Xander

I finally finished my final. Here are the fruits of my labor:

tell me what you think.

I plan to subvert an Army/Marine/Navy advertisement by playing with the words in the text: "Army Strong" to "Army Dumb" or something along those lines. I have a few ads in mind:

I am seriously leaning towards the last one.
I am aiming to both sabotage the message of the ad as well as be offensive because...well...its fun.

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Documentation of a walk in the misting rain. Very much overdue, but better late than never I guess. My first time really working with Google Earth & Panoramio

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Listen to your favorite 20 seconds of your favorite song. Make sure you know it well. Concentrate and draw, paint, or sketch these 20 seconds of music.

Here's my idea. I honestly hope to follow through on this plan sometime in the near future.

Setting: San Francisco's Financial District.
Have a professional-looking friend (business suite, tie, suitcase) stand on the side of the street. He should be very engrossed in the business conversation he is having on his cell phone. Then, a van (or any real vehicle. Vans just look more ominous) comes around the corner and 2-4 people jump out, preferably with their faces covered. They grab the business man, pin him to the ground and "clip" a big red tag on his ear. They then release their new specimen into the wild once again and climb back into the van and drive away. Make sure there are lots of witnesses.

Should be good times.

Feel free to compare the two. Hope its not too hard to determine which one is the real me.

-A review of Allan Kaprow's "Art Which Can't be Art" by Xander Kent

Kaprow argues in his article that the act of brushing one's teeth, under examination could be considered art. All the minute processes that go into oral hygiene, if put in the appropriate context (ie: a museum or an art gallery), could be considered art.

This calls into question what can be and what can't be art. Kaprow recognizes the paradox of the ordinary becoming aesthetically labeled as art. In everyday life, the ordinary is just that: ordinary. But once it is contemplated, examined, scrutinized, and analyzed, it can be put on display and called art.

In all honesty, I have a problem with this. I really don't believe that objects or actions such as soup cans, urinals, or brushing one's teeth is art. I don't pretend to be an authorized art critic, and I understand the idea behind putting said objects and actions under an aesthetic eye, but I just don't see it as art.

In all reality though, you don't have to be Van Gough or Picasso to be an artist. But I think it takes more making people think "Is this art?" when they see a stack of boxes in a museum or when they watch themselves brush their teeth.