Monday, January 31, 2011

Street art

What I noticed in the documentary "exit through the gift shop" is that the street artists in the movie spent a lot of money printing printouts that they print out. what i am going to try to incorporate in my art piece is the cutout style that banksy used because it looked really cool and interesting to try. If that does not work then i am going to have an image pixelated so that is can still look like the image but giving it an interesting effect. all the artist in the documentary had a theme and a passion relating to the theme and i want to include the passion into my artwork. I also want to include the colors that make each other standout.
what amazed me about the work the artists did was that they did it fast and they did their own thing and made it work. The art that they did was good and inspirational in their own way like banksy does things to bring memories up and he brings up the basics to live like freedom. while the invader makes things from the space invader game and puts them up. the thing that amazed me the most was that banksy was able to get a live elephant and paint it and not get in trouble.
the artist used used their craft to spread a message and to get more popular by doing like what Shepard Fairey did with the Andre the Giant has a posse. then invader did the space invader theme to show that every one likes it and has played it. every street artist does the art for it has a symbolic and inner relationship to them. for this reason every street artist does street art.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

political cartoon drawing


In my political cartoon Diana is pushing a button on a wall off buttons that says Oppression because that is what she and the government. the other buttons symbolize other things their doing like "equality", handicaps, and pain because they have been a pain to the citizens. their "equality" is never equal because some people having a head set makes it unfair and their is also the matter with Diana and the government and having no handicaps at all. i got my inspiration about the political cartoon when i was thinking how do people sleep with the headsets and and it slowly evolved in to what i have now.

Monday, January 10, 2011

Political Cartoon

A political cartoon is a cartoon making fun of a political issue, its purpose is to show what is going on in a funny/ comical way.


Thursday, January 6, 2011

"The Metamorphosis" Chapter 3

I think Kafka decided to transform Gregor into a grotesque insect, is that, Franz Kafka had mental issues and psychological problems, for example he engaged three women and ended them.  i think “The Metamophosis” is a wierd short story about how he felt as a human feels that is depressed and compared to the world, like an insect. Kafka's problems and his feeling made his crappy life feel like a instcts because he thought of himself as insignificant, like a cockroach. Kafka wrote the emotional displaced story great, and i think that he wrote it to represent his life because Gregor represented him because he had to do a job that he hated and Kafka learned how to be a lawyer when he wanted to be able to be a author.

I think that Kafka turned Gregor into a cockroach because he wan mentally unstable and also because he was depressed and that this is a depressed story and that is why the person did not go from frog to a prince or princess because those are happy story's and this is not one of those story's.

"The Metamorphosis" Chapter 2

In the story "The Metamorphosis" the main character suported his family witch harmed the family because he was transformed into a big cockroach and so the only source of income suddenly stopped for the first time in five years. his parents and sister in those five years had just stayed at home and did nothing to help had lived a life of luxury had a big wake up. on page 9 and 10 Gregor the cockroach had overheard that his dad had enough money hidden away that he could of payed off the debt which was the only reason Gregor was working.

Six rules a family needs to function

1) Space: without personal space a family will be all fighting each other and also if you had no space it would be really awkward.
2) Equilibrium: because with out balence in the family every one would be fighting to get the best things and for the most things like the dad would eat like a king and every one else would be fighting over the scraps.
3) Communication: if you did not have fluid communication you would have noway of telling each other what you are going to do and also no way of talking to each other way to be supporting and also comforting.
4) Love: without love a family would be like a group of strangers living together without knowing why and they would be fighting.
5) Respect: if a family did not have respect they would not want to do anything for anyone and also they would have no acknowledgment for the things they did do.
6) Finding the middle ground (compromise): a family needs to be able to find the middle ground because if not the parents would do nothing for the kids if their was nothing in it for them.

Grade
i think the Samsa family deseves a B before the transformaton and a D+ after because no-one would expect their child to be tranformed randomly in their life, and also because the way they treated him after the transformation. trying to stone him with apples is not what you do to a family member eving if they have been trancformed into a cockaroach.

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

"The Metamorphosis" Chapter 1

What circumstances in Gregor's life might have caused him to feel dehumanized even before the metamorphosis took place?

I think that Gregor became a cockroach because he did nothing but work. He would get up at 4 in the morning tired and leave for work. Gregor gets back when other people were eating breakfast and have to make the necessary orders his job a traveling salesmen need to do then go out and sell. When he comes back to the inn he then helps his family with chores and fixes things. He wishes he was able to tell his boss what he thought of him but cant because his parents owes money to the boss.

Gregor feels like a slave that has to work to pay off a debt because he has to help his parents pay off the debt to the boss for reasons we do not know and he hates the job he has to do. His family relationship has deteriorated leaving only the need to take care of his mom dad and sister. Then at one point he felt like a stranger with his family he transformed into the cockroach.