pomp & circumstance: part two

events following COLLEGE GRADUATION '08.

b-b-q for the old folks on the hudson post-commencement


Olafur Eliasson at MoMA


greatest sculptures ever in Rock City

pomp & circumstance

events leading up to COLLEGE GRADUATION '08.

punk rock prom


senior dinner


hand gestures at dinner before tent party


a deer prancing in the field


1st pre-party for tent party


2nd pre-party for tent party and 2nd tilted head pose of the night




THE tent party




WOOOO

jet set junta.

monochrome art is so cool! its so exciting. i am so genunitely into that sort of thing. i think the most minimal, most simple things are the most beautiful. i love art! i was looking at a book about monochrome today and i just realized it-- that i love art. its just so pure and so all encompassing at the same time. its freedom is so beautiful. i also think it is extremely hard to talk about art without sounding pretentious. UGH. whatever. there are worse things in the world than sounding pretentious.

i love this:

i think he is the most important artist of the 20th century, without a doubt. undoubtedly. it seems his pervasiveness in mainstream culture doesn't deter his influence-- every significant artist of the past several decades counts him among their greatest influences. obscurity is pointless in determining greatness.

and i think Buddy Holly is the most important musician of the 20th century. yes i do.

Black Leather.

at this school, the Senior Project is taken very seriously. the name "senior project" does not do it justice. it is more akin to a graduate dissertation, but done by us measly undergrads. i remember talking about "college dissertations" in high school. i had no idea what i was talking about.

mine is pretty epic. it is called "Sniffing Glue vs. No Future: The Visual Culture of Punk in the US and UK" and this is the synopsis: The punk explosion of the late 1970’s that occurred simultaneously in America and England differed in sound and aesthetics due to the unique political and cultural atmospheres of each country. The Ramones and Sex Pistols exemplified these ideological differences and expressed them through their style and graphics, demonstrating the importance of punk’s visual culture in creating the identity and legacy of the movement.

it is quite riveting, if i do say so myself. it's got it all: foul language, drug usage, death, blood, groundbreaking music, teenage rebellion, speed (as in both the rapid pace of the music and the youth subculture's lifestyle, and the drug), style, art, Situationists, class strife, social unrest, urban decay, AND MORE!

the crux of my thesis was the argument that youth subcultures use style to assert their difference and challenge hegemony and represent their ideology through visual codes. I LOVE THAT. i find that idea so endlessly fascinating.

i leave you with some of my fave images from my "SENIOR PROJECT."