MY SCHOOL!

I am pretty stoked to be able to be apart of this history in SFAI
http://www.okgo.net/2011/02/03/yahoo-block-party-concert-in-north-beach/

Inspire Yourself

Now On Tumblr

Art Farts is now on Tumblr.
Follow me there as well!
http://littlekbird.tumblr.com/

Something Delicate

This is a series of prints I am working on called "Something Delicate" These are relief prints using lace and Charbonnel Ink. I am really enjoying how the the lace is flowing, it almost looks like you can reach out and touch the lace!

New Year, New Plans

Here we are, at my last semester of college. A place I didn't expect to be at so soon, and now that I am I realize I have many choices to make. I need to figure out where to go, what to do & how I am going to pay for all these expenses life seems to give us. I am extremely excited for what my future has to bring, even though I am not exactly sure what I am going to do I have faith it will be amazing. I have many dreams for myself and plenty of time to live out these dreams. I am just excited that I am at the point in my life I can live them out. I am going to be checking graduating collage off my list of achievements and something I can't get over is, I actually am getting to live out my childhood dream of becoming an artist. I am graduating from an amazing art college with knowledge of the arts I couldn't have imagined when I was a kid. I am a printmaker, a fine artist.

Something I am going to work on more is talking about my art, constantly updating this and challenging myself to grow more as an artist. I need to be more active with my art and other artists and I started this blog to get my art out there and seek inspiration and find peers to work with. I am going to make more of an effort in doing this. In fact I bought myself a new digital camera for Christmas, so that just means I will have plenty of inspiration to share!

Anyways I have been using a website called we <3 it to seek images I thought were cool, ya know Inspiration. I am going to be posting inspiration from there as well as my own art and photos.

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Find More at MY HEART!!!!!!

Lunar Eclipse

i watched the sky till there was a break in the clouds just long enough to catch a glimpse of what mother nature bestowed on us this evening. Just a millisecond was all i needed. The moon & the clouds are beautiful & i really hope those of you that do not have clouds obscuring your view of the Moon are taking this opportunity to experience this beautiful gift from nature.

Good Night Moon!

Booties & Broads

I had forgotten how much I enjoy taking photographs until I started shooting pinups, I am really enjoying using m friends as models. I intend on taking more photos of my men friends as pinups. I am also going to turn then into Cyanotypes on wood!

Happy Holidays!

THIS IS HAPPY.

Inspiration at its finest

Well, I am done with my projects & getting ready to clean out my studio.
I am the only person I know who isn't stressed out about finishing something,
i guess i have great time management skills(this must be a recently acquired skill)
I am unbelievably excited that i am done with this semester, but that brings me
down to one more semester and i have never been so nervous and excited in
my entire life. What's next? Where am i going to move? Where am i going
to work? all these questions are circling my brain, never really quiet
getting answered. I know i need to find someplace that inspires me
and allows me to make a decent amount of money so i can pay back
the government for my education.

Anyways, I have been searching for images that inspire me
to help me come up with an idea for a book to work on or some
kind of little project & i came across this website.
Weheartit

John Lennon Day

30 years ago today the world lost one of the greatest musicians to live.
I have decided that today is John Lennon Day. Everyone should
listen to their favorite Lennon songs & just celebrate the music he made
before he was murdered.

To get you Started:
How Do You Sleep?

010. The Fine Line: Erotic Art & Pornography

The Fine Line: Erotic Art & Pornography

Erotic Art and Pornography are often talked about as if they are the same thing; people misinterpret Erotic pieces of art and believe them to be pornography. Erotic Art is defined as any artistic work that is intended to evoke erotic arousal or that depicts scenes of lovemaking. It includes paintings, engravings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, music and writing. While Pornography is the depiction of sexual behavior that is intended to arouse sexual excitement in its audience. As you can see the fine line between Erotic Art and Pornography can easily be mistaken or confused because the definitions are so similar. The most important difference between Erotic Art and Pornography is the way in which the images are presented as well as the way in which the image is intended to be viewed and often the medium that is used to make the image. Basically, people’s mentality determines the way in which the images are viewed they can either be beautiful pieces of art or vulgar images intended to help someone “bust a nut,” as many would say.

The History of Erotic Art is an extensive one, it goes as far back as the paintings found in the Lascaux Cave, which were discovered in 1948 but are said to have been painted over 17,000 years ago. In a section of the cave there is a small painting of a man hunting a buffalo with an erect penis. Many scholars who have studied the paintings have decided that the hunter was depicted as erect because of the excitement of hunting. Although this isn’t said to be a work of erotic art, it, shows the excitement in everyday tasks. The first recorded finding of erotic art was in the city of Pompeii that was constructed in the eighteenth century B.C. by the Romans. One of the most famous buildings in Pompeii was the Lupanare known as a Brothel. The inside of the Brothels offered a variety of paintings and frescos that depicted erotic, sexual and sometimes explicit scenes. One example of an erotic image from Pompeii is in the house of Vetti, the fresco is called Fauces and Priapus showing the roman god Priapus measuring his falis, the god is fully clothed in typical roman robes and looks unashamed of his action, in fact it looks like a common action for the god. According the article, The Image of Roman Priapus:

“Artistic representations also serve to construct this image for the rustic, earth-bound god, who, in sharp contrast with more noble deities, is rarely liberated from the poor fabric of his ‘statue’. This image has generally been taken at face value: it is assumed that the Roman countryside was full of simple peasant figures of the god, which are now, inevitably, lost. While this might be true, the portrayal of Priapus in art and literature is poor evidence for such a ‘reality’. These are sophisticated images for a self-consciously sophisticated audience. It may be that this portrayal of Priapus served a specific function, establishing him as a foil to the civilization of a Hellenized, early–imperial Rome.”(Clare College)

Although people may see this image as very forward, the image is a relatable god for the Peasants in the Roman countryside.

