Gallery

In the gallery I looked at two pieces on being David Shrigley"s 'New Friends'  (2006, animation, 1 min.) which is an animation about a box that lives in a box world and falls into a hole to meet round friends. what i like about this one was the way he did his animation it was simple and still very understandable and created a very different  feel to it. he even refers to his drawings as a mix between hand writing and drawing.
The other artist I looked at was Andrew Bush 'Women southeast at 64mph on U.S. Route 101 near Santa Barbra at 4:39pm sometime in March 1990' (1990, chronogeneric print) which is exactly what it sounds like a women driving on a freeway in her car but the image isn't blurred its as if he was right next to her and she was stopped.
Both pieces take a simple idea and add to it by altering it just a bit Shrigley could have done a more realistic cartoon and Bush happened to be there at the right moment and decided to shoot it so it looked still getting a completely natural reaction or pose from the women driving. both deal with identity in diffrent ways in one the artist is creating everything about the charters we see including there world. The other has only selection of images we see the artist has no control over the subject and neither does the subject in a sense because she doesn't know she's being photographed.  I just shows a portrait can be all knowing or all unknown.

Listening song

Listing Song (2013)
Alex Schwalbe
Song
38 sec.

A song or beat made up of noises one might here in a hallway.

Slow it down (appropriation)

Slow it Down (2013)
Alex Schwalbe
1:04 min
Video

A video made of found footage, currently in the public domain. The footage is completely reworked to create a new piece.

Gif

Untitled (2013)
Alex Schwalbe
Cinemagraph
Gif

    A moving picture, a still image of myself playing the guitar and every 5 seconds my hand changes position on the fret.