Collages and arrangements

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I was arranging all of the penfifteen pictures on the wall and wondering what to do with them. The interesting element (for me) is who has drawn them. I arranged them on photoshop just to see if any trends were emerging apart from the obvious fact that boys draw more elaborate and grotesque penises than females do. aaand well thats all i found :) oh and art kids are awesome penis drawers aswell, especially emma catastrophic and her multi tool penis which you can see if you go to the penis blog.
I think i will leave this project to a later date when i have more drawings because there simply aren't enough at the moment :)

RED PORN

Playing around with colour. The original clip was very muted, pastel tones even though a i had bright red lipstick on. I played around with RGB balance and levels to try and make the lips stand out a bit more. Final cut has similar tools to photoshop in this respect so i found it easy to get the look i wanted, although it could be a little less red. I tested the DVD's on a TV earlier and the contrast was ludacris but it turns out it was just that particular TV. phew. A little unhappy with the DVD's, i tried my very best to get them to match up, looping footage and putting similar lip movements at the beginning and end of the dvd's but all of them have a slight glitch.
FCP doesn't like HD footage. I don't like FCP. After watching all the tutorials on the apple website, no, enduring all the tutorials TWICE i still could not burn a dvd, after seeing IT guy he gave me a handout that explained it, missing out 567876 of the steps they tell you to do in the online tutorials. THANK YOU!





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this video is a great altered version of the first edit i made. I love that it is essentially the same video it has just been zoomed in and turned around. I put it on youtube, its so moisty and gross like a seacreature. Much like marilyn minter. possibly too much although the display of my work will be vastly different to hers. Hers was situated amongst billboards and advertising, mine will be a little more intimate and less in your face than her work. I feel her work is quite removed from the human body whereas mine looks very visceral but it confuses which body part you are looking at.

Comments from friends
vaginal discharge :)
beautious
im gonna be honest... its a little creepy yea
Wow, cool. Strange, but very cool.
imagine how many yuk ppl will touch their bits watchin that. eeekk
wasnt doing anything untoward, watched with interest mingled with that mixture of disgust and fascination which seems to be appropriate.

plans. planes. automobiles. television times three

This is how i want my final installation to look. I made this on google sketchup which is a painful painful program to use. Probably not going to hang a monitor on the wall because i think they are rear projection not flat screen so it would just look silly. I am wondering weather or not to pt things on the table with the monitors, like the hair?? Unsure yet i really need to see what it looks like in the space first to see if it needs anything else...

mastication of the self

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Chewing hair. love it. loving the dirty dribble, the moistness grossness and the ewww. I've played around with this a bit because it is quite short, i slowed it down and the feeling is totally different, less abjection and repulsion and more fascination. I played it at 20% of the normal speed and the detail in the hair is incredible! Its almost more painful watching it in slow mo, like the mouth doesn't want to eat the hair and is struggling to do so. In the video above the mouth is ravaging it and chomping it in a frenzied manner. I also tried a video where i had portions of it in this jerky motion and parts of it at 20% speed. Not sure if i like it??? I think when played next to the other two videos it would look better to have one in contrast played at high speed. The other two are at pretty much normal frame rate BUT they do not have the hair in the mouth. So maybe playing the hair one at a range of speeds will tie it in more closely with the other two because of the differing subject matter. geeeeezuz. Oh and i cannot for the life of me figure out how to burn a dvd!!! and i can't do any tutorials because i forgot my headphones. poo poo.

Video work

billy apple your website is stupid. and i can't see anything on it apart from a link to email you. I was trying to find the work i had seen in which billifred applehead displays used tissues from nose bleeds he has collected and other items of abjection but to no avail. I remember watching a video about it last year, maybe this year????



