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Taylor Guyton Art 211 Blanka Roundtree 28 February 2018 Electronics             Art and technology has come a long way. One technical object that has come a long way is the drawing tablet. Drawing tablets are used by artist all around the world. It helps artist draw digitally on the computer which is entirely different from drawing on paper. Digital arts have prospered throughout the years as they continuously make more tablets more accessible and easier to use. Most of the artist who do use the tablets are illustrators and digital animators. For a long time, animation was hand drawn. Then Wacom decided to come out with the Wacom bamboo tablet, however, before there was Wacom, there was apple. In 1979, apple created a tablet for graphics (Smith).   Apple actual did not create the tablet itself, they worked with someone who did make it. The company was called Summagraphics (Smith). Apparently, it was not we...

The Color Purple, staring Cynthia Erivo and Jennifer Hudson was one of the most soulful, inspiring, and beautiful broadways I've ever seen. Originally there based on Jennifer Hudson's appearance, I was quickly drawn in to the beautiful voices of everyone else. It was no longer about who famous was playing the roles, it was about who was playing the roles, and they were playing it well. Cynthia Erivo's performance was phenomenal. Her voice carried out her soul, and mine as well. I saw the play January of Senior year of high school for a theatre trip to New York. This Broadway is something I would recommend to anybody. It tells the hardships of family and love, hurt and regret. It highlights the ideals and expectations of society, to the strength of feminism and desire. Growing up, everyone in my family knew of The Color Purple. I was excited to see that it has become a play, and the play did not let me down. Not one bit. It was the type of play you would laugh, cry and sympa...

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The animation is a spectacle to look at. It changes the scenery in artful movements, almost as if the originally set, which takes place on a grassy hill, is just a dream. Madama Butterfly is well constructed, built out of clay and mechanics. Her stringy hair movement adorably sways in the imaginary wind, and her clothes, which are made out of rags. There must be a reason why the animator wanted her to look like this, versus, the opera where she is an actual geisha in a kimono, whereas, the military man is just a ken doll. I believe he wanted to symbolize a curious innocence within Madama Butterfly. He partakes this story in a very interesting way. He starts it off with the two meeting and all of a sudden connecting without any thought. In the original Madama Butterfly, he originally wanted to take a Japanese wife, he ends up taking Cho-Cho san as his wife, who is, in a sense, Madama butterfly. In the animation, he mates with her and then leaves, as if he was either to never come back...

My project is a combination of lunch and conversation. The avocado represents the dial, the sandwich, the base of the phone, the elbow noodles, the cord, and the apple, banana, and orange is made up of the phone. My reasoning for creating such a mass of food is simply because of the idea of healthiness vs unhealthiness. We are told that being on our electronics causes loss of brain cells and inability to learn in a specific way. People of the younger generation tend to not care and hold on to electronics almost as an obsession, but what if electronics were healthy food? If we treated our body how we treat our electronics, perhaps we would have a better perspective on healthiness. My idea came to me from looking at my own life. my inspirations actually came from my dinner. While I was prodding around, seeing what I should eat, I found myself dragging my phone along with me, as if it was another part of my arm. Noticing this caused me to create such a piece. Other inspirations came ...

Raul Cuerco is a man of many talents, but he had been treated as an unintellectual individual because of his race. Not one person wanted to look at him as a smart person, but through his struggles he found the wisdom to live his life with a better perspective. In the interview he had pointed out many ways to live life in a way that benefits you as a person. The concepts that he introduced were how he lived his own life and how he eventually benefitted from living the way that he did. Raul says that everything is possible if you try hard enough. In everyday life, many people are discouraged to do certain things because of laziness or the thought of failure. Raul has a different approach. Raul says, "Focus without the fear of failing." and "do everything with intensity." He goes on to say that intensity is what makes a process complete. Everything in everyday life is a process, and applying the concept of not fearing the inevitable, work with intensity, and try hard...

Hello, My name is Taylor Guyton, and for this set of blog post I will be posting about my new class Art 211, Art and technology. The class is about how humans interaction with technology has changed the art world and how people provide and show their art to the world. I believe that this class will help me understand the relationship between humans and technology and how the advancement of technology has shaped the art world. From the time I was young I have always played with technology. As I grew up I began to become fascinated with computers and how they work. I went from drawing in sketchbooks to drawing on the computer and have been fascinated with the thought of computer art from the beginning. Technology has affected me personally and continuously throughout the years of my life. While approaching college applications, I have chosen a major that correlates to what I have been doing for the past few years, Digital Arts. I am a very open-minded person, I love art, animation, an...