week 10 art show!

a few weeks ago i saw the rap duo "people under the stairs" in iv at a cool event called "chillivista"!!! was super fun! people under the stairs performed very well and were very entertaining. it's awesome events like these that bring people together to dance, hang out and listen to good music, that i enjoy doing and think perpetuates the happiness in our community. live art, interaction art, feeling art, thinking art, speaking art, hearing art, eating art, licking art, tasting art, everything ART!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrTvhaJ1sME

fri week ten

all of them sound totally cool!!!! seeing as they seem to elaborate/grow from the 7a course, i think they will be awesome beacuse i love doing fun interactive art like this. i would probably choose the art as spectacle one because it would be a mind-challenging, thought provoking but entertaining and fun class. i really hope you get to teach them!!!!!! here's an awesome picture for you to enjoy dessie:

personal space final project

amanda and i did our personal space project on campus as mediators and communicators between the mortal and spiritual realms. we set up a very personal space area, beautiful scarves and shawls covered with stones, crystals, bells, sage, incense, oils, candles and more. in our space we offered to read people's fairy cards and help them understand the message the fairies were telling them. before we would do a reading, we would cleanse the individual's self and personal space with burning sage. then they would shuffle as much as they wanted, however they wanted. then amanda or i would read the top card's meaning and affirmation while they held on to our large polished ball of celanite. after the reading, i would bless the individual with the scent of eucalyptus by putting eucalyptus essential oil in my hands, rubbing them and then grazing over the individual's body with my hands (not touching them) so that it would seal the fairy messages into the person's personal space. sage is like fire and eucalyptus is like water. after this, i invited people to have some of the essential oils blend i made to put on their hands, arms, neck, wherever. i made this blend out of unscented aura glow (an oil) with jasmine, rose, frankincense, and lavender. what was amazing is that all of the messages from the fairies were totally applicable to the people's lives or situations. for example, one cute asian girl (she was foreign and thought we were "sooo cool" and asked for our facebooks and stuff [it's funny cuz she totally thought that we were just being ourselves and like that's how we always were]) was on her way to take 2 finals. the message the fairies gave her was to overcome her problems and rise above these challenges. the affirmation totally spoke to her as well! my friend maddy who spotted me came to have her cards read and it said something about new experiences and location. seeing as how maddy left for Thailand a week later, this card and its affirmation were perfect! another example, johnson had just broken his collar bone and his card was about healing! they all rang true! i think our project was really successful, which was made obvious by the amount of strangers who came and participated in our project. it was truly a great experience, i felt really good physically and mentally during and after. :)

week 10 free form

another year gone by. it want by so fast! i can't believe it. i'm really sad. my dad came by last weekend and took almost everything of mine back home. my room is bare and has a giant pile of clothes in it and looks very sad. i lived here for almost a year, moved in june last year and i remember it very distinctly. everyone in my house rocks, we are such an eclectic group yet we mesh so well. it is really weird that i am leaving and beginning a telling chapter of my life. i'm excited to go to sweden with my family and i'm excited to move to florence next year! but i already miss the love of my life, though i still haven't left

fav/least fav personal space tuesday

my favorite was definitely chelsie's!!!!!!!!! she makes such a good skunk! it was a really funny idea and she totally went above and beyond with it! first of all, her costume was supreme, obvy, and her face paint was awesome too - super legit effort to go all out! and the ass spray, hilarious!!! but i especially liked the character she adapted; how she scurried around and would post on random things or on the ground or next to someone  or the garbage and then would wait there, waving her tail gently and like went all over campus! it was so funny she was great!!!!

my least fav that comes to mind was jenny's rainbow luck craft thing. i dunno it was just lame and i doubt anyone participated in it other than or class. it just wasn't fun, it was super lame

