HW 38 Art Project- Cool

Art Porject Cool from B1z， on Vimeo.

1. What insights about cool does the art integrate? What do you hope people will realize or question from their encounter with your art?

What me and Bao lin wanted to communicate through this video was how in school (specifically) people identify other people or themselves as cool. By identifying what's cool, people try to immitate it as seen in the video when the boys were going up the stairs. One of them was immitating the other one with the purpose of being like him. By going up the stairs represented that it is always about going up and up and up. Or so we attempted to demonstrate.

Part of the video also showed the windows in the high flights of our school. Based on out won experience, we feel like we are in jail. Altough we are aware that these are for "protection", these are also to keep us inside of school. We recognize these as uncool, because according to the general definition of cool it is about being out there in every sense. In terms of cool, I hope that people realize that must of us do not really mind about our surroundings even if they do not fit the definition of a "cool place"; we only care about how cool we are compared to other people, regardless of where we are.

2. Describe the process of making the project - how'd you do each step? If it was a group project, what did you contribute?

This was a group project, and I mostly contributed on the video clips that were shown. We began by sharing our ideas and visions on this project and together came up with a scence. I asked two middle school boys to help us contribute with our project, because it was easier for me to simply direct what we wanted and Bao Lin filmed. Then, with the purpose of earning credit, we decided to make up a scene with both of us in it. This was filmed by a classmate. So far there has been a problem editing the video, therefore I have downloaded different programs to see if they are compatible with the video type of file. After editing the only thing left to do is upload.

3. Does making art seem cool to you? Why or why not?

I have never considered art or the action of making art as cool. This is because art itself is like the term "cool". Not everyone will appreciate it, therefore is it art or not? Is it cool or not? Art is simply self expression such as "being cool". No one else will understand your purpose and choices as much as yourself.