New and improved artist statement

Why is the stock market like a bad girlfriend? It let everyone down because of the stock market crash of 1929 which started the great depression, which caused thousands of people to lose their homes and jobs, and many of those people took to the streets and became hobos. My painting explores the relationship between the highway hobos of the great depression, and the Led Zeppelin song “Black dog” These two different parts of American culture share the common theme of the response to false expectations.

During the great depression thousands of people in America lost their homes and jobs because of the stock market crash. They were all let down by a bad economy and many people were in shock because they expected the government to back them up, and keep their lives stable but it failed to do so. With no money and no were to go many people became hobos and began to roam across America hitchhiking rides on freight trains, and looking for work along the way.

When he says, “Didn't take too long fore I found out what people mean my down and out" The singer of Black Dog is also let down, not by the government but by his girlfriend. He had expected that she would be honest and truthful, but he found out that she really just wanted his money. This quote relates to the topic of homelessness during the great depression because they both talk about hitting rock bottom, only in the case of the song the reason for being down and out is a bad girlfriend. I thought that even though the quote and the topic are from two time periods and they are initially about different things they can still go together, and make sense.

For the color scheme of my painting I used browns and grays, I did this not only to represent that this happened before color photography, but to enhance the dusty southern theme that was often part of songs and stories of the great depression. I painted the train stretching of into the distance to show that is going a long way, and to make the overall picture more interesting to look at.

Artist statement rough draft

1) The highway hobos during the great depression, and Led Zeppelin together in my art show that the future is always uncertain and that you cant fully understand something unless it has happened to you.

2) The theme that i am expressing through my picture and quote is how life was like for people who became homeless because of the great depression. These "Hobos" then began to roam across America hitchhiking rides on freight trains, and creating a cultural phenomenon. The part of this topic that i am focusing on was how thousands of people in America lost their homes and jobs, and how much of a shock it must have been to suddenly lose everything.

I used browns and grays for the the color scheme of my painting, i did this not only to represent that this happened before color photography, but to enhance the dusty southern theme that was often part of songs and stories of the great depression. I painted the train stretching of into the distance to show that is going a long way, and to make the overall picture more interesting to look at.

My quote is from the Led Zeppelin song "Black Dog" The quote is "Didn't take too long fore I found out What people mean my down and out" this quote relates to the topic of homelessness during the great depression because they both talk about hitting rock bottom, only in the case of the song the reason for being down and out is a bad girlfriend. I thought that even though the quote and the topic are from two time periods and they are initially about different things they can still go together, and make sense.


3)Conclusion

Why is this important?

• It relates to the economic crisis and homelessness today
• It is important to remember events in the past and learn from them
• It shows how different parts of our culture are related, and how they have evolved and changed over time.
  

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/

http://www.deltahaze.com/johnson/Legacy.html

George Bush and the enviroment

I was surprised to hear that Bush was creating the marine national monuments, because Bush has blown of many environmental problems, and i have always thought of him as being more big business oriented. The article Bushes seven deadly environmental sins is written from as similar point of view. It explains that Bush has done little to stop global warming, and has refused to agree to green house gas regulation laws "Bush's Environmental Protection Agency refused to regulate the greenhouse gas CO₂ as a pollutant, even after the Supreme Court ruled that CO₂ is a pollutant and the EPA can regulate it." He has abandoned protection on endangered species, and his main concern seems to be drilling for oil"A whopping 35,000 drilling permits have been issued for onshore federal lands during the past seven years" I think that the marine national monuments that Bush has constructed are his way of making up for being environmentally unfriendly throughout his presidency.

My Internship

1) The things that i want to discover about the adult world of work while at my internship are, how things are operated in a working environment,what is expected of a worker, and i want to experience what a real job is like. I want to learn about these things because there is a lot about the adult world that i don't fully understand, and i hope that that being in a working environment for my internship will help me gain a greater understanding of those things and prepare me for the working world.

2) During my internship the part of my identity that i want to discover more about is, what kind of carrier i want to follow. Working in an internship will help me find out if that line of work is good for me, and if i end up working somewhere that might not have been my first choice, i might discover that i am interested in that field, and if not i will still learn a lot.

3) A goal that i want to accomplish for my internship is to get as much out of the working experience as i can, so i can have experiences that will help me when i am working in a real job. My other goal is to be the best intern i can be.

Work i am proud of

One project that i did in humanities this year, and am proud of was the H20 project. I am proud of it because i put a lot more time and effort into it then i had in previous projects. Because i spent more time on this project i was able to get several critiques on both my writing , and art and because of this i was able to improve my work by finding better ways to phrase my writing, and gave me new ideas and inspiration for may art. I think this project was may best work this year because i took extra time to get critiques out side of class, and from other people besides my teacher.
The American icon project is another project that i am proud of. I am proud of it because i did a good job on both the self portrait, and artist statement even though i was struggling with ideas at the beginning of the project. I was having trouble choosing an icon that inspires me, and i could not think of an icon that i both like, and relate to. But then i though of Andy Warhol, which was perfect because i admire him, and i can relate to his individuality.

Sea Shepherd

Paul Watson, who founded "Sea Shepherd" which is an organization that protects marine animals, whales in particular from being hunted by humans by attacking whaling and fishing ships with his own fleet of vessels which he calls Neptune's Navy. He uses many tactics to bring down the ships including ramming, the "can opener" and the fact that he does not care about the law.
Ramming is Watson's signature technique, in which he rams one of his ships into the whaling boats to damage, or sink them. This is a successful technique because it is effective in damaging the boats, and it gets their attention there for making them stop more easily.
Another technique that he uses is the can opener. The can opener is a sharp steal beam that comes of the side of one of his ships and which he uses to scrape the hulls of his opponents boats.This a successful technique because it has a big impact on the ship that is being attacked.
Watson's best technique in my opinion is that he dos not care that what he is doing is illegal. I think that this technique is his best because since he does not let the law get in his way he has accomplished so much. He has taken down whaling ships, he is on the discovery channel show "Whale Wars" and his actions have spread awareness about illegal whale hunting,

Language

In her article "He's not black" Marie Arana says that "we have one foot in the future and one foot still mired in the Old south" what she means is we consider all races to be equal, but we still judge people by their races stereotypes, and label each other as "black" "white" or "yellow'' I agree with Arana when she says that "language should move on" but if we stop using labels what would we call ourselves.
The reason we automatically label people is we cant tell what their background is from just looking at them. A person that we see might be a mix of Black, White, and Mexican, but we call them by what they appear to be. I don't like it when people stereotype and label each other, but it is a problem that is practically unsolvable. Labels are so widely used in the media and our lives that it will take years for use to learn to stop using them.