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1. What I tried to do with my zine artwork was show off how I feel about people at work such as customers and managers since they all say we are essential and we’re risking our lives to be out serving them. They all say that they appreciate us but whenever I go to work its always complaining about certain things that I or my peers do plus customers make a big deal about how items we do not have or they make complaints about small things. I wanted to show how the public and managers have a two-sided approach to us and I wanted to show how disappointed I am and how angry I am at them as well since they keep telling us two statements that are not true.
2. Something I would like to do differently is addressed the zine to a specific person rather than a whole group of people such as a certain customer or a certain manager because I want them to know that they are the reason I feel so tired and defeated every time I walked into the store.
3. Some other things I would like to explore with a zine is made one about me and who I am as a person such as my characteristics or my personality as I feel I am one of kind since I am funny, smart, and goofy the other thing too is people just gravitate towards me which is a special skill. 

1. Freedom of the internet can be a little scary as you have the range to do whatever you want with whatever you want, but something on the internet just says to be yourself because they are more people out there that are just like so the risk of going on the internet and something weird or cool is a risk worth taking.
2.  Copyright, in my opinion, is too harsh you can not do anything without being copyright for something you did not even know it was copyrighted, and I just feel like the piece that is copyrighted should be allowed for use if you state what piece is not yours and you tell the audience that it comes from someone else.
3. For my licenses, I placed a public domain one since the picture I used was from a mountain and I am pretty sure anyone can go there take a picture and do something cool with it, so taking that into consideration I just choose to place a public domain on it since I want everyone to have fun with the picture and no have it be ruined by copyright.
4. What I did for the remix of my picture was change everything that was normal to something that was weird and interesting to the audience who will be viewing it so that meant I had to change some colors and some tones to make it look like it was from space.

Artist: Micol Hebron

Exhibition: Digital Pasty/Gender Equity initiative

Media: Photography, Studio Work

Gallery: N/A

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unicornkiller1

Website: http://micolhebron.com/

The person or I should say the artist I chose to interview was Micol Hebron who is a Feminist, a leader in a movement, and an artist who is fighting to seek equality for women in all different aspects in life especially in the social media aspect of things. She is an Associate Professor of Art at Chapman University where she is also the founder/director of The Situation Room resource space for the creative community. Hebron has also served on advisory boards at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Birch Creek Ranch Residency (Utah), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and UCLA. Herbon is also a Feminist who has demonstrated strategies of consciousness-raising, collaboration, generosity, play, and participation to support and further feminist dialogues in art and as well as life. Hebron’s main goal as of right now is fighting for equality for women through social media because they can not post a nude picture of their boobs(nipples) without being censored, compared to a male who can have his shirt off and can show off his nipples.

The picture that I chose to look at from her gallery on Instagram was this picture of her that had some weird colors to it, weird illusions, and herself being naked with black stars being placed on her breast to not get the picture taken down. The picture when you first look at it is her standing up with her arms out while she stares down at her body or at the ground no once you see the first image of her you start to see more of her. The picture has this illusion of the same picture of her getting bigger and bigger until her photo can not fit the screen as I believe this is her way of saying that women are powerful and can be an illusion. The other illusion to this photo is behind the pictures of her as there is a checker color scheme in the background of the picture which makes the picture look like it has a wave going through it. I also want to mention is that she is holding nipples as it looks like she has pulled them off from her breast and is holding them to the viewer to see them.

What the picture is trying to say is unclear for me but from what I can put together is that even though social media is censoring her because she can not show her nipples she is going to find other ways to show them to the viewer. The only reason why I think this is because she is holding her nipples in her hand so it is kind of like a jab at social media saying that I still showed my nipples but not in the way that you can censor out. Since this picture is about showing her nipples even though you can not show them it goes with her theme that women are being held back and being body shamed for what they have. The other meaning I got from this picture is the fact that women are powerful since it shows herself getting bigger and bigger which shows me and the viewer that women are more powerful than men think or what the world thinks. Overall this picture to me is about saying that she was able to post her nipples on social media but by doing it in a new creative way than just posting them online and getting it censored. 

