so its less then a week...

... and i am feeling very confident about my Thesis project. I think i have 80% of it done and could possibly have it completely up and running before the weekend. I haven't posted stuff to my blog as much as i should because its been hard to compress the footage from my Final Cut to a format that would work for here. Also i don't want to put up a crappy looking piece.

But i have made huge strides in the theoretical aspect of my piece and the pieces have been falling together ever slowly but surely. I'm super excited to help install everyone elses work because i feel like we have over the course of this semester really bonded together as a team and as a family.

Well i best get back to editing my video.

Good hunting everyone!

Friday's Crits

Well it is slowly coming down to the home stretch for everyone in group 1, and the stress and anxiety is ever so slightly creeping up on everyone. But alass, we will prevail. So i will keep these recaps of the critiques short and sweet and quick to the point. For the most part everyone in my critique group are well on their way to producing some great work.

1. Neil- The one thing i remember we talked about with his work was that he wanted to "Bring the beauty around the machines out". I really think his pieces do exactly that and will look great in the gallery. We also talked about how in some parts of his paintings he focused more on creating a more realistic representation of the actual machine, making it stand out from the rest of the painting, which wasn't necessarily a bad thing.

2. Andrew- He seems like he has gotten down to the basics of what he will be putting up in the exhibition, he just needs to focus more on what exactly he will be doing with his three design pieces. Also he needs to figure out a way to present them in a more understandable and clear way. Lastly i really like what he is trying to do with his work. For example how he wanted to visually represent the audible in the voicemails he has, and wanted to break them down and show the different explicit and implicit parts of them as well as the different tonality and inflections in the voice through design. Also we talked about how his thesis is basically a self portrait of himself through visual design.

3. Priyam-She is pretty close from finishing her thesis but is faced with two options to do for it. And i feel like she will definitely make the decisions before she has to put up her work and that it will be finding the big piece of wood, making it into a woodcut and making big prints from it. Displaying the actual wood cut within the gallery is another possibility.

4. Juli- Not much to say about her work besides the fact that she is well on her way to exhibiting some great pieces of art.

5. Naqeeb- He has simplified his thesis project with only having one projection instead of four because it would've been too much work and hard to do. But I feel like the one projection will make it simpler to do but still achieve his original goal for his thesis. He still needs to figure out where he will place the pads on the floor.

6. Kerri- she is truckin' along with her thesis and just needs to figure out a few more things about how she will keep the door standing up and supported. The decision to keep the door blank with out words was i think a good one because it could've been a slight distraction from the rest of the piece and having a sign with the words on it would be just enough for the piece.

7. Me- well i told everyone of my new idea of having either a bunk bed or singular bed in the space and have one projection of a loop of my recreated dreams. we talked about which one would be better to put up in the gallery. Some said the bunk bed would turn some people away and might make it something predictable to the viewer. so i am now faced with the decision of which one should i do. Which is what ill be doing for the next two week.