Oh,Nelly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNbLcLlnNc0

I absolutely love Nelly Furtado. Her lyrics are thoughtful and smart and her voice is needed in the current music climate . I was really excited to hear her new music, and I like the snippet of the chorus that I heard a couple of weeks ago. However, now that I've heard the song , I'm so disappointed , Nelly what is this ? I'm all about artist growth but where did your personality go ? This sounds like it could be a Rhianna record. Rhianna is a hyped record label created person, who depends on her wild actions, fashion, and hair to keep her in the press. Her songs are big but she's doesn't write them or sing them people shit on ke$ha for sing talking but there both  doing the same thing. I prefer Ke$ha by the way.  Her songs are big pop hits, but they wont stand the test of time there just shitty, catchy songs. She's not a artist.  Nelly Furtado is. I understand it's been a while since she's had a big radio hit but honestly, don't sell your soul especially if the song sucks.

Life's funny Moments

Mom:Who's Florence and the Machine?
Me :  Not to sound sacrilegious are anything but ,If Jesus was a women and a musician , she'd be her.

I've always said I need a tv show. My bff and I have been cooking up this idea since we were eight.

A list of words I hate :

- Urban -literally makes my skin crawl, I think it's rather racist when used to talk about a group of people

-Craft, crafty, arts and crafts - disrespectful

-Spicy - I hate when it's used when talking about Latin/Hispanic/Brown people. Rude and offensive.

-Creative- If you aren't an artist you shouldn't used this world . It's out of context.

As of 4.9.12 this is all for now. I'm sure more will be added.

Fill in the bubble

I don't like the term "Latino", as a "Latina" I don't understand the term . I don't speak Latin I speak Spanish. I don't understand what Hispanic means either. The greaser is a thick mustached , greasy oily looking bandit . Who was also in trouble I bet the character had a pancho or something of stereotypical nature.
the tempest, sexy, Latin lover...
ugh every movie and music video has them. Which has just increased the stereotype of what Spanish people are too look like. With there perfect faces beautiful eyes and lips ,muscular sexy body tan but not to dark! women have the long wavy hair and the men have short cropped wavy locks. They don't speak English very well, everyone is in love with them . There also suckers for love. The love interest is usually white and they are enthralled by there latino lover they've never been with anyone like them before and want no other type of deal. This emerged 1910-190's. With actors like Beatriz Michelena and Myrtle Gonzalez, Rudolphn Valentino, Ramon Novarro. Most of those actors could probably pass of white though.They assimilated well so that they could play either roles. The good neigh boor polciy was a fedreal plan to give recognition an such to U.S ties with Latin America( so that they could get oil and have military bases). This started latino historical films to be made.

Re-Learning

As an artist the world around us inspires us and in order to create work we have to research topics to fully understand in order to make the work meaning full. And not just will this is what I think and feel about what happened its more powerful if it’s based on the story or thru the work if thru the work if the artist can highlight an unknown fact. Or an unknown part of history, and by that I mean events that aren’t taught in schools or aren’t in textbooks.
I think it’s a beautiful thing when people come together and have conversations about art. And when it comes to working together the flow of ideas can cause inspiration for other people in the group of change there thought processes. Prior to this class, I’ve never worked with a group of people on a project, It’s hard to hard with other people and deal with personalities and get the project started and be able to focus on a project and have everyone be ok with it is difficult to do.
Working on a project for years for me makes me procrastinate and feel like maybe I shouldn’t finish the project because since it’s not done at this point. However it does make me think of what exactly I want to say with this project, why I am doing the project, and why did I choose to start the project and use the materials I did. So the thought process is more developed than just getting to work on the project and finishing it. I also find my self-fixing things on projects after the fact. I do that either because I wanted to do it this way but couldn’t do to the rules of the assignment or I think will be better the new way.
I’ve always been drawn to decorative arts, and thru my years of classes I’ve learned about work being “kitschy” and find my self-evaluating the work. Maybe I do that because I’m trying not to like it, I’m not really sure. But there’s a way to design decorative without it being not fine art based. Because everything is a learning process which can make it into a area of fine art that’s not taught in art schools, like how Judy found porcelain painting after she had graduated form college with her background in fine art she had to learn a new way of art that in a way isn’t know or respected as art or fine art.
I love the concept of D.I.Y, I learned about it a couple of years ago but I’m not really familiar with artists or collectives which why I chose to take this class. I believe that art is moving towards this type of practice. Artist just need to get out there, outside the classroom, outside the museum or gallery and have their work is experienced. Our culture is very internet based, I feel like what I do I should post it online for the work to be able to reach a wide audience and try to get my name out there anyway I can, because more than ever the art worlds more competitive and with the economic crisis. It forces artist to bind together or work alone and work and go back to create art that they like not for a specific show or commission.

