This is Art. Happening.

Another video up this week, woo!
Cards are not the easiest things to use to build a “house”. I did a test to make sure it works. Then I realized I didn’t have enough cards so I went and got 6 more packs. The lady at the corner store said they just restocked cuz lots of kids buy cards during spring break. Then she looked like me….do I look like I’m 16?

The first part was to draw on the cards using a sharpie. I also used white paint for the white parts. Here goes the stacking. I was worried that it would tumble here and there but overall it went pretty well. For ending B, I really wanted to burn it but I couldn’t burn it inside so I tried to take it outside without it falling apart. I tested outside with a few cards, slightly windy but manageable. I’m guess the flame would be about 5ft tall, cool! Then I went back in to take it out. I don’t know why I thought I could move it without it collapsing! I moved it slightly and quite a few fell. It was clearly staying! The art aspect of this project is pretty short compared to how long it took to edit the video. It was an editing nightmare but I really like how it turned out.
Timing is very important with Art Happening project so the first thing I did was uploading it on Ireport.com. It got featured on CNN.com right away and I did a live interview with Chuck Roberts about it. This is my 2nd live interview with Chuck this year. It went a lot better than the last one.

That is the question! So I watched Religulous, a documentary where Bill Maher examines and questions different organized religion. Then 2 days later, I see news on the percentage of Christians dropping to 75% in America. I wanted to reflect upon this social movement with the ever changing face of America.

I posted a request for profile photos from Facebook and Myspace asking people to contribute their photos to my project. I took all the pictures and laid them on top of another until they all blended together to create a picture which represents America. Video here.

I drew the 75% of the picture with Jesus fish representing the Christians, and the other 25% of non Christians with Darwin fish. Of course, the two are NOT mutually exclusive. However, there is the Fish war all over America. I thought it would be appropriate to use these symbols for my project.

The end image turned out rather young because when you overlap pictures, you can’t quite capture any wrinkles and facial lines with all stacked on top of each other. See here.