Local Inspirations Rastovich

I am always inspired by art the is hands on design and wanted to share some work by a local artist that is really talented without any sort of education and does sculptures that are just amazing and breath taking in my opinion. Josepth Rastovich has done many local pieces that you may have seen around the city and really didn't know who to give credit to for these great pieces of design and art.


This vine and grape peice is located at historic downtown kennewick

This bike rack is at kennewick high school

This piece is a private piece that I want!

Kennewick high school

Tricity Business and Visitor center

Site to check out! http://www.rastovichart.com/web/commissions/commission.htm

Article from New York Times

Well this article got me thinking about us as students and how we are re-modernizing these famous art pieces to make meaning for our generation.  This is just something that we do to keep art interesting and  inspire we talk a lot in class about how hard it is in the art community to make money and how most artists need to work besides creating art weather it be in teaching or anything else that interests a person. But regardless of the difficulties in being an artists (artists still exist in forms and generate money.)

I found it interesting that Holland Cotter talked about the white community getting the most credit in art. I never really took this into an account. Maybe its because I work where I get to tour a lot of indian communities art and culture and have a wide spread of cultural background thanks to my family. But he did get me thinking about this and its impact.

Most of my thoughts about this article was on my education and where education has shifted my inspirations in creating art and my personal thoughts about the art world and where I see me myself come into place in it.

Robotic "names" done by David Rokeby

Robotics are everywhere, we each own more than a dozen robotics. As a kid I use to want a robot so bad to clean my room and all other choirs assigned at home. I use to think a robot is like the movie 'Bicentennial Man"played by Robbin Williams where they they have to be made of medal and look like humans. Now I know better I had a robot all along, it was called a "Washing Machine".

Today robotics are used everywhere and they can be artistic as well like discussed in the book. David Rokeby has done many artistic work that gets viewers thinking. For example in 1990 Rokeby created an art project piece that could name body parts it was called the "THE GIVER OF NAMES" a peice The Giver of Names is in the collection of the Agnes Etherington Arts Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. This was both interactive and really interesting.

Here is what it looks like
Here is the link to read more about this project


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Electric Lights as an Artistic Medium

After reading page 19 I really started thinking about how light fixtures are being designed more appealing. A lot of light fixtures I have seen lately are almost like your making an artistic puzzle, everywhere you are seeing paper and plastic light fixtures being sold and in ways that anyone can design their own.

Another GREEN thing that is becoming big in restaurants and small businesses are recycled bottles as light fixtures, these bottles as design layout are very appealing to the eye. One bar I saw this in this weekend was actually Red Robins in Spokane Valley's bar... I instantly wanted to take a picture for Pinterest but was told NO! :-(

Edward Muybridge

 In our readings we are talking about how artists are using media works to show motion. There is a serious of chronophotography captioning motion done by Muybridge which is quite fascinating for its times during the 1870s. So I looked up other forms of photography capturing motion by Muybridge and these are just a few of what I came up with.


To me it is like I am looking at images meant for a flip-book laid out flat.

Technology becoming obsolete

The books overview of technology on page 14 and 15 is very interesting and gets you thinking about how fast technology is changing and how people are adapting so quickly. One thing about this degree is that it is so technology based that in ten years this degree will probably be completely changed.

An example of this happening that comes to mind is with the DTC tour of Walla Walla University during winter quarter and how they had camera equipment that is obsolete for today's students use. We never know what the future has in store for us technology wise but one thing we are know is that technology we buy today is outdated very quickly for example computers and video games. Here is an article I read on the subject...

When does technology become obsolete?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57332054-1/when-does-technology-become-obsolete/

New Quarter New Ideas

Hey everyone, thought I'd start with quarter off with some interesting sites I saw over the break. I happened to be in Seattle to do some shopping when I took a tour of a special  project exhibit taking place in Seattle Washington by an Australian artist known as Konstantin Dimopoulos who has turned trees in Seattle blue to get people thinking about deforestation. The Blue is very blue and draws attention to itself. 

See more about this project http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2017895829_bluetrees.html