Cueva de las Manos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz5nwLOy9ao


This video reveals that spray painting art is not a recent artistic element-in fact it is been known to be around during the Paleolithic period. In particular the Cueva de las Manos located in Santa Cruz, Argentina. These caves show how the people during that time enjoyed art and what was some of their favorite subject matter. In this video, I compare and contrast this traditional time of spray art and what it is known as today.

Creativity.

Digital versus Analogue media has to do with the signal, digital being many broken of pieces of data and analogue being just a constant signal. In Lev Manovich's article on what new media is, he lists all the different categories of digital media talked about in the press. Such examples are web sites, computer games, DVDs, television shows, films shot in 3D, etc. All these categories and more new media to come demand a level of creativity and individuality to be able to reach the audience in a manner where the media is not simply just another copy. The affect of the first photograph or the "daguerreotype" pushed the media into a new path where creativity went beyond just the industrialized, and into a more digital and easily accessible way to view. The computer helped push this creativity further, as even more things became obtainable and more sophisticated for the artist to push his originality and individuality to the next digital level to appease the audience and himself. Digital media also helped theatrical productions, dances and even started developing movies push themselves to the very next level. DIgital media in the 20th century became a means of communication, a way to talk to others without even being near them, by using a computer, webcam, email, etc. This move into the future helped advance creativity as well. But theft in creativity is also seen more often once the media becomes more digital, photography becomes more popular, etc. Some people may like another's idea but then take that idea and use it as their own. This kind of behavior does not promote digital media as a good thing but rather as a warning or threat of theft of originality. Creativity has and still will always progress with our advances in technology as new things come about and are accessible to the creative.

CMAP

Composition

The Persuaders mentioned in the PBS video focuses highly on advertising and its affect on the American people and their culture. So many advertisements are bombarding the American people-everywhere you look there is an ad trying to sell you something, and The Persuaders reveal how clutter-some our world is with all these advertisements. The more advertisers make, the more they have to develop to reach the American people. There is am immense amount of competition in advertising and they continue to create and create to overcome the other competition. THis can definitely be related to my art field of Scenic Painting. The more I make to appease the audience, the more I have to overcome those skills and please the audience even more. As more and more Scenic Painters arise and portray their own talents to the public, the more I have to hone and create more and better things for the audience. Advertising plays a role in this, as I will have to advertise my own skills and talents to the public in a creative and intellectual manner to please society. 

Montagnard and Religion

My interest in the Montagnard people include a focus on their religion and how they practice it. They practice what is called animism, where they believe that both good and bad spirits are present all around us in the natural world and they are extremely involved in nature.
I would like to learn more about this religion they practice and some of the rituals they do.

http://www.cal.org/co/montagnards/vrelig.html

Self Portrait Blog

My name is Heather Collins and I am a first year Scenic Painter at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. I was born and raised in Yadkinville, NC. I have one brother, Jared who is 12 years old and unlike most siblings we actually get along and rarely ever get into disagreements. My mother's side of the family is Irish, English and Scottish with a few Cherokee relatives. My father 's side is mostly English, Philippines and Cherokee Indian. I have a happy medium between both sides and although I do not look it, I am about 1/3 Indian. My mother works at Blue Cross Blue Shield Insurance in Winston, and my father works at Flow Acura as a Master Technician. Although I have never been out of the country, I would recommend to people moving to the U.S to explore everything this country has to offer. Traveling will be an easy way for newcomers to feel the culture and the everyday American lifestyle that surrounds them. Living here in the United States is diverse all over but is much more different than any other part of the world. Technology is an everyday norm for the people who thrive here. We depend on it to get us places and to keep us in contact with everyone else.

Father and Mother

One of my favorite hybrids, Betsy.

Growing up, my family had a farm and I raised the animals we had there. I would wake up in the morning around 4 A.M and take care of the horses, cows and chickens. My uncle who lived near us had a garden which I helped harvest and gather every season change. I loved the animals at my farm but really what interested me was painting and artwork in general. Technology has had a strong influence on me and the way I live now. When I turned 11, my family and I moved away from our farm and into a home with no animals or garden to keep track of. This change allowed us to breath from the hard work we had been doing to keep our farm afloat. Although I miss the farm and the animals, I am grateful for the move because it allowed us to advance with the rest of society in a forward thrust into the future with technology. Not only did I live on a farm and had that experience, but I became involved in all the sports my school offered. My favorite being Track and Field and Softball. I played both of those from 3rd grade until 12th grade when I graduated. Sports gave me a feeling of release and the freedom to do my best. It seems that painting gave me the same feeling, even more so.
I had been painting and drawing since I learned that I had hands. Living in a mostly country setting surrounded by the more conservative folk, my individuality and creativity was simply looked at as being the odd one out, or the weird girl in town. I never really minded the strange looks toward the way I dressed or presented myself, or even when I went to town covered in paint from a long days painting adventure. Individuality to me is probably the strongest aspect anyone can have and own to carry on in the world. If you have that, there really isn't anything that can bring you down.