And She Moved Through the World... A Google Earth Tour

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Tour by Angeline Bautista

Music by Chris Gonzalez

*Please make sure you have Google Earth downloaded*

This Google Earth Tour takes you to the very famous landmarks of the World that I would like to travel to someday.  It begins on the location of our classroom, in the Fine Arts building of San Francisco State University.  Then off we travel to these locations:

• Mount Rushmore, Keystone, South Dakota, United States of America
• Buckingham Palace, Westminster, London, United Kingdom
• Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France
• Vatican City, Rome, Italy
• Pyramids of Giza, Eygpt
• Taj Mahal, Agra, India
• Kyoto Imperial Palace, Kyoto, Japan
• St. Basil's Cathedral, Red Square, Moscow, Russia
• World Trade Center, Lower Manhattan, New York, United States of America

After visiting those locations we come right back to where we start ed, in the Fine Arts Building.

The music that accompanies the tour, is a rendition of David Graham's "And She Moved Through the Fair," played live while the tour was recorded, by my boyfriend.  I chose to play this particular song because it sounds very adventurous and good music for travelling.  Also this song explores similarities that "Eastern" and "Western" music are, and that there was a connection between the two seemingly different musical worlds.  And with the tour, I explore places in both the Western world and Eastern world.

Alter Ego, Internet Identity

This project with guest artists Liz Rossoff was all about identities and the Internet.  In this assignment, she had us all create a fake identity and establish a presence on the Internet.  We did this through creating an email and "facebook" accounts.

My "alter ego" is a girl named "Katherine  Martin," a name I came up by asking my boyfriend for random names that comes to his mind.  She's a young lady, has a cynical outlook and a dark personality and sense of humor.  She's quite antisocial and quite a wonder that she even joined a social networking page.  She doesn't talk to anyone, doesn't update much, and has a few "friends" added.  When creating Katherine, I imagined how I would be like if I continued liking the things I did when I was in Middle School.  In middle school, I went through a "dark phase" and was obsessed with all things "gothic" and "dark" and thought I was different from everyone.  For my image, I took a picture of myself, but I put on heavy, dark eye make-up, made myself really pale; I basically put on clothes and make-up that I normally wouldn't wear to make myself look like a completely different person to those who know me.  It was actually a bit difficult to act and remember what it was that I liked back then and why.  It made me think of how I am now and how I changed as I age.  My interests are radically different from back then, but my personality actually pretty  much stayed the same.

If you'd like to add my alter ego to facebook, her email is katskage@hotmail.com

Response: Culture Jamming by Marc Dery

Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs

by Mac Dery

"'For Sale' signs already litter the unreal estate of cyberspace. A New York Times article titled "A Rush to Stake Claims on the Multimedia Frontier" prophesies "software and hardware that will connect consumers seamlessly to services... [allowing them] to shop from home," while a Newsweek cover story on interactive media promises "new technology that will change the way you shop, play and learn" (the order, here, speaks volumes about American priorities).  Video retailers are betting that the intersection of interactive media and home shopping will result in zillions of dollars' worth of impulse buys: zirconium rings, nonstick frying pans, costumed dolls, spray-on toupees.  What a New York Times author cutely calls Communicopia ("the convergence of virtually all communications technologies") may end up looking like the Home Shopping Network on steroids."

 Marc Dery writes an essay about culture jamming the media back in the early 90's, when the World Wide Web was still blossoming.  Culture jamming is the disruption of media: news, advertisements, radio, television, just about anything that feeds us information, taking control of our own minds.

I chose this passage because at present, it is exactly as it says it is.  Today, a predominate function of the Internet is shopping.  You can buy just about anything on the Internet and have it delivered to your doorstep.  You can shop for the newest electronic devices, the latest fashions, even groceries and take out food.  Items can even be auctioned for on Ebay, purchased in warehouse prices/bulk, and bought and shipped from around the world.  And it's true that the easily accessible at-home-store has resulted in millions of dollars being spent everyday.  But online stores are not the only way we area exposed to consumerism on the Internet, all of our favorite websites have ads embedded on the pages, on the top, sides, and/or bottoms, literally surrounding our viewing space with advertisements for just about anything.  Even on social networking sites, Facebook being the latest example, give private and personal information of advertising agencies so they'll be able to put advertisements targeted to you and your interests specifically in your window.

Artists in Culture Jamming

The art of Culture Jamming is a fun one, and this project reminds me of a website that I visit once in a while called "Hacked IRL" which is a collection of images and videos of culture jamming found everywhere and anywhere.  I don't think all of these are done by a single artist, but rather done by anyone with paper and a pen, and who happen to find something worth jamming.  And the jamming does not happen with just media ads, it happens on bathroom walls, bulletin boards, and even the street pavement.  Here are a few examples of my favorites:

 

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Another artist, or image really, that I came across the Google while searching images for logos is this one which more can be found on http://marioav.blogspot.com/ .  I can't say much about the artist, because his blog is in a different language.  But looking at the images, I can tell he is a graphic artist and he did these logo mashups for fun.

