Dreams are the source of Imagination.

Pipilotti Rist was born in Grabs, Swiss Rhine Valley in 1962. She studied commercial art, illustration and photography at the Institute of Applied Arts in Vienna. She then studied audio visual communications at the School of Design in Basel. She became a visiting professor at Los Angelos in 2002. She currently lives in Zurich and in the mountains of Switzerland.

Her website confuses the frick outta me. If she wrote her own biography, she’s really random. Her videos confuse me too. It looks like a really bad drama. …A REALLY BAD drama. I don’t like them. I do like the fact the video is clean and sharp. And it appears to be in a dream-like state. Overall, not my fav.

Paul Pfeiffer was born in 1966 in Hawaii. He is an American video artist where he incorporates found footage. He got his BFA in Printmaking at San Francisco Art Institute and his MFA in Hunter College, NY. He worked and lived in New York up until 1990.

Many people call him meticulous and believe his work is time-consuming. After seeing a few videos on what he does, I can 100% agree. Going in frame by frame to edit is really some commitment. Although I’m uninterested in his subjects, I do highly appreciate his dedication to his works. It’s a fun piece but I wouldn’t buy them.

Bill Viola was born on 1951. He recieved his BFA in Experimental Studio from Syracuse University. He lived in Italy for 18 months as a technical director. He then traveled widely around the world for several years, including Solomon Island, and Japan. He is considered a pioneer in the medium of video art and is internationally recongnized as one of today’s leading artist.

The videos I could find on youtube were interviews and poorly recorded. But the good ones I could find were really, different. I’ve noticed water is incorporated into alot of his works. And I think that’s cool. There’s alot you can do with water, from a waterfall setting to an underwater setting. It’s really intriguing to watch. but at the same time, I feel like I’m missing something. *shrugs*

What loops, can fit 10 frames, and defies time? Cell Mitosis

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nbsp;Foundmagazine.com is a website where people can submit things that they have found. Be it a love note, homework, or anything that shows somethign about another’s life. So it can be someting entirely personal or something mediocre. They started the website upon recieving a strange personal letter on a car. And found it awesome and full of emotions so they decided to find more things and post them online. Now anybody can do it.

I love the site but at the same time i feel like i’m violating someone’s personal life. To read a love note, it mite be entertaining but it’s personal. Although if they lost it then it’s up for grabs for anybody else. So never mind then. I jsut find this site entertaining. Nothing more.

nbsp;Learningtoloveyoumore.com is a website that’s run by Miranda July and Harreil Fletcher. I think I can relate their website as a reciepe book. It gives you instructions how to make things and you have the freedom to kinda spice up to create your own version.

I like it when they show the collection. You can read the instruction and assignment and then view how each person interpreted those instructions and create their own. Its almost like taking an online art course. Which seems kinda awesome. I can learn things that my school can’t (sorry). It’s a cute site but I don’t have much to say.

nbsp;PostSecret.com is a website where people can send in their secrets anonymously to the website and create art with those secrets.

The artwork reminds me of a combination of Lolcats and Demotivational Posters. The text is written on the postcards and says something related to it. Some of the messages don’t match the images but some go with it very well. Some don’t even have an image with it but are instead anonymous e-mail messages. Some seem like extreme secrets, one you never tell anybody, while others seem just silly secrets that nobody wants to openly admit. It’s an adorable site yet some of the secrets are a bit too personal.