Final Art

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkZv-_TG8C0

Miami Art Week

An assortment of tempura fried flowers are beautifully arranged on Plexiglas in "Life Serves Up the Occasional Pink Unicorn" (2013) by New York-based Korean artist Anicka Yi—evoking, to us, the pastime of pressing flowers into scrapbooks. 

Radiance--Miami Art Week

Within a room dedicated entirely to the experience of "Radiance" (2013) by Cathy Cunningham-Little we were taken by the prismatic rays stemming from light placed upon angled glass. The installation, seen at Miami Project, turned simplicity into brilliance. It only takes two elements to dazzle.

Speedy Graphito "NEWWORLDS"

Artist Speedy Graphito recently opened his second solo exhibition, NEWWORLDS, at the Fabien Castanier Gallery. Presented together with SANDOW, a multi-platform media and design firm, the exhibition NEWWORLDS examines the mutation and perception of the image through the influence of technology and its associated information glut. 

Richard Hamilton obituary

In 1956 Richard Hamilton, who has died aged 89, attracted attention with his collaged poster image for the This Is Tomorrow exhibition at the Whitechapel gallery in London. It was quite shocking: a naked woman on a sofa and a bodybuilding he-man holding an oversized lollipop labelled "Pop" in a prominent position, lots of domestic gadgets including a TV, the cover of a comic presented as a framed painting, an all-too-urban scene through the landscape window, the ceiling covered with a space-age photo of Earth.

Josh Walton: Digital Storytelling Through Physical Space

This is an interesting presentation about combining physical spaces and digital assets.

The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas

The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas and they provide a behind-the-scenes look into the personalities and inspiration behind The Cosmopolitan.

Icebook

This is amazing, I just can't stop watching it!  The Icebook - the world's first projection mapped pop-up book. An exquisite experience of fragile paper cutouts and video projections that sweep you right into the heart of a fantasy world. It is an intimate and immersive experience of animation, book art and performance.

360° 3D Mapping Projection

Really Nice, but still waiting for the technology to reach the point of being able to projection map to live animate real people in real-time.This is using state of the art 3D mapping, 360 projection and tailored graphics, production studio DrawLight and the renowned artist Rabarama have given a new lease of life to her famous sculpture 'Bozzolo'.

Extreme body modification

 I will never do this, this is crazy !!This is María José Cristerna also known as The Vampire Woman, in a photo just taken at the Venezuela Tattoo International Expo in Caracas, Venezuela. She was considered the woman with the most tattooing and body modifications in the world, but that hasn't stopped her from getting even more.

ALLEN GINSBERG Interview BBC 1994

Allen Ginsberg was a brilliant writer and soul less man all at the same time. While he captivated his readers and audiences with fantastic word craftsmanship,his topics, his attitude, his ideas were the first steps toward the hijacking decency and replacing it with immoral personal satisfaction without regard for anyone other than himself.

Welsh Artist Paints with Jam and Marmite on Toast

Nathan Wyburn, a young Welsh artist from Ebbw Vale, has created a series of celebrity portraits with jam and marmite, on a canvas made of toast.

Portraits Made Using People as Pixels

American artist Craig Alan creates unique portraits of pop-culture icons using people as pixels. Some of his famous pieces include Marilyn Monroe, John F. Kennedy and the Statue of Liberty, but probably the most incredible one is the portrait of Audrey Hepburn from Breakfast At Tiffany’s.

In Your Arms Music Video, Stop Motion Animation

22 months

1,357 hours

30 people

2 ladders

1 still camera

288,000 jelly beans

How Walt Disney Cartoons are made

How animation has gotten so much easier over the years. No more painstaking hours of coloring cels in, now we can do that in just a few minutes, and the colors look much cleaner.

Joséphine Baker: The 1st Black Superstar

RIP Josephine , it makes me sad to see how USA treated people in those days and it continues with hate and disrespect in numbers.

First Device to Create an Image

Because of the expense of building a large room and the hours involved sketching by hand a faint image projected on the wall, the camera obscura was limited to artist who used the device to quickly sketch an image in perfect perportion and then later finish the work as a completed painting. There was still no light sensitive materials that could "capture" the faint image.

