So I says to myself

What am I really interested in art-wise?  This blog, being for class, has to serve some ultimate purpose — yes?

Do research…find out fun things about artists, expand my art-knowledge, find what kinds of art I really actually like!

I’ve been to the smithsonians and the louvre and other museums and galleries and seen famous paintings and statues, average paintings and statues, and below average paintings and statues.   For my tastes, these things are all far too static to really be THAT interesting.

On the other hand though, I absolutely love photography, but I introduce a double-standard here.  I love photography in all its static glory.   I suppose to me the lack of ability to apply any sort of “post-effect” is disheartening.  Adding things like filters and effects, and adding image distortion (and audio distortion now that I think of it) is really exceptionally cool.  So the fact that I can take a photograph and make it an HDR image (search flickr for HDR images) or I can simply Ansel Adams some sort of nature photograph, is really excellent to me.  You can’t do that to a statue.

But I guess there’s the rub.  Maybe you just have to take pictures of famous things and then remix those.  The ideas of remix is so much cooler to me than static art.

I think.

~J