sweet like pipi longstocking

its 4am. i'm about to make the drive back to ny. a little delirious, a little excited. wanted to put these up there..my notes on pipilotti's collection of video art. she surprised me with her subtle loveliness and i surprised myself with how much i liked her.

1. I'm not the girl who misses much - red lipstick,

dress, feminine hair. sped up/slowed down.

2. Sexy sad i - naked man with aggressive motions.

through forest. hands together


Common themes - sexuality, femininity, John Lennon

songs. combo black/white and color. aggression.

scratching of the video. the defeat/condescendsion of a

woman. repetitive actions. with no change. camera

movement through neighborhoods. lipsyncing songs.
layers of images. global attention. nature.

3. pipi keeps collapsing. tries to escape with no

prevail. wearing red dress. at the end, picks herself

back up. woman speaking german!? in repremanding/stern

voice in background.

4. rectangle of change in the middle. gets

smaller/larger and projects images different than its

surroundings. flowers! red dress. dives into rectangle

of change. wet. drowning. must grab on to a masculine

hand. still no help. hand begins to drown her.

5. You called me Jacky - red shirt. background moving

through neighborhoods. dresses masculine but wears

lipstick. hands on ovaries/crotch. manly movements. red

seats on train. becomes sexy woman in dress with

glasses and blonde hair.

6. pregnancy..in rectangle of change. gynecological

procedures. background = snowy scene. pure. birth.

red=blood.

7. walking on thin steel grid line with high heels.

elegant dress. elegantly man awaits her. red lipstick.

pink flower. upclose of fingerprints.. sensual/sexual.

one flower and they fall to bed. dreamlike

scene..clouds, birds chirping and exotic plants. globe

in crotch. world revolves around sex? toy baby between

toes. red watermelons. escalating speed and

intensity..organsm? flowing river..

8. Blutclip - jewels on naked woman. marks places of

sexuality. trails down to jewweelss. red spot on white

linen. red shoes. red toenail polish. blood. travels

around world/moon. linen = panties.

9. I'm a Victim of this song - still figures. returns

back to glowing light on wall. black and white

photographs. older people. lamps/lights. empty closets,

boxes. females in bathing suits on clouds.

10. naked pipilotti. camera repetitively inside her

mouth. sexual motions. camera travels around her body.

lemons and oranges. red lipstick

11. library scene. cultural things written on white

boards. zoom in - GLobal concerns. light switch off.

12. naked on ground. bright pink hair.

13. Auhjourdhi- turn comp 90 degrees. red and white

polka dot shirt. walks through grocery

store..transparent naked images of people in center of

screen. pipi keeps focus on these. like a "jungle".

jungle bird soundtrack. men stare in background. red

fruits like woman's womb.

14. windows as reflection. windows as entrapment. old

woman in open window looks down her building. young

woman stuck behind glass. pink flowers. skewed image of

beauty - woman's face pressed against glass. lullaby

song.

15. trees and harmonica at closing. color changes

softly, then back to normal. same audio tone as "i'm

not a girl.."

closing time...and The death of Death. (video art)

Through video art I explored the elements of innocence and death. The emotions anger and frustration. And the ability to be emotionless. As Death is. For once, I am able to control the light, the darkness, and allow emotion to flow through my piece, and my psyche as a person.

day-dreaming, unplugged. (performance art)

When technology fails us, it's almost like a bad dream. I've tried to use technology to escape reality - and in an attempt to escape reality, it was an attempt to escape the feeling that I had lost someone forever. Because, I had. And it couldn't be real. Erik Nicoletti was, in a sense, my "brother from another mother." But the helpless feeling I had when he was taken from me, and the rest of the world, was inescapable. Every piece of technology I used-my cellphone, ipod, it's portable speakers, any computer..filled my head with thoughts of him. It was overwhelming. Along with my usual frustrations with technology - not being able to establish an internet connection when I need it most, my ipod losing all battery when I could use the comfort of my favorite song..every attempt to escape within the world of technology failed, and the pain left me in disbelief. Numb of all emotions and detached from the real - even when it was all around me, right before my eyes. The battle with the "healing vs. hurting" powers of technology made me exhausted, even after a full night's sleep. As you can imagine, with dreams like this one...

putting the peaces back together again.

In my rendition of our xerox self-portrait project, I reused a box that previously delivered to me 75 white sailor hats. This idea alone made it an appropriate medium of self re-creation, as I am very involved in my sorority here at UT, and it's not unlikely to hear sailor references made about us "dee gees." Reason for this? Our national symbol is the anchor, which stands for hope, and can be seen in the collage several times along the bottom, where it would normally sit on my neck. I'm in here other ways, too. Besides the literal copies of my bod. A strong advocate for environmental legislation, I spent this summer traveling the towns of Long Island, knocking on doors and promoting positive change for our fast changing world and atmosphere. Saving the earth in smaller, but still effective, efforts, I made sure all original box packaging was recycled :). The paper I pasted the many features (and expressions) of my face onto, the styrofoam peanuts that make up the international symbol for peace in my fingers, and all the rest that gave support (and va-va-va-Volume) to the center of the box by simply resting behind the skewed image of my face.