week 9 art show

i'd have to say that the main artshow/artsy thing i've been experiencing this week is the new access i have to the mackey family home videos. i grew up with lauren marie mackey since i was 3 months old. we were cared for by a babysitter from mexico who didn't speak any english. because of this, we grew up speaking spanish as fluently as english, until we were about ten and we have remained best friends for 20 years. she is basically my sister. anyway, her dad recently converted a ton of their family home videos to digital and put them on a movie account website. they are so awesome! although i'm in only a few and not the main star of the footage, it is so cool to see lauren as a little girl and myself as well. there is one video when we are only 2 years old and we are speaking tons of spanish, just going back and forth between spanish and english between each other and mami judy (our babysitter). they continue til we are about ten, at least that's as far as i've watched. there is one video that made me tear up where lauren is holding her baby bro, rod, for the first time when he is only 1 day old (he is now 6'11"  :/   ). first she's reading to him (not really reading but making up stuff that cards and books say) and it turns into a sing-songy reading dialogue thing and then the next take is of her holding him on the couch. she begins by saying his mouth is so little and then continues to name a bunch of other things that are little - it's so cute because she's only like 3 years old herself. and then she says that he likes "you and you" (mom and dad) "and me?" "he likes all of us" or something like that. it is such a sincere, beautiful moment i can't help but cry. adolescence is so innocent, oblivious (in a good way), and bursting with curiosity. i love lauren and rod and her family and i love watching these videos of them and me and other friends when we are in them.

friday free form 5/27/11

so thrilled for the weekend! not to mention the three day weekend!!!! saturday night i am having dinner with my boyfriend, jonny's, parents! i'm super nervous!!!! i met them in december and stayed with them for 2 nights over break before jonny and i drove back down to sb, and that was totally great! i think they really liked me and all, but not i have to follow that up with even more incentives for them to like/still like me!!! especially since both jonny and i got arrested on floatopia...i really hope they don't bring it up but just knowww his mom will...i'm not sure if they view me differently now or what they think, but i sure do feel rather nervous to talk about it if she/they bring it up!!! i don't want them to think i'm a bad influence on jonny or anything!!! other than that, my godbrother is coming for the night on friday which should be fun! he's a jr in highschool so his parents want me to show him around ucsb! it's weird because i hadn't seen him in years until last weekend, i mean i saw him often when i was young, but he is fucking HOTTTT now!!!!! so weird because he's sorta like a cousin, except not, and he's so good looking that i even get a little nervous/weird talking to him!!!! ahhhh!!!!!! anyway, i hope to show him a grand old time. other than that, i just need to prepare for my finals, a.k.a. do all the reading i haven't done in my classes since midterms, and prep. it's nice to have our 7a final waaay out of the way so that i just have to focus on the personal space project for it!

fav/least fav alt. identity presented for thursday

umm my favorite was definitely natalie's observation of ucsb students in their natural habitat. it was super funny! i really liked her accent, her costume, her props, her mannerisms, her vocabulary, her ideas, and her documentation. super funny, super creative, just a good whole hearted laugh!

my least favorite was jenny's. first of all, i think faking a stroke is crossing the line between what is ethical and what isn't. i get that she was taking it seriously and all but i still think it is rude and fucked up. it is also fucked up to have and allow other people, especially strangers or people who actually have had strokes, to assist you and believe and feel sorry for the damage caused by a stroke you actually didn't have. also she talked WAAAAAAAAY too much about really unimportant shit for like 15 minutes and it was just like shut the fuck up!!!!!!!! i lost interest after the first 2 minutes and as i think everyone else did, so next time cut it short and people might actually care.

wed week 9

reflecting on this theme of alternate identity in technological space age that we are in, i would have to say that people are living as different personas left and right. let's start with facebook. i personally detest facebook. i deleted mine at the beginning of winter quarter so, i've been without it for almost 6 months and i feel so much better.  the thing about facebook is that everyone just tries to make themselves look a certain way. key word try - they are not profiling themselves to look exactly like who they are. rather, they are creating an image, an alternate persona basically who they want to be, or who they want others to think they are.  people say that it's about keeping in contact with certain people who you otherwise would have lost track of. this may be true, but i feel as though the people who you really want to stay friends with and the people who really want to stay friends with you, will remain in touch with you no matter what. similar to twitter, posting statuses is just stupid, it's like NO ONE FUCKING CARES about when you shower, brush your teeth, fart, poop, shop, have sex, whatever. you are all just making yourselves look like retards. especially in pictures. pictures where people pose a certain way so that their boobs look big or their ass does or they look buff or whatever. not to mention how annoying it is why you're trying to enjoy a nice dinner or are on a ride or at a party or something and all you see is FLASH FLASH FLASH and hear "FACEBOOK! *CLICK*" "FACEBOOK *CLICK* *FLASH*"!!!!!!!! and i hate being asked to pose in photos and re-takes and more re-takes when people around me are eating or reading or doing something in which they would rather not be disturbed. how do you think someone who you haven't seen in a long time is going to react to you if you look nothing like your pictures?! not well! lastly, i think fbook and twitter can be the foundation for a lot of bullying as well as for making people feel badly about themselves. also, the daily nexus did an article about 'last night's hook up turning into a perverted stalking situation' or something like that...SOOO TRUE.  here's a vid that i think illustrates why people need to give up the nasty habit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UouP8cRYZ8&feature=related