A letter to Kanye West

Mr. West posted this on his facebook, some might question the validity of this letter questions may arise if it’s really a letter that he received or not. But I think that it is, I think that Kanye is an honest, funny and good guy deep down. I am forever a fan, his genius. Despite his image and things he has said and says. I think his truthful and funny . I think that I understand him a little bit more because we are both artistic, we don’t give a shit, and we are only children. If you think that’s weird then… I don’t care .

Sailboats and Trees

I did some dyeing over the weekend. I loved the marks that were left on my fingers after I finished. In the green one I see a tree, maybe a willow tree and a figure standing next to it. The blue one looks like a little sailboat to me. Do you see it?

Scary Goggle

Over Spring break I have been looking for and applying to local internships. I need a summer internship in order to graduate in the fall. So while I was sending my cover letter and resume out to a local art initiative I seen the ad. So not only does Google track everything that you do they also hear your conversations and know your life plans. I plan on moving to south Florida after I graduate (probably a year later). This is crazy I feel like they are tracking my ever move, whether I am online or not.

Response from “The Man”

In my last post, Self Deprivation I talked about my week without OPI. Another part of the assignment was to post the review to the company or on a related site. I sent my review to OPI and posted it on some nail site (I don’t remember). About a week later I got an email from a secretary to OPI executives (I don’t want to name names, really this is blog is about me J). The email asked for my home address, weridlyawesome I thought. In response I gave them my email and asked what I should be expecting and she said a gift. A week later I received that beautiful package. I was so surprised and touched. OPI really is my favorite nail polish brand and this has really cemented me as a loyal customer that they will have forever. I never expected to get such a generous response. The card that I got read “ Sorry about your experience with Sally Hansen Insta-Dri amongst everything thing that I said, they mentioned that?

Weird

I hopped on the Internet and come to find out COTY owns both OPI and Sally Hansen. So that’s why.

Self-deprivation

February 8^th, 2012 I started my week without any OPI products. I painted nails on my left hand with Sally Hansen Insta-Dri 08 Lightening and my right hand with Maybelline New York Express Finish Pretty in purple. I immediately resented my decision when the polish didn’t go on evenly (due to the brush and polish not my skills) .I knew I would have to do three coasts of polish, to get the color right and not “lumpy”. “Lumpy” is a term I use to describe when you can see the nail beneath the color and the coat isn’t even. Opposed to the two coats that I usually do with OPI. I also knew it would take forever to dry despite there names. The next day (Wednesday) less than 24 hours later my left thumb and right middle finger where already chipped. On Thursday all the nails on my right hand were chipped. I really just wanted to take the polish off and just lie but I fought my urges and continued on. On Friday could peel the Sally Hansen nail polish off of my nails. Also, this may or may not have to do with the product but my left pinky nail broke. Needless to say I was very upset and was becoming very self aware and tired to hide my hands in anyway possible. That Saturday I was supposed to go out but I didn’t feel well and my nails were ugly so there was no way I going to force myself to go out. On Sunday I filled my nails to keep them even and in effort to take my mind away from how chipped there were. On Monday, I couldn’t wait until Tuesday to take the nail polish off. I was also thinking of designs and colors to do with my nails using OPI products. I found myself looking at people’s nails more. I didn’t wait to the exact time that I did my nails to take my polish off I did as soon as I woke up on Tuesday. I’ve always been complimented on my nails with or without polish. Polishing my nails makes me happy; it’s an instant gratification. It’s also a form of expression for me. I do use and own many other types of nail polish but they don’t last as long as OPI does. I found that OPI doesn’t chip (with or with out top coat) the polish slowly recedes. I can have my nails with OPI polish for a week to two weeks without doing them over or feeling self conscious about them. I don’t really know how to convey it to others without sounding extreme. However, it’s like going without your scarf that you know is going to keep you warm. OPI products are dependable and long lasting. The colors are impeccable and vibrant, just like me. The names of the polish are unique and humorous just like me. To me OPI means the freedom of self-expression through my nails and it makes me feel fabulous.