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First edit of lips. Why the fuck did i not upload this two weeks ago! because you didn't know how and had to sit through tutorials by an american australian man oooh goody my two favourite accents.

mike hunt

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meanderings

I wonder if trevor wrote this or in fact it was jamie oooh how interesting :)

i see this on the back of buses every day.
Get a famous celebrity to endorse your hair product. Photoshop it to look like she has ten times the amount of hair any real person has.
Looks real enough.
Ignore the fact that said celebrity is a cancer sufferer.
what/?? they have shitloads of hair.












This mundanely named person hit on me whilst i was wearing an over-sized acid wash jacket, a side ponytail and electric blue earrings. stoat. well he gave me this card so i guess its mine now and i can do as i please with the information on it:) can I??

a new aesthetic. pron.

"Your Brain projects the missing information, then your imagination fills it in and feels the pleasure of participation"- Hideki Ono

After considering that quote i think it could be interesting to work with some images that are less confrontational and leave a lot to the imagination. But the lips collage does leave bits o the imagination!!! w.a.n.panic. shiza. fotze. I was thinking of animating the collages i ave made, or the images and have them looking like stills but with subtle little movements, like those intimate little noises and things you do when you're really relaxed, sleeping for example.
I was reading the latest issue of adbusters yesterday, and decided to go and buy it because i wanted to show people all of the stories, they're very relevant to my work. Or maybe i just agree with everything they say... they had this excerpt in there, i found the original on the website and took a screen shot. Suicide normalized, a boring cliche on the screen but something traumatic and heart breaking in real life. This girl is probably dead now but how will you ever know?
It also featured an article by Dougas Haddow "Pornocalypse Now",
Very insightful. I don't watch porn so was unaware that a man making a girl spew out her nose while performing oral sex then urinating in her mouth and eyes was adult entertainment. It makes me want to spew out my eyes I hope i never see anything like that. ever. If things like that are commonplace on the internet, which is after all FOR porn then whats so bad about saying cunt? When is it acceptable to say that? People freak out if you say vagina it amuses me, best to call it 'down there', and don't say that you're going to the toilet, say 'bathroom' it leaves a little to the imagination.


eew. and the 'mytaxback' man stopped me yesterday in the street.


Have you filled out your tax return
oh you have, actually i think i recognise you, are you at AUT?
oh auckland uni thats right. I do remember your green hat.
how much tax did you get back
thats still something. better than nothing
thats enough to buy another two hats, how much was that hat
ok one hat then
where did you get it
its cold down there, what is your favourite colour
why do you want to know mine
mine are blue white and black
black is very generic, everybody like black, see.
i like blue for my clothing
but i use green for the walls, the carpet, the curtains and the bed sheets
i like green too
you know pantone, the manager of pantone says that blue is the most attractive colour for a male
and pink for a female because it makes your skin glow
do you wear pink
can you write your email address here
ok thank you and what is your phone number
you don't know your phone number?
do you have a boyfriend
i take you out for coffee, i'll be your boyfriend
if i email you dont email me back. no, please do.
have a good day

Alicia Frankovich - A plane for Behavers

I volunteered at artspace serving drinks for this exhibition. Everyone was nice but it was awkward not knowing anybody so i didn't end up going to the workshop and dinner the next night, i couldn't be bothered with having to reject non vegan food then listen to her talk about her work while i was quietly chewing off my hand. I Don't know what to say about her work, I only saw the performance where she was carried around by people. The people participating looked really stoked and acted like it was hard work carrying her around, "did you have a go?" as if it was a game or an exercise machine, something physically challenging for them. Then later on a man came up to me and asked if i was her
no, not me
yes you are *laughs* so... *art rant*
sorry wrong person, i was just serving the drinks
*ho ho ho* no you werent. so tell me about the suspention performance?
at this point amanda just leaves the building

creating spaces

"Don't look for the disco ball and laser light show, look for the light on light off"


