performance

performance art is the act of a person or group executing a work of art at a particular place and time. It can involve as many people or as few people as it needs, it is very open ended. A performance piece can span over any given amount of time, or it can be as short as a millisecond. While performance art makes me think of folks like Yoko Ono and other artist of the 60s and 70s, performance art in the west has been formally breaking boundaries since the Dada movement in the early 20th century. With Dada, music and poetry often were at the forefront, but this soon gave way to more adventure. Artists in the mid century began to use performance art to explore sexuality (using meat products and evocative dance) and religion (crucifying dead lambs). I appreciate all of this performance art very much. One artist that is always catching my attention (and I am not alone) is Michelle Gondry. He is well known as a film maker, but he is also a musician. He recently posted a short film on Youtube in which he solves a rubik's cube with two hands that come out of his nostrils. This short movie has a goofy feeling to it, but it was actually very difficult to accomplish.
here is the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB8XedMowDU

pattern(ugh)

after researching patterns both outdoors and on the internet i found that the thing that is most appealing to me is the ability one image has to take on so many different personalities when rotated and placed next to itself. Repition is also settling to me for some reason, maybe because i know what is coming. Maybe that is why it is exciting when a pattern changes slightly, and boy is it exciting.
I see repeating patterns everywhere. I see patterns i love in textiles, which are often modeled after patterns in nature. I also see pattern in food items i enjoy like ribs or these amazing burgers.

icons

iconography
we see icons we are familiar with everywhere. Icons familiarize people with everything from products to instruction.
I always enjoy this starbucks icon because i associate it with delicious drinks. a good marketing tool other coffee companies could use would be to have a circular green logo to lure people in, and once they realize it is NOT actually a starbucks they are patronizing, they are too dead set on coffee that they don't care. I guess there are lawsuites, though.
I chose to Lincoln as my icon because he is associated with so many things; money, power, assassination, bold leadership, gigantism, ect.
I figured it would be interesting to try to capture all of that in a simple profile.