In my opinion, I liked her idea, and I liked all her pictures about it as she is finding creative ways to post her body on social media without being censored nor taken down which is a big success story if you are able to do it. The picture itself is pretty cool and unique as you really do not see pictures like that as often plus the way she made it look made it seem like it was an illusion that was playing with your eyes. The illusion itself in this picture is cool and I think that is why I choose it as it made the picture look interesting and eye-grabbing to me at least plus the fact that she kind of said “F U” to social media was funny. The message, in the end, is that women should not be blocked nor censored on social media because of their body or their nipples. Overall this picture and her idea is something I liked to learn about especially when she was talking about her ideas over our zoom lecture which was pretty interesting, very informative, and very educational on what it means to stand up and fight for what you want.

Let’s start off by saying this all I had in my house that I could find was some old crayons from high school that looked older and some nice clean printing paper that I had laying in the corner of my room ready to be drawn on. I started off by laying out my name in some type of bubble that I did not like but I kept doing it until I realized I wanted it to have more bubble in the letters so I drew another layout around. Since our professor said it’s okay to make mistakes in our drawing and that we should continue in with the mistake we did that is what I did I went along with the mistake I made but I do not know if it made it better or worse. Either way, I continued to draw my letters until it was time to color my letters which is the fun part in my opinion so I wanted to color my name with style and not be another basic person. So I got different colors that I had and colored each letter different than the rest once I did that I colored the background of the layout two different colors which in my opinion made it pop out. Overall this helped me in a time of bored where I felt there was nothing to do this helped it got me to do something and it got me to relax in a time where everyone is stressed, so in the end, I had a pretty good time.  

-The idea for my art project was to make a mountain that represented dreams or hopes that one person or all of us have with that I put some people climbing up the mountain, I put very little people hitting the top and walking down, I put many people at the base wanting to climb up, and I put a lot of people just starring at the top. The weird balls are people that either take the chance to climb the mountain, those who want to climb it but are scared, those who are climbing already, those who just stare at the mountain hoping one day they will go, and those who have hit the top of the mountain and are now climbing down.

-The materials that I used were some old palm tree leaves that had been dried up and I used these weird-looking balls that my pal tree drops every single day which we also dried up and very old as well.

-My piece was able to express my idea because it shows how many people want to achieve their goals in life but are too scared to do it, it expresses how many people are actually climbing to reach their goals, it expresses how few people reach their goals in life, and it expresses all the people who dream of doing their goal but never do anything about it.

-The choice of my materials made a good experience for my artwork as it was easy to use, easy to put into place, and it was easy to demonstrate my idea of what I was trying to say with my head without actually saying a thing.

-A kiss should last for however long the two partners want it too last there really is not a time limit on how long a kiss should last it also depends on how you are feeling when you give that kiss to that one special person as well so in conclusion it is all up to you.

-A great meal should last you until you get full if you feel some emptiness in your stomach you should eat more and if you are full already you should not eat anymore because you will throw up overall having a great meal should last you until you are full.

-A great work of art should last forever so every single person on this earth can see it, feel it, and describe it should last for generation after generation until this earth is no more until we are all gone and even that it should still last for someone or something to see. 

-Marriage should last until a person in the relationship does not have feeling s of love toward their partner once they feel that they should call it a quite but other than that marriage does not have a timeline other than a person giving up on it.

– Human life should last about a hundred years I feel like that is good enough to see what the world has to offer plus I believe people would not experience life if they were to live forever since they will never have the urgency to do the things they want because they have no death date.

-Yes, it does make a difference when you have a finite timeline since you are most likely to view more things or do more things since you do not have time to waste plus the sooner you see it the more appreciation you will have later on in your life because you know you did that.

– Everything essential to living on this earth should be here forever even after the human race is gone it should still stay here so the next living thing can grow and give life to earth once again since I feel we humans will destroy it but something will bring it if the essential things are here.

-Yes I believe that one person like me can make a big difference in global climate change since all it takes is for one person to do something right to help the earth and then after that everyone will follow plus they will contribute to saving this great world. 

The theme of my Art gallery is digital animals. Why animals? Well why not. Animals are a big thing to us whenever we see them in the zoo, our national parks, or our streets we tend to get excited we also get a little astonish at whatever the animals does. With digital animals they take all the excitement of the animal but they add a twist to it making regular animals look even better while doing some weird and amazing actions. On the other hand digital artist tend to make new animals that they have made up in their imagination which is cool as we tend to see the animal which gets a little boring but when someone creates a weird scientific looking animal it tends to grab our attention.

