Art!!! *~*

Hello there! As well... none of you know, as I am new to blogspot or blogger now or whatever. Anyways. I really love art. I am not really that great at making the draws myself but i like to draw random things. I really enjoy lines and shapes when I draw cause its easy and the more precise and simple it is, the cooler it looks so I guess you could say it makes sense in my brain. So back to the main point of this tangent. I have a very strong appreciation for art. It's just so pleasing to the eye and it can be interpreted in so many ways. It awes me how different art can make you feel different ways.

And now, some of my favorite artists are:::

Egon Schiele
1890-1918

Vincent Van Gogh

1853-1890

Claud Monet

1840-1926

Gustav Klimt

1862-1918

Pablo Picasso 

1881-1973

Dash Howell

Dash Howell

Why do you like film?

I don’t know, I’ve always been really interested in it. I grew up with people in the industry. My dad was in the industry since he was 7, and so was his dad. He was a stunt man, and so is my aunt. I guess I just have a lot of family in the industry.

Do you act?

I do. I haven’t done it much. I acted a little bit when I was younger. I had a part in my dad's movie a few months ago.

Would you rather be in front of or behind the camera?

I really like both honestly. I'm starting to get more into acting so I fuss around in front of the camera. I like acting in front of people I don’t know. It's better just acting in front of complete strangers. Acting in front of my friends is weird.

What’s your favorite movie?

I can't really choose a favorite, there are so many.

Ok well than your top five.

Manhanttan Murder Mystery, Rushmore, Donnie Darko is great. Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction I guess.

Why?

The people who directed it are my favorite directors pretty much.

Who are your favorite directors?

Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson and Woody Allen.

Have you ever made a film?

I’ve filmed other peoples ideas but I’ve never made my own film, no. 

Which do you think is harder: filming, writing, or directing?

Well shit- writing's hard, but directing is hard too because you have to direct everyone else and instruct everyone and create a movie basically. Filming is really hard too cause you have to work with everyone else. You're working with the directors to get the right shot perfectly.

Would you like to do something in the movie industry?

Yeah, I’d love to direct and act.

Who introduced you to good movies?

I really found a lot of them by myself, but I guess close friends and my dad.

What do you think makes a good movie?

That’s also a hard question. Good directing I guess also cinematography and acting.

Are either of your parents involved in the movie industry?

My dad.

Maya Djiji

Maya Djiji

What inspires your art?

Oh god- uh… uh… inspirations. Hm. Well, The Yellow Submarine movie and Alice in Wonderland. Thee Oh Sees inspire me, even though they’re a band they still inspire me. And Ty Segall. The Beatles, they inspire me a lot. The color orange inspires me… my asshole also inspires me (oh Maya….) My cat- she’s in there.

When do you feel most inspired?

Oh fuck. It’s not when I feel most inspired, it's when I feel motivated to draw. Or when I see something that looks cool and I’m like “Woah! I can put a face on that. or I can redraw that in a different way to look cool.” I’m never really inspired by having to vent anger. But mainly drawings start out when I see something and I somehow change it to one thing and then it turns into something completely different and then it’s not the original thing anymore.

What's your favorite medium?

I like really really thin pens and I also like watercolor markers like Copics and Prisma Colors. That’s mainly it. Sometimes I like drawing with a charcoal pencil.

Have you ever gotten really angry while trying to finish a piece?

I mean obviously. Sometimes it can take me way too long to do something cause when I draw it requires a lot of detail and it’s a lot of bending over and squinting to get the detail exact. Sometimes I’ll spend a whole day working on something. I work on it in all of my classes then I’ll get home and continue working on it and then I work on it after dinner and it’s usually not even done after that.

Have you ever given up on an art piece?

I mean I’ve started a lot of things and then stopped because I had another idea and I didn’t want to  work on it anymore. Sometimes when I try to draw realistic things, I’ll get really angry and scribble on it and say fuck it than go onto the next thing. 

Do you want to do something artistic when you’re older?

Yeah, when I think about the future I either think about doing something with art or with music but i definitely think I’ll be doing artistic things. Even if it’s not drawing I like making things or sewing. I can definitely see myself doing something like that. 

Who’s your favorite artist?

Well there’s this one guy- his name is Bill O’Connor. I found him on tumblr and he doesn’t sell any of his art. Well he does, but it’s really expensive. He has really cool art. I like Keith Harring. There’s this guy Monassi and he does really cool work in the style of old Japanese drawings with just ink. Those are my three main ones and those are kind of it. There’s a bunch of cool art that I like, but I don’t know the name of the artists. But mostly Bill O’Connor- I love him.

Why do you like art?

It gives me something to do because before I ever got into drawing, I’d go home and go on the computer a lot or watch Netflix, but now I go home and practice the drums, shower, work on homework, eat dinner, and then for the rest of the night I draw. I doodle a lot in class. Art gives me something to do. I can focus my attention on it. I feel really satisfied when I finish a drawing and obviously I like my art so when it takes me a really long time to finish something and once I’m done I like it and I feel satisfied and I wanna show people.

Camille Escovedo

Camille

Today I interviewed my beautiful, lovely, magical friend, Camille. I had know about her views on feminism and I wanted to talk to her about it. Here's our interview:

So, would you consider yourself a feminist?

Hell yea.

What was it that made you become a feminist?

I ask myself that a lot, actually. I remember it was middle school where I really really got into it. I think it came to my mind because my brothers were way into videogames, so I would play with them. And of course, at that age, all I wanted to play was the girl. Tons and tons of hypersexualization and lack of representation and sexism.

What do you think about the sexualization of women in media?

