Albert Pujols Collage

Mixed Media Class with Professor Chris Valle

8ft x 6ft

Linoleum Tile 

Medium - Paint, Ink, Charcoal

Inspired by artist Florian Nicholé's work

This piece meant a lot to me because not only is Albert Pujols an amazing baseball player.. and plays for my team (St. Louis Cardinals), he is also a great, genuine person. He has his own Albert Pujols Family Foundation for Down Syndrome. This piece has several articles about him and his successful career and life decisions, most recently being the unsigned contract with the Cardinals - leaving him as a free agent. I only hope he plays for the Cardinals because he has some major fans and it would be really sad to see him leave!!

I first painted a backwash onto the canvas, then laid it on the floor and threw red, yellow and white paint on it. After drying I began to draw the three images with ink. I wanted it to have an abstract feel to it. I wanted to give little detail, still knowing who it is, so that ones eye will complete the image. I then began writing the text and then completed with more detailing.

I would absolutely love to have this signed by Pujols or to even have the honor of giving it to him. We will see if this can happen :)

Working Progress

Showing Close-Up Detail

Starting to add details

All hand written

Finished Product (for now)

Work Area

Art and Techology - Joseph Beuys

Joseph Beuys - Infiltration for Piano 1966

Many of Joseph Beuys works consist of using wool felt and textiles.

Attached is an interesting site about Joseph Beuys

Art and Technology - Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp - Rotary Glass Plates, 1920

Marcel Duchamp's Rotary Glass Plates is one of the first interactive pieces because it has five glass plates that rotate around a metal axis, but from a far distance it looks as though it only has one. It was a motorized sculpture.

Grid Art

Art and Technology - Grid Art Project

I created a gridded pink eye from melty beads.

Back View

Front View

Art and Technology - flipbook

The class had an assignment to create a flipbook from a 400 page book. The animations are to do with the title of the book. My book is by Dean Koontz, Shadow Fires. My animation begins as a person with their shadow. The person leaves the scene and the shadow becomes human. It dances, plays with a ball, lays out under the sun, the sun then turns into fire, then the "shadow man" comes back and does more stuff.

Here are some images from my flipbook.

Art and Technology - NYT article

It is amazing how technology is these days. I mean, what can possibly be next is the question I have. One day people are going to be born and chips will be implanted in their brains so they will be a living computer/robot/genius. Answers to anything and everything are all a two second search from a phone, a computer, an iPad, etc. Who ever refers to books anymore unless it is strictly stated when writing a paper or something. 

I don't know the whole story with this computer on Jeopardy because I've only watched the show a hand full of times. So I don't know why they decided to do this, however I'm sure it is to test a computer against two people and see the turn out. This computer, Watson, on "Jeopardy" doesn't really surprise me that it is going to be faster and know the answers because it has all the knowledge. I would be more worried as the person going against it because it would make them look like they don't know anything. 

February 16, 2011

Computer Wins on ‘Jeopardy!’: Trivial, It’s Not

By JOHN MARKOFF

http://ut.blackboard.com/bbcswebdav/courses/ART211-se1/On%20Jeopardy%20Watson%20Win%20Is%20All%20but%20Trivial%20-%20NYTimes.pdf

Mixed Media - 8x6ft Charcoal and Paint Portrait Continued

Finished Images of Katy Perry

Original Image