Kaya Oldaker is an internet artist who’s art consist of digital animals. But the theme of the animals she create usually revolve around scientific and fantasy animals. Scientific and fantasy animals have a big of late for digital as many more games have been installing these type of animals into games. The reason as to why this subject is trending is because many people have never seen these types of animals as they do not exist in our world which leads people to stare in “aw” at a beautiful or horrifying creature. Oldaker is also working on a game by the name of “Light up the world” for the Paralympic games.

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Simon Cowell is an internet artist who’s art in my opinion has the most amazing digital animal art out there. When I went to his website he had a bunch of art pieces of different animals I have never seen before there were some that could be from today’s world, the stone ages, and even futurist animals that look like they can live in space. Cowell work is very different from oldaker work as she tends to focus on making animals that could be from the past like the Hobbit types of animals, while Cowell tends to focus on futurist or space animals. Cowell as well has worked on a bunch of projects but the main one that he gets most praised for was his work for the “Guardians of Galaxy Vol 2”. Cowell also won an award called “A.M.E. Bale Travelling Scholarship”.

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Ricardo Ow is an internet artist but he tends to focus on the the mythical creatures with a little twist to it. In most of his art work he tends to focus on a time period such as the stone ages, but he tends to always add his iconic dragon and dog to it as the dog and dragon are friends. He puts the dog and the dragon in different scenarios such as sleeping together, fighting a monster of some kind, or fleeing from a monster that is hard for them to fight. Ow also has worked on AAA video games and mobile games and he tends to focus on Sci-Fi/ Fantasy illustrations.

YouTube video:

1. The goal with my youtube video was to inform the viewer on what the Houston Astros did which was cheating their way to a world series, how they cheated, and how they ruin many baseball player’s careers and lives.
2. I feel like I accomplished my goal by informing the viewer what happened I feel like I went over the basic information with a touch of new information that some people might have not heard about so whether you knew about the incident or not you are well informed on what happened.
3. The one thing I would do differently is adding pictures or videos of when they were cheating during the postseason and how player’s careers were destroyed by showing statics of how they were against over teams and how they did against the Astros.
4. I do not think I’ll ever vlog again because it is not who I am I am just not interested in making videos nor do I actually know how to make videos what I mean by that is like editing and cutting parts out.
5. I do not have a favorite YouTuber on youtube since I just watch whatever they give me but if I had to choose a channel on youtube it would be the MLB channel since I love baseball and they have a bunch of cool stuff on there. 
6. I like their work because they post highlights of all the games that were played the day before, they have flashbacks of certain players when they did something big, and they usually broadcast one baseball game per day.
7. What I can take from there is interacting with the audience, making better edits or cuts of the video I am doing, and making good videos about baseball is the most important one to me since I really care about it and I know other people do too.
8. Authenticity to me is about being yourself you do not need to be someone you do not make it big nor do you have to copy a person to get attention from other people that’s what I think it means as it just means be true to yourself and do not copy or cheat anyone out.
9. Performance is knowing what you are going to do before you do it you need to know what you are going to say, what topics you are going to cover if you have pictures you need to review them so you know what you are talking about, and overall just have an idea of what you are doing when you are going out to perform.
10. I believe that both terms can go with each other because you do not want to steal someone else thing because you did not know what do when you were performing in front of people or when you are on camera so they need each other in order to make the actor or person better on what they are doing.
11. I feel like the one at home is more authentic since she can be herself without the crowd breathing down her neck or Jimmy just constantly looking at her eyes overall I believe that she performs better when she’s at home because she can be herself and perform even if she gets nervous because she is at home and home for us is safety.

Artist: Mahsa Soroudi

Exhibition: Iranian Women Art

Media: Visual Communication

Gallery:  7,500 Miles

Website: mahsasoroudi.com

Instagram: N/A 

The person or I should say Artist that I interviewed for this essay was Mahsa Soroudi who was just one of the artists who contributed to the 7500-miles gallery as the gallery was a group exhibition with other artists from her culture who did not want to present politics, but rather the history of the woman from where they are from. Mahsa Soroudi is from Tehran and earned her degree from the University of Azad Art and Architecture as well while she was living there until she moved to Malaysia. Soroudi graduate with a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts in Visual Communication in 2006 who was focusing on interdisciplinary topics that can evolve into thought-provoking and meaningful exhibitions. She is also passionate about taking steps towards familiarizing the community with contemporary artists who have gone disregarded or unseen due to the unfair exposures about their communities. She also says that she has moved to different parts of the world to experience all their art and their culture that they have to offer plus she moves to other countries to influence her own culture to different types of people.

