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Public Art Theft

Public Art Theft

The video posted above is a great example of where vandalism and public art exist in tension with one another - and potentially conflict.

"The History of Loss" is a public art King Edward Station on the Canada Line in Vancouver, Canada. The piece is a $250,000 piece of art work, and is essentially a display case for many small replicas of VW beetles.

Because of the theft, the insurance company whom has insured the piece is saying that the risk may be too high for repeat thefts because of the nature of the piece. They are saying that it is probably the result of a prank - though I like to think that it was an avid VW fanboy who is pleased that he has a piece of VW for himself!

The Art of Eating

This past Thanksgiving I, like many other people, ate way more than I normally eat. As great as everything was, I was literally miserable for two days afterwards from all the sugar.

So, keeping our art theme in mind, I was wondering if anyone had made an art out of eating?

A quick google search led me to The Art of Eating: an independent magazine about all the best food and wine.

I started thinking about how cooking was a great way to incorporate many

different themes in art that we've been discussing in class. For example, it can been seen as art itself (take a look to the left), either literally for purposes of art, or less literally with dual purposes for consumption.

In addition to the artistic nature of the presentation itself, actually cooking can been seen as a type of performance art in some cases: I'm thinking those awesome Hibachi places where they make volcanos out of towers of onions?!

Thai vegetable/fruit carving is one of the most artistic forms of food art, in my opinion, and examples are readily found on any cruise ship. If you don't have access to the buffet lines at the Royal Caribbean right this minute, check out this site: Simply-Thai.com for some awesome watermelon sculptures.

WEEBLY!

So, Dreamweaver was awesome, no doubt about it. It's a really great way to make a website, and it was really helpful that we had someone sitting there teaching us how to do it along the way.

That said, WEEBLY IS EVEN MORE AWESOME!

It's a drag-and-paste website that makes Adobe CS5 look SUPER HARD.

Needless to say, our group unanimously decided to use Weebly instead of Dreamweaver. It seems like Dreamweaver would be a great tool to learn how to use - but I just don't think there's enough time if you aren't already proficient in using the software! I've heard that the other Adobe products can be difficult to learn how to use, though they do make some really powerful software.

I can't wait to have a finished product - it will be neat to see what everyone comes up with as themes - I know we had a little bit of a difficult time narrowing down on one!

Guerrilla Girls of Science

I thought the Guerrilla Girl readings were really interesting to say the least. I remember hearing about them a while back, and the role of the female in art, as well as the role of the female artist is something I haven't thought much about. It did remind me, however, of a similar sex difference that is seen in science fields. There are so few women in science (compared to men) who go on to get Ph.D.'s, conduct postdoctoral work, or much less start running their own labs. It's also really interesting to see how women conduct themselves in the sciences (particularly around labs) compared to women of other fields. In all of the labs I've been involved with, women don't really wear make up, get dressed up in skirts or high heels, or do their nails like women from other "more feminine" fields do. I feel like in science, the perception is that to look feminine is to look dumb, and that's such a shame.

DREAMWEAVER!

I've made other websites for classes before (CS), but I've never been exposed to Dreamweaver. I just think that it's SO COOL!

I actually have a website that I bought to put my resume and stuff on for grad school applications - but I had NO IDEA how to edit it!

I'm so glad we went to the tutorial today! It was really super-helpful.. I was afraid that we were just going to have to learn how to do everything for a website on our own, and now I feel like it will be a much easier and even fun project!

Here's a link to some Dreamweaver tutorials for those of us who are more technologically challenged:

http://www.entheosweb.com/dreamweaver/default.asp

Group Outing to the High

Today our project group went to the High together (except Drew -- I hope you did well on your test, Drew!) and we went to the Titian exhibit, and also toured around the Dali exhibit as well as the permanent 20th century collection. I wanted to post my favorite picture from the exhibit here.. Venus Rising from the Sea... I'm basically obsessed with the ocean (and mermaids), so seeing the original at the High today was really a treat for me.

I thought the way that they painted all the walls in the exhibit red was really interesting, and a really effective choice. I noticed on several of the paintings, there were a lot of dark tones, light tones (like on skin), and then a bright red shirt. The contrast of the red walls to the painting and (mostly) gilded frames was really nice.

I also noticed that they were getting some of the Persistence of Memory pieces for the Dali exhibit beginning on the 12th! I hope that I have some time to go back and see those pieces again! They are definitely my favorite.