Notice: end of this Quarter

Well this Quarter as been a blast for me. I thank you all for comments and viewing this blog.
Most of it's use was gearing to ArtPrize for a few months, but it opened to other doors as well to some favorite things and I hope you guys have a good week.

This blog may be put in someone else's uses, but overall, I had fun and I hope I run this blog again.

Interview with Ms. Higley

I've taken the time to interview Ms. Higley from the Art department from our school. I want to get in her perspective of the art world goes and basic notice for anyone who is interested.

Tuyetnhi: How long you were invloved in art?
Ms. Higley: for as long as I can remembered...

Tuyetnhi: What is your favorite medium? Your least?
Ms. Higley: Mixed media and clay; I don't have a least favorite


Tuyetnhi: Did you have any benefits from teaching art?
Ms. Higley: Opening doors to new ideas to students, and in return, listening to new ideas from the whole class.

Tuyetnhi: Any favorite artists?
Ms. Higley: Yes; a Spanish artist named Joan Miro

Tuyetnhi: What about art pieces?
Ms. Higley: I don't have favorites since I'm a moody person; one day I might love a work and the next day, feeling gloomy, I'll chose another one.


Tuyetnhi: Anything else you want to say for a person to be involved in art?
Ms. Higley: Don't put it off;  you don't see any improvement at all from the time you spend on other opportunities.

Review: Nothing Awkward about Zombies

Today, I really want to bring in spotlight to one of my favorite webcomics up.

Tardy; Pokemon related in pun about Slowpokes.

Awkwardzombie is whole series by miss Katie Tiedrich. Most of her humor comes from situations from real-life or clever puns from various video games; the joke gets through even if a person doesn't understand the plot of the situation. (But, it's better preferred to know.)

The best thing about her work is that she can listen to some ideas from fans and make a comic out of that, but with slow reply due to her business. Very nice person and improved on her art so well. I still enjoyed her work form all these years; hoping to expect more comics to brighten my day.

A stroke of Genius; Team Fortress 2

Review: About Wuthering Heights

If you're currently taking or plan to add AP English in 12th grade next year, this is one of the few books you have to read in the class.

The Setting to this Gothic novel tells a story of a man named Mr. Lockwood who started to live in a new area in Northern England. Slowly, He became intrigued with the people living in there and realized their true personality; with the various accounts he listened from the residents. If you read the Twilight series before, then the plot may sound familiar to you; Stephenie Meyers had taken her stories inspired by this book.

Personally for me, it's a heavy read, but once you reached Chapter 10, things become a lot more interesting. The whole story is a bit morbid once you get ahead with those "A-ha!" moments till realizing true intent. There's also a lot of narration twists willing to confuse the reader; that's part of the whole thing. It will confuse readers in a good way. In some account, it's a love story, but only a tale.

Overall, if you're into a dark story with twists, people that are terrible and rotten and enjoy reading such accounts, this book may be for you.

Source is in the image.

ArtPrize: Singh plans to sue Venue owner

From the previous post, artist Gurmej Singh has his exhibit removed due to his work relates to controversial issues.

Now, he plans to sue the B.O.B. owner after seeing his work in the garbage at thursday night. Greg Gilmore says it's pushing the boundaries from the the rotational work Singh planed to do, already advanced for months. If he told him earlier what's the "Captive" in ArtPrize, the situation could be handled properly and never included to his venue.

"I really don't think what happened to me was fair. It wasn't expected. I thought we were in this together," replyed Singh.

Link to the Article

ArtPrize 2012 Winners

On October 5th, ArtPrize Voters had decided who will win in the competition.

Then a close battle, now unanimous, congratulations to the top 3!

3rd Place - Frits Hoendervanger; Rebirth of spring


2nd Place - Martijn van Wagtendonk; Song of Lift


1st place - Adonna Khare; Elepants


Each received $50,000, $75,000, and $200,000 respectively for the prizes. Every artist that is in the top 10 received $5,000.

Everyone who participated in the voting process or went sightseeing in the town, Grand Rapids thanks you.

The Top 10

WZZM 13 on the Winners

Sources are in the images.

ArtPrize: Top 25 Jurors

This year's ArtPrize is the first to allow critics to pick out which one that stands out from the contest while the public voted on their favorites.

Each one is divided to 5 Categories: 2D, 3D, Urban space usage, Time-based and best Venue. They are all under by Tyler Green, Lisa Freiman, Susan Szenasy, Cathy Edwards, and Tom Eccles respectively.

These folks put their intuition in use by close examination and decided who will win for the main 100,000 dollars, with each category for 20,000.

Categories they chosen so far

ArtPrize on Awards