That it's so normalized that we don't think about it much. And the attempts to point this out through replacing the women being sexualized so much by guys doesn't really...help? It does make it obvious that most of what we see through TV is through the cishet male gaze.It trivializes women's experiences like with politicians, focusing on their romantic/sex lives.

Why do you need feminism?

I need feminism because people seem to think that me having the right to vote is all there is to my equality. That there's a list that's been released of colleges with bad records on handling sexual assault cases and that that could affect whether I want to go there - in addition to 1 in 4 women face this there. Learning to live from my own experience.

Has your gender ever stopped you from doing something?

Not in recent years, but yeah. Speaking up more, from my perspective.Um, wearing certain stuff out when it's hot and walking on the other side of the street because groups of guys and men in cars are kind of scary. I don't want to risk somebody giving me a piece of rape culture if I get hollered at or something.

I understand that. Do you think there are any untruthful stereotypes about feminists?

Most of them, yeah. The obvious: feminists don't hate men or think they're stupid, but the truth is sometimes it's easier and relieving to just say that when you've been forced to justify your frustration with the status quo. We like men a lot and think of them as more human than I think society does in general - smart, in control, and capable enough not to commit violence against women, of any form.

Have you ever been discriminated against because of your feminism?

People laugh about it. Last year, I co-founded and co-directed my high school's first feminist club and there were guys who called it the sexism club. Made fun of it and came in once to ask some offensive questions.

What did they ask?

Asking why it's always about men, why not about men being victimized by feminists. Refusing to acknowledge that what creates the reasons for feminism's existence is male-domination.

What did you have to say to that?

I gave them a hard look and tried my best to explain that while sexism hurts us all, it puts men in a position of power and devalues women specifically. The worst insult for cis girls and cis guys are both being compared to being a girl which is why focus is placed on empowering women, specifically.

Have you ever been discriminated against because you were a woman?

I think the prevalence of sexism does not look the same as it used to. For example, I don't measure it by someone face to face telling me I can't do something because I'm a woman. Discrimination isn't always interpersonal like that. Institutional rather. I live in a culture that has a much harsher pay inequity for Latina women than what it's usually announced as - from a white woman's average. Like, if that makes sense. So little consideration for marginalized experiences. That what gets attention is only the most privileged of the unprivileged in that regard. So, interpersonally, not so much, but the way society works is positioned against women's advancement.

What is feminism to you?

Feminism is something I cling to. It's a way to make sense of what is my reality, as a girl. It is where I come from when I realize deeper and deeper that there has to be another way. That what i've learned, institutionally, is not through my lens or necessarily in my best interest.

Alright, thank you so much, Camille. I've enjoyed talking to you and getting your perspective.

Yea of course!

Dear Frida...

Frida Kahlo- she is (for lack of a better words) my girl. I adore her. July 6, 1907 marks the day that a goddess was born. Although her art is absolutely beautiful and inspiring, she is a bad mother fucker of a woman. She stands out a lot, with her signature unibrow and style. Not many people know that she was a feminist. Frida considered herself an individual- not identifying with any sex and expressing both masculinity and femininity. She advocated for both sexes and tried to break down social standards of what male and female means. She was known to dress in mens clothing and once "cut her hair like a man." She would drink, smoke, express profanity, and engage in sexual relations with both men and women. She was very feminine and had a very womanly charm to her. She was considered one of the most desired people amongst both men and women.

Frida had a big part in communism and the rebellion in Mexico City. She joined the Communist Party of Mexico in the late 1920's. In the midsts of the anti-communist hysteria, a hate campaign was launched against communist artists that had serious consequences as serious as murder. The seriousness of this led Frida and her husband, Diego Rivera, to flee to the United States. Frida developed "a rage against all the rich people there." While in the US, Kahlo became familiar with the anti-Stalinist Left opposition and it's leader Leon Trotsky. The Communist League of America often requested Frida's presence for she has a lot to say during their meetings. Kahlo once said, "I've learned so much here and I'm more and more convinced it's only through feminism that we can become human."

There's still so much we have yet to learn about Frida Kahlo and her life. My love for her grows more and more. She is an inspiration to women all over the world as well as aspiring artists.

Noah

He was timorous, but in the most darling of ways. His feckless social skills made it almost impossible for him to grow, so he subsided to watching the world go by passively. He was infatuated by life, though. He ogled over the capricious ways of the world. From the never steady weather, to the arrays of color in the sunrise, to the trembling ocean current. His luring complexion and ghastly pale green eyes made him striking. I had always wondered if he was hedonistic, or if he had simply basked in the simple pleasures of life. He was not cloying, or fastidious. He just sat there, his face buried inside his sketchpad. Who knows though. Beneath his idly blank expression, he could have had the most complex and perpetual thoughts. Maybe he had dreams of being a glorified musician, or a pretentious politician. You could tell from his eyes that he was hiding behind a wall of sadness he built for himself. I think he's just wandering around this bland life he's been trapped in, filled with ennui dissatisfaction.

#FoxNews

How can you be so oblivious? They're spitting their obscure lies at you. They've painted over your third eye with their pretentious lyrics of false hope. You soak all of it up like a sponge, not even taking a moment to analyze these repetitive lines they've sang to you over and over again. You've let them inside of your minds. They are manipulating your thoughts, tweaking and tinkering with your previous morals, feeding you their opinions that they need reassured. They've put roadblocks in your path of thoughts hoping desperately that you don't have your own ideas. That you don't branch out from this meek and bland life they've planned for you. You're letting your existence fade away and no one finds you until your cubicle is reeking.