California: Malibu

at the end of july i flew out to LA to visit my brother phil and his family (they live in calabasas). me, my sister-in-law carola, and the kids (emily, hailey, & nick) headed to malibu and visited the ghetty villa (i just love it when family/friends let me go to art museums!), the adamson house, the malibu sport fishing pier, and pepperdine university (where phil works). and if you can believe it we went shopping for a couple hours too. whew. enjoy the pretty blues, i know i did.

stay tuned, more of california to come!

sculpture & 3d design.

sculpture: 

bronze casting: Imaginary (Un)it

bronze, liver of sulfur patina.

stone carving: [dis]Appear

alabaster. 

steel fabrication: The Roots of the Mountain (Reflection)

steel, white rustoleum spray paint. 

3d design:

formalism: Wanderlust

steel, black rustoleum spray paint. 

environmental space: Imagined Landscape

google sketch-up. 

{the "box" would be filled with chalk allowing the audience to participate and draw/describe their own imagined landscape on the black pyramids which would be covered in chalkboard paint}

ephemera: Gather

objects collected from utah lake.

there is a lot i could say about each of these, but i will spare you from going into too much detail. just know that these classes were a pain for me. especially that large steel piece (Wanderlust). that one took me so much time i don't even want to think about it. but i never have to weld again. thank goodness. {there is also another wood piece that i forgot to take a picture of before i left utah. whoops}.

ps-

{i slept in until 2:30pm one day this week. see if you can top that! doubt it}.

enjoy your summer! i know i am. 

gather: a stop-motion video & how-to

A short stop-motion video about ephemeral art. I went to Utah Lake, walked around the shore for 45 minutes listening to an Iron and Wine playlist. Every time the word "the" was sung I would pick something up. This composition documents what I gathered during the process of performance that day.
[Song: Generator (Second Floor) by Freelance Whales].

and now for the how-to, if you ever want to make a stop-motion video yourself:

{for mac users only}

1. decide upon a simple idea first

2. take stills of an object that you slowly move/add unto/take away from. {best if the camera is in the same position, so use a tripod!} take a picture for each frame, start to finish. for example, if you wanted to capture a toy moving from one place to another, take a picture of it, move it a small amount, take another picture, move it, take a picture, and so on until you are done.

3. upload photos to iphoto {edit accordingly}.

4. quit iphoto and open imovie. create a new project. 

5. on the right hand side of the timeline there will be an icon of a camera, click on it. select the pictures you want to use, they should already be in the order you uploaded them in. drag and drop them into the box of your new project. {on my screen it is the upper half section of imovie, above the timeline}. 

6. now that all your stills are there you can adjust the speed you want the photos to appear. hover your mouse over the first still and you will be able to change the settings of the clip. change the number of seconds. you also have the option to apply that time frame to all slides. 

7. to add music, select the music icon on the right side of the timeline and you can pick a song from your itunes. drag and drop that into the space as well. 

and voilá! if you want to edit it more complexly just look up tutorials online, there are lots of them! 

if you have any questions, you can ask me but i won't guarantee i know the answer. 

enjoy! 

land art.

remember this post about the land artist richard long, and all those previous posts with pictures from deer creek reservoir? well i did an artist presentation on him in my contemporary art class and also had to do some work in response as a part of it. so that's why i drove all the way over there after general conference on saturday, and i am so glad i did. it was a beautiful day and there was no one in sight. 

so these are my quick little attempts i have to share. resulting in at least three splinters from the grass, and a car full of bugs from the bark i brought home. worth it.

check out richard long's work here. 

 tried to make a line with grass where the water meets the shore. unsuccessful. still have the marks to prove it.

happy end of classes! 

now go listen to some dirty projectors, arcade fire, beirut, and local natives.