TV's

Does anyone have a smallish Tv that i might be able to show movies on for class?

for dominic

this is a completely different approach to dreams than what you are doing but could be interesting to see how someone else approaches it.

i couldn't figure out how to put the video in here so

click here

For Dom and Travis

The Semiotics of the Kitchen uses the format of a child's alphabet p5rimer to explore the kitchen. Rosler, in medium shot, stands behind a table in front pf her stove and refrigerator--the classic TV cooking-show set-up. "A is for apron," she announces, as she struggles into one of those aprons that needs to be buttoned behind your head. "B is bowl," she says, slamming one down on the table, "blender, and broiler. C is for cup"--fairly innocuous--"can opener"--still functional--"cleaver"--a little more threatening--and, finally, "chopper," which she wields with fury. As she proceeds through the alphabet, rendering eggbeaters, forks, hamburger presses, and rolling pins as weapons, it becomes clear, as she finishes in a Zorro gesture with raised knives, that the semiotics of the kitchen signify containment, fury, aggression, resentment, and potential revenge. The semiotics of the kitchen has nothing to do with cooking.
This is a classic second-wave feminist text both in its anger and in Rosler's "au naturel" self-presentation, with her unmade-up face and long hair hanging loose down her shoulders. The video is also very funny, as each piece of equipment is rendered expressive and sometimes threatening. Unusually for a second-wave text, the feminist is actually in the kitchen--however cross she might be.

http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/paris-a-show-about-nothing/

Maggie, perhaps you will find this exhibition interesting

http://www.acornbook.co.uk/books/snow.htm

For MAGGie,

Please check out here for the book.

NYT article on dreams

Interesting for everyone, but specifically for Dominik...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/science/10tier.html

my artist statement

Tradition is usually seen as something to embrace, to love, to cherish, to always honor. It is this tradition that has taught us what we think we want or need, and also what we believe we need to rebel against. It has become a map to tear up, burn, and fight against. These ideas change when one comes to the realization that the tradition that has been fought so hard against might be what is lusted after. Accepting this fate that chills me to my bones is a struggle. My future might not be so different from my mothers, or grandmothers, or great grandmothers. In these photographs I explore the ideas of rebelling, accepting, and passively nurturing those traditions I never thought I wanted. It is the process of questioning what is considered normal, what life goals are set for everyone, and how I might not really be that different from everyone else. It is that fear lives inside something so planned out, so structured, and so determined on how we figure out our future, or accept and reject what is planned out for us. 

i think it becomes a little wordy in the middle and end though the bare bones of it are promising.