Semiconductor

Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

BOb, i'll miss him

everyone has had more sex than me

dog

vote for me, please....

I recently submitted this painting to the showdown on Saatchi online.

Voting will start soon.

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/showdown/index.php?showpic=162917

who was the marketing genius behind marble top soda bottle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramune

Ramune is widely known for the distinctive design of its bottle, often called Codd-neck bottles after the inventor,Hiram Codd. They are made of glass and sealed with a marble; the marble is held in place by the pressure of the carbon dioxide in the drink. To open the bottle, a device to push the marble inward is provided with the bottle. The marble is pushed inside the neck of the bottle where it rattles around while drinking. Two little glass nodes inside the bottle allow the drinker to hook the marble in place while drinking.

People trying Ramune for the first time sometimes find it difficult to drink, as it takes practice to learn to stop the marble from blocking the flow. In the new version of the bottle (2006), little slots were added to the cap where the marble was originally held. This allowed the flow to not be obstructed if the marble falls back into the cap.

Ramune is one of the modern symbols of summer in Japan and is widely consumed during warm festival days and nights. Empty bottles are usually collected for recycling at stalls where it is sold.

Bucket of Butter

Im starting a new blog where i critique film as appose to rating them. 

i'll blog about what i think would make the film better. Basically i'll critique it at

http://bucketofbutter.blogspot.com/.

Reviewed

i was so nervous.

i passed.

crime doesn't pay

By the end of the video if feel so sad for the guy. It is actually  kind of depressing to see how this guy fails so easily.

aesthetics shaman vs. esthetics researcher

she said, "what do you want to be when you grow up?"

i said,"i dont know, how bout you shut the frack up cause i'm a pimp, yo..."

she smack me in that face. i told her "i dont love you any more." i cry myself to sleep that night. that next morning i felt better as if the sun was extra bright and glowee. i skiprd breakfast because it was almost time for lunch anyway. i started walking to my studio. there is a forest between me and my studio, so i take my machete every time, incase i have to defend myself against the creature that live in that forest like squirrels or raccoons, never mind. natures little ninjas.  so i'm half way to my studio , it's an awesome studio with a cool leather couch that is nice and worn in with a cold beer( rolling rock extra pale,  i like the horse on the bottle its silk screened) waiting for me, when i see,with my peripherals, something dark and black following me in the bushes. i don't remember if i yelled.  i didn't stick around to find out what it was . i run . i moved through the trees and undergrowth like the dude in apocalypto. i never found what that thing was. i think i was the coocooy, he is the mexican boogie man.

the short answer to the question ,"what do i want to be when i grow up ",is: i going to be twenty three on the twenty third and  i know is that all i know is that Isaac newton had already discovered gravity , Einstein what all come up with the theory of relativity , and Jean Mitchell Basquiat was already hanging out with Andy Warhol by that time they were twenty three. i guess im just a late bloomer.

 im kind of like a "jack of all trades master of none" but more like a "Renissance man" in that respect. Shut up.  Boom! for real.

Dicipline Time

i have been experimenting all semester with my work , and now that my review is getting closer it's time to start finishing what I have made intuitively with a little deliberate action.  

being deliberate, for me, takes effort and discipline.  It's not very fun and it's difficult. An intuitive way of working will only take you so far.  

i aspire to be or express many ideas in my work, but i can do them all i one piece or in one series.  it's will only be expressed at the end  when i die and someone sees the my life's work in its entirety.

music

Evolution

it is my stubourness that dosen't allow me to fail. 

failure is a natural part

 of growing and  progression, it is evolution.

i dont fail at the end of the completion

 of a art piece, i fail in the middle or 

in the begginig.

like a over protective parent, once i

 reach the maturity of the artwork, 

i wont let the work be itself. 

i want it to be better, greater,the best.

i push it to be what it could never be.

Inland Empire

the darkness 

brings things 

together 

the light 

separates 

them.

the quite makes 

everything one.

the sound makes distances 

between

them.

heat adds things

together.

the cold concentrates

them.

magnets pull

and push electrons.

Lynchian is style in which the use of darkness and confusion of unilinear story progression to unify, as the glue between, the realm of dreams, uncertainty,& reality that exists in a movie and how it relates to the real reality. 

This film spilled over into my reality. 

When we went in , at the beginning, there was still light out. when we came out it was night. 