week 9 documentation

<alternate personas>

Agents Veronica Santos and Ellen Sloan:

fav/least fav alt. identity presented for tuesday

my favorite piece presented today was andrea's. although it was like 10 minutes and normally i would not be down to sit through all that without falling asleep, it was HILARIOUS!!!! not to mention it looked like the most fun alternate identity to live out of everyone! just get super fucked up for 48 hours and do tomfoolery rapscallion boyish business!!!

my least favorite would probably be the girlscout one. i like the idea, but it just seemed boring and i mean was she knocking on doors in the two towers for 48 hours straight? or did she go to the dining common and to school dressed like that passing out healthy shit?? who knows...

respond to final exam and TA presentations

in my well-revered opinion, the final sucked. first of all, it's not like i didn't know/recognize the pieces - i knew all of them and information about them as well.  i did not, however, remember the majority of the artists' names. perhaps if kip provided a list of artists the identifications would have been more feasible.  this along with the title of the works.  i don't quite remember, but if we were supposed to include the year too, well then that's just preposterous.  i feel as though knowing the title, artist, and year of all TWELVE of those works would only be plausible if kip put the lecture slides online. if this were the case, i believe there should be no leniency in the grading. but, since it was not the case, i do think the grading should be done fairly easily and as long as the student knew a couple things about the pieces, then they would do well.  my bluebook was also way disorganized, which i apologize for - hopefully you can read all the tiny writing in all of the tiny spaces (it moved so fast that i wrote shit down and then when i went back to elaborate more on each work, there was not enough space to do so cohesively).

as for the presentations, ours definitely kicked artsy-ass!!!! the first one made me want to crawl in a hole and make all the weird noises the soundtrack was making. and the last one was just like eh bleh...same with all those in between. our flash mobs definitely shat on everyone else!

monday week 9 response to final and ta presentations

that final suuucked. i really was not able to prepare other than having the knowledge in my head already - since the slides weren't online or anything it was difficult to study so i just went in with as much as i have learned and although i don't remember all of the titles of the works or the artists' names, i do remember learning about them so i was able to write what i remember....except fo r the last one, i think i missed that lecture :/ so i hope it's not graded that hard because there was no way to study for an A. since we were in our alternate personas, i drew a map of the mission my partner veronica santos and i were embarking on once it we finished.

of the ta presentation, it is so fucking  obvy that OURS KICKED ASSSSS!!!!!!!!! we definitely had the tightest section, capable of the tightest things. our flash mob video is hilarious and i think the rest of the class totally enjoyed it! they were probably jealous they didn't get to be in tues/thurs 9 am section!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i did like the video of some section following and mimicking people walking on campus, that was super funny! they were so good at it! ttfn :)

suday: mission vallejo

counterparts veronica santos and i, ellen sloan, embarking upon mission 5499, requested by Applegation. departure 0600 hours from base camp, scheduled arrival to safe house, 01700 hour. case: largic kenundram. objective: locate and capture alfonso serium, code name laffidatus. guilty for robbing and destroying ATM machines in central and south america. believed to be residing near panama canal where escape route is convenient. important note: has backup, many under-cover assistants who aid in the locating of the machines, robbing of them, destroying of them, and most importantly transporting of the money to a location where it is then divided and utilized to purchase various drugs, primarily cocaine. employ aliases and get close to assisting agents in order to obtain information regarding operations and, more importantly, when and where they are/will taking(e) place. usual backup protocol. attempt to complete mission and have laffidatus in custody approximately 2 weeks after departure date. report to base constantly and consistently.

weekly documentation week 8: flash mobs

so i'm just going to post the video of our class doing flash mobs because i didn't personally take any pics or vids or whatnot, so here she be:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ezbsi8kU5Q


video credit: kate sternlicht

kudos: i came up with the library tunnel thing!!!!!!!!!!

if i could be any artist.....

