Stan Brakhage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVNWq3gOBl4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaGh0D2NXCA&feature=related

ryan mcginley

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http://www.vmagazine.com/includes/video/1min.mov

Ryan McGinley is my new favorite artist. My new favorite artist always changes, but he is the one for now. After really intensley looking at his work, the more it has been embedded in my head. I cant stop thinking about it, his work has addicting characteristics about it. I want to say my work and his work are relateble but his work gives a more happy and pleasing feeling, something I want to work on portraying. His videos are beautiful and have inspired me to pursue video art.

so much thinking

It has taken me a while to get back in to the swing of things. This semester, however, seems to be a little more difficult. But the past 2 days I have had the flu and have had over 48 hours of solidarity to think about things. These "things" have overwhelmed my brain to its fullest capacity and I still have not come to a conclusion about anything. I have been thinking non stop about what i want to do this semester, as i know it is supposed to be a continuation of last semester, but i feel my circumstances have left me at a dead end...again. However, i am going to use this situation to really become enlightened and take everything i have done in the past and go beyond it. I want to discover new artists and perhaps go in a different direction, but at the same time make sure my work has its same aesthetic and emotional feel. last semester i wanted to provoke deep emotion in the audience, something i never really tried before, and i was very successful...so this semester and in the future i want to create more than just emotion. I want to create interactions, physical and mental reactions. I had a very enlightening and empowering week last week. I was introduced and exposed to different forms of art and artists. It was amazing to be around music and musicians to see how different people react and define art. I have been so focused on photography that i have not really opened up to other forms of art. Spending time in the recording studio really made me wnat to explore every option out there...because i can. I have recently become really interested in video art with sound. I feel like that coincides with photography and text like i did last year. So this is an opportunity for me to take what i know and what i am leaning and completely putting it into either a still film that accompanies photographs or just a film, but as of right now this is the direction i want to take my art.