The piece of art that is shown in the 75,000-Miles art gallery by Mahsa is a woman who is colored in pink with different colors surrounding the lady as it might be displaying a woman who is out of place due to the environment she is living in. First, let’s start off with the girl or woman that is being displayed for us she is colored all in pink and she seems to be wearing a dress with a shirt slash sweater on she is also bear foot, but what really comes out is how curious or scared she looks she sees something that makes her feel and act in a scared or curious way. The second colors that are around her are green and white these colors are scatted around her but the white color seems to be around her more while the green color seems to be around the white color but it is not displayed as much as the white color. Even though they are all around the girl or woman they do not show a clear picture of anything you can not pick out anything to make something out of it as it is unclear of what it is trying to display. After the two colors, the background of the art is full of different colors which are purple, green, and white these colors are shown with different lines and shapes throughout the entire art piece.

  Soroudi exhibition is about the history of woman from where she is from and other women have placed their art in this exhibition to show what women went through and what they had to deal with living in the city of Tehran. She also did not want her exhibition to be about politicians or politics she strictly said it in her interview she just wanted this exhibition to be about her people and especially the woman. With that in mind she strictly just wanted women depicting what an average girl slash woman would go through in Tehran especially different parts of the city since it is different everywhere you go. She explains how living in different parts of the region will give you a different experience of the culture as her’s was very different since she lived in the south than another girl who lived in the north. She also states that the religious revolution took a big role in most of these girls’ lives which influenced them on how they thought about the city and where they lived.

What this piece of art means to me is a sign that a woman always needs to be on the lookout they can not be comfortable in their own home that is why the girl in the picture seemed so scared and curious. The other aspect that drives me toward this road is the background of the painting as it is a bunch of scattered lines and colors which might resemble the people judging or making the woman scared leading to once again being scared. That is what I truly think it represents as she describes that a lot of people do not know the history of a woman nor know the feelings of a woman who is living in Tehran especially during the revolutions. I can kind of relate to what she is saying since I am a colored person who lives in the U.S but it is not the same as I live in southern California where it is really diverse. If I was to go to other parts of the country then yea I would feel the same way about how people are viewing me and how how they are judging me as well.

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1. My experience with this project was weird since I kind of did not know what to do so I kinda went off instinct when my sister and I started to do the project at first it was weird to just sit across from each other so we started laughing, but then we calmed ourselves down and we started to make some weird lines that looked like spirals we also started to draw weird lines that were just outta place.
2. The results for drawing the map was not that bad as I drew as much stuff as I remembered but the stuff I drew was from the top half of campus I had totally forgotten that we had a whole other half down south plus I did not have enough paper to draw the whole thing and for the art project with a partner, the results came in as unusual as we just got spirals and weird lines here and there it was fun to do with my sister but again the results did not come back as good. 

1. What I was trying to think about was my girlfriend I know it sounds a bit cheesy but this girl has done a lot for me she has seen me at my worse, she has seen me fail, and she has seen me at times where I want to quit but she is always there for me and that is what I tried to think about when I was writing this song the fact that she is always there.
2. The process for the song was trying to find a catchy hook for the parts where you repeat yourself and the other parts of the song just came after that the lyrics all came together at the end then once I read everything I liked how it sounded.
3. I felt like writing a song is pretty hard since you have to make sure that your lyrics make sense and it is not just words that you come up with to just write them down in the song you have to actually use the words you are actually feeling other than that it was pretty easy.
4. If I am going, to be honest, I do not think that my song is good enough for the majority of the population as it really will not relate to them only to a few since it is actually about a person who I truly care about and who is there for me no matter what nowadays everyone wants to hear songs about random things but not about what they actually feel.
5. I do not think I will write another song again since it is not my thing I may produce a song or make a beat to one like how I did for my friend on my spare time but that is only going to be it I am just not that guy who can write songs but I am the guy who can a good beat to one.
6. If I was to write another song I think it would be about some issues we are facing as a society it would be something about that which I believe I can relate too and other people could as well so if I was to write another song it is going to be about a problem that society has whether it is drug abuse or mental issues the problems vary.