TED Talk: One Year of Turning the World Inside Out

This episode of TED Talk tells the story of a photographer who asked for a world wide group project. The project was for random people to take photos of those on the street and send those photos to him. People all around the globe did this: Native American tribes, people in Pakistan and Israel, and gay people in Russia. I think that the project was super empowering and an intelligent way to tell the story of people whose stories are never told.

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Social Justice and The Quilt

The dictionary defines social justice as "justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society." The dictionary's definition would be an idyllic world. It would be incredible if women made the same amount money as men, it would be amazing if black people had the same privileges as white people, and it would be wonderful if the LGBT community had the same opportunities in public society as hetrosexual and cisgender people. However, social justice means something different to different people. There's discourse all around the world about what should be corrected in society and what should be left alone, and artists can express their versions of justice through their art. One of those artists that I will focus on today is The NAMES Project. The NAMES Project is dedicated to showcasing the effects AIDS and HIV can have on the family of those who are HIV positive or who have lost members to the disease. They created The Quilt: a...

Bob Crowley

Bob Crowley was born in Cork, Ireland in 1952. He is an Academy Award winning scenic designer, and has designed over 20 productions over his career. He uses a variety of colors and shapes, and movement in his pieces. He uses variety by experimenting with colors and messing around with shapes. For example, in the play The Glass Menagerie, he made a staircase that seems like it was leaning and going away from the audience. Crowley uses movement in most of pieces. For example, in his play American in Paris, he uses projections of airplanes to give the illusion that they are flying over head.

3D Print Artists

Digital Grotesque is a 3D printing studio created by two architects, Benjamin Dillenburger and Michael Hansmeyer. It's goal is to create rooms, know as Grottos, just by using a 3D printer. It's Grottos are intense, and filled with minute details that really put the room together. Eric Van Straaten combines images of female forms with birds to explore ideas of youth, femininity, freedom and environmental issues. For example, one of his pieces called "Flamingo" points out the history of the bird species through his descriptions of his works. He uses a lot of color and his pieces leave you wonder what it all means.

Some Art Opinions with Mack

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