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Project Finale

Wed, 03 May 2006 16:18:42 -0600

SO..... this is my final project. I have dedicated myself to not doing anything serious this semester since my portrait apparantly scared the crap outa everyone. I liked the print idea and realized that my walls needed decoration so I went with an idea for a video game i thought up some time ago. It stars the most capable and(in MY humble opinion) one of the most overlooked characters in the mario world. Toad

scott griesbach

Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:25:48 -0600

So the guy i chose is the guy above. Griesbach is a humble man in artist terms in my honest opinion. He is under the opinion that every good idean has already been thought of already. All the ingredients are in existance. All he does.( in his opinion) are antics similar to that of a opinion cartoonist in the paper. He creates a scenario that has a definite stereotypical feel to it. A beautiful scene and without concept it would still be quite a piece of work. But what he does after that is he will take a figure or some sort of act that usually wouldnt belong there and incorporate it. Just like the newspaper.
Though his work is alot more intricate than a news cartoon he will use beautifully powerful cut and paste imagery that will provoke though and emotion. His imagery will/can range from Halocaust pictures, to Edenic scenery that was painted with skill. Some scenes make you wonder what his thought processes are, like his "The Loss of Certainty" You begin pondering what major stereotype you missed that would have made the joke worth it. Im certain if i was smarter i would find it hilarious.
His more serious pieces like "when will you learn?" and " close reading pull the readers attention to a carefull attentive analysis of what could be goin on? Mr. Griesbach does his best to make sure that his message stays as ambiguos but clear as possible. Though you dont know the actual event that occurred the result is always translated.
I think as an artist Scott Griesbach does a successful job of moving art foreward. Desacrilizing certain images, and stereo types so that the box of art get just that much bigger.

Documentary on The trials or something or another greek

Mon, 10 Apr 2006 16:17:30 -0600

So what i got for this project is that we were supposed to create a somehow correlated digital project of the persephone, hades , and demeter greek myth. I DECIDED!!!!!! ......... to..... to create a documentary from the gods on how the whole situation went down. We interview them. UP CLOSE...... PERSONAL!!!
We get to the heart of the matter and we do it with fervor. I play hermes. We gotta put in backrounds. thats about it. (sigh)I need a nap.

my story

Mon, 06 Feb 2006 16:36:35 -0600

so there are quite a few reasons i dont attend church ever. One of which is the fact that if i go anywhere with my brothers, lame jokes will ensue and me disrupting the sermon with incessant girlish laughter and my mother shushing and hitting the entire way. It was my catholic cousin's confirmation, and inbetween having a fun time kneeling on the pews, and the turning them down the third time when they came around with the collection plate, i noticed the beautiful stained glass windows. I told my brother my assignment and immediately we came up with the greatest story ever. "The life and adventures of santa clause." For those of you who dont remember this horribly blocky animation, it may be the darkest adventure santa ever had. The main premise is that santa was raised by a mountain lion, and fairies. Santa is at the end of his mortal life and all the gods of the old world have come to decide his fate. Some want to make him immortal. Like i said santa is raised under "new" circumstances. After some time he has a converstation with his adopted father the pagan horned god about the state of mankind he decides to bring joy and presents to the children of the world. His plan is horribly thwarted by the"Agwas" A race of vile ogres with the capabilities to turn invisible. Clause, fearing for his life, tells the horned god his plight. He in turn askes the "agwas." for mercy and allowing Clause to continue his work. The "Agwas" are furious and threaten to kill Clause within the course of three days. So the Horned god. A.K.A the Great Ak decides to throw down and declares war. What happens next is a war/fight sequence that when i think about it now was actually pretty intense if redone today. It deserves to be remade. And by the by since my early eighties childhood the movie was never shown on tv again.

my self portriat

Mon, 06 Feb 2006 16:36:35 -0600

So my self portrait apparently scared the crap outa everyone. Which i guess isn't very surprising. Im a very intense wierdo. So i made it all very intense but also very wierd. Almost incoherently readable. So you knew what you were looking at but not really. i added an effect also that made it look like the picture was cracking, hatching, and creating a new thought. I do that.