Art Blog: It's just more creative this way: Jul 30, 2008

um im confused.

in assignment 7. Are we suppose to tell how we felt about the chapter were reading in class? or just start the paper off on how our reading and writing is different?

Where does your money come from

When coming to Columbia, I was faced with a dilemma. I had to find a way to pay for school. So I applied for the FAFSA and a few grants to get the ball rolling. I knew that my education history was in no kind of shape to go asking for scholarships. I was going to save that for the following year when I have proven myself.
I received a award letter detailing loans and grants. I completed the FAFSA months ago however, I did not receive the letter until it was too late to apply for the grants listed in it so most of the years money will be paid in loans rather than grants.
I had a meeting scheduled with the Student Financial aid Services office. They asked me a few questions and asked if my parents were taking out a loan. I told them no, then they asked if I was getting one of them to cosign. Again, I told them no. They looked at me like I was on crystal meth. I even asked why they were looking at me so crazy. They they told me that almost no one comes in there without a parent taking up a Stafford loan or a cosigner for the plus loan.
I told them that it is because my dad chose the army and my mom got through school on her own. Without the help of anyone so my parents believe that if I really wanted to go to college then I will have to find a way myself.
Truth be told, I wouldn't be here unless I want to be a journalist with all my heart and soul. This isn't a way out of town for me. This is my future. So I'm faced with a much greater dilemma, I have no credit and how am I suppose to come up with the money to pay for school. What high school grad has the money to pay for college?
I think I'm a talented writer that will only get better with every piece of writing and coarse I take. But without college this world will never see what I write. Yes I know that so many people in this world got big and produced their work without the help of college but that was not today.
In this day and age you absolutely MUST have a college degree to be taken seriously. Peter Jennings would never make it to TV without a degree. It's this fact that kills me.
Even though the statistics prove that Harvard drop outs make more money on average than Harvard graduate doesn't mean going to bridge then going home will make my goals a reality.

So my question is: what are you guys doing about financial aid? Does anyone know how I can get around this wall? If not then I honestly don't see why I should finish bridge if this bridge will only lead me back to where I came from.
Back to before that first paper I typed ever meant anything to me. Back when it was just paper. Back to bussing 6.15 an hour, and no way out. To end this, I will use a graduation cliche I listed earlier, "Give them hell!" If you have everything all cool and snazzy for Columbia, give this city hell. Don't go back to your high school ways and slack off. It won't be worth it in the end.

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the picture is in portugese but it translates: "The dog died the next day. On the wall, phrases written with DOG FOOD!"

Would you call this Art?

"As a white man, you can live your whole life never not fitting in. You never walk into a jewelry store that sees only your black skin. You never walk into a bar that only sees your boobs. To be whitie is to be wallpaper. You dont draw attention, good or bad. Still, what would it be like, to live with attention? To just let people stare. To let them fill in the blank, and asume what they will. To let people project some aspects of themselves on you for a whole day."

Do you really think to be whitie is to be wallpaper?
what do you think?

Here is a part of his original [most recent] statement:"Hello everyone. My name is Guillermo Habacuc Vargas. I am 50 years old and an artist. Recently, I have been critisized for my work titled "Eres lo que lees", which features a dog named Nativity. The purpose of the work was not to cause any type of infliction on the poor, innocent creature, but rather to illustrate a point. In my home city of San Jose, Costa Rica, tens of thousands of stray dogs starve and die of illness each year in the streets and no one pays them a second thought.
Now, if you publicly display one of these starving creatures, such as the case with Nativity, it creates a backlash that brings out a big of hypocrisy in all of us. Nativity was a very sick creature and would have died in the streets anyway." - Vargas

BULLSHIT SIGN THE PETITION!!!!

"Verbs and Art"

Joe just brought something that was very interesting to me about verbs and art. If you read my blog about art and noticed that every form of art that I listed ended in; ing. So when you think about it do you feel art is action!! Art just may be action!! I thought that was very interesting to think about!

once again in rememberance of my family....its so hard to say goodbye

What the hell is art?!?

While i do agree that art can be almost anything you want it to be. so long as it expresses an emotion or an idea. it has to take some form of effort on the part of the artist. when Dan flipped that chord cover in class where was the real effort he took and what idea or emotion was he expressing? you cant just splatter paint and say ART! you have to have something behind it. an idea or an emotion has to be present and has to be expressed either through the art itself or through your explanation of said art.

Here are some photos of the "art" i was talking about in Costa Rica (not Honduras i was mistaken) The artist has said in defense of this exhibit that these street dogs are often very sick and would soon die on the street from malnutrition. i would say to them how can you know that if you tie them to a post. the most disturbing thing is some of the pictures show people looking on sipping wine and watching as if they were looking at a wonderful masterpiece. it makes me sick there is no creativity behind this and takes no effort on the part of the artist. tying a knot is no art or expression

http://www.theginblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/dog3.JPG
http://www.scamtypes.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/dog1.jpg
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r269/dearaewi/dd5.jpg
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/resources/2008/04/dogart.jpeg

below is the link the to the petition. it as an online petition that you can sign in an effort to get the Costa Rican government to order this artist to cease and desist from doing this anymore.

http://www.petitiononline.com/13031953/petition.html

this is truely the future.

this is my family and pretty soon i will be all alone cause they all are leaving to go to collage.

Artsy Fartsy

I think that art is a way to get a point across to society. Be it a simple or complex expression of how you feel inside.

Art

To Me Art is what you make it

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this is art

i am calling this blog post art because i want it to be considered as art and if you are sceptical of it being art it easily falls under the category of liturature i dont think it needs a category to be art but if that helps you beleive it is art then it is liturature if you havent noticed im not using any punctuation or capitilization as an art statement this is the greatest peice of art on the planet
if there was a picture of art next to its definition in the dictionary this statement would be
the picture and the new definition at the same time the form of this post is begining to
go in a diagnal dereasing more in words each line i think its pretty cool but as another artistic statement i broke it up but you arent going to even see the diagnal motion of this post anyways because the box i am typing in and the box you will veiw it in are different boxes

"Art, Art, Art"

Art to me is a form of life. I'ts how people express their emotions and feelings. Art can be expressed in singing, dancing, talking, writing, acting etc. They all can tell a story in a different way. Art also has others looking or listening to the art wonder what the artist was thinking about or what were they going through when making or telling the art. That is what I think art is.

ART TO ME

i thnk art is an imagination of what u make up doing anything you like

1 There is art in that grilled cheese

What makes art, well... art? What makes someone an artist? Is it expressing themself or is it to be talented in the area?

Well this is my sister, she lives in NJ. She's actually a bank teller and goes to an art school. This is a painting she did for a banquet to look like a city layout for a talk show. It's on 4 very large pieces of canvas.