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Watch your baby sleep easy as well as listening...

Baby monitors are a necessity when it comes to having a child. My sister recently gave birth to my niece last summer and while discussing her recent purchase of the first family home, I learned about baby monitors with cameras attached. My sister's new home has 5 bedrooms, with the master on the floor below the other 4. This is a problem, especially having a 1 year old in a bedroom somewhat far from where her parents will sleep. Solution--baby monitor with a camera.

On Amazon, you can get one of these monitors for about $150-$200. It looks like your regular monitor that you can hear your baby on, but with an iPod type of screen included.

I think this is a great idea and I'm not sure why it wasn't made 10 years earlier. The fact that you can watch your baby sleeping safely is such a nice feeling when you're a worrying new mother, like my sister.

From Amazon

Logo inspirations to aid in assignment #2

Coming up with a logo is kind of a daunting task. It took me forever to come up with a basic logo for myself, a photographer. Logos need to be recognized and associated with whatever the person whose logo you see, does for a living. You can be conceptual, or stick to the basics as less is more. There's so many things you can do. Below are some examples of good logos that may inspire you, plus a website with lots more.

Logo inspiration

"Designer as Dramatist, and the Tales He Left Behind"

A show at the Met called "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty," is all about the career of a talented fashion designer and artist who ended his life far too early. "The show, or rather what's in it, is a button-pushing marvel: ethereal and gross, graceful and utterly manipulative, and poised on a line where fashion turns into something else." McQueen liked to shock people when it came to his fashions typically with shapes consisting of horns, teeth, hair, cast-metal, etc...

The fact is that McQueen wasn't just a fashion designer, he was truly an artist with an intense, dramatic vision that came out in pieces of clothing.

Alexander McQueen

assignment 3

Feathery Fun
photographs of a model, studio, Avedon lighting, and a pound of colored feathers.

pick a gallery, create an art show post card

NYC GALLERY – Hasted Kraeutler – 537 west 24^th street, new york, ny 10011

#212-627-0006


2x2 map to put on post card
use grays and one color

The influence of music on art..

The Parish Art Museum in Southampton, New York will be hosting a night where musicians improvise what they play based on what the artists are painting. Artists are influenced by musicians and vice versa, this is something that has been going on forever, but the idea of actually playing it out seems very interesting. 

"Everyone will improvise, the idea being that the painter will respond to the music, or paint what he hears, while the musicians simultaneously express what they see. From a musician's standpoint, it is very exciting because a line, a color, a shape immediately means something, and you trade it back and forth."

The band playing in this event is called the Sinopia Quartet, which consists of 2 pianists and 2 percussionists.

The influence of music on art..

The Book Surgeon

There are many different types of artists in the world, one way to be creative and try using an unconventional canvas, so to speak, is to use books as a carving material. Brian Dettmer is an artist who does this. He uses all different kinds of tools like tweezers and surgical tools in order to carve amazing details page by page. "The richness and depth of the book is universally respected yet often undiscovered as the monopoly of the form and relevance of the information fades over time. The book’s intended function has decreased and the form remains linear in a non-linear world. By altering physical forms of information and shifting preconceived functions, new and unexpected roles emerge." He's from Chicago and work in Atlanta. 

I really enjoy the intricacy and time that goes into creating a work like these books. I don't know if I could ever be patient enough to do complete one though.

The Book Surgeon