Way to forget the art BRYaaaaan!

Yesterday I started up the blogging again yesterday. Thought looking back I set things in motion on a completely different path than this blog was meant for. I got carried away and I didn't post any art. So to make up for that since this is an ART Blog, here is the character design for my first project in my sculpting class at SVA. The class is being taught by the great Dave Cortes of http://www.inuart.com/. He is known for making amazing action figures for companies like Hasbro Toys and Marvel. If you are an avid toy collector I'm sure you have seen his stuff. Lately he is know for making the toys for the Hell Boy comics and movies.

Here's the model sheet I created for the first sculpt. Though I'm not really sure what this guys back story is yet I have some thing cooking but, I wanna see what you guys feel his deal is.



I will post some the art from thesis in a few days, I hope it is well received.

Hey sorry its been a while I am just not to good at this blog writing stuff. I am back at the School of Visual Arts for senior year 2.0. I finished up my time at visual goodness and took the rest of the summer off to concentrate on my senior thesis. Thesis is a 2 to 3 minute animated short, that I have been working for what seem like 2 years now. I will periodically use this blog to update you on my thesis progress. Though as part of my first semester at school I have decided to take a media criticism class and being part of that class requires me to keep a blog. Now I had set up a specific blog for media class but it seems that Google and Blogger have forgot where they have put this new blog so to make things less complicated I will be using this established blog as my blog to post for that class. So if you come to my blog for an update and instead of art you see some off the wall posts about liberal ideas and general pessimism about media today don't be alarmed it is just for this class.

Okay here is the original post I wrote for that blog thank god for saving it in word.

I had the pleasure of reading the book Media Unlimited by Todd Gitlin for my first assignment for my Media Criticism class at the School of Visual Arts. Media unlimited is a really interesting look at the way media has shaped culture and our lives throughout its initial inception. Gitlin starts off his initial argument by showing the reader how much media has shaped the way we see one the smallest part of our day the way we view images. He gives us a long drawn out line of statistics claiming the amount of time we partake in media is rising. He position us to this by juxtaposing the amount of images a typical middle class Dutch house hold of the 17th century would contain compared to the amount of image presented just in our daily live walking down the street. In the past the contemporary Dutch household would contain on average two images contrast that with we see about 150,000 separate images just walking down the streets of New York City every day. Gitlin shows that even the smallest part of the media what we see has become so engrossed in our lives we take for granted what we take in as a whole.
Throughout the book he furthers this point by refer to the media as The Torrent I for one agree with him sometimes I feel over whelmed. We are surrounded by this stream of media we are dripping with its influence. With things like the internet social media and 24 hour news it feels crushing. If the media finds one thing interesting and shines a spot light on this idea it will like an organism travel through the tubes and permeate every ones daily life from conversations with friends to influencing bills and laws in congress. The media has a foot hold on our generation's mindshare and it affects everything. Gitlin argue this same point and points out the ways at which media coverage has changed throughout time and has been exponentially sped up so much so that it has lost a lot of it meaning.
I for one feel that the media machine feeds itself now and has manic episodes where it get so enthralled by itself and it own news making that the machine get stuck on loop. We will have the same coverage of news for months from scandals like Anna Nicole dying, the OJ Simpson trial or what white women has been lost in what area this month. Like Gitlin points out with his quotation of George Simmel that media has become synonymous with money and that the more a person has money the more apathetic( an attitude of the blasé ) they are. One can gather that the media which driven by money now has produced a set of been there done that people numb to the circus show that is media today. On the other hand the media has produced a group of sensationalists that bask in the torrent that is the media and have stopped questioning just accepting all that they have been fed through out there inception. Gitlin in Media Unlimited further breaks down the populous into the different ways we all view media. He shows that there really isn't a way to solve the problems that have come from the stream of media it is just something that is now a part of our lives. Gitlin shows an outline of the way we may partake in the media and how one may live with the torrent. In my Opinion this is the best and most valuable part of the book and shows how one can cope.


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