about certain ideas. For example, I rely on animals as pure things more than people. Now that I know this about myself, I can use it in my practice more purposefully. It is the same with this new imagery I'm using.
I am taking objects and giving them a new purpose. I'm taking objects I dont normally use, perfume, high heels, nice clothing, models, advertisements in general and putting them in a place where I can interact with them comfortably. It's not an escape from the objects, but a coping with the objects that I am forced to live among. A respect for their importance, but refusal of their input. An admittance to their influence, but denial of submission to that influence. I am not a slave to these objects, they exist to serve me, the artist, the human.
I would be really interested to see what would happen if I used medical magazines, outdoors magazines, hunting magazines, etc. Even magazines like technology and gaming magazines, things that I'm interested in. I think in the beginning I'd try to keep my ideas within the realm I've already created for the imagery I'm using now, just to have purpose and meaning already in the work, but I know that the meaning would evolve over time with the imagery. I know for a fact, even though I like technology and gaming, the reason I dont look at sites like kotaku or gizmodo or get magazines for these things is that, even though they're about things I'm interested in they are still advertising to me. They still "pitch" an idea to me through some stupid headline or through editing in the articles and I dont appreciate that. Dont withhold information from me just because you think I wont be interested. Tell me the whole story up front or dont say anything at all. Leaving out details is lying by omission, and it is unappreciated.
All magazines pitch ideas, they all are big advertisements. Even if I were to change my imagery to only using hunting rifles, the idea that they are still objects that are sold and marketed to me while I'm cutting them out of the magazine would linger in my brain more than what the hunting rifle does and why people use them. Which is really too bad. Tools are interesting objects. If this is the case that I cannot escape the marketed object, I may have to create my own images in order to give them the breathing room necessary for their narrative nature to come through as themselves and not sold objects.
No matter what object or person I cut out of any magazine, the fact that it is in a magazine and being pitched to me destroys any trust I might have in the object. I almost never trust anything I see in advertisements. Why should I? Because it's telling me to? Because theres a cute girl in the picture? Well, I know that if I were taking that photograph of that girl, I'd have my client's interests in mind and I'd be telling her what kind of person she is, what objects she'd use, and what kind of music to listen to; not to mention how sexy to look in order to make low-lifes buy the product she's holding. Its not actually her presenting the objects, its some preconceived, prepackaged, processed idea that is not genuine.
I know for a fact that this outlook comes from having a commercial photographer, cinematographer as a father. I wouldnt change it for the world.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Short Update:
Working on a few new collages. Trying to challenge my image making a little bit, so some of them are total flops. I'll upload them anyway. I'm also starting to see repeating shapes and patterns in how I deal with the space.
School got out, and I've been kinda vegging a little bit in the idea that I dont have much to do until today.
Track I'm bumping:
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Neosignal Podcast, VOLUME 3!
Neosignal Podcast Volume 003 by NEOSIGNAL
Love these mixes. They're always so well put together. Hope you enjoy. Free download!
Tracklist:
1.Misanthrop - Amboss (Neosignal Dub)
2.Phace and Rockwell - NO! (Neosignal Dub)
3.Phace and Noisia - MPD (Dub)
4.Misanthrop - Latitude (Neosignal 007)
5.Phace and Noisia - Close Second (Neosignal Dub)
6.Phace and Spot - out of focus (Neosignal Dub)
7.Kung - Formula (Dub)
8.Phace and Noisia - Program (Vision Dub)
9.Mefjus - Far Too Close (Neosignal Dub)
10.Phace - Basic Memory (Neosignal 008)
11.Misanthrop - Y (Neosignal 008)
12.Misanthrop - Hammerfaust (Neosignal Dub)
13.Phace - Teufelswerk (Neosignal Dub)
Love these mixes. They're always so well put together. Hope you enjoy. Free download!
