Table Top Video- After thoughts

I thought my taping went alright. I think I went a little too fast. I was afraid that I wouldn't get it all done so I was rushing through it, and then when I got to the end I had like 30 seconds to waste. I took a long time to mix the silly putty, which was probably boring to watch, and then with the extra time I just played with the silly putty. When I practiced this at my house I kept going over the time, so when I actually did it in class I was rushing through it. I think it worked well for me that I had some silly putty along that I had let dry overnight, because otherwise I would not have been able to take it out of the cup since it was so sticky. I think I learned that 2 minutes and 30 seconds is a lot longer than I had thought.

Table Top- Artist Statement

For my table top video, I will be proving that "Chemistry Can Be Fun." I will be explaining what a polymer is and then making a polymer by making some silly putty. I did this "experiment" last year at UW-Sheboygan with my class when we put on a chemistry show for the children in our community. My intentions for the video is to show that chemistry isn't always difficult and boring work, that it can also be fun and entertaining sometimes. So the two main things I am demonstrating is that chemistry is fun and also how to make silly putty.

Week Six

When we watched Alex Bag's video in class, it immediately reminded me of Ryan Trecartin and his works. I saw this Ryan Trecartin video last semester when he visited UWM. This isn't exactly the video I wanted but I couldn't find a better one. In general, his works echo Alex Bag's video because they are both so random. The part in United Fall 95 that reminded me most of Ryan Trecartin was probably the part where there was two girls wearing bright wigs and lipstick and talking about being bored. The characters were similar to characters in Trecartin's films because they are always wearing bright colors and they are usually wearing paint on their skin as well. In both artists' works they also seemed to talk in a "valley girl" kind of way with all the "like", "ya know", etc. Their videos are both so random with so many ideas put into one piece, even though they don't seem to go together. This particular video is similar to Bag's because of the bright wigs and clothes like I mentioned she used in her film in the "I'm so bored" sketch. They say "fricken" a lot and they are both in a store. In both pieces, the characters are talking about such random and odd things that it makes you wonder if they are on some kind of drugs. Trecartin uses more detail in his pieces, there is more too look at and more complex sets and effects.