GROW VALLEY

Grow Valley is another awesome puzzle game from Eyezmaze, the creator of Grow Island. Aim of this grow game is to figure out how to get the perfect score with the right sequence. 

TETEM gallery

Anne Gentenaar has been doing mapping since her graduation project in 2006 when she found her passion for it. From her work, I see a whole different mapping world. This art work below appeared in the TETEM gallery Enschede.

Light and Paper

 Joanie Lemercier is a French artist who loves to project lights onto his art work. When he was five, he found his passion in art because of his mom. He has a huge passion for geometry, and his favorite shape is the triangle.

#WhatLiftsyou

Kelsey Montague is another painting artist. She started a project called “WhatLiftsyou.”  She has passion in public art, and she believes humans should have hands in creating the art itself. Her work is really thoughtful with bright colors and all kinds of shapes makes the pieces unique.

Global Angel Wings

Colette Miller started the Global Angel Wings project in 2012. She said this project is to remind people that we can be “Angles” of this earth and peace for this world. Now, she has wings all over the world. Her art work comes from her heart, dreams and memories. She believes in putting a lot of love into her work to make it special and strong. This art work is the inspiration for my final project; I believe everyone can be an angel everywhere.  

Flip Page Animation

Rain Room

Rain room remind me of Seattle, but the best part of it is you won't get wet. There are some information about it :Random International’s Rain Room (2012) is an immersive environment of perpetually falling water that pauses wherever a human body is detected. The installation offers visitors an opportunity to experience what is seemingly impossible: the ability to control rain. Rain Room presents a respite from everyday life and an opportunity for sensory reflection within a responsive relationship.

Founded in 2005, Random International is a collaborative studio for experimental practice. They use science and technology to create experiences that aim to question and challenge the human experience within a machine-led world, engaging viewers through explorations of behavior and natural phenomena. In the decade following the studio's inception, the focus of Random International’s artistic practice has continuously evolved and today encompasses sculpture, performance, and installation on an architectural scale.

Les Miserables

Les Miserables

One of my favorite operas is Les Miserables, and it is a great opera with beautiful music. I watched the movie when I was in high school; it was quite a big movie that year. The opera is set in early 19th century France. The main character is a man Jean Valjean who was in jail for nineteen years because he stole food for his starving sister and tried to escape jail a couple of times. After he was released, he had no where to go, because nobody want to give him another chance. Only the bishop took him in and took good care of him. During that time, his past keeps haunting him, and he continues stealing the bishop’s silverware. When the police show up, the bishop denies the charges and says the silverware was a gift for him. After this happened, Jean Valjean decides to make a fresh start in life. He renames himself M. Madeleine and starts a factory. There’s a young lady name Fantine, who is a single mom who gets fired from Valjean’s factory. She becomes a prostitute to feed her young daughter. After a few days, she passes away and gives her daughter to Valjean, and he promises her that he will look after her. Because there are police looking for Valjean, he finds a nice place in a convent, so him and the little girl Cosette can have a safe few years over there. After a couple of years, Cosette falls in love with Marius in a beautiful garden. Marius is the same age as Cosette and has so much passion in politics. There is a revolution during that time, and when  Marius joins in to one of the revolts, he is almost killed. Valjean saves his life because he knows how much Cosette loves Marius. Years later when Valjean is old and sick, Marius and Cosette are by Valjean’s bed when he dies.

I think there are going to be two groups of audiences that will react differently to this opera. One will be really supportive, one will not because this opera has a lot of things about religion and politics. The opera of Les Misérables came from a book that was published in 1862. When it first came out, there were many negative comments. The opera was first performed in 1980, and it received more positive comments by that time. People will be shocked about the extremely emotional plots. I think the author brought a few sensitive subjects of that time, such as religion, politics, romantic, and familial love directly to the reader and audiences. It is really important for people to look back and think again about the history, and what is the true meaning of family. Today, we are trying to make our life as simple as we can, compared the past when we had less patriotism. 

I did not get the chance to see this opera in person, but I went to the movie. In this movie, they used a lot of after effects such photoshop. At the beginning of the movie, they animate the boat. There are more scenes just like the first one. After editing makes the movie more colorful and mythical. 

