dragonofdispair

Summary: "Sometimes, you never knew why, but some people just left a mark on you. The instant he'd read her name on the POW lists, he'd known he was going to try and save her."

Warnings: Nothing specific, but it's still rated T/PG-13 for implied violence and adult concepts.

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And the video game quote of the day is:

"Holy crap -- this thing just vomited loot at me!"

--lordchaos359, while playing Diablo 2

Focus Question: How have medical, computer or other technologies altered our perception of our bodies? How have contemporary artists chosen to express these new representations of the human form? What is the the difference between nudity and pornography?

medical technology gives us a more accurate knowledge of the human form, both inside and out. computer technologies make it so that that knowledge is accessible to everyone. if i'm curious of what the human brain looks like, i type "human brain" into google and it gives me 33,900,000 results -- and while many of those will be completely useless, it conveniently gives me a separate set of results within that of images. so now i know what a human brain looks like viewed from x-rays. mris, and autopsies. (it also gives me video results -- yay for youtube! -- but i didn't watch those.)

so all in all, i think we have a more accurate physical knowledge of what the human body is. so what does that leave us with? well, as with photography, we could, as drawing-artists, continue to depict the body in the most accurate way our skills allow, or use this new technology and knowledge to abstract the body. or attempt to explore the symbolic meanings of the parts. or any combination thereof. which seems to be what all three of the suggested artists are doing...

nudity and pornography... in some minds, there will be no difference. i, however, am not a sex-obsessed, mentally twelve-year-old moron whom i would very much like to...yeah, not going there. basically, pornography is an image which is designed to arouse and which has no real purpose beyond that. just because someone is nude in a picture, doesn't mean you're supposed to be getting off on it. and some perfectly good porn shows the subject, or subjects, fully clothed. the lack of nudity doesn't make it not-porn.

don't wanna do this...am sick...

Focus Question: Why are materials important to the process of art making? What kind of materials do you respond to mostly in your art practice? Why?

...i get the point of materials directing us to an artist that uses only the computer, but remind me to never show that to my fiance, some of it'll give him a seizure... was hard for me to look at. maybe try again when no sick...

why...they're important because they are the foundation of what you create. a charcoal drawing's different than a ink one. etc. i like to use clay. the use of my hands in making that is what i respond to best. of flat media...like charcoal best. feels like carving.