For my second iteration, I added a few more things to my website, after doing my expert review. RTQLT was my critic and he gave me a couple tips, as to how I could make my website better.

GENERAL IMPRESSION OF PROPOSAL

I love the proposal however, there’s a part of it which seems awfully strange to me –

“ At the same time, this project aims to include a generous selection of work by each of the selected artists and address the number one problem these artists face, in order to show the expressive and discursive richness characteristic of graffiti can be definitive. “

EXPERT REVIEWER

1 Isaac Opoku

2 He’s an artist who has explored street art through varying mediums

3 The strengths lie in the fact that the proposed idea would not only help preserve and share this inherently ephemeral art to a wider audience, but also because it would serve as a platform for these artists to expand their audience and propagate their individual styles.

4 Since there are a handful of similar platforms, it could make it a challenge for the proposed idea to make an impact in the street art [online] space

5 Yes the project definitely has legs. The question is, how fully developed are these legs? Does the project need to crawl till it learns to walk or is it already ready for a 100m sprint? I think the proposal as it currently is, may need to learn how to walk which in this case translates to finding its own unique edge that would make it standout among the rest. Because even though the project will be both feasible and helpful to the community as it currently stands, it can be made even better with a special cutting-edge feature.

6 http://globalstreetart.com/

http://www.complex.com/style/2012/07/the-10-coolest-street-artist-websites/phlegm

http://www.space-invaders.com/home/  <— this is a similar site but with only the work of one artist.

After his general impressions of my work, I went on to interview him. I also added some things to make my website look unique amongst the other sites. I added Music and also Video. This makes the site more fun to browse.

CRUISE VIDEO FROM VIMEO

SOUNDCLOUD WIDGET FOR MUSIC

My main contribution to this workshop was bringing the idea up for making collages, in my mind I thought my group members wouldn’t really welcome the idea, but I was wrong. The embraced it (maybe because we didn’t have to buy anything) however, it was a totally great experience, especially when we had to do the mock-ups in class before the real thing.

Initially my feeling towards the workshop was total boredom. I felt it was just going to be my group and I pulling our skills together to just create and complete a workshop and probably never talk about it again. However this was far beyond what I even imagined and I’m even sure what Jen imagined. We all worked together, not just in our individual groups, but as a big community. Taking and sharing pictures amongst ourselves, helping other groups with their ideas and also generally having a great time. Getting people to do the workshop was definitely not an easy task, but we all tried our best to get each other’s participants to try other group’s workshops, which I felt was awesome.

 

Quote

“Gardening always has been an art, essentially.”

The Central Garden, created by artist Robert Irwin, lies at the heart of the Getty Center. The 134,000-square-foot design features a natural ravine and tree-lined walkway that leads the visitor through an extraordinary experience of sights, sounds, and scents.

The walkway traverses a stream that winds through a variety of plants and gradually descends to a plaza where bougainvillea arbors provide scale and a sense of intimacy. Continuing through the plaza, the stream cascades over a stone waterfall or “chadar,” into a pool with a floating maze of azaleas. Specialty gardens encircle the pool. All of the foliage and materials of the garden have been selected to accentuate the interplay of light, color, and reflection.

Irwin began planning the Central Garden in 1992, as a key part of the Getty Center project. Since the Center opened in 1997, the Central Garden has evolved as its plants have grown and been trimmed. New plants are constantly being added to the palette. Irwin’s statement “Always changing, never twice the same” is carved into the plaza floor, reminding visitors of the ever-changing nature of this living work of art.

Dia Beacon

Robert Irwin’s work at Dia:Beacon may elude the casual visitor. It consists of a master plan for the museum and its outdoor spaces, as well as design work on numerous aspects of the project, most notably the extensive landscape environment, where Irwin was involved in every aspect of the plantings, paving and fencing, and windows and doors.

Most important, Irwin helped Dia consider the design of the Beacon project in experiential and environmental terms as a totality—from the visitor’s entrance, by car or by foot, down a driveway marked at its top by a gate and a new copper beech tree, through an orchard that serves as a parking lot, into a plaza that signals one’s arrival at the museum, into either a café and bookshop or the newly constructed entrance to the galleries, and from there down any of a number of possible paths through the museum’s interior and into the artists’ spaces, each specifically designed by the artist in question and/or by Dia to accommodate the work on view. Irwin’s work in Beacon lay across the borders of a number of different roles—landscape designer, architect, aesthetic philosopher—in a manner completely consistent with his practice as an artist, in which, among other things, he has questioned exactly where the boundaries lie around the role of the artist today.

 

Central Garden at Getty Center

References

http://www.diaart.org/exhibitions/introduction/84

http://www.getty.edu/visit/center/gardens.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Irwin_(artist)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/arts/design/14fink.html?_r=0

 

Most of the things on the map are more of questions and statements than memories, because I’m more interested in the questions, the ‘what ifs’ and the unknown than what I’ve already done. That’s just me. I did enjoy putting down some of the questions though because I feel they’ve been in my head for quite a while. Like the question about swimming at the part of the Hudson. I posed that question mainly because back in my sustainable systems class there was some speculation about people being able to swim in there, and this ended up in a huge argument. I still didn’t get my answer though.

Also putting ‘My School’ is basically literally what it is. I put my school on the map, it honestly wasn’t on there. My question about if there being dead people under union square is another question that has been on my mind ever since my teacher asked the class as well. I know about Washington Square Park, not Union Square.