My freeze

I was totally caught of guard when the sneeze happened I thought for sure I had time to take a seat. I wanted so badly to look around and see others reactions. It was extremely hard to stand in that position. However I think it worked better because I was about to sit. I was mid sit and I had to freeze. It opened my mind half sitting standing. I had to concentrate on my body what it was doing how to stop it from shaking. I think the freeze had more meaning to me than something cool and funny. It made a link from my brain back to my body a conscious link of what I should do. It gave me time to reflect on what was going on. I felt like a fly on the wall looking around but not moving. I felt invisible like no one could see me because I could see nothing. I felt like a fly because I was almost detached from the library scene and was an observer to the library life. The freeze helped me achieve an observer’s eye.

turkey

They need tans also

Oven baked tans are the best

Naked is the best way to tan

This turkey didnt get the memo

Graffiti trick

Went off without a hitch. It was a little obvious that it was us. Meaning the artists were easily spotted and identified. However I think the point got across that it was shocking and unexpected to see at school. I would never think of someone painting on the UW Bothell campus and neither did the students we had. The culture of graffiti is not known to Bothell and that is why we brought it there. We wanted people maybe not exposed to it in there everyday to feel how it feels to see and be up close to this way of life. Graffiti is accepted in Seattle, New York, industrial areas, destroyed sites but why not at Bothell. I did not see any graffiti anywhere in the city of Bothell ever. Why isn’t it accepted? Is it because it is the suburbs, more of a nicer neighborhood, it’s looked down upon by the elite of Bothell. Everyone needs to express themselves. I think that Bothell thinks that they are secluded from everything, crime, destruction, they are living in a bubble like bubble boy. Bothell and bubble boy are similar in many ways. They are both living in a secluded world except that bubble boy wants to experience the world and Bothell just wants to be the perfect city.

Culure jamming with halo

Culture jamming is by definition: activism which is generally in opposition to commercialism, and the vectors of corporate image. Culture jamming sometimes entails transforming mass media to produce ironic or satirical commentary about itself, using the original medium's communication method. Culture jamming to me is very fun I am going to try to do it for a blog. However here is a video that explains culture jamming quite well and also is doing it at the same time by using halo as a media. The culture jamming to me is a funny way of saying hey this is wrong, bombarding us with stuff that we cannot get around. Advertisements on the news, on my phone, at schools, even in hospitals which I was at the other weekend. How can people stand this violation of privacy? Personally it makes me angry. I can see how this is helpful for them to make money but it’s gone too far. I think the situationalists had a good idea fight the man with there own advertisements. Its like when you’re a kid and change Ford to Fix Or Repair Daily. The situationalist have the best thing going for them, funny and makes you think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8eRY_uxWt0

graffiti

Tried my hand at anti advertising. I put it on a computer. It said unplug. I wanted those people who saw it to think I don’t need all of this technology, I’m still going to live if I don’t have my computer, my cell, or my ipod. When I put up the sign I felt the adrenaline pumping. Even though I knew I wasn’t hurting anything I felt like a secret agent planting secret devices. I was watching my back looking for staff, watching for kids starring, I stuck around for a little and saw one person look at my message. I think they got the message but they just kept going on with their lives. However one thing I observed was that once I put it up it was like that computer was off limits. No one went near it or tried to use it. So I decided to try what I want others to do. I tried to do this for a half of a day. I turned off my phone, didn’t use my computer. This was a weird feeling. I felt alone and vulnerable. I had gone to the mall by myself to buy some gifts. When I got there I pulled out my phone but it was off. I had lost my security blanket. I always checked m technology when I felt alone or needed to do something to kill time. It was a nervous habit like cracking your knuckles or biting your nails. As the day went on I felt weird still. When I looked at my phone no one had messaged me nothing bad happened. It was ok.

graffiti now and then

Graffiti has been around for a long time as in the Catacombs of Rome or at Pompeii. Usage of the word has evolved to include any graphics applied to surfaces in a manner that constitutes vandalism. It has been found in Egypt, Rome, and Asia all over the world. The graffiti in the ancient times represented street life, it also showed errors in spelling and grammar in this graffiti offer insight into the degree of literacy. The ancient Romans carved graffiti on walls and monuments, examples of which also survive in Egypt. Many of the first graffiti installations were advertisements for prostitution. Recently there has been a revolution of graffiti. In the 1920’s graffiti changed into a modern idea. It was done on box cars and buildings. France in the 1960’s was a large surge of graffiti because of the wars and strikes. They were described as revolutionary, anarchist. They were mostly anti war phrases and anarchist views. In the 1960’s in America graffiti was used mostly by political activists also. The graffiti was at the same time done by gangs such as the Savage Skulls, La Familia, and Savage Nomads to mark their territory. Next graffiti migrated to New York and blew up with tags and bombs. Basically there mark saying I was here. Then in the 1970’s spray paint began to dominate graffiti. This new rise in popularity started the state to intervene and create task forces to combat this new art. In the late seventies and early eighties graffiti began to inter twine with hip hop and rap. In the mid-eighties it became dangerous to do graffiti because of turf wars and the large anti graffiti task forces. There has been a recent change in the graffiti image. Now there are public funded graffiti walls and graffiti in art galleries. Graffiti has come a long way but is still thriving with the youth of America. There are still the gangs and taggers and turf tags but graffiti has become more accepted.

The graffiti artist is about one thing

The Splasher splasher is a common thing. He does what has been done by many people. He splashed splasher graffiti. The men in the movie who paint over the graffiti are splasher splasher splashers etc. They cover up graffiti many times upon layer and layer. I just thought it was funny that these people are similar in the way they cover graffiti. Now back to the movie we watched today. The goal of the graffiti artist is to leave there mark. And the crew cleaning up is still leaving there mark for the artist. They are changing it to a rectangle but it is still there disturbing the landscape. The crew will never ever get the wall to look proper again and this is the goal of the artist. Isn’t the painting just adding to the problem, making more clean canvas. That’s how I see it. Also it makes the city look even worse than if they kept the art. I thought the movie was completely hilarious the way they used the paint and had the different colors that did not match at all. I think it would look better if it was all the same color. I would like to paint a bow on all of the rectangles to make then look like presents. I think that would be a good project for the city of Portland.