if i could be any artist, any type of artist that is, i'd probably be a collaboration of things. first of all i primarily would be famous, not like in the tabloids exploited and shit, but an extremely well-revered, talented artist. i would love to do acting. that would be supreme. realistically though, i would like to end up being a high-end fashion designer and/or stylist. this would be in addition to artwork i create from home. i love fashion. it is so much fun. i really enjoy putting together and sporting new, unique outfits every single day. there's just something about having cool style and rocking a different appearance on the reg that is fulfilling for me. clothing is wearable art and i am passionate about expressing myself on a daily basis. this expression stems from a variety of things whether it be mood, weather, season, occasion, if i'm in a hurry, if i'm high, and so on so forth. whatever it is, i enjoy coming up with new combinations and methods of combining articles of clothing that keep things interesting. i never wear the same outfit twice, EVER. if it is somewhat the same, it is definitely different in tchotchkes, frippery, jackets, shoes, hats, and other elements.  here a photo of two of my style icons:

week 8 art show: venice beach

so awesome to go to venice beach! my aunt and uncle live in the neighborhood on the canals (suuuuper sick wit-it) in a sweeet crib. every time i visit, i have to go to the beach! it's so entertaining and the whole scene is a giant work of art composed of endless works of art combined! when you start your walk, you are hustled by a whole bunch of dudes who are trying to get you to buy their rap cd demos or video demos (for example, ty crane tried to get me and jonny to buy his basketball highlights dvd ahah. ty crane plays a part in coach carter, he is the enemy on the opposing team...obviously he didn't make it to fame, but i don't know why he's trying to sell his bball "highlights..." who's going to buy that?). but yea, they usually put headphones on u super quick if you haven't learned to dodge them and try to get you to take their cd in which case they say "we take donations" and give you shit/don't let u have the cd if youdon't have any money to "donate". all along the passage  are other artists - painters, beach-artifact sculptors, sand artists, portrait artists, henna tattoo artists, real tattoo artists, body piercers, performance artists, dance artists, hobo artists, psychics, freak show artists, vendors, crafters, fixers, and much much much more. overall it is a grand old time and there are lots of little trinkets and doo-dads you can pick up for a very low cost...all of the vendors are excellent bargainers who try to throw at you as many deals as possible so you spend the whole $20 rather than just 5 of it. haha so much fun! and there's incredible graffiti everywhere!!!! love it!!

super villain!!!!

if i could be any super villain, i would absolutely be bellatrix lestrange from the harry potter series. first of all she is just plain awesome, and helena bonham carter is the best actor out of everyone in all the movies, in my opinion. she is perfect for the role and is the reason why bellatrix is so appealing to me. she is extremely evil, eviler than any other super villain i can think of. she is the one true servant to the dark lord, she will do anything for him, unlike the rest of the deatheaters who when facing life-threatening situations or despicable tasks will back out rather than carry out voldemort's orders. this is why i think she is so supreme - she has no fear, has boundless magic power, is extremely intelligent, diligent and effective in all her tasks and ambitions. she is also a down right BITCH!!!!!! and i love it!!! she is so heartless!!!! and her cackle is supreme! here are some photos yo:

she's so beautiful and hot and fucking BAD ASS!!!!

if you could be any super hero, who would you be and why?

if i could be any super hero, i would be Neely from Baywatch! she is played by Gena Lee Nolin and is absolutely gorgeous! this would be the ideal superhero gig - diving and scuba diving to save people in the ocean and in my spare time running around slow-motion in a red, high-thigh-cut and low-chest cut one-piece swimsuit looking super hot as my goods bounce perfectly up and down and my blonde mane swishes back and forth behind me. also in my spare time, tanning, being sexy, being "bay-watched," not to mention spending all my time at the beach, hooking up with hot, tan, muscular dudes, just being an iconic flaming hot life rescuing super hero, or should i say super-BABE!!!!! she is super dee duper dee fine as fuuuuck...here, take a looksee:

wed free form

right now there is a mosquito eater hangin out in my room with me...i don't feel like opening the door because i want to be in solitude, but i feel bad. i honestly don't know how he/she got in here, unless there is a hole in the screens on the window, because it's not like he/she was here earlier, it just showed up all of a sudden. hmmm peculiar. very very peculiar. i kind of like having it in here, it's a living creature to keep me company and in good spirits. i just don't like it when/if it buzzes in your face - yuuuck! not to mention uncomfortable and surprising!!! here's a pic of my little friend who i shall call mr. wiggle bunny:

  i actually just learned that its proper name is the Crane Fly...hmmm interesting, very very interesting