MoMA PS1: The Good, the Bad, and the Misunderstood

There are some good art work out there. Ones that would make you wonder many things. There is always the one you really like, the one that could give you a migrane and one that you just don't understand why it's called art.

The artist Clifford Owens really caught my eye. I can't choose a work from him. All of his work is really weird and unusual. Something different that i haven't seen in my life. His work consists of nakedness and just completely weird. Weird is how i can some up his work. At first i would say, "what in the world is this man doing..?" I couldn't keep my eye of all the stuff he did in his videos. But then again, that's exactly what he wants you to do and think. It's what makes art art. Looking at it over and over again for how weird it is. He achieved his goal in making people view his weirdness. Different is what makes something amazing and enjoyable.

A work that i thought was bad was "Rock it" by Carmine Boccuzzi and Bernard Lumpkin. This work was just... i don't know i can't explain it.. but it gave me a migrane. Migrane as in.. i just couldn't stand it. How is this art? How can simple wood, cardboard, foam and a mannequin's head be art? It's too simple but yet it might have a meaning. Or maybe the artists were bored and decided to build this baby up and call it art.

A confusing art work for me was "Chicken burrito, Beef burrito". I honestly have no words for it. Simple as it can be.. it's a white room with nothing in it. All there is is a silly song playing. A kind of song you might hear when the main character is walking down the street all happy in a cartoon. I found it to be pretty catchy and scary. Going in that white room made me think, "What if someone just stays here for hours and hours with that same song playing?" It reminded me of the scene from Stanley Kubrick's "A clockwork orange" When the main character was scarred for life with Beethoven's ninth symphony. Anyway, this honestly made me wonder why this is called art. A simple white room and a song.

Some people may understand all the values of art. But do people understand why exactly these specific things are art? Sometimes art is just... things no one can explain. Some do have stories behind it but barely have to do anything with the work. It's exactly how art works. If it were up to me and if i were to have my art put out there.. it'll just be my comic book drawings and simple crazy stuff i love to draw. But either way, i give these artists props for having a wild imagination and achieving their artist goals with some nonsense.

• Clifford Owens
  
  
• "Rock it"
  Collection Carmine Boccuzzi and Bernard Lumpkin, New York
  2008
  
• "Chicken burrito, Beef burrito"
  Unknown

Design in our lives.

Through our lives, we have been presented by many inventions to help out human kind. Some weren't as successful as others and some did satisfy our needs. There were some inventions out there that probably would do the same as anything we use now but they weren't released for many reason. 

One man made inventions had to be Kazuo Kawasaki's "Carna folding chair".  This invention was to be made with aluminum honeycomb-core wheels and a rubber seat as well as it's tires. It was also meant to be very comfortable, hence the comfy looking seat that looks like bubbles. Kawasaki also added optional parts to add into the Carna folding chair to personalize the comfort. The Carna folding chair was named Carna after the Roman goddess who had power over entrances and exits and was considered a guardian angel. I believe this invention was a little low functional since it's weight is light to carry around, the person wanting to use it might have trouble riding it around due to their weight and so forth.



The thinkpad "butterfly" 701 series laptop computer was introduced in 1995 by the IBM company. The main thing about this laptop computer was it's extendable keyboard that would spread out once you've opened the laptop. The laptop is 9.7 inches when closed and when opened, a 11.5 inch wide keyboard spreads out. How this works is the laptop is small to make it comfortable to carry around, but if the keyboard its self is the same inch as the laptop it wouldn't be compatible to your working hands. That where the spread of the keyboard comes in handy, to make it easier for you to type. There are no low functional stuff for this product. The only low functional about this product it's is size of RAM. If you compared this product to the computers today, its size of RAM would not top it. It wouldn't matter now because this was several years ago. 

This piece of work, (I don't remember the name or who made it) made me wonder many things. It's excellent for making your home a much more crowded free space. You have your living room space on top of your bed and on the other side would be your drawers. Perfect, yes? But here comes the what ifs. What if you're sleeping in your bed then all of a sudden you have people sitting on the living room furniture which is located ON TOP of your bed. You would have people talking, laughing and stopping around while you're there sleeping your troubles away. Not a good idea, no? But the fact that it's made to make your place bigger and less crowded makes this work perfect. 

Not all man made inventions are there to satisfy everyone. Take the Ipad for example, the ipad satisfy a few people who want to have a neat work space for school and work. But when it comes to a daily basis it's sort of useless. As my sister stated one time, "The ipad is exactly like an Itouch.. just bigger. There's no point." You see, to a person like myself, i will need an ipad for college work. And college work only. Macs are designed to be faster and neat which is why most college students use it more than PCs. But to make my point clear, most of these inventions are there for a reason even though they fail to make others happy. The inventors also learn from the consumers in their reviews of their products. So next time they will make their next product much more excellent than their previous.


Work cited: 

• Kazuo Kawasaki
  "Carna folding chair"
  Manufactured by SIG workshop Co. Ltd, Japan
  1995

• Sam Lucente, Richard Sapper and Robert Tennant.
  "Think pad 701 portable computer"
  Manufactured by International Business Machines Corp, USA
  1996

• Unknown

 

Illustrate a story

This illustrates the story behind the Columbine High school shooting that happened in April 20, 1999. This story fascinates me the most out of everything else in history. The story goes like this, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were both bullied. They were outcasts in their high school. But most of all, they hated everything. They despised almost every little thing and all they had in their mind was hate. They came up with plans in killing people. And that's when they decided to start their ultimate plan to start the biggest massacre in 1999 (or so i think). Their main targets were Jocks but they also shot random students who were in their way. Eric and Dylan were both racists, anarchists, and followed the power of hitler. I want to say they were sort of like skinheads.

The illustration i have made is the small story of Brooks Brown. He was a friend of Eric and Dylan. But in the beginning, Brooks was hated by them because of the fact that Brooks had found out a list of people Eric and Dylan wanted to kill and he was one of them. Brooks decided to tell his parents and his parents told the police. Ever since, Brooks was hated by Eric and Dylan. Later on, they both forgave Brooks and they were fine. On April 20th, Brooks saw that Eric did not make it to class and Brooks knew that something was wrong because Eric would never miss a class when there's a test involved. When Brooks went outside of school to take a cigarette break, he found Eric parked in the school's parking lot. Brooks went up to Eric and decided to yell at him, "What the f*ck dude, you missed a test in class today! What the hell is wrong with you?!" Eric was already dressed and ready to go in school and do his plans but waited on Dylan to arrive.  "I like you now, Brooks. Go home. Just go." Brooks saw something suspicious in the way Eric was dress and the way he told him to go away. Brooks, with no questions decided to take what he said and ran home. Brooks already knew what was going to happen. I think he already knew deep inside  him.



His story and the rest of the Columbine High school Massacre story is right here on this link.