Barry McGee and Margaret Kilgallen

Both of these artist have very similar styles of art. Neither one of them like anything that is made on the computer as they feel that it is not real or handmade. Margaret describes the billboards or anything computer made as garbage. Most people would disagree and say that we are living in the future and anything handmade will take a long time. But not for the both of these artist. Kilgallen has this knack of using old school 16th century typography. It is her favorite type of typography because back then it was hand made and not made by a press or other devices. McGee loves to do street graffiti. I feel that street graffiti is property damage but to an artistic person it looks beautiful. Its is way different type of art from the regular art we see in a museum. Street art is more grungy and has for some reason more shine meaning that it sticks out more. Street artist love to tag anything. It can be really beautiful or it can be ugly but any form of it is considered art. 

Thoughts on Linda Zacks

The artist that I have looked at is Linda Zacks. It is not the illustration that I am so much interested in but I am really interested in her works with putting real pictures and altering them herself and not use a computer. Her pictures that she alters looks like she used a computer to alter them. There was two books that I liked from her collection. The first book I looked at was Walk the Streets of Havana. It was pretty cool to see the different pictures of Havana and what it looks like. My favorite page was the third and fourth page of the book. The picture of the cities buildings in the morning. The picture itself is beautiful but when she altered it a bit she made the picture look old school or its been stored for a long time and it is showing signs of wear and tear. The pictures she took were very recent but when she puts them all together and alters them they look like they are pictures from the 70's especially with the old cars. The cars make it seem that the pictures were from 30-40 years ago. 

Her other book that I looked at was Metal Worm. She had this grunge atmosphere in her books. Every page was dark and somewhat depressing. She put them together for a reason because it was for the viewers to try to solve what she is trying to say. As of right now I am trying to figure out what the message that she is trying to say. It seems like this is a depressed message.

Part One: 1000 Journals

So far the video is pretty good. 1000 journals is very interesting. He left them anywhere for people to randomly find and he shipped them off to random people that wanted them. At first I was thinking that would waste there time doing a journal for a guy. But as more and more people were interviewed that you can hand this off to anybody if you are done with what you have to do in your journal. It was kind of cool that people were able to meet for those who had journals. It was interesting to see all the types of things people did to the journal. I saw a variety of things from rubber bands to people actually doing artistic things to just simply writing something about everyday life. My favorite journal so far was the first journal from the lady that worked in the coffee shop. She put a lot of random things. It was as if the journal was recording her past till she couldn't record anymore because the pages ran out. The guy who made it (Someguy) wanted to see where in the world the book had gone too. There were people that felt really bad for giving the book away because they thought it was there responsiblity to get it back or they miss writing in it. It was the writers choice to keep it or give it away. If I were them I would keep it and record everything I would do. When Someguy got the journals back it is like as if he was reading there life story through a journal entry but really it was only a part of there lives.