User:TonyChung

Always Wanted To Schedule

 * Topic To Customize a DIY (Do It Yourself) toy made by Kidrobot.


 * Research Component


 * week 1


 * week 2


 * week 3


 * week 4

Draw up a design that I would like to customize, and figure out what materials I would need in order to complete the design.


 * week 5

Do some research on ways to customize the DIY Munny and try to learn some new techniques that would go well with my design.


 * week 6

Draw on the parts that clay will be added on to and start sculpting out the design.


 * week 7

Once I'm done sculpting the custom I would then bake it, sand it, prime it, and then paint it. After all this has been accomplished clean up the custom as much as possible and then put a protection layer as the final coat to the Munny Predator design to keep it from fading, chipping of the paint etc.


 * week 8

Do some more research on the origins on how Munny's, Dunny's and/or how other vinyl toys got popular. I could also look up how how some people actually customize toys for a living, and getting commission for their work. Places that vinyl toys are popular and why etc.

Why Do I Like What I Like?
Look at the work in person. Learn about the artist at the AIS library, or online. Look at more examples of that artist’s work. Find work by other artists that relates to this artist’s work. Go back later in the week and look at the piece again. Finally, write a typed page about what happened. Were you able to manipulate yourself into changing your mind, or not? If so, how does that feel? If not, is it depressing to know that you can’t control your own brain?

At first when I saw Mark di Suvero's Bunyan"s Chess Sculpture it didn't come to my liking. Even though I appreciate all types and forms of art his scuplture to me seemed too boring at first. But then when I read about him and how he grew up in New York growing up around abstract art I slowly started to understand how he creates and/or makes his art. Mark di Suvero was also a construction worker back in the day so that also explains why his "Bunyan's Chess" sculpture is very simple with some geometric shapes, like that of beams of a buildings. Now that I know more about the artist's background it helped me understand where the artist got his inspiration and idea from how he creates, what he liked etc.

Every artist is different in there own way. Learning more about the artist for me helped me understand what the art work was more about. Rather then judging ones work based on the appearance. Reading up on the artist's history also might tell you their style in which they like to create, for me I like art that is more modern and not so simplistic. So when I first saw the "Bunyan's Chess" my first reaction was "man this is way boring, lets move on to the next one," but after observing his other works of art, where he grew up, what affected him in his life the basic sculpture started to make more sense to me and wasn't so boring.

Self-Assessment
Overall I felt like I did alright in the class. There weren’t many assignments to do so the class to me seemed pretty laid back and boring at the same time. Whenever we did have homework it was all outside of class so that kinda threw me off. Thinking that since its on my own time I could put off the assignments to the very last moment, the final “I’ve Always Wanted To” for example. Considering I that usually procrastinate a lot this didn’t really help me much. But by the end of the quarter I learned that I should work on homework when I have time to do so instead of holding it off until later.

In my point of view its like when we didn’t have assignments due or were about to start an assignment people wouldn’t show up to class. If you could include the class to participate more in some way that might get the class to be more interesting, or you could have some more group activities so we could meet new people in the process of learning or include participation to be 10% of our final grade or whatever you choose to be. The class was pretty awesome to me because you were a pretty cool teacher and I also liked my fellow classmates. Class is always better when your fellow students get along so it think more group activities would be a plus.

P.S Hope you get better and that your leukemia goes away