Devo

I used to not know who DEVO was but last semester my intro to sound image an motion teacher had a really weird obsession with the band. He always made us edit video of them. I can't say I particularly like DEVO but they are interesting mostly because they are really weird and move in awkward ways. Satisfaction is the only song by DEVO that I know.

Icona Pop I Love It

I personally find the Song "I love it" to be kind of annoying. I always changed the radio station when it came on in the car. I like that it is about girl empowerment but I feel like the line "I crashed my car into a bridge" is a bit extreme. I think that line may promote suicidal ideations and actions in teens. It is sad that a pop stars words can have some much influence on the youth, but that is just the truth of how things work today.

Tomorrowland

The Tomorrowland Festival looks amazing. I think the amount of people in the crowd might give me anxiety. I hope to someday perform at an event like this, but the catch is that I will be in the air above all the people doing circus apparatuses. That would be my dream. I think next year I might go to Tortuga get which is similar but has country music instead. Tomorrowland really doesn't miss anything between the fireworks, lasers, and lights!

Yves Klein

Yves Klein's work is interesting because it says a lot without actually saying anything at all. He use's abstract art to play with the human perception. I have to imagine that he know the mind immediately sees unknown objects in sexual ways. With just ink blots in contrast with the background he forms shapes that can be inferenced to be a woman's naked body. I like that the work makes you think without bluntly telling you what you should be thinking about. He very subtly gets his message across.

Speedy Graphito

Im not sure what I think of Speed Graphito's art as a whole, but I definitely like his Mona Lisa made of spray cans. The reason I think it appeals to me is not because the finished product is beautiful, but because the process was beautiful. Each one of those spray cans was used to make a previous art, and although one could consider them useless, he brings them together to produce a final art form. The coolest part it that he had to use each and every spray can or they wouldn't have the color stained on all their tops. I've seen another pixelated Mona Lisa recently but I can remember where.

Andy Warhol's Forgotten Floppy Disk Art

Andy Warhol's lost art makes me very nervous about the way society produces art today. I think that in 100 years all of what we are producing right now will be on some sort of unreadable file due the the extremely quick progression of technology. Just as the computer Andy worked on is a Dinosaur now, are computers will soon be dinosaurs too. We may not be able to go back to less advanced technologies to recover lost work. Hard copies of work are dangerous because they can get accidentally destroyed by water, fires, or people, however, digital copies of things can be lost in the multitude of files or locked away by the changing times. I wonder what else was produced on the same computers that Andy used that no one else bothered to recover.

The Google cube music video

The google cube music video has a lot of future potential. I think people will enjoy that they can create their own musical and visual journey by mixing and matching sides of the cube. I also think somebody will be famous someday for mixing and matching the cube to make artists say or do funny or inappropriate things. The cube could be used as interaction between DJ and consumers at clubs or it could even be used as a kids toy. Im not sure which route the cube will take but I'm sure we haven't seen the last of it.