Leap Day University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Arrest

So I was in the library in between classes and I noticed this guy in the table in front of me with an afro . I noticed him mostly because of his afro and from the fact that he was just sitting there talking to some girl in the library. I go to the uwm union to re-fill my water bottle and BOOM I see ass ,it took awhile to register what was going on and I noticed it was a guy so I thought I wanna see his penis so I start walking and by this time a crowd starts to emerge on the stairs of the union by the time I got a good spot he was outside so me and some new found friends proceed to outside and there he was same guy from the library butt ass naked on the ground outside the union surrounded by cops. We tired going out the door but Officer Campos asked us to go out another door , and so we did. There was about 6 officers and they had a very hard time getting the hand cuffs on him he didnt want to stand , well he said he was standing. However he wasnt the officers then dragged him to the car (as shown in the video). I gave a witness account to Officer Whitenack. I manged to get out of her that they heard from the walkie talkies and he started in the library. He was just strolling by saying "You guys act like you never seen life before". I wish I was making this shit up.

Link to Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxxbsnBstDA&feature=youtu.be

In Case Of Fire...

This "phone" is located in UWM-Peck School Of The Arts, outside of the metal smith lab. Where fires and other dangerous situations can happen. I guess they are assuming that people will use their cell phones but nonetheless.

Also when they redid the walls in the Peck School of the Arts, one of the materials that they used is flammable. They recommended that only about 10 - 20 % of the walls have art on them because of this.

Every single art practice , is hazardous to the artist and to the building . Yes there's rules and regulations that we all follow and safety precautions that we are beat over the head with. There's also vents, although they are very problematic vents, to take away the toxic fumes. There's no real sense of danger in the building on a daily basis. Aside from the fact that it's made with flammable walls and contains lots of flammable materials.... it's become my second home .

I say all this to say really flammable walls? Do you want the students to die?

Ammonia

The location of this piece (I am calling it piece because I consider it a piece of art.) was in front of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 's Mitchell Hall. I don’t know who or whom created it, I wish I did. In front of Mitchell Hall is where a lot of smokers smoke their cigarettes. There are always countless amounts of cigarette buds around the entrance of the building. One day, I noticed this and laughed, it's pure genius. I also thought " Eww,I hope they washed there hands or used gloves before they touched those." I don’t know what was used to make the cigarettes stay but it did last a long time, (about a week ) and then when it was gone the imprint of the wording stayed for a bit longer.

I am really saddened by the large amount of students that smoke. It's like there shortening their life . Also, as a non-smoker and an asthmatic is its annoying.

So Apparently...

My phone has the ability to receive messages from Sunday, February 6, 2106....

Oh Sprint, how your service amazes me.

Basically All My Life

I remember seeing this guy drive around the city, from when I was a toddler till now. I have no idea what it is that his saying or what the images on his car say. However I feel like it's part of the Milwaukee cultural experience to know of his unknown man. Who drives around the city with a megaphone.

Nails Did

Since Summer 2011 I’ve become obsessed with nail polish. Mainly OPI, which has become costly but I just love it. I’ve spent hours on my nails and I don’t feel bad about it.

But Why?

Color= Expression
And self-expression is everything to me.

Bright, bold and eye catching things that I try to evoke through my self and in my artwork. I have a natural knack for color,I like putting color combinations together. Nails are an easy way to express ones self and play with color. To see
the color on my nails make me happy which is something we all need something near us that makes us happy.

But that rant is kind of stupid , maybe there is something more behind this recent obsession.

I’ve always been complimented on my nails, my mother always points them out to people saying, “Look how pretty her hands are, look at those beautiful almond shaped nails.” I guess I feel like I should give them something to look when my mother points them out and I do think I have pretty hands and nails so why not work with it?

Speaking of my mother, I’ve spent numerous hours with her in nail salons growing up and even now. In the summer we go together to get pedicures, it’s something that we do religiously. And then we argue she gets mad because I only want a pedicure not a manicure because my nails have to be a specific way and they just don’t to it right.
The right way is perfectly square, preferably medium length. Of my own natural nails, I have never or will ever get fak

e nails. I’ve seen the destruction that they do to one’s real nail

s and I really don’t think that they are pretty. They look like plastic globs .

My nails having to be perfectly square comes from the fact that I used to bite my nails when I was younger, I don’t remember how it started but I realized the problem was that if they had perfectly square, then I didn’t bite them.


Which is funny because I am only that way about my nails anything else can be crooked, doesn’t matter to me.

I think my nail obsession which is a stretch but maybe not, I’m not sure yet. Boils down to this I like the instant gratification of it to see my ideas come out of my head faster, like Photoshop and photography. It does however feed into my need for things to be now, Now, NOW but I think it’s helping. I always mess up my nails because they don’t dry fast enough but I’m learning to wait, stay still and it will happen.

I love how hobbies, or maybe that’s the wrong word, Interests no still wrong word.I love how what we like to do had the power to become introspective mirrors into one’s self.

Last Thoughts:

-Matching nails and feet are corny.

-Stiletto nails are scary you could hurt yourself.