Today In Art Class...: Today in 3D...

Started the first project which is making a clay mold of a design using three letters of our name and then casting that in plaster. HAY! It's a happy design and I think I will really enjoy it. No pictures...work in progress?

Sidenote...Obama!
Considering it's inauguration day, I feel it's only right to do something about Barack Obama.
Thinking about the man who rose to mass media superstar over the past number of months, I realize how far the influence of his campaign has reached. Music, art, literature, history. The Obama Machine pushed campaigning to a level not often seen in the political realm.
Mtv News had a short story on Obama Art and after interneting a bit, these are my picks...much more at The Obama Report.

The one that started it all...
Shepard Fairey. Los Angeles based street artist. He got together with publicist Yosi Sergant, who suggested he pitch something to Obama and, after a few calls, got the go-ahead Fairey was waiting for. He had two weeks before Super Sunday and set out pulling his piece together...starting with a googled news photo. Progress was the word on Fairey's first posters but hope and change are among many variations. It's become a pop culture icon...and it's politics! Could the American people be getting smarter...or, counterpoint...is this some form of carefully chosen, glamourized propaganda? Either way, it's a great time to be alive and it's been said a thousand times but...This is History.

Another Shepard Fairey piece for his Duality of Humanism exhibit in San Francisco.

Another take by Mac

Morning Breath. A lot of Obama art took on this really 'retro' kind of feel, resembling feel-good advertising in the 50's.

Up in Canada we didn't see this poster for Upper Playground by The Date Farmers but it played a big part in the success of The Obama Machine. A conversation about how "silly it was that Obama wasn't getting the Latino vote"...ergo...Cambio.

Street art in New York City.

Street Art - Atlanta.

Acrylic. Phil Fung.

"Just Words" Gene Mackles

"Hussein (Handsome One)" Ian Simmons. I love this because in the mixed media class I had one of my "texture studies" was made by getting everyone in the bar one Wednesday night to sign an 8" by 8" piece of paper. Since then I've been using words as 'mark-making'.