Happy Together

culmination of thought between shanita + watching memento + the turtles + dead frog in glass + sexual objectification + booze.

The Orange - Comparative Imperfection

Emily Keenan-The Orange

While doing the orange exercise, the part that really excited me was doing the "free association" parts, writing down words. I find, that when I write things down, or start to do the brainstorming, everything starts kicking into gear in my head. When I was in high school, my art teacher was a big fan of free association, so I have some awesome memories with it, and I've kind of trained myself to really let my brain go wild with it. I also ended up filling up about four pages of my process journal with words all starting with my toothbrush, and making one connection, then another, then another.

Orange Exercise :: Josh Ritenour

What most affected me about the exercise with the orange is how I have conditioned myself to disregard all of the components that is experience of eating an orange.

I started thinking about other aspects of life and how much of it is disregarded, while in the pursuit of technology.

The Paradox of Our Age

by The Dalai Lama

We have bigger houses but smaller families;

More conveniences, but less time;

We have more degrees, but less sense;

More knowledge, but less judgment;

More experts, but more problems;

More medicines, but less healthiness;

We've been all the way to the moon and back,

but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor.

We build more computers to hold more information to

produce more copies than ever but have less communication.

We have become long on quantity,

but short on quality.

These are times of fast foods but slow digestion;

Tall man but short character;

Steep profits but shallow relationships.

It's a time when there is much in the window,

but nothing in the room.

GET A GRIP.

10 pitching grips reinterpreted. Click above to see from where.

the comb.

the orange.

the orange.

Larger smaller map

for christina

interesting choice of cell phone for february 2010.

five pages of paranoia.

guuuhmy

let's get overly ambitious and make a giiiiiiant sad, fat gummy bear.

Project / Time Strategy: Bigger and Smaller

This week, I visualized a project stategy I've been using more this semester than previously.

The map shows current and past assignments within classes, as well as personal projects, that i've tried to incorporate into each other. The goal isn't to get twice the credit from half the work, but to use assignments in different classes toward a common project goal, to create a more well rounded project / solution.

Basically, I've mapped "what I have to do" by breaking it down into small tasks, and relating them to each other within a big project, topic or goal.

bigger smaller? aaaaaaand lottie/picasso

Next Bigger / Next Smaller - The Pompous Pumpkin and the Path to Peace

THE HOPE DIAMOND

The Hope Diamond weighs in at 45.52 carats and is a flawless and rare blue diamond.  This necklace has been passed down from generation to generation starting with Jean Baptiste Tavernier, who was a French merchant traveller.  

Jean sold it to King Louis XIV in France in 1688, and the Hope Diamond was stolen and in 1812 it ended up with a diamond merchant Daniel Eliason.  

Then of course the man who the diamond takes its name was the next owner.  He goes by the name Henry Phillip Hope.  After his death in 1839, he passed it to his nephew Henry Thomas Hope and then ultimately to the nephew's grandson Lord Francis Hope.  He sold it to a merchant because he needed to pay off his debts, and the dealer quickly sold it to Joseph Frankels and Sons of New York City until they needed cash.  

The next owner was Selim Habib, who sold it in a auction in Paris in 1909.  Although it did not sell at the auction it was soon bought by C.H. Rosenau and then resold to Pierre Cartier that same year.  

In 1911 it was sold to Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean in 1911.  The Hope diamond stuck with her until she passed away.  Harry Winston Inc. of New York City purchased Evalyn's entire jewelry collection in 1949.  On November 10, 1958 they donated the Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian Institution. 

SYNERGY :: JOSH RITENOUR

NEXT Ɣ NEXT

NEXT SMALLER BECOMES NEXT BIGGER. A LOT.

3 Steps Bigger, 3 Steps Smaller - History Timeline

Drawing is Thinking

In his book, “Drawing is Thinking,” Glaser suggests that all art is a form of meditation and that drawing is “a primary way of encountering reality.” He addresses societal reticence around the arts and the individual’s resistance to drawing (“Oh, I can’t draw … my drawings look like they were done by a 3^rd grader … “) as missing the point, asserting that the value in drawing is not about “making things look accurate,” but rather drawing is a way of “becoming more conscious of what one is looking at” and “expressively interpreting the world." - Katherine Emmons

perspective

Another REALLY cool thing for those who haven't seen it.... http://www.phrenopolis.com/perspective/solarsystem/

It's a scale model of our solar system. The site is over half a mile long! Keep scrolling, it's not broken. You just haven't gotten to the next planet yet!

Powers of Ten

This may inspire some of you on your "next bigger, next smaller" assignment. Some of you may have already seen this in Viz Phys, but those who haven't should really take a look!

Expanding on my ideas :: The Results of Manipulating brain function

The Amazing Brain :: Autism

I was fascinated by the idea of people with autism having many or all areas of their brain open to information at the same time. I was looking online and found this. What an incredible gift!