or put sunglasses on it.I had a talk with tim the other night about things and stuff and life in general. Mostly about how i keep everything, i have so much STUFF and i love it. I like decorating my room and making little personal spaces that i feel comfortable in. It stressed me out so much moving in to a house where i had nothing and we weren't meant to put posters on the wall. I collect lots of little things I like and make them into an interesting bunch of amandaness. yay for me.
My artwork seems to be a bit disjointed, i like only certain parts of it like the hair on the mirror, the lips collage, and a few of the photographs. I like the dampness and wet, the grotesque hair, the references to the body, the bathroom. None of these things stand alone as a work for me so i thought maybe i should apply what I do in my personal spaces to my artwork and create an environment with aspects of all of my little art works. I would like a space like my bedroom or a bathroom, somewhere with more artificial light, darkness, water, dirt, damp, enclosed. Pretty much somewhere unlike my studio which is bright white with sunlight spilling through.

Unrelated junk...
Blu Tac. I went to buy some blu tac to stick all of the doodles to the wall and seriously, what the fuck is blu tac? Its rubbery plasticy shite, probably raping the environment with its production. I never thought about it like that until i calculated my carbon footprint here and found that it will take 1.5 planet earths to sustain my lifestyle... that is quite depressing. What else is interesting... walking to the bus stop and seeing fat little children with arms full of pies and chips for breakfast, or eating an entire packet of squiggle tops. Child abuse! I took my takeaway mocha into the bathroom with me and knocked it onto the floor so it was covered in sludgy brown spalshes like chronic dihorrhea. so gutted. I heart huckabees, why had i not wached that until now? I love the scene with the family that had taken a Sudanese orphan into their home, so funny! and people are so like that...

cutty cutty cutty paste paste paste

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i see myself seeing myself photographing myself... mirrors, vouyers, eeek.

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inspired by steph saying 'yous are cunts'.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 New Zealand License.legs, reflection. love the green hair at the bottom but not much else

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California Grunion

^^^That is my green Porno name. Sounds like i like it rough with a but of grunting and onions. If you don't know what Green Porn is you're missing out BIG time! So strange and so amusing. Isabella Rossellini is one mental bitch.
I love the informal approach she has taken, how humorous it is, her crazy voice and her matter-of-fact way of thrusting and penetrating as if she has always been a praying mantis with a praying mantis penis.
Thats all i have to say until i fully get my head around it. Watch the whale one it is awesome.

Hannah Hoch

1889-1978
bisexual.. anti war (supplies!), Hannah was the only woman in the in crowd when it came to DADA. May have something to do with sleeping with someone else but thats beside the point, that ended badly with her liking women instead. DOn't screw the crew. Whoever made up that saying is crap at rhyming its like don't pick your nose or do not push this button.
her collages feature women's bodies and ancient artefacts. She sourced pictures from magazines targeted at women and through her work showed awareness of the difference between women in the media and women in reality. Not so hard to make that correlation these days... Look at PSD's i effing love that website! makes me feel a lot better about myself, my photoshop skills, my intelligence AND my appearance.
The work on the left is titled 'Marlene' and was made in 1930. The legs in the air on top of the plinth replace what looks to have bee a phallic column of some sort. There are lips in the top right hand corner oooh lips i use lips newwwssflash relevant relevant. I love the simplicity of her montages, using just a few different images so each has weighted meaning and is carefully considered. I like these much more than the ones that look like a toy box full of random shit, my life looks like that I don't want my art to!

thinking about cutting and pasting and snipper snapping

Ava Seymour
Madame Postiche 2005

colour photographic print
275 x 225mm

Saw some of her works at a gallery, which one exactly i have no idea but they made an impression on me. I found them highLARIOUS because of the subject matter, location and the way she had put it together. That describes nothing really does it... i just like the mismatched heads and how retarded (so shoot me) they look, LOVE the boobie heads!!

The images she made in 1993, Blood and Guts in Deutschland using black and white cut outs with the only colour coming from pictures of meat and entrails are my favourites. Probably because of the subject matter, they're just so funny though! See them all here on Micheal Lett's website.