ohh, marilyn.<3

Here's my grid art project! woo. I had so much fun re-creating Andy Warhol's POP art masterpiece. While he shows off her classic beauty in many different colors, I chose the version with the sea foam green background. To sound all too naive, I picked this one, well, because, it's my favorite color. The computer monitor I bought from a thrift store for seven dollars. I was delighted to see it still worked! Meaning, when it was plugged in and you pressed in the big button on the front, it produced a bright white glow. It was like plugging in the Christmas tree lights for the first time all year. Joyful. The grid I created out of fishing line, which I secured by taping to the back and unders of the monitor. Marilyn is made of individual pieces of colored paper. The real good kind, too, made for scrapbooking, so it's thicker and more durable than construction paper. Each was hole punched to allow the glow to penetrate the center, while keeping the distinct colors visible. I may just keep her as room decor. I've grown a little attached.. :)

10.20 a disney letdown. & calling all gamers!

I've been a Disney princess myself, since the womb. Along with most of the girls in my generation. And I can see the difficulties of creating 3D figures, it is a process..attaching sensors to a human body, turning this into infared light and then projecting it as a computer image, but when Santiago showed us the youtube video of Disney templates, I was thoroughly disappointed. For all the years I've enjoyed my favorite Disney movies, not once did I imagine Snow White dancing the same steps as my beloved Belle. But what little girl would? The magic of Disney creates a facade of true originality and creativity one would never second guess. This revealing, I admit, left a tainted image of Walter Disney in my mind, but never will I allow this to separate me from my Disney roots.
And while I had Beauty and the Beast on repeat, memorizing every line of "Be My Guest," my older brother was already indulging himself in a habit that would later change his life, and teach him some lessons he would never forget. His addiction to video games didn't begin with "Odyssey" or even the incredibly successful "Pong" by ATARI, but the underlying idea of video games remained the same throughout the years.
A computer with a mind?! It seemed so..The perception of artificial intelligence (playing solo against a computer) was more intriguing to my brother than playing with/against his little sister. The computer had more skills. It was more of a challenge. So to win meant more bragging rights, which was okay because I had taken enough verbal abuse from losing to big bro anyway.
He'd sit there for hours, trying to "beat" the game, staring up at the tv screen like a "deer in headlights," my stepdad would say. The ability to interact with technology is what first caused Pong arcade games to be jammed with quarters, but almost as influential were the interactions the games created within the same breathing species. Person to person.
The competition games creates between friends, or even strangers, can be healthy if kept in good fun, but detrimental if taken too seriously. For big bro, the competition, and what it took away from the rest of his life, became a reason to come home from college, half way through. For others, it means thousands in prize money and their chance at some fame.
Either way, there are connections being made all over the world because of video games, today more than ever. Especially with the simple accessibility and easy means of communications games of the present (and future) include. Played online, gamers can get the latest updates in their server, with no extra fees. A headset and microphone may be an extra price, but this comes with the ability to talk (shit) to people in other states, countries, or down the hall in another room. So Cool.

her morning elegance.

My roommate showed me this last year and I fell in love. Similar idea to what we did with the flipbooks, but not quite the same (stop-motion animation as opposed to frame by frame animation). Wonderful anyway (: enjoy.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HXUhShhmY

10.6. flip the switch.

The flipbooks came out AWESOME. I loved looking at everyone's in class because there were so many great, diverse approaches to the project. Some that really stood out to me were Kasey, Greg, Lea, and Mike. Kasey's little bug was incredibly realistic and had the most flow from frame to frame. Picking a simple figure but pairing it up with lots of motion was very effective. Greg's also brought the element of simplicity, some frames including just a few pencil marks. His artistic talent shone through and made for a fun sequence. Having two notebooks as opposed to one seemed to serve as consequence to lack of space as multiple VHS tapes do, but it made for a nice break and brought more interst to the second half. Lea's stood out to me for her use of brihgt color, and more-so, the blending that occured as the frames progressed, so that one color wasn't ever dropped completely without fading out or into another object. Being a nautical "junkie," I loevd the sailing ship, almost as much as I liked the red ball bouncing up the page. Mike's was great for the 3-D on 2-D effect, as the page was sliced open and a hand pulled it apart from the other side, like Porky Pig would do at the end of a Looney Tunes episode to let us know, "Th-th-th-th-that's all folks!" Not only was the page sliced open but it was closed back up again in the ending frames, as if all the images just seen had left with Porky back to Toon Town, or what you'd call that other dimension. I really enjoyed the blood splatter that morphed into flower petals, and reminded me of one of my favorite movies, "American Beauty."

