Tank Man. I remember the times surrounding the Tienanmen square massacre, but not really the image its self. It is really striking that amidst all of the rioting one man could star down and stop a line of advancing tanks. Twenty years later most of us really don't know what actually happened that day.

Our project was to create a photo shop collage using the original Tank Man image. The individual collages are then going to be combined in an alternating grid to commemorate the 20th. anniversary of the iconic image.

Ah, everyone's gotta love a goat! A break from the computer lab, led us into this fun silk screening project. Eva made the screens ahead of time, so all we had to do was print away!

So this crazy guy in Wissconsin has a Lazy Boy with a lawn mower engine built into it. Of course he's going to drive it while drinking. This time he got caught!

So I've been thinking about posting some of my ceramic work on here. I would have liked to post some new pieces, but alas I haven't had enough time to make anything other then Claymobile demos and kiln gods in the last couple months. So here are some older images (only about a year old, but old to me)

I have to say that I wasn't that interested in this week's speaker, Melinda Steff. I think she had some good points to make about Etsy and online business, however I found the things she was selling kind of ordinary like a lot of the things available on Etsy. Also my girlfriend and several friends have been involved with Etsy, selling pottery, for the past two years and I felt like I had already gained a lot of the information she had to offer.

Doug Bucci

This weeks speaker was Doug Bucci. He is a professor in the jewelery and cad/cam department at Tyler. He is also a father and a diabetic. He had a whole other set of challenges ahead of him compared to the average BFA candidate. I thought that Doug had a lot of really good things to say about working hard and really setting a path for yourself.

I think that he really got the most out of his graduate school program by entering into a the very new field of 3-D modeling. It gave him the opportunity to really develop something totally his own He also worked as a commercial artist to earn money to fund his studio practice, as well as make connections in his field and recognition for his work. His newer work is really fascinating, creating art work using numbers from his glucose meter. The work really does stem from the way he feels, the better he feels the more beautiful the pieces created by the modeling program. When he feels bad and his sugar is out of whack the program forms malformed creations.

Eileen Neff was the speaker for the lecture this week. Her work consists of photo collage and installation. I was most interested in her newer work. She went from using traditional collage techniques and painting of her images to using photoshop. The split landscapes were fascinating and very surreal with the stagnant foreground and moving background. I would have liked to have seen them in person, I felt like the slides really did not do justice to the true scale of the pieces. Hopefully her work will be in Philadelphia again soon.