Exit through the gift shop

The infamous, shadowy British graffiti street artist Banksy has literally left his mark on cities throughout the world. He comes in contact with Thierry Guetta, a Los Angeles-based Frenchman who videotapes various underground art escapades, and later is transformed into an art phenomenon dubbed "Mr. Brainwash." Rhys Ifans narrates an overlapping documentary where the line between what is real and what might be fake blurs, as modern art and celebrity are put under the microscope. It is interesting how they never show Banksy's Identity, but still feature him.

pOp ArT

Pop Art appreciates popular culture, or what we also call “material culture.” It does not critique the consequences of materialism and consumerism; it simply recognizes its pervasive presence as a natural fact. Pop Art was the new attract art. Rebelling against the esoteric vocabulary of abstract art, they wanted to express their optimism after so much hardship and privation in a youthful visual language.

Abstract Art

Abstract Art is my favorite kind of art because it is wild and totally up to interpretation. Each person who looks at it might think something different of it. I like how this video addressed it and talked more deeply about the history of it.

Artsy

Fine art can be boring. I took a class last semester called Form and Idea and it was painful. But I did learn some things. This video is a fun take on teaching old art. By putting the random things in like the shark makes you pay attention more. Also I will be more likely to remember it now. I wish we watched this in my other class.

Wait what sheep?

Hahahaahah I do not know what I just watched....these men were herding sheep to move around and create patterns. Then they put lights on them!!!!!! Strange idea but it was well executed.

SIMS RULE

I think I have every SIM game, however they all are for PCs and now I have a Mac so I can't play them. But now that I know there is a website called SimCity and its the same thing but online and you can play with other people. This is also the most expansive city management game yet where you can control a region that delivers true multi-city scale and play a single city or up to 16 cities at once each with different specializations.It is so much fun to create your own virtual world and people. Lets just say I just signed up for the website :) BRB PLAYING FOREVER!!! 

Apple had been trying to be the top dog from the beginning.

I am an advertising major and in all my classes we always talk about the Apple commercial that was released in 1984. The commercial aired nationally only once, but its creativity and impact on the product prompted Advertising Age to select it as the "Commercial of the Decade." The ad is daunting and makes you want to break away from the norm (PCs) and get the new mac. It is unlike any other commercial, which may be why its so memorable. Even though it only aired once the Nielsen ratings estimated that the ad reached 46.4 percent of American households, although how many people actually saw it is left to speculation. And still people are talking about it.