Not to say the others weren't cool as hell also :).
Cara's brought ROYGBIV together in forms of jellybeans or bubbles and even transformed the word storm into stoves, as a forewarning to what would soon be falling from the sky. The "abstract life" title held true and she used it to her advantage. Jessica's had Batman (another love of mine) and made me laugh with the progression of the villainous frames. It had great flow into the different parts of the sequence and I liked that the entire pages were being used. Brian's used a lot of heart and club shapes, and with the positioning of the drawings on the vertical edge of the paper, brought to mind the motion of shuffling or flipping through a deck of cards. Maria's was unique for her use of real photographs, an dwas a true look at the frame by frame movement of two people. That it was two children , and a "brotherly moment," made it precious. Cheryl's use of a lime green, red, and black color scheme made the images POP with bold or bright color. Similar to mine in her use of spirals, it was effective in showing frames in motion. Gina's Pinnocchio sequence was aewsome because the little wooden face resembled the Disney version so well, but so much that I actually felt bad when he lost the tip of his outstretched nose. Would you say it was karma for lying? ;) I liked Ellery's approach because it kept with a common theme throughout, and had the potential to relay a message to its audience. Seeing the effects of nature vs. nature and how trees are constantly the losing element in the battle was sad, but true. Add humans to the fight and the poor things really take a punch...Dylan's was also inspirational, with the use of lyrics from songs I could recognize coming into form with each flip of a page. Almost made me sing along. The neon-style light that appeared with letters flashing SUBLIME flowed nicely and portrayed his passion for music.

It was wonderful to see the different styles and creativity that our class could produce, and I look forward to creating and viewing future projects.

10-1. don't hate, appreciate.

1952. The year brings to my mind an image of "Pleasantville." Stay at home mothers baking in the kitchen, bread-winning fathers coming home to dinner on the table, and adoring children at their sides. Fast forward twenty years and we see how drugs, alcohol, poverty, and freedoms have transformed society and separated it by age - one with a tight-ass, straight-edge older generation and a troubled, menacing youth. 1972s c"Clockwork Orange" portrays this successfully - and graphically. Gene Kelly's "Singing in the Rain" as used in Clockwork Orange becomes a tool for harsh mimicry, a way for younger generations to say: "Forget your happiness and your love, if you don't realize our pain we'll make you realize it by force." The irony of musical taste in this film is incredible. Gene Kelly is used to punish the innocent, while the classic genius and talent of Mozart is used to save a tattered soul. Is this to say technology has made us forget music as an artistic masterpiece and settle for digital prints??...Perhaps. But with the film's use of classical turned electronic music, it seems the message is more similar to our opera assignment - to take a previously established work of art and use technology to enhance it, so as the times change, the definition of masterpiece needn't change, only expand.

9-29. turning up the volume.

The introduction of color into film was an aspect that sparked a revolution - for film to become more real. Any color among black and white tradition is so intriguing; the pigments seem to POP off the screen. We see this in "Hello, Dolly" with its saturated reds and golds, or as Dorothy first finds herself in Munchkin Land among a bouquet of new hues and a yellow brick road. And I may have watched the colored fashion show scene from "The Women" a hundred times over if I was developing into my twenties in the same era color took the stage - the clothes and shoes are beautiful, and in a fashion sense, highly influential on some designs we see today. As the "real" revolution took new heights, audio jumped on the bandwagon. "Earthquake" of the 1920s may have caused some commotion in the theatres with its realistic sound fades and separated frequencies, but my uncultured mother ;) has yet to see the film or experience its "sense-around" audio qualities. I asked. She hadn't even heard of the thing. And after digital remastering and audio technologies of today, I am doubting it would have quite the same effect on her now.

9-17. a new toy for the kids.

As we ventured through the history of photography, we watched as it's still images grew and transformed into images, motion, and sound. I found it as no surprise that since the first movie reel there were the first on-camera actors, as opposed to sinply documenting life. This refers back to the mantra of the theatre as seen in "Vatel": "theatrum mundi," the world is a stage. Lumiers first recorded scenes on film: the snowball fight, the animal walk through the street, all projected a sense of "newness" to technology through its captured people. Even with ostrich or elephant in hand, people were lured in by the camera and watched it watching them. The fascination with new technology over powered their "duties" as actors. I wonder if they were familiar with the phrase "15 minutes of fame"...

Simply from the artwork that's placed around the room, I had a feeling this class would inspire and motivate me to use my creative energies for good, and allow me to release them in a productive manner.. :) I am Andrea Boltwood, an almost-junior with an allied health major and com minor. This is one of the first communicaton classes I'll be taking, and I have a great intuition that the two (allied health & com) will keep my academics balances with my personality.
While I love modern art, I'm glad we started from the beginning of multimedia, as the progression of media through time is fun and exciting to look at..and shows where we've come thus far. The Renaissance is more than intriguing - with its bright colors and lights and water displays and flowers Everywhere. More of a fantasy or dream than a history lesson.
This class will help me appreiciate the arts - and the technologies used to create it - while allowing me to conjure up some of my own ideas on the subject. Then express them to the class in a manner no other class may allow. A way that will be meaningful to me in sharing my work with others. I'm so excited to begin... :))))