The City

my animation is almost finished. i just have to do some quick editing and add in the music. i cant believe how long it took me to finish it! it was my first time using Flash though so thats probably why...that and i was pretty picky about how i wanted my clip to play out.
anyway, ive been watching some vito acconci videos and other creepy video projects. theyre so uncomfortable to watch yet i cant stop them until ive seen the entire thing.



see ya D210 class !

Summer Internship at the IMA

hi! so i was looking for jobs online for the summer and i came across this internship. i cant apply to it yet because im only a freshmen but for those of you who are juniors and up, apply! i dont think you get paid but working at the IMA would really fun especially because of the summer nights movie series AND they're working on the 100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art and Nature Park project right now. so cool! do it!

application: http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/2009/12/02/wanted-spring-2010-interns/#more-9705

Jeanne-Claude dies at 74

"Jeanne-Claude, who collaborated with her husband, Christo, on dozens of environmental arts projects, notably the wrapping of the Pont Neuf in Paris and the Reichstag in Berlin and the installation of 7,503 vinyl gates with saffron-colored nylon panels in Central Park, died Wednesday in Manhattan, where she lived. She was 74." - nytimes

installation art is awesome.

Animation

so one of my favorite animator/directors is hayao miyazaki. when i was little my mom would buy all of his movies in japan and we would watch them. unlike the infamous art form of ANIME, miyazakis work is very authentic and has developed his own style of animation that is distinguishable. not only does he create beautiful films, the plot of his stories are so strong, emotional and really represent and shine a positive light on japanese culture.

some of my favorites:

- trailer for grave of the fireflies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbEyjUsWKZA
(i always cry watching the movie or even the trailer. the story is about a big brother and little sister trying to survive during the end of WWII. it takes place in the city where im from. roger ebert considers it to be one of the most powerful anti-war movies ever made. animation historian ernest rister compares the film to steven spielberg's schindler's list and says, "it is the most profoundly human animated film I've ever seen."
- trailer for spirited away:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIaBn9Emmlw
- trailer for princess mononoke: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCiD8KLXPEk

excited to get into flash next week!

Website Finished!

http://mypage.iu.edu/~mcmadrig/project4/

check it out! after finishing this project i think i want to make another website to display my artwork. i really want to start moving into photography, so that i can incorporate my drawings with photo images. now that i have CS4 available to me at IU i feel like i  have an entire new medium to explore. i also recently deleted my facebook so this would be a nice way to show people what im up to in terms of art work. right now im working on putting a digital portfolio together for my interior design class. here are some of my sketches from that class...

for the past 2 weeks ive been wondering what i really want to major in, i love all my classes so thats making it especially difficult. i just want to go to school forever and major in everything! haha...

have a good weekend!!

Interior Design Project

i just finished my project for my beginning interior design class.we had to make 4 different models that show point, plane, volume and a composite of all.

ta da!

GIRLTALK.

i went to the VS PINK concert on thursday night with some friends. girltalk was really enjoyable, i like what music and concerts are coming to. it didnt really matter where you were in the audience because it wasnt like you could hear worse/better depending on your location. DJ concerts are great because theyre just like one big dance party and no one really cares whats going on stage. they had a lot of interesting video media playing on the big screen as well, a lot of 80s underwear commercials. it would be neat to be a concert artists and design sets, lighting, and the images on screen!

ENJOY THE FALL WEATHER!

dreamweaver!

im not so sure i understand dreamweaver quite yet, it seems simple but with all these underlying rules. anyway, my website is going to be like a murder mystery investigation. so i hope it all works out!

http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/beauty-and-the-bento-box/?ref=design

--in japan, its really popular to create a beautiful dispay of food in your bento-box! i liked this article because you get perspective from different people on how they interpret japanese aesthetic. here are some creative ones i found...

"In a country with few natural resources, aesthetics matter." - john maeda

hi. so i decided to post some of my work from when i was in high school...which was last spring.

mixed media: ink, photography.

mixed media: ink, photography.

ink.

fashion sketch - ink, watercolor

ink

charcoal

ink

oil.

ink

ink, photoshop

charcoal

graphite.

acrylic.

graphite. (self portrait)

spray paint (self portrait)

mixed media: ink, photography

mixed media: ink, photography

ink.

graphite.

ink. (i really like illustration, im just not very good at it.)

ink.

graphite. (i think these were bio notes?)

charcoal

ink

so ya, thats some of my work. i like using ink a lot, im always buying pens. unfortunately i didnt have any money to go to art school so i am here at IU, i could have gone to herron, but i would have shot my face off if i had to live in indianapolis another year. feel free to ask questions about any of it...(that is if anyone else sees this besides artist erin robinson.)

baby its cold outside.

alexander mcqueen - fall 2009

where did the summer weather go? its cold out there but i dont think ill be bundling up the way alexander mcqueen designed for fall 09 haha the creepiest part being sent down the runway are the models lips! the remind me of LA or the octo-mom... anyway thats not why i posted these images, i think im going to use them for my next project. I want to work on a narrative, possibly a fairy tale? and i think that these designs are very faniciful and circus-like.

have a nice weekend! im going home today so that my parents will buy me warmer clothing.

Deanne Cheuk

my presentation artist: Deanne Cheuk.
some of her work:

---> On thursday we watched a doucmentary in my arts management class called 'Rip: A Remix Manifesto.' very interesting, i never really thought about how copyright limited artistic expression, especially for our generation.

"In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.The films central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy? Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig, Brazils Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow are also along for the ride.A participatory media experiment, from day one, Brett shares his raw footage at opensourcecinema.org, for anyone to remix. This movie-as-mash-up method allows these remixes to become an integral part of the film. With RiP: A remix manifesto, Gaylor and Girl Talk sound an urgent alarm and draw the lines of battle."

check it out: http://films.nfb.ca/rip-a-remix-manifesto/

my pregnant mind

ive been in school for 3 weeks and my head feels like its going to have a baby!

in other news, i finished project 2, my self portrait. i tried to make it a modern mona lisa so hopefully you all get that effect or see where i was going with it. 


im looking at Ingrid Calame's work this week...

remember last year at the IMA? ingrid calame exhibited her work there after she came to Indiana to trace the indianapolis motor speedway. the procedure for making her pieces entail of tracing spills, paint, and scum from the floor and walls and reproducing their outlines in vibrant colors on canvas. its very jackson pollock meets graffiti. i really like the concept of her work though, taking our marks and trash we leave everyday in public and turning their outlines to make some beautiful and never seen before.

*dont litter to make art, make art from the unconventional!