Furniture as art.

So, I went to Ikea earlier and I really enjoyed walking through and looking at the different pieces, trying to put them together to create a beautiful room.  Granted, I grew up with artistic parents, but it was really fun.  My boyfriend and I have already picked out everything that will go into our loft apartment that we'll probably never be able to afford.  There were just so many different options and styles to put together.  Some of the rooms that were set up were very modern, while others looked like a nice country kitchen, and some had a very retro feel to them.  The one thing that is so fun about creating a masterpiece with furniture is that the beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.  Each person's personality is different and they can choose many different pieces to go together to make a room work.  My style would be more modern, and it was so much fun going through the Swedish furniture store and picking out things to create my dream home.  I can't wait to do it for real.

Musical Theatre

I was watching The Producers today, and I realized how many different art forms musicals have within them.  First, there's drama, which is the main one of course, but they also include dance, which I've talked about in my blog before, as well as singing, and of course physical art when it comes to the sets and props in the play.  While watching it on film is completely different from seeing a play or musical on stage, they share the same elements of art within them.  The costumes, lighting, and sets are all part of the physical art aspect of the play.  Everything about a musical is full of art, and it is all pulled together beautifully to create a masterpiece.

Writer's Block

I know this doesn't have to do with a topic in art, but I'm having a bit of trouble with finding one.  We've written so many blogs now, over so many different topics, that I seem to be having trouble coming up with new and interesting topics to write about.  As the semester drags on, I feel work from my other classes piling up, so it's so much harder to find something to write about for English.  I've written about public art, museum art, dance, etc.  There's so much to talk about, but I can't seem to think of a new topic.  Does anyone out there have a suggestion?  Something interesting.

Netherworld...

So, I went to Netherworld Haunted House on Saturday night.  This haunted house was rated #1 by many magazines and is known nationwide for its terrifying atmosphere.  Really what I want to talk about is the theatrical make up.  These monsters are put together by professional Hollywood make up artists and it's just amazing how realistic, and scary, these guys look.

This image in particular has three characters I'd like to talk about.  The goblin guy on the left had a special talent.  He would run and drop down to his knees, skidding across the road and he would make sparks fly up at peoples' feet.  To me, he wasn't scary, just so cool.  The girl in the middle... Oh how I hate her.  As soon as we got to the haunted house, she ran toward me, and my boyfriend had told me not to show fear, or they'll flock to you.  I stared her right in the eye and she started toward me specifically.  The way she ran... I can't even explain it.  It was very jerky, and she was surprisingly quick.  It really was like a horror movie where you couldn't get away no matter how fast you ran.  I finally hid, and she got right up in my face with that blank stare and she shook her rattle at me, making me scream.  I hate little girls in horror movies...  The man on the right, the mad doctor, was in the second haunt called Dead Salvage.  I got so scared after going through the first one with vampires, gargoyles, and ghouls that I couldn't bring myself to go to Dead Salvage.  If it's anything that would really scare me to death, it's human on human things.  I don't mind demons and vampires, but when it comes to people mutilating other people and pulling guts out and things, I can't take it...

Overall, it was AMAZING.  Please go.  You'll love it.

Complaint

Taylor and I went all over a huge chunk of Atlanta, including the CNN Center, Centennial Olympic Park, the aquarium and the World of Coke and all the areas around them.  Granted much of the park was closed for a private event, but it is SO HARD to find public art in Atlanta.  Not even the graffiti is good, which is disappointing because we're in a major metropolitan area.  Besides a couple of fountains and a statue of the guy at the World of Coke, there was hardly anything.  We'll need to go again, because we couldn't find 25 things to get good pictures of.  Ugh... Why is it so hard?

Public Art Dawgs

I know this is GA Tech, and we hate UGA, but I figure the public art isn't technically part of the university.  In Athens, they put up different bulldogs, each painted something different.  If you've ever heard of the cows, I think they're in North Carolina, it's the same thing, just Georgia Bulldogs.  They were painted by different local artists around Athens, which has a huge folk art scene.  Many are sponsored by local businesses, including Jittery Joe's coffee (yum!) and Athens Regional Medical Center.  Each bulldog is unique in its design and they can be found all over town.

The Carmen Mirandawg happens to be my favorite, just because of her ridiculous eyelashes.  There were 36 dogs created in total, but many have left to go live with Georgia fans.