Performance Art Video

Something that has always fascinated me is the beauty of childbearing. Last summer, I remember seeing a woman at the pool who was enormously pregnant and was wearing a sexy red bikini. However, despite first impression of the subject, I was not repulsed, but mesmorized. This woman, tan and healthy, was perfectly comfortable about the way she looked—in fact, you could tell she felt sexy. And this woman was not much older than me. Sadly, that way that culture today, especially American culture, looks down upon younger pregnancies, especially teenage pregnancies. In fact, even still today, with our advanced methods of birth control and awareness, there are high rates of abortions in the United States. Now, I myself am a pro-choice candidate, yet cannot help but feel that it is somewhat America’s fault at pressuring these girls that being with child is something not acceptable, something freakish. So in my video, I walked around our Syracuse Campus with an enormously pregnant (and completely realistic!) looking belly, and watched in horror as people gawked, squawked and stared at me in disgust, horror and confusion. I walked down to the library, where even a pregnant college student like me had all studious eyes on her, as well as in Starbucks. Even walking past the bus stop I could hear girls whisper, “Oh my God, look at that pregnant girl.” It made me sad to see how American’s make their own people feel ashamed of this beautiful life inside them. In the last part of the segment I walk past the sorority houses, which, if I was indeed pregnant, would most likely never let me join their house if I looked the way I did and if I was going to have a child.

Time Arts Video

Response to Jesus Camp and Control Room

Jesus Camp showed America's religious brainwashing on its youth. These Evangelicalists started brainwashing their children with home schooling, where children were taught about creationism versus evolution, as well as even reciting the pledge of alligence to the Bible.
But what I found truly disturbing was the absolute ignorance of these religious fanatics. It is not the parents right to brainwash their kids and only expose them to ONE SIDE of life--because viewing Harry Potter or being able to communicate with other students at public school only threaten their holiness. I could not help but see the disturbing tie between the Evangelicals and the Republican party...partly due to them bringing in a blow up cardboard picture of George Bush and blessing him. The corruption and threat of this wing of religion not only scared me, but deeply disturbed me when looking to the political side of our country.
Control Room was completely the opposite, yet still put America in the spot light to criticism. It showed the Iraqi War and all the deceit and control of the media involved. It contrasted the television station of Iraq with those of the United States. It scared me the way that America twisted and turned many of the facts that happened in Iraq, including the fall of the Sadam statue that was supposedly staged. It all made me sick to my stomach.

God Bless America?

Strangest thing that has happened in college

The strangest thing that has happened in college:

SANITATION. seriously.

"Find a peaceful place where you can make plans for the future"

Fortune Pictures

redhouse art exhibit

I thought this exhibit was really interesting... especially the artist who did the video of the grafetti appearing to be revealed or "painted back." The guy also painted pigme-like faces on the bottles of various licquor bottles and glass bottles. Not going to lie these images kind of gave me the creeps, and now that I think about it, the deformed faces on the liquor bottles remind me of babies born with fetal alcohol syndrom. The faces were somewhat haunted. Painted with acylic paints, I noticed that the artist had spray painted some of the background with a rusty brown to add a little contrast, which I liked. Overall, pretty cool exhibit.