Response: "New Media in Art" Intro: Pgs18-28

In the book, New Media in Art, by Michael Rush mentions Sergei Eisenstein, film director and theorist developed a new way to express the Avant-Garde cinema. Rush states Sergei's work was a clear product of the "interplay of art, technology, and life during the Soviet avant-garde period" (18). Using vibrant processes of editing (cinematography montage) he could manipulate emotions through this newly discovered technique. He wanted to view the world in cinema a parallel way under Marxism. Sergei stated "a new society meant a new kind of vision; that the way people saw things must be altered; that it was insufficient to put new material before old eyes" in other words there is no growth with someone of the older generation because they are set in their ideals unchanged by time. Similar to showing older generation new contemporary art and them not understanding what makes so powerful, for example, Andy Warhol "Chicken Noodle Soup" painting was beautiful way saying F-off art establishments that think this not art. But they do not understand why its a great thing to question society values of what is art. Or it's sharing a funny vine video with parent and they do not find it funny at all.

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DTC 355: Timelapse project

"Why the F**k I'm Up" "for this projected I took a shit ton of photos for about 6 months now. And I did not know what I wanted to do with them. Anyway, I took slices of each photo that was taken at an ungodly hour. And rearranged them into a new view of my car window. And I will say I was not driving when I produced these photos. It pays off sometimes to be early. But I rather be sleeping."

Easy Street Records & Cafe

This weekend I went to an awesome record store in Seattle called Easy Street Records. Man oh, oh man was I was in vinyl record heaven, at first glance the store had some records, merch, and cafe. And I was a little excited to fully know to expect, so I checked out a few bins seeing that it was a marked sale. And some rows wrapped around the upper level which was small but it had a whole lot of vinyl records. Words cannot explain the feeling in a record store and a great one for that matter. But what made this store worth the trip was the number of rare records that you cannot find at Best Buy, Barnes n Nobles, Wal-Mart or Adventure Land Comics store. This place is my top favorite record store aside from RIP "Off the Record" which unfortunately went out business.

Response: New Media in Art Ch1 64-78 pgs

In last part of chapter 1 Michael Rush cites an artist, Trisha Brown created one of the first dance performance media videos in 1966 (77). The video shows Brown dancing with a projector to her back showing images of her choreography as she real time performing in front of audience. I thought it was a interesting and cool idea. Curious to see if the projector was in the way of the live performance. Or that was intention or if she powered through. The weight of projector did not even phase her. She is total badass if she did not have any problems. I think she is badass either way.

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