Extended Body

This is myself, my physical body with interpretations of extensions outside of my physical self through technology.

This photo was manipulated through photoshop, and gathering of images.  Each modified element in this photo has a symbolic meaning, it represents my relationship to technology and how it enables me to reach far beyond my fleshy capabilities.  The "hair" is actually a bunch of wires, cables, cords, the lifeline that connects technology to each other and to is source of power, electricity.  It shows how we are always connected, and is a source of it's life, much like the umbilical cord and the baby in humans.  The mouth, is covered by a screen, as through technology, sound is possible thought not necessary, humans contact each other mostly through voice and hearing, but with machines communication happens through non-verbal code, no sound is produced nor received.  The screen, instead of voicing messages, displays words, like communication over the Internet is through words.  Even emotions and tone of voice is interpreted through the use of syntax and punctuation marks, for example " :) " to represent a smile, and ALL CAPS to represent yelling or anger.  The glowing eye, is the glow of a screen, constantly absorbing all the I see.  Lastly, the world around me has become so digitized, I represented that by pixelating the area around me, including my boyfriend, whom I can also be with both virtually and in reality.

This is me in the real world, with my boyfriend being all ghostly behind me.

Chance Results

My project results from my chance:

Mine turned out to be a little alien invasion on my planet ("a" for "angeline").  But it must be friendly because that little kitty astronaut doesn't seem to mind.

My results from Jon's chance:

[to be posted]

I have it in physical form, I haven't taken a picture of it yet.

Chance Recipe

My Recipie

Interdeterminancy Project – Create your own portrait

1.     Go to http://www.dafont.com/themes.php and look at the “dingbats” section. In another window, go to http://www.random.org/ and set the min and max to 1-21, and generate a number.
1.Alien 2. Animals 3. Asian 4. Ancient 4. Runes, 5. Elvish 6. Esoteric 7. Fantastic 8. Horror 9. Games 10. Shapes 11. BarCode 12. Nature 13. Sport 14. Heads 15. Kids 16. TV, Movie 17. Logos 18. Sexy 19. Army 20. Music 21. Various

2.     In that category, use http://www.random.org/ again and set the min and max to 1-10, to determine what font to use. You'll use the pictures corresponding to the letters of your name. Upper or lower case is ok. You may download the font if you wish.

3.     Next, go to http://www.searchforancestors.com/utility/dayofweek.html and enter your birthday to determine the day of the week you were born. The day of the week will determine what color you'll use for your dingbat-font name, as follows:
Sunday-Red ; Monday-Orange; Tuesday-Yellow; Wednesday-Green; Thursday-Blue; Friday-Indigo; Saturday-Violet;
Any shade within the same color family can be used for the font.

4.     Using any medium, create a “self-portrait” using the images retrieved from the dingbats spelling out your name. The color corresponding to the day of the week you were born will be your main color theme. The portrait can be of anything, as long at those elements are included.

5.     Have fun with it!

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Jon's Recipie

Stencil Chance Art

1.    Go into iTunes and make sure your shuffle songs setting is on.

2.    Play any song to get started.

3.    Skip to the next song

4.    Listen to or get the lyric for that song.

a.    If no lyrics. repeat step 3.

5.    Write down or circle the first 6 nouns (or things) in the song.

a.    If it’s “you” use a picture of yourself

b.    If it’s “I” or “me” use a picture of the artist.

6.    Roll a die and see what the number you roll is.

7.    Find a picture of that noun (or take one of you own)

8.    Open Photoshop

9.    Isolate the image you want to use

10.                  Make it Black and White (Ctrl + Shift + U)

11.                  Go to > Image > Adjustments > Threshold… change level to -44 and press OK

12.                  Go to FILER > Artistic > Cutout…

a.    SET: Number of levels: 2

b.    Edge Simplicity: 3

c.     Edge Fidelity: 1

d.    Press OK

13.                  You will cut out the black parts.

So connect the white places

If you don’t these parts will fall out

13.                  Some places will be too difficult to cut out so make it as simple as you are willing to cut.

14.                  Print the stencil out and tape it to a manila folder.

15.                  Use an exacto knife to cut out the black parts.

16.                  Now you have your stencil

17.                  Pick a card out of a deck of playing cards.

18.                  Whatever color the suit is, paint that on a surface.

19.                  If it’s A-6 Use spray paint

20.                  If it’s 7-K Use pain and a brush.

21.                  YOU’RE DONE

Here is a link to a stencil making video if you have trouble.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1004625/how_to_make_stencil_with_photoshop_all_versions/