-- Post From My iPhone

Horse Tail

On my way to school this morning, I captured this beautiful horse tail with my iphone. It was a little dangerous, but I managed to get a good picture without any accidents! Shew... I am currently trying to grow my hair out, what I would give for such a nice maine!

I should be Paris Hilton's new BAFF

Best Art Friend Forever, that's right! I should be Paris Hilton's new BAFF. I was just looking up some information on Art Basel Miami and came across an article mentioning Paris being at Art Basel last year. Then I was thinking, how great would it be to go to this event with Paris and how much she needs a Art BFF. I am a grad student pursing my MFA at UCF and am expected to go to this event, especially since it is just a car ride away. If I am Paris' new BAFF, she just might sponsor my trip! I went ahead and sent her a tweet to ask her if she was going this year @parishilton. I do hope she gets back to me soon!

Wedding in DT Orlando!

So funny... There is a photo shoot going on right across from the Clubhouse! We r all sitting here watching football and drinking so it just doesn't seem appropriate for a wedding party. We have seen them walk across the block 3 times in the 95 degree weather! Yikes


-- Post From My iPho

My Art Opening!

I will be having an Art Opening tomorrow night at Dandelion Communitea Cafe, which is very exciting. Dandelion is an organic cafe with lots of good food, tea, coffee, beer, and wine. I am hoping for a good turn out and looking forward to seeing some of the new students in our program in a social setting. I am really trying to get my work noticed locally and gain experience showing. The more I show work, the more I learn. Each time I go through this experience, I am more prepared for the next! Although I am excited for this show, I will be even more excited for the next because I have a lot of new work in process. This show made me realize more than anything, that I have a very specific way I like my work displayed and hung. I need to be very clear about this in the next show, so that I feel my work is displayed in the best way it possibly can be! Visit my website @ http://www.artmfaucf.com/BrittanyMetz/

618 N Thornton Ave, Orlando FL 32803

Featured Artist: Ryan Trecartin

Another crazy video artist! Ryan's videos are like Matthew Barney on speed! As one article puts it: "Trecartin’s process is founded upon a fluid yet orchestrated interaction between the artist and a group of collaborators—his friends, family, fellow artists, and various acquaintances he meets on the internet. These collaborators create and respond to a scripted variety of characters, themes, phrases, settings, and even vocal accents provided by Trecartin, who directs, stars in, and videotapes the resulting scenarios. Filmic segments then serve as raw material that the artist meticulously arranges and edits by digitally manipulating each frame and by intercutting and layering an assortment of synthetic imagery. The final work articulates a next-generation vision of contemporary culture and collaboration that collapses video, internet, television, performance, digital technology and sound into one unique manifestation, culminating in an entirely new mode of the medium." We were given an article from ARTFORUM to read in our class on this artist. I read the article before I looked the artist up so I really had no idea what to expect. The article was a little overwhelming, full of big words and adjectives, which actually were quite fitting for the subject matter. The class consensus went a little something like this, "at first we didn't like it and it was very annoying, but then we found ourselves not able to look away"...and then at the end everyone either loved Ryan's work or hated it. I find myself loving it. It is a little disturbing, a little scary, but a little brilliant as well. I think he has a purpose for the art he is creating, an agenda, and a clever way of dealing with various issues in our society. I hope you enjoy. I also encourage you to check out his 3-d assemblage/sculpture/installation pieces, which are also very successful in my opinion. You can decide for yourself whether you are a lover or a hater of Ryan Trecartin.