my world as an artist

 https://build.blurb.com/share/66B1D76D-952E-4227-972C-78CA7F404906 This is a link to my blurb book because the screenshots and photos weren't uploading from my phone. I edited and matched the photos based on their colors or vibes to avoid a jarring mix, such as a bright red Babymetal performance next to a calmer picture of my friends skating. I thought it would be boring to just have 2 photos on each page, so I put 3 out there at random and then did spreads every now and then across two whole pages. I'm not a poet or anything, so I didn't want to put super deep captions and just wrote how I felt in the moment those pictures were taken, to the best of my ability.

  https://youtu.be/wc90vGD0IYI?si=2E9va91tzHD1_cQy My final was a lot of fun to make because I felt like a 5 year old hitting their head on the tablet over and over again to make sounds that only made sense to me. I wanted to do something I was sort of familiar with like GarageBand. With the lack of volunteers for my drag show I had to work with what I know I had and that was this funny little music app I have on my tablet that I’ve only ever used for a computer programming camp when I was 9. So I looked back at what made it fun for 9 year old me which was literally just making noise on my iPad and embraced it. It sounds absolutely terrible but 9 year old me made it so as long as she was having fun then I didn’t care. Technically it’s music according to McLuhan because everything we hear is music in its own way.

  Brooklynn Bates | Flickr I finally found photos that I think go together and mean something to me. These are bright and flashy moments I captured on camera that make me feel something that I don't feel a lot on a day-to-day basis, especially here in Appleton. In these photos, I'm with my friends, or I'm surrounded by colors underneath the night sky, or my eardrums are bleeding from how loud it is there. Of course, I love nature too. I love the sound of water splashing against things, I love how bright flowers look, and I love being surrounded by animal noises, but there is something about concerts and blinding lights that makes me feel like it means something to be in that moment with other people experiencing the same thing. If you don't wake up with a headache, then how do you know you had fun?

  "One must be disinterested, accept that a sound is a sound and a man is a man, give up illusions about ideas of order, expressions of sentiment, and all the rest of our inherited aesthetic claptrap." This is the quote that inspired me to make my video the way I did. I was stressing myself out because I didn’t know how to use any fancy equipment, and I felt like I had to do something very serious, but I realized that it was easiest to experiment when I was having fun. I “hired” some friends, and we made up a story together that I would chop up later when I was editing. I stopped worrying about my shaky hands and messy backgrounds, and I let myself play. I used my iPhone camera because it's the only camera I know how to use, and my friend showed me how to use CapCut.

 Good morning, my name is Brooklynn, and for as long as I can remember, I’ve loved all forms of art and the things you can do with them. ​ I’ve never been good at explaining things or expressing myself; I’m either too blunt or not clear enough with people, and it makes it difficult for people to understand what I want them to see. I love art because I can make people see whatever I want them to. When I was younger, I helped paint the Vel Philips mural that's displayed on the wall of the old Bronzeville Collective building in my city. I loved surrounding her with these colors that drew your attention towards her and made her glow. ​ I also like presenting myself in ways I want, and to help me grow into the woman I want to become, I can give and take away as much of myself as I want when I sculpt or draw myself. I also like to hoard and repurpose things I think can be beautiful. ​ “When this circuit learns your job, what are you going to do?" ​ My job is to present myself, oth...