Ava Seymour
Who Done It 1993

digital photographic print
1000 x 1460mm

Elements of her work that i want to use to develop my own
stuff
well, the black and white images with only little pieces of colour work well. I like that her collages use very few images and that the images are all carefully considered. By juxtaposing certain images she an make something sexual out of something that is not sexual at all, or something grotesque from something mundane. IMAGINATION.
They seem to be fun and informal, maybe this is because of the collage medium, crafty and all that. I don't know... don't judge me. The remind me so much of Nancy Burson's craniofacial photographs. I think it is just the use of images of deformed people. Both artists have entirely different intents, Burson's is to make the people beautiful whereas Seymour is just being playful. This shows how much effect juxtaposing images with other images has on our reading of the work. State the obvious amanda. I dont like Seymours use of images of disabled people. You can achieve the same effects by cutting and pasting dfferent limbs together to make the body look distorted. Using a disability as a point of interest, fascination is not something I think very highly of. It falls in to the same category as walnut and marmite sandwiches. Growth stunting, horrible tasting, life ruining, bad memoriesdontwanttotalkaboutitanymoregoaway. Here are some words used to describe them, found on these pages
ARTSPACE "retards, cripples and amputees."
PHYSICS ROOM- "creatures"...to much to type just click the link,
I can see why her work is controversial!!!
speaking of disabilities and taking the piss out of minorities, those cadbury comedy billboards taking the piss out of dyslexics weren't funny. None of their ad campaigns were. For fucks sake. Take the piss out of the children you use to get your cocoa now theres something hilarious.

I <3 Marilyn Minter

"I don’t want to sound disingenuous, but to me it’s not sexy—it’s gorgeous. It’s about hunger and insatiability, a trailer without a movie behind it, an ad only for itself."-Minter

Marilyn Minter on Salon 94
Her work is so full on, beautiful, rich sparkling erotic pretty over the top fun feminine
wow
i love the extreme close ups, she doesn't crop the photos which astounds me she must get RIGHT up in their business to get these shots! The wetness is almost grotesque, dripping, moist, beads of water like sweat or tears. mooooiiiissssttt. moist.
Seeing this makes me want to use more extreme close ups in my work. Minter photographs these things then has her students help her to paint them, so a few of the above pictures are actually paintings, you can tell on the one of the little girl. The moving image works so well, the tongue curling and licking is repulsive and alluring. I think it says a lot more than the painting and photographs and has a greater impact when you first see it although after watching it a few times and reading about it you start to deconstruct it and just see it for what it is.

the lighting, strong shadows vivid colours, the use of reflective and transparent materials, glass, diamond thingees, water, sparkles, bubbles. fucking mint.

www.greenpinkcaviar.com

amazing video! aaaah. ahhhhhh. wow. It looks like seaweed and sea creatures swirling around underneath a glass bottom boat i love the shit out of it!

“This is inappropriate and uncouth. But I can’t stop looking at it, even though it’s not appealing.”

“Is it an ad for gum? It said ‘chewing.’ ”

“I don’t care about any of the fucking shit around it—I like that there’s art in Times Square and want to see more.”

“It’s difficult to see when there’s so much around it.”

KID, POINTING: “What the fuck is that?”
MOM, ANGRILY: “It’s lips.”

“This is sick and horny.”

“In this context it’s grating, almost too shocking. Maybe people’s reactions are part of the art.”

Reactions from people passing by, from nymag.com

"I was shooting stills of models with long tongues swirling and sucking bakery products from under a pane of glass. I wanted to make enamel paintings along the idea of 'painting with my tongue'. My makeup artist shot some short videos during the shoot just to see how it would look. The low definition videos looked so good that we made plans to do a professional high definition video. This made sense to me as I have made both billboards and produced a commercial advertising a painting show in 1989."

- Marilyn Minter