Art

Desert Island

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  • Lyrical Ballads
  • Sumiyoshi Row House
  • King Lear
  • Mt Fuji Tea Bowl
  • Barberini Faun
  • Mass in B Minor BWV 232
  • Pillow Book
  • Sistine Cieling
  • Atlas Shrugged
  • Krazy & Ignatz
  • Any one Miroslav Tichy
  • Love Streams
  • Planescape Torment.

MEDIA LOG 2013


  1. May

  2. essay: DE INTERPRETATIONE- Aristotle-
  3. MY LIFE HAS BECOME VENN DIAGRAMS.

MEDIA LOG 2012

Most intense art-related experiences I've had

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  1. Seeing Matthew Barney's Cremaster 3 in a theatre.
  2. Seeing Chris Marker's Sans Soleil in a theatre.
  3. First live opera I went to: Verdi's Macbeth done on a tiny intimate stage with just singers and piano as accompaniment (particularly the finale of every act).
  4. Reading Plato's Euthypro/Apology/Crito/Phaedo (the last days of Socrates) and feeling simultaneously completely stupid/in awe/warm and positive because of them.
  5. Discovering the portraits of John Singer Sargent (via google image search).
  6. Performing Shylock in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
  7. Wordsworth's

Recurrant Impulsive Self-Harm Actions That I Have Successfully Avoided, Arranged By Descending Strength/Frequency

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  • Punch self in face and head indefinitely.

  • Fall into traffic/onto train track.

  • Saw fingers off in the middle of a bone with anything dull.

  • Batter lower body indefinitely.

  • Remove bottom jaw.

  • Slam teeth into a corner to break them; swallow the shards.

  • Bite thumbs off.

  • Punch a hard surface until my hands shatter, rendering them permanently useless.

  • Stop taking medications cold.

  • Chew on, and then eat, my tongue.

  • Remove eyes with spoons.

  • Break a window with my head.

My Top 5 Media for Visual Art

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  1. Oil Paint
  2. Charcoal
  3. Photography
  4. Graphite
  5. Clay

University Classes I Have Taken Listed From Best To Worst

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  1. FVIM-213 Intermedia. While many classmates were either pretentious ass-hats or dolts, the class was mostly inhabited by sincere and interesting people. I guess also this is he class where I produced more of my better ideas..
  2. HUMN-313 Script Writing/Concept Develop. How to write screenplays by a conceptual artist sculptor. Was a bunch of exercises to show the possibilities of narrative forms; half the class left after the first three classes for being "too weird"..
  3. MHIS-329 SU01 Studies in Current Film/Video.

What I Look For in Art

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Basically speaking, my artistic ideals are works possessing:

1. Expressed Emotional Conviction

Whether the artist is "acting" (such as theatre) or invested in the material on a personal basis, I prefer it is expressed with a high degree of emotional conviction.

Some famous "Top Tier" examples of "expressed emotional conviction":
Symphony #5-Beethoven
Symphony #9-Beethoven
The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady-Charles Mingus
A Love Supreme-John Coltrane
The Doors-The Doors
Astral Weeks-Van Morrison
Metropolis-Lang
The Godfather, Part 2-Coppola

Author Comments: 

Open for discussion, questions, etc.

Greatest Works of Art of All Time (In-Progress: Currently Featuring Rock, Jazz & Classical Music, Films & Paintings)

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  1. 9.5/10
  2. Symphony #9 in D Major-Mahler (1910)
  3. The Garden of Delights-Bosch (1504)
  4. The Sistine Chapel-Michelangelo (1541)
  5. Symphony #9 in D Minor "Choral"-Beethoven (1824)
  6. The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady-Charles Mingus (1963)
  7. Metropolis-Lang (1926) [Restored Edition, 124 minutes]
  8. Europe After The Rain II-Ernst (1942)
  9. Trout Mask Replica-Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band (1969)
  10. Requiem-Verdi (1874)
  11. A Symphony of Three Orchestras-Carter (1976)
  12. Rock Bottom-Robert Wyatt (1974)
  13. Beethovenfries-Klimt (1902)
  14. A Love Supreme-John Coltrane (1964)
  15. Tabula Rasa-Part (1977)
  16. Nostalghia-Ta