H Tep Adrong

I was honored to be able to record traditional weaving at its prime. I have never seen it before so really didn't know what to expect. I chose to the weaving as my documentary for a couple reasons (1) I wanted to have enough time to edit my project and not worry about it, (2) I wanted video tape something very uniquely creative, (3) and I wanted to see understand the culture as much as the people. H Tep Adrong is the weaver in this film. I hope you enjoy.

The Final Goodbye

Digitally technology is complicated. If, you  have read my later posting you can see, especially in my entry Generation Y: Digital Love and Hate,  love is mixed and my overall feeling for it is not hundred either way. It does provide a good resource and helps people tremendously. But it also causes a lot of pain to people live, addiction, breakups, health issues. Yin and Yang is the ultimate response to this. It has its good attributes and bad ones. I just want to say a final good bye to the topic of is it bad or not. It seems this year it has been talked about way more then they past I don't know if that's because of elders finally realizes things about it or it's just the topic of the school year. So goodbye to this topic

Baraka (Wavin Flag)

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I felt that these two were examples of people doing a traditional piece of work but put a contemporary twist to it. Baraka is a movie but with no narrative just images that convey a story and I felt that broke the traditional ideology of films. And K'naan puts a lot of African instruments and culture into his songs broke the traditional idea of rap by doing that. So I decided to combine to people that do very traditional work but put a contemporary twist on it and do my own contemporary by combining their work and making a music video.

What We Do For Art

The influence of art has effected the human race since the beginning of our existence. Drawings on caves, clay sculptures, oral story telling. If we didn't have art we wouldn't be half as evolved as we are now. I believe that's what truly defines us from other species. A lot of people are artist especially nowadays with the internet and other digital forces. But the same reasoning for doing art hasn't changed for instance, old painters and poets use to go on the street and sell their art for money and that being the only reasoning of doing that art. The only difference is that you don't have to barter people on the street; don't even have to meet them you could just sell your product purely digitally through web stores or blogs such as this one. This also allows the artist that does art for more then money or not for money at all to explore the options. For example, Issa a donation policy with her music allowing the person to buy an album from hundred dollars to absolute nothing. Radiohead also did a campaign like that one, and various artist post there music for free. The idea behind the art or reasoning for it can be totally different then the art itself. Hopefully, people have a passion for what they do. Digital apecst have helped people to reach what they wanted to do way more now then has every done before. It's easier to record songs only need a computer or phone. For instance, Atomic Tom they're instruments were stolen but they decided not to give up but find an alternative which happened to be their iPhone's. What they did was stupendous and respected. Some people would give up but they didn't. And it all leads down to one question. What would you do for your art?