If I can turn this into a video game, I will make Jean Valjean the first main character. He has to fix houses or boats in the game to gain energy and special coins to win the way to meet the bishop; at this point if he can escape jail he can gain more power for the future. By this time, he can make his own choices to either steal the silverware to go to the next step or he can be a good person and stay in the church forever. He does not have to run anymore, rather he can help the  bishop do great things in the church and start earning money to buy places and making houses. After working hard, he can use the money to go to the market to buy furniture. After he steals the silverware, he will meet the single mom and get the baby girl, Cosette. He can use all of his money to raise the baby girl. After Cosette grows up, she will become the main character, and she can dances around to earn special coins for shopping or short days to meet her future lover. In the game she can pick her outfits everyday. After she earn enough coins, she will meet Marius. At the same time, they all have to be careful of the police. Every time they got caught by the police, they will loose all of the energy and coins so they have to start earning the money again from the start. At the end, Cosette and Marius will have babies together.

Art Show UT

 This is my favorite piece in the art show, I think the black and brown color are perfect in this art piece. I wish I can get a chance to take to the author, it looks like someone is drowning. I'm sure there are a long story behind this amazing art work.

Blackface

"The stock characters of blackface minstrelsy have played a significant role in disseminating racist images, attitudes and perceptions worldwide. Every immigrant group was stereotyped on the music hall stage during the 19th Century, but the history of prejudice, hostility, and ignorance towards black people has insured a unique longevity to the stereotypes. White America's conceptions of Black entertainers were shaped by minstrelsy's mocking caricatures and for over one hundred years the belief that Blacks were racially and socially inferior was fostered by legions of both white and black performers in blackface."
--http://black-face.com

911

I don't really remember that much, I think I was still in elementary school in China. The only thing I remember is there was one time at that year we all had 3 minutes' silence for 911. 

Opera

I think opera is one of the most beautiful thing. The most excited part is you don't know what is going to happened, even through sometimes I already know the story line, but the actors always can surprise me.  The actor's motional is not fake, not like movie they can shoot one shot for more than one time.

Art &Technology

Recently I saw a news about some group of artiest and scientists get together and study about making cheaper fake human body parts. I think art and technology are the most smart thing. which people can enjoy the beady of the art and enjoy the technology. 

Art Vs. Design

After reading Art Vs. Design, I think it is stupid. In my mind, art and design basically are the same thing. Nobody can give it a clear explanation. The same problem as what came first the chicken or the egg. Author and some readers arguing about the words "art" or "design". 

Art Class

1.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrJCSJudmEg
2.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2MBBq2BZ7A
3.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZHef-hAvOMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABlqhti8ptI  
4.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FinPpRjIBz0
5.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwDThTaW1QA
6.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL4ycD6Rg4g
7.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeFjVR6JKQA

8.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtZNLp6UWUI

9.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bltKkngdUMI

10.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQlDEPLHPyQ

Pjotr Sapegin's Madama Butterfly

I just watched  Pjotr Sapegin's Madama Butterfly, it is a really cool short movie. It used so many ways to described the main characters feelings. Special the ending, she was taking her self to parts and became to a butterfly, it truly make me think.

About myself

My name is Ruohan Yu, or you can just call me Rebecca. I picked my English name when I was 7 in an after school English class, the reason why I picked Rebecca is I thought it sounds kind of badass for some reason. After that I just stick with it until now. I moved here from China when I was 14 ish. At the first I lived in Seattle for almost two years, it is a really pretty city but the weather was driving me crazy. The best memory was the sunshine after nine months none stop raining. Because of my dad's business we all moved down here until now. I love everything with art, I think art is most intelligent and powerful way to express our feelings and memories. Before my nerves in my arm got injured I was planning to be a violin performing major. I'm a Digital art major now. I think art and technology is the most amazing thing. I'm really into Premiere, Photoshop and Maya right now. Premiere is my favorite software, I love doing cool technical things with few simple videos. My part time job is a personal shopper/stylist. I love keep myself as busy as I can so right now I'm planning to open my own studio soon as well.