A Medieval Triumph

We could all use a little more dressing up and dancing around in our lives. It's not everyday you get to battle a cardboard dragon with a balloon sword in front of several hundred people.

Check out the recording of our performance here!
Boar's Head Juggling Performance 2011

I Like them a Little Under Ripe

Samuli Heimonen

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Samuli Heimonen is an artist from Finland. His paintings really call out to me because they are so sad and heavy. The subjects in his work have complex relationships that are easily understood and empathized by the viewer. His imagery is sometimes very playful in concept, but visually they are so forlorn and crushing to look at. This makes them incredibly endearing and heart wrenching. I can't think of a way to describe his work, other than sad. But this is not the misery type of sad. This is the crushing deep reality that life is hard, and we all only have so much control. Very bittersweet.

James Turrell

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It's like he had a sky sticker and stuck it on the ceiling. The sky is this big expansive thing, but when you see it through a confined space, it becomes something else. It becomes integrated with the living space. The sky seems to be part of the room, like a giant peeled part of the ceiling off and there was a some old wall paper from the previous owners.

That's kind of a cool metaphor. I'll leave you with that.

Actually Pretty Accurate

Sigmund Freud

I've just realized that this is my artist statement dumbed down. Yikes.

"People suck. Everyone has been betrayed, over looked, or just generally frustrated with others. Life sucks. It’s not fair. It makes people more sucky and gives me a complex."

Not Another Zombie Book

I put this in my Scrapbook over six years ago as a junior in high school, and now as a senior in college its concept is at the core of my art.

"I majored in English, but as a young man I read a great deal of psychology," the Head told them. "I began with Freud, of course, everyone begins with Freud... then Jung...Adler... worked my way around the whole ball field from there. Lurking behind all theories of how the minds works is a greater theory: Darwin's. In Freud's vocabulary, the idea of survival as the prime directive is expressed by the concept of the id. In Jung's, by the rather grander idea of blood conscious thought, all memory, all rational ability, were to be stripped from a human mind in a moment, what would remain would be pure and terrible."
He paused, looking around for comment. None of them said anything. The Head nodded as if satisfied and resumed.
"Although neither the Freudians nor the Jungians come right out and say it, they strongly suggest that we may have a core, a single basic carrier wave, or- to use language with which Jordan is comfortable- a single line of written code which cannot be stripped."
"The PD," Jordan said. "The prime directive."
"Yes," the Head agreed. "At bottom, you see, we are not Homo sapiens at all. Our core is madness. The prime directive is murder. What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle. And that is what the Pulse exposed five days ago."

-Cell, A Novel by Stephen King

Well this will change how I write Art History Papers

Google just unveiled The Art Project. A site with you can look at masterpieces from your own computer. You can zoom in, and move around. A google map for art, if you will.

Awesome.