Brainiac

Hello all,

I tried real hard to zip my trap and not talk about my project this week because God knows I don't shut up most days. So, feast your eyes on my textual description.

First of all, I want to activate your fusiform gyrus (which I found is the specific, specific part of the brain that recognizes faces).



Do you know who that is?

Nope, because it's my Uncle Doug, who lives in Minot, North Dakota. For those of you that have forgotten, I am "Frog In Glass Boy." I was wrestling with which part of the brain to use, but it ended up being the Hippocampus. Mainly, it's because I have really strong memories as a kid being at the lake and seeing all the frogs. One weekend for this assignment, stood out.

It was a "MAN WEEKEND" of sorts. My brothers and I went with my Uncle Doug to the lake. We bought fruits and juices that we had never consumed at the grocery store, drove to the lake, fished, shot guns, watched action movies, ate KFC... man stuff. Since we did things that have just stuck with me (obviously strongly making these connections in my brain) I thought it would be a great opportunity to do something.

I really liked what Abbi said about being able to hold and look at smaller art. Using this as my baseboard, I wanted to recreate the weekend with my uncle in a small art form. You have to understand, this is really "BFA" for me.



The juice carton represents the new juice we tried.
The tissue paper represents the unpacking of the new BB gun targets we got to unwrap.
The frosting in the cup represents the Redi-Whip we sprayed in our mouths (it was a man's weekend, we did as we pleased).
The Grapefruit represents the Papaya we tried. I didn't like it, and I don't like Grapefruit.
But most of all, the frog leg. That frog leg I made represents the one that my brother blew off a pale frog.

It's awful, I know, but he thought it was all right since it was the frog's fault for jumping onto the staging area for Targets.

So yeah... that's my brain-inspired "frog in glass" --


oOh, and it did involve every sense: I brought a can of shaving cream to recreate a redi-whip spray type sound...so from the fusiform gyrus, to the hippocampus...to the occipital and parietal lobe... my Uncle Doug did a good job on instilling that memory to make me use all those brain parts for this project.

BENJAMIN

Carabiner + Temporal Lobe

This is a video I made for the carabiner. I wanted to experience it through the temporal lobe or the hearing part of the brain. It pokes fun at the loud jingly sound keys make due to being clipped on the carabiner. (heavily present at MCAD) I want to take the carabiner away from just being used for keys and explore the idea of what else it could be.

I'm So Happy 'Cause I'm a Gummy Bear

Gummi Bar :: The Nuki Song

According to Aristotle in his On Generation and Corruption:
Air is primarily wet and secondarily hot.
Fire is primarily hot and secondarily dry.
Earth is primarily dry and secondarily cold.
Water is primarily cold and secondarily wet.

The Pumpkin and the Hypothalamus

Viewpoint of time

Here's my original songs and the new song with a different viewpoint of time

John Kozak

Viewpoint of time

C&C Thinking

Original Lyrics

She won’t give me a reason

She just tells me to wait

She won’t give me her reason

She just leaves it to fate

She won’t tell me her problem

She says it’s too late

She won’t give me her reason

She says I have to wait

She comes around again

And then she won’t

She comes around again

And then she don’t, no no no

Solo x2

Chorus

Solo

She won’t give me her reasons

She just puts up a fight

She won’t give me a reason

Before she takes flight

She comes around again

And then she won’t

She comes around again

And then she don’t, no no no

Lyrics with concept of different viewpoint of time

Telephone is ringing

Haven’t got that much to say

I don’t mind cuz I got time

To slip away

It’s alright

It’s alright

Haven’t got that much to say

Don’t have time to waste

Got to find a way

Don’t have time to waste

It’s alright

It’s alright

Snow’s falls on the street

The sun shines down on me

I don’t mind cuz I got time

To slip away

It’s alright

It’s alright

Haven’t got that much to say

We don’t have time to waste

Got to find a way

We don’t have time to waste

It’s alright

It’s alright

http://www.funderstanding.com/content/right-brain-vs-left-brain

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/wacky/the-right-brain-vs-left-brain/story-e6frev20-1111114577583

My 3D project :: Brain Study :: Josh RItenour

The areas of the brain that I have made efforts to focus attention throughout my creative processes are:

Occipital Lobe: one of the lobes of the cerebelum, situated at the back of the skull. The occipital lobe contains the primary visual cortex, where visual information is processed.

Hippocampus: means "sea horse", and is named for its shape. It is one of the oldest parts of the brain, and is buried deep inside, within the limbic lobe. The hippocampus is important for the forming, and perhaps long-term storage, of associative and episodic memories. Specifically, the encoding of face-name associations, the retrieval of face-name associations, the encoding of events, the recall of personal memories in response to smells.

The Brain ppt. - part of the brain as a perspective