Night from day. i was walking the in quite version of world , but still there was sound. there was nobody on campus. Except for us but nobody was really talking. i could hear every sound now.  i wondered if the sounds were fabricated. The light everywhere seemed different. maybe, it was just because i had just spent three hours in a dark room. i felt as if everything had a hidden secret meaning. i was in the  stairwell expecting something to happen , if  i walked through a door ,maybe this time, it would lead me somewhere else. 

i felt really weird for awhile after this video

in the past from the future

today is the 10th of april.

i'm probably going to miss the deadline for the new arte nueva.  i cant seen to finish any of my work.  Even the two pieces in the student show weren't finished.  My painting critique is on the 17th and my review is on the 2nd along with the final show.  experimenting takes a long time to process. finding a presentation form of new finds is difficult. i not that worried.

post-Luminaria

Luminaria went better that I anticipated. I could have gone fishing the that day with my brother a south padre island.  I liked the sodas that leslie brought. I'm glad I dicided not to do laser tracking thing it would have looked like a screen saver. 

Lessons learned:

1. If something is made to be use in a certatin way and it's used differently, excpext trouble.

2. scale changes context 

3. sometimes you can find books on the street

eLecTRiciTy

The LilyPad ArduinoLink

It's hard to know how dependent to something one can become until it's gone or it's taken away.  This past friday, maintenance / physical plant guys showed up cut the power to the floor outlets in the graduate studios and covered them with brand new shiny brass plates.  The reason they gave was that: they are unsafe because we(the grads) might spill some liquid in it. In that years that the building has existed has anybody spilled anything in the electrical floor sockets. 

Recently i've started experimenting with integrating electronic components, such as: Speakers, motors, lights, buttons, and stuff, in to my paintings / wall pieces.  soldering gun, hot glue gun, hot knife, lamps, & a/c power are tools / things that i use to make these experiments happen. therefore, no floor electrical sockets equal no happening in my studio. sunday after the power cut and discovering that the outlets on the original wall still had power, i bought i 50 foot bright orange commercial quality extension cord.  with my bright orange contraband, i was able to complete a mask made from and old mask respirator . 

I don't know what it for yet. You can wear it and what ever you say is distorted and digitalized, kinda, and i can plug my ipod to it.

 

OooH Yes, there is an article about this electrical components that can be sewn into clothing.  they use a multi-use platform called an auduino. it's something i'm interested in.

cANT sToP THe MAD scieNTisT

The other night I couln't go to sleep and was relaxing flipping through the channel and the name  damien hirt flashed on screen and i changed the channel i realized who that was and then i changed it back, it was sureal to see so thing about real art on TV. Hearing him talk was reassuring. Demien Hirst stammers and has difficulty speaking, i still have hope. i identify with him. He is in some ways like a mad sciencetist also.

slowly (my work /my art) in (growing/evolving)  from (painting/2d work) to a more 3d/sculptural form.  

when i get to point where i like what going on in one of my art pieces, i don't stop i feel i have to continue. not knowing if it is enough or if it was just a happy accident makes me what to keep working on it further.  i dont know when to stop, and i ruin my work. However, after a while i'll  get to a point where i like what it looks like again and 'll be done. The question i ask myself is: "is first time better than than the second time?"  do i over work my artworks, killing the soul of the work? My satisfaction with the piece goes up and down like the values of a stock in the stock market in a sort of wave with its hill and valleys.

iRuKANDji

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thought Experiment again

recently  I've felt that my art /subject matter doesn't live realm of paint anymore.  I use color in my work, but i don't know how it relates to my subject matter. my work is pseudoscientific and about the dichotomy of positive and negative, the gap between tangible and intangible.

sometimes I wish my was more like kinetic sculptures that can be experienced.

 

New Works

I hadn't made anything since I finished the work for my BFA, and I didn't produce anything this last semester except drawings and thinking. 

 so, i have all this ideas backed up to the point where they're not even relevant or I'm just not in that place anymore, i have moved on.  now i feel overwhelmed and lost.  right now I'm obsessed with drawing particle collisions. however, in suppose to be producing painting and digital work.

I'm in a artistic /creative low point. hopefully i'll get over it.

 soon. I will start on a new series of paintings and hopefully other works. The "look" matter I will be dealing with will be a continuation on where I left of this last april.  I think the underlying subject matter in all my works might be what it means to be human in context of what a human does as oppose to other creature on our planet.