In Courtesy of the Lakers' Victory in the Finals

My Weekend!

I know it's a little too late to blog about my weekend but I've been too busy with school lately. So I haven't gotten the chance to go online and blog about it. Well on Friday, I didn't feel like going anywhere once I got home because I wanted to stay and watch the Lakers game. I was hoping that they would win since they had the advantage of playing against a team that is missing one of their best players. They were missing their best 2 guard and he's out for the rest of the season. I was right--they ended up winning and that made my night. I gave up my plans just to watch the game but it was all worth it. However, Saturday was coming and I had many plans for that day and I knew I was going to have lots of fun. So my Saturday started off with a trip to UC Riverside. We got on this really nice bus and it was the best bus I have ever ridden in my life. The driver was really nice and he didn't get angry at me for taking too long to get on the bus. I felt really bad because I made him wait so long and it was my fault that I was late. After two hours of riding on the bus we finally arrived to the campus and it didn't look that nice. The neighborhood around the campus was so ghetto that it felt like living in the projects. Anyways, all we did was take a tour around the campus and the only thing I liked about the campus was the gym. But I'm pretty sure all of the other UCs would have a gym like that so it didn't matter how good the gym looks. After our tour, we went to this YogurtLand knockoff and bought ourselves some frozen yogurt. I would never go to that place again. I can go to YogurtLand and get the same amount of yogurt with better taste for a cheaper price. I highly suggest you guys to try out YogurtLand. So after a long ride back home, I went to my friend's house with a few of my friends to rest for a little while. At around 7, we went to this Thai restaurant and we ordered food to go. Thirty minutes later, we went to the Alhambra golf course to try out the sport. In my opinion, golf is the hardest sport ever. First of all, you need to know how position yourself so you can hit the ball well. Second of all, you need to learn how to control the ball and you need a lot of precision. Well that's enough for my Saturday. On Sunday, I just stayed home and clean because I haven't cleaned my room in a month. The Lakers game also forced me to stay home because I can never miss a Lakers game during the playoffs. To make things short, I didn't really do much on Sunday and Saturday was so much better. That's it for my weekend update. Enjoy reading =]

First Required Blog

1)What is installation art?

Installation Art involves the use of sculptural materials and other materials to transform a space or an area. Installation art can be any material intervention in everyday public or private spaces; not just gallery spaces. It uses almost any media possible to create an experience in a particular environment. Some of these materials used in installation art are: video, sound, performance, immersive virtual reality, and the so-called internet. Here are some prime examples of installation art:





2)What is performing arts?

Performing Arts are forms of art in which the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence while the other things use materials such as clay, metal, or paint. The materials can be molded or transformed to create a physical art object. Forms of performing arts include dance, music, opera, theater, and circus arts. Performers include actors, comedians, dancers, musicians, and singers. The performers' appearance incorporates costumes, make-up, etc. Prime examples of performing arts are:






3) Who is Laurie Anderson?



Laurie Anderson was born on June 5, 1947 and she is an American experimental artist. She plays the violin, keyboards, and sings in various experimental music and art rock styles. Her widely renown single, O Superman, reached number two on the UK pop charts. She also invented numerous amounts of instruments--the tape-bow violin and the talking stick. Prior to her music career, she was a sculptor. As a sculptor, she did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s.

Single Frame Flash Animation

Epic Final Project

ATTENTION!!!!!

Due to the big size of my videos, I will find some time to post them up later. The two videos I will post up are my music video and my final project. I like turtles. They're so cute. Sorry for the inconvenience guys. You will see my epic videos as soon as I find the time to upload them =]

Harold and Maude

Today, Ms. Goldin put on a film for us and it's called "Harold and Maude." For some odd reason, my first impression of this movie was that it's strange and trippy. The film was actually humorous as well. It may seem strange and trippy but there are times where it's just flat out hilarious. A good thing about this movie that I noticed was the background music they constantly played. The beginning is quite confusing but hopefully I'll start to pick up the plot as the film progresses. So far, it seems like the mother of Harold is trying to get him to live the life she wants him to live and he tries to drift away from his current life. It's evident that Harold fakes his death in order to gain his mother's attention. As he continues to fake his death, his mother is starting to get fed up with all this nonsense and she sends him somewhere to get some counseling.

Since we didn't finish watching the movie, I'll add more to this blog when I'm finished watching the film...