User:SaraS

=Freshman Seminar=

Always Wanted To Schedule

 * Topic

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 * Research Component

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 * week 1

look up information on a tattoo machine
 * week 2

cont. looking up info.
 * week 3

talk to friend who is a tattoo artist
 * week 4

look up info on how to use the machine
 * week 5

cont. looking up how to use
 * week 6

research history of tattooing
 * week 7

cont. research
 * week 8

put everything together

Midterm Assignment 1: Taste & Aesthetics
For this project I chose the piece Persephone Unbound. When I started walking through the park I thought to myself all the pieces in here are really good. Then I was like great now I am going to have a hard time on this project and then I saw it. I stopped walking and looked right at it. It was really ugly and I was like they let them put this thing in here. My second thought was that it looked like poop. As I researched more about the artist and learned the story behind the piece I started to really like it. Beverly Pepper has done so many pieces and galleries. She started her career as a commercial artist in New York before switching to painting and sculptures. She also began carving wood, working in clay and bronze and then welding. She is well known for her totem figures, steel sculptures, mirrored works and environmental earth constructions. After researching all about the artist and what not I’m not sure I like the sculpture. Its still pretty ugly to me but I love the story behind it. She seems to be a great artist and I can appreciate what she has done but I think there were more interesting sculptures in that park.

Midterm Assignment 2: Manipulation
Truth Through Humor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBDQ76rQb6A&feature=channel

False Dilemma

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpOvzGiheOM

Final Presentation

 * Topic (10%)

< > Give a tattoo / learna about the history
 * Research (20%)

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 * 1) Internet site: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/tattoo.html
 * 2) Book: "The Craft of Tattooing" by Erick Alayon
 * 3) Scholarly Journal:
 * 4) Other (interview, TV show,etc):

http://tattoomachinesforsale.com/images/tattoo_machine_for_sale.jpg MODERN DAY TATTOO MACHINE

http://media.smithsonianmag.com/images/tattoo_implements.jpg SMALL BRONZE TATTOOING IMPLEMENT FROM GUROB,EGYPT 1450 B.C.


 * Your accomplishment (20%)

Well i didnt get to close i guess u could say but it wasnt a complete failure. i did learn alot about tatooing and the history of it. I didnt realize that the ancient Egyptians used to tattoo their women as to classify them as prostitutes and to protect them from STD's. Also they gave them to women during difficult times in the pregnancy.


 * Project Review (50%)
 * 1)What went well

I learned alot about the history of tattooing and ancient purposes.
 * 2)What went poorly

i wasn't really able to learn more about tattooing today. Like the proccess and what not.
 * 3)Future strategies

make more time to actually be able to get some practice and information in.