Recent Interesting Moly

original uploaded by miwa's note

Miwa is my new discovered moly journal artist in this month. Different from many other moly journals, in her works, she partitions off her dairy in four parts and each part as a scene portraied by graphic illustration and text. Like the above dairy, October 5th, she simply documented four things:
--watched a jp movie under patience
--ate instant rice meal
--sleep
--romantic idea about going to india
The common thoughts are presented like a 4-koma which makes the
ordinary routine has the degree of narrative. On the aspect of graphic interpretation, she draw the layout of Indian elements according to her momentary mind-travel to India. Besides, when putting her handmade journal onto flickr, she added notes of link sources to support her text about some understandings of japanese cultures.
The function of flickr has so many aspect that waiting for user to explore:)
Once again I was intrigued to this image since the joy to read life in another culture, such as the japanese instant rice that "can get it in the nearest convenience store". But also I am reminded to connect trivia to art. I can definitely recall four interesting things happened in Octo 5th by looking at my agenda, calendar, blog, facebook status, course syllable etc, but I have never intended to magnify them.

most interesting Mole_X

originally uploaded by MrtyHrrs1

although there is no much relation to film and experimental media, i hope to share this my favorite moly journal on flickr.

As a viewer, i see a symphony of jungle that I almost create a myth from the detailed elements in this image.my mind was full of imaginations after I found out the artist Mrty lives in Minnesota and I assum that the northe side of Minnesota, Ely or Duluth is his inspiration of the forest in his drawings. I subjectively remember Duluth, Minnesota in the way this image portrays. In fact, not only this journal does this effect to me, but all other molys which impress viewers of objects and places in their unique presences.
Russian doll, German beer, Tokyo transit map, planetarium,sparrow, toblerone, receipe illustration, new PsP, new jewleries or boyfriend's new haircut...

INST1 Boundary Functions by Scott Snibbe

I was engaged by the Scott Snibbe's Boundary Functions. This work is perhaps not the most fun one to act and have most fascinated reaction among others of the exhibition, but the message that this simple act stands for works profoundly well with the action.

In my experience, the message of solitude within the society is revealed through the notice of the transparent platform that reflects our shadow: as we walk within our own boundary created by the line, we are with no one but the reflection of our individuality from the platform. This metaphor is clearer when I look at the above image i accidentally took as I was standing on the other side of the platform: the son was partitioned from his father by the diagram. He looked at where his father stands and noticed the message from his father: in the society the only one can assist him is not his father but himself.

Snibbe's Boundary Functions embodies an interaction that is: it retains the principle of passive art, which is that "we do not change them but they certainly at its best, influence us" and change us, as George Fifield indicated. Nonetheless, there is a difference among the ways that how every audience receive the message. Me, for instance, i firstly saw a top-full view of Functions and see the message through the clear voroni diagram, but when I was present in there I received the message through the reflection of other participants. Therefore, the innovation from passive art to Functions is embodied at: it transit one simple but profound message and it provides a wide range of possibility to let its audiences control the way they reiceive it.

INST2

"here, i will show you how my dream preparessss"

ACT/REACT

aka interactive art

Act: the artist and the installation
React: body of viewers Medium: Space
ACT+MEDIUM+REACT
==infinitive chemistry

distorting mirror's physic principle has been replaced by video technology, whereas joy is twofold.

I am reporting the journal of MOLESKINE

Moleskine Exchange is a very popular activity for people who still has the habit to handwritten and draw journal. It is taken place on flickr and Blogger, and every corner of the world.

brief explanation: Artists from all over the world encountered in flickr, the MOLE_X international exchange group, and found their members around the world. Once a confirm of six members, they establish a blog followed by their Mole's number. (example: look at Mole_1). They make one journal on a japanese fold moleskine notebook (about a memo size), and send the notebook to the next member in their mole group. Members are chosen from different country on the earth as this entry by artist Kathirn illustrated

Flickr is the collected image pool where they scan the journal they received, and they use Bloggerto annouce and give feedback.

the experience that my encounter of this group is due to movie. I was looking for screened images of the movie The Darjeeing Limited on flickr, and I found this entry by one moly_x illustrator from Germany. This collaboration of dairy and illustration and movie image compelled me. I followed the “set” of Moleskine in this artist’s photostream and finally traced to the Moly_X foundation. I joint this foundation although I still have no courage to ask for a new round runner (today Moly exchange has up to round 60). However, I became a big fan of the moly entries they made.Plenty of the journal are intriguing to both be read as story and be viewed as artwork. This is perhaps because of the diversity of their lives from so many places, and the diversity of the way they interact their everyday life with art, and most specially, condensed in this small size of actual notebook. .

I Know Where the Summer Goes

I Know Where the Summer Goes
by Ryan McGinley
for the rest of images in this series check out TINYVICES

the human body texture interviewing with the magic color under lens illustrate the artistic value of their works. Whereas the interpretation of the images in Schneemann's fuses and McGinley's series is bipolar, which leads to a bipolar reaction to each piece. The message transmitted in Summer is the closeness between human and nature. The figures in McGinley's photographs are crude, illuminated, and perfectly sweet and happy. The organic elements pictured on their body such as the firework twinkle and the wheatfield undulate in the breeze makes me as a viewer think of youthood: at that age we had nothing but joy and time, time to be alone and wait for becoming adult, which is a bittersweet age.