site visit

On Thursday, October 28th our class visited Anne M. Cramer. Anne is a fashion designer in Minneapolis. I wasn't too sure how interested I would be because i'm intending to be a graphic designer, but i was completely blown away by anne and her techniques. Anne is a very humble and wonderful. As she told us her story and process to get to where she is now, I became more and more interested. She said that she is a procrastinator, and it works very well for her. She said she could be given months to do something but wont do it until almost the week before; that's when she's the most creative. All of Anne's work is very unique and it might not be everyones style, but that's what fashion is all about. I never wanted my own graphic design business until we visited Anne, but after listening to Anne, I now want my own business. Anne has inspired me to push myself and work for myself and no one else.

Before the Sun- Sarah Lerum

Karthik Pandian is a contemporary artist who lives in Los Angeles. Recently his work has been shown at Midway Contemporary Art in Minneapolis, but his work has also been shown nation wide. The exhibition he did at Midway was an architecture and film piece. The structure was a large square of packed earth. The sides of the platform has sea shells flush with the packed earth. There were two 16mm film projectors housed in two class columns. These columns were lined up so the front of the projector was towards where the two walls of each corner met. The room was very dark because both of the projectors were playing at the corner of each side of the room. The film was repeated for both projectors. One side was the sunrise and the other was the sunset; they both also had other clips, such as, the beach, people, and fireworks. In addition to this exhibition, there was audio playing, which were the sounds from what was recored and playing on the film.