Tracklist:
1.Misanthrop - Amboss (Neosignal Dub)
2.Phace and Rockwell - NO! (Neosignal Dub)
3.Phace and Noisia - MPD (Dub)
4.Misanthrop - Latitude (Neosignal 007)
5.Phace and Noisia - Close Second (Neosignal Dub)
6.Phace and Spot - out of focus (Neosignal Dub)
7.Kung - Formula (Dub)
8.Phace and Noisia - Program (Vision Dub)
9.Mefjus - Far Too Close (Neosignal Dub)
10.Phace - Basic Memory (Neosignal 008)
11.Misanthrop - Y (Neosignal 008)
12.Misanthrop - Hammerfaust (Neosignal Dub)
13.Phace - Teufelswerk (Neosignal Dub)
Monday, May 16, 2011
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Friday, May 6, 2011
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Container or material? a useless debate of whether or not something is a container or a material. Reading comprehension people.
Gravity: material, it exists for the benefit of other containers and materials.
Good News: I've figured out that my research paper is only 1200 words instead of 10 pages like I had originally thought. So I will be able to finish it before 9am tomorrow and be able to write up my other assignments for my other classes tomorrow.
Bad News: Couldnt sleep at all last night; was up with the sunrise and then proceeded to sleep for 2 hours from 8 to 10 when I had originally wanted to be up at 8. So even though I'll have all my work done, I'll be incapable of operating tomorrow most likely.
I'm super happy with my collage practice right now. Its really nice to look over at my work desk and see little scraps of paper that have that one pink color that I want for one of my dozens of unfinished collages that are laid out. And I love not working in the school studios b/c I can just leave my workspace the way it is and not have to clean up my shit OR get settled in again every time I want to work.
I'm also learning a lot about how I solve compositional and technical problems with my available materials. Which isnt really saying that I have a lack of materials, but nor do I have an overabundance of expensive supplies. But the fact that I'm learning a new technique and that I've gotten good enough at it that I'm at a place where I can productively be concerned with my lines matching up, getting my shapes right, the colors I want, etc. That means I've obviously gained a hold of the technique, at least partially and am able to command it to do what I need it to do. Im no master by any means.
Rauschenberg is the master. (Which reminds me, I need to get a book of his work from the library. Dammit I was there this morning -__-). But I have a clear enough understanding of my materials and the process I'm using to now begin adding more steps, tools, materials, etc to my process. This is really exciting. Its a lot of self discovery, but not in the self-help book kinda way. Adding more materials means that I'll be able to use spontaneity in my process while I'm working. Not saying that the resulting use of said materials will look spontaneous, but it will spice up my process and let me breathe a little every now and then. It sounds really lame, but adding gouache to this current series of collages will completely change the way I work and will, most likely, be a very important step for me in furthering my exploration of the process and my technical understanding of it. Not just gouache, White gouache. Now it sounds even more lame. I'm going to add one color with an opaque medium and it will suddenly open up so many doors.
But shit...I hate painting -__-. Even that small amount that I'll be doing by just adding white gouache. It just adds a bunch of extra, messy, unnecessary steps to the process. Its also a wet medium, which is something I'm trying to avoid. The more wet mediums I have running on one piece simultaneously increases the time in which I wont be able to work on the piece. And especially with collage, I want to be able to see something, grab it, and make it happen when I see it. I'll have to work through it though and eventually it'll become integrated into my "Build Order."
Which reminds me, I've been wanting to play starcraft so bad. Just havnt had like 2 or 3 hours free to just sit down with a friend and play for like the past two weeks. But see, the thing about it is that I have maybe an hour free randomly throughout the day, but that is definitely not enough to play starcraft. Like I need at least 2 consecutive hours to play because I'm gonna get in the zone with that game and not feel satisfied if I have to stop playing after an hour. Its like sleep. If you have 2 hours of sleep, your brain isnt able to reach that state in which it regains the most energy and is in the deepest sleep; or maybe it reaches and is then abruptly woken up. Then you're groggy and you feel like shit. Same thing with starcraft. Gotta work on my macro! My terran vs terran is so bad. I get rocked by tanks every single time.
