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Moshel_A7

Though my project is hockey related, again, the message and symbolism of it spreads out to a much broader spectrum. After a few weeks of difficult training that Navy Seals endure, Navy Seal Admiral William H. McRaven’s Seal class that originally started with 150 men was now down to 42. With six boat crews of seven men each, the best boat crew was made up of not the tallest guys that McRaven was a part of but the smallest guys, the “munchkin crew.” The “munchkin crew” consisted of a very diverse group of individuals and no one was over 5’5”. The “munchkin crew” out-paddled, out-ran, and out-swam all of the other boat crews. All of the other boat crews had big men and would always tease the “munchkin crew’s” tiny little flippers the munchkins used. But, it was the little guys who always had the last laugh. Nothing matters but your will to succeed. Measure a person by the size of their heart, not by the size of their flipper. My project involves three figurines: two large and one s
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Blog Post 5

            The genre of music known as disco made its inception into the world around the 1970s. For the disco era, I’m choosing Michael Jackson and his worldwide popularity for music. Not only was his choreography spot on, but his 15-minute long mini-movie, Thriller, which launched on MTV was a music and cinematic experience mixed into one that no one had even seen before let alone his choreography. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOnqjkJTMaA             The genre of music called dubstep is a genre of music that hasn’t been around for too, too long. When I think of dubstep, the first name to come to my head is that of Skrillex. Sonny John Moore or Skrillex, which was his stage name, rose to fame as a solo artist by producing music using electronic sounds developed by using synthesizers to create the unique type of music know today as dubstep. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSeNSzJ2-Jw             Punk music started to become popular at around the same time as disco
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Moshel_A6

I was still a little confused on what performance art actually was when completing this assignment. However, I did pay attention to at least two of the things performance art seemed to consist of which is that of an action or activity done out of the ordinary as well as carrying with it some kind of underlying meaning. As with most of the other projects, I chose to base my performance off of what I am very passionate about which is hockey. With the topic of hockey combining that with something unexpected, I replaced the puck with an orange, and replaced the environment and scenery of ice with that of downtown, Tampa. For one thing, hockey is not played with an orange, and second, hockey is not played in the middle of a city let alone with random people or strangers. The meaning is just to simply expect the unexpected; no one necessarily knows what is supposed to happen in the near future, so preparation for anything in general is vital in terms of taking caution. This assignment de
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Moshel_A5

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            Thirty pieces of paper and a few ink cartridges later, “Arm and Leg” was born. I did think the process of making this work of art and for the assignment in general was cool. Up to this point, I’ve never used a Xerox/copying/scanning machine for “artistic” purposes. Though the process was unique and interesting, it was very time consuming and induced a lot of trial and error. Along with scanning the parts of my body that were necessary in constructing my work of art, I also had to print the pages out in grey ink. I did eventually cut out each body part, but, unfortunately, there’s no option to just print out what I needed. As a result, I printed out thirty pages full of grey ink which took a toll on a few new ink cartridges. For some of the scanned body parts, I did use the option to print in a draft format to use less ink, but that didn’t help much. Fortunately, however, I am pleased with how my Xerox art came out, but I’m not pleased with how much of both paper and ink
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Moshel_A4

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            I decided to use my favorite hockey team, the Washington Capitals’ logo. Though the Capitals have two logos, one being the name of the team while the other being the symbol of the city where the team is located, I decided to go for the symbol rather than a word/name. The logo of the city of Washington DC, also being the logo of the United States itself since that’s the capital of this nation, is that of an eagle. Instead of the eagle’s normal colors, the color spectrum obviously corresponds to that of the team colors which are red, white and blue, which also, of course, are the colors of the United States. Other than the eagle and the colors, the logo also has a subliminally placed picture of the capital building in DC under the eagle. Like most of my work, a lot of the inspiration comes from the sport of hockey, which, again, is what I based my grid art on. Filling in the colors for the eagle on the workspace wasn’t as hard as outlining the shape because not only did
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X2

I remember the first time seeing someone type a sideways smiley face on a computer screen, also known as an emoticon. Prior to knowing what it was, other than gibberish, I couldn’t figure out what people were trying to type. Eventually, I asked someone what they were typing when seeing them perform that same action on their keyboard and they told me to tilt my head to the side and, to my surprise, it was a smiley face created from a colon and parenthesis. Obviously that isn’t the only way to make a smiley face; people can use different characters on a keyboard to achieve the same emoticon. People have also gone as far to make art out of these characters which is known as ASCII art. ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. In fact, this was a skill practiced by many of us. Now, this wasn’t something to click on or to type to view an image. The creator’s mind had to create an image around these ASCII characters. These characters could be created on a ke
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Moshel_A3

Akai’s MPC and its powerful sampling and sequencing capabilities ushered in a new era of creativity for beat makers. Akai, along with Roger Linn, started off with the launch of the first model called the MPC 60. The MPC 60 came with 16 programmable velocity-sensitive pads. It changed the game for both samplers and drum machines. Subsequently followed the MPC 3000 which added 16-bit 44.1 kilohertz sampling and upped the sampling memory to 22 seconds. Next came the Akai MPC 2000 Midi Production Center. The reason for the step-back from 3000 to 2000 is because of the incorporation of features from the s2000 rackmount sampler. The Akai MPC 2000 Midi Production Center, originally influenced by drum machines, was made in the year 1997. This machine was groundbreaking in terms of cost for those consumers who wanted an MPC yet couldn’t afford its older brother, the MPC 3000. As for the MPC 3000, that was a machine that wasn’t seen a lot in the hands of a typical consumer and mostly held
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