But its way more fun to make art than it is to play starcraft. Starcraft is already finished for me; The fun is in creating something.
Jesus. Running off basically no sleep. The last half of this paper is going to be really taxing. (oh no you dont blogger, this post was started at 7pm something but it was completed at 9:25pm. just kinda left it open while doing other shit).
Good News: I've figured out that my research paper is only 1200 words instead of 10 pages like I had originally thought. So I will be able to finish it before 9am tomorrow and be able to write up my other assignments for my other classes tomorrow.
Bad News: Couldnt sleep at all last night; was up with the sunrise and then proceeded to sleep for 2 hours from 8 to 10 when I had originally wanted to be up at 8. So even though I'll have all my work done, I'll be incapable of operating tomorrow most likely.
I'm super happy with my collage practice right now. Its really nice to look over at my work desk and see little scraps of paper that have that one pink color that I want for one of my dozens of unfinished collages that are laid out. And I love not working in the school studios b/c I can just leave my workspace the way it is and not have to clean up my shit OR get settled in again every time I want to work.
I'm also learning a lot about how I solve compositional and technical problems with my available materials. Which isnt really saying that I have a lack of materials, but nor do I have an overabundance of expensive supplies. But the fact that I'm learning a new technique and that I've gotten good enough at it that I'm at a place where I can productively be concerned with my lines matching up, getting my shapes right, the colors I want, etc. That means I've obviously gained a hold of the technique, at least partially and am able to command it to do what I need it to do. Im no master by any means.
Rauschenberg is the master. (Which reminds me, I need to get a book of his work from the library. Dammit I was there this morning -__-). But I have a clear enough understanding of my materials and the process I'm using to now begin adding more steps, tools, materials, etc to my process. This is really exciting. Its a lot of self discovery, but not in the self-help book kinda way. Adding more materials means that I'll be able to use spontaneity in my process while I'm working. Not saying that the resulting use of said materials will look spontaneous, but it will spice up my process and let me breathe a little every now and then. It sounds really lame, but adding gouache to this current series of collages will completely change the way I work and will, most likely, be a very important step for me in furthering my exploration of the process and my technical understanding of it. Not just gouache, White gouache. Now it sounds even more lame. I'm going to add one color with an opaque medium and it will suddenly open up so many doors.
But shit...I hate painting -__-. Even that small amount that I'll be doing by just adding white gouache. It just adds a bunch of extra, messy, unnecessary steps to the process. Its also a wet medium, which is something I'm trying to avoid. The more wet mediums I have running on one piece simultaneously increases the time in which I wont be able to work on the piece. And especially with collage, I want to be able to see something, grab it, and make it happen when I see it. I'll have to work through it though and eventually it'll become integrated into my "Build Order."
Which reminds me, I've been wanting to play starcraft so bad. Just havnt had like 2 or 3 hours free to just sit down with a friend and play for like the past two weeks. But see, the thing about it is that I have maybe an hour free randomly throughout the day, but that is definitely not enough to play starcraft. Like I need at least 2 consecutive hours to play because I'm gonna get in the zone with that game and not feel satisfied if I have to stop playing after an hour. Its like sleep. If you have 2 hours of sleep, your brain isnt able to reach that state in which it regains the most energy and is in the deepest sleep; or maybe it reaches and is then abruptly woken up. Then you're groggy and you feel like shit. Same thing with starcraft. Gotta work on my macro! My terran vs terran is so bad. I get rocked by tanks every single time.
But its way more fun to make art than it is to play starcraft. Starcraft is already finished for me; The fun is in creating something.
Jesus. Running off basically no sleep. The last half of this paper is going to be really taxing. (oh no you dont blogger, this post was started at 7pm something but it was completed at 9:25pm. just kinda left it open while doing other shit).
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