Some of the most famous erotic images are from the Hindu culture:

“Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian Sanskrit treatise that enumerates as well as describes in detail the basic rules governing sensuous physical relationship, love and marriage between a couple as per the Hindu law.” (lifestyle lounge)

The first English translated copy was printed in the year 1883 it was a private publication. Although the Kama Sutra was not the first English translated book dedicated to showing the importance lovemaking had in the Hindu culture, it was certainly the most influential publication illustrating the significance making love had in their culture. The Kama Sutra shows couples enjoying intercourse in several different positions. Although the images are graphic in nature, they are symbolic and show the great care and time put in pleasing one another by the care and time put in making these images. The sexual act is depicted very detailed, the setting in which the characters are making love is just as detailed.

Although the Kama Sutra is the most well known sexual manuscript, it certainly is not the oldest. Sexual manuscripts have been traced to China as far as two thousand years before Christ. These manuscripts were not written on paper but on porcelain dishes and were often buried in places where future rebel leaders would possibly be born; the dishes were thought to bring luck to the future rulers. The images produced told stories of the healthy properties intercourse had to offer.

“In the Eastern Han Dynasty (A.D. 25-220), a group of Taoist philosophers created Yin Taoism, firmly rooted in the importance of human sexual expression. This school of Taoists wrote volume after volume of sex manuals including "Su Nu Ching" (Manual of Lady Purity), "Yu Fang Mi Chueh" (Secret Codes of the Jade Room) the "Art of the Bedchamber" and "Yu Fang Chih Yao" (Important Guidelines of the Jade Room). To give their works authority and to exert influence on the emperors the Yin Taoists attributed the key points in their manuals to Huang Ti (the Yellow Emperor) and the ancient authority Peng Tsu who was said to have lived to 800 years of age.” (All-art.org)

The Yin Taostits’ believed that it was important to expresses oneself sexually, their manuscripts express the story of how being sexually active is the key to a long life.

Throughout Art History, Erotic Art has been used to tells stories of sexual arousal, sexual prosperity as well as sexual healing. Erotic art throughout history has been used as a tool to inform people of the beauty that erotica can offer. More modern Erotic Art is often much more crude than past Erotic Artworks. The invention of offset printing made the distribution of Erotic images much easier. The period between the years 1890 and 1920 was known as the, Golden Years because of the high speeds in which prints could be made and distributed.

During the Golden Years is when photography was invented, as well as offset printing and several other ways in which images could be mass-produced and distributed. With the invention of photography came the invention of Pornography, which was defined earlier in this paper as the depiction of sexual behavior that is intended to arouse sexual excitement in its audience. Although this is very similar to the definition to Erotic Art, it is not the same. Erotic Art celebrates the importance of sexual intercourse throughout various cultures history. Pornography uses many different mediums to create lude images of people in the act of having sex; unlike Erotic images that usually show people ‘making love’ the people in pornography are participating in the act of having sex. The main differences between the two types of images rely on the basic difference between the meanings of, making love and having sex. In order to understand the difference between Erotic Art and Pornography one must understand the difference between making love and having sex. To make love the people involved in the act of sex must share deep rooted feelings for one another, often the people are married, while to have sex is a casual affair a person might participate in as a recreational purpose, the people involved usually do not have deep rooted feelings for one another.

As stated before the invention of pornography followed closely behind the invention of photography,

“The earliest pornographic daguerreotype is an 1846 exposure housed at the Kinsey Institute; it depicts a middle-aged man inserting his phallus into a middle-aged woman’s vagina.” (Davis, Noble and White)

The easier and cheaper mass production became the more available these pornographic imaged became,

“The ability to produce multiple copies of a photograph led to the industrialization of pornographic photographs. The result was profound; in 1848, there were thirteen photographic studios in Paris, by 1860, there were over four hundred. The Parisian output of nude photographs was prolific, in 1852, forty percent of the photographs registered for sale in Paris, were nudes” (Davis, Noble and White)

The pornography industry was thriving; the images were being sold in trains stations, bars, barbershops, and movie theaters. Since pornography is was sold mostly to men, it could be found anywhere there would be large groups of men. Although pornography was making its way into mainstream media it still needed a proper vessel in which is should be delivered until,

“Pornography’s vehicle to the masses, the men’s magazine had been born. One of the early magazines was an English title by the name of Photo Bits; it portrayed burlesque actresses in natural settings with explicit articles accompanying the photographs” (Davis, Noble and White)

The explicit articles usually offered men stories about the women in the pornographic images, these stories allowed me to create fantasies about these women. The United States didn’t publish nude women in magazines until the 1920’s when they published Tijuana Bibles, which were a cheap alternative to pornography that had stapled pages of revealing photos of women, erotic comics and short stories. The Tijuana Bibles were printed on cheap paper and were especially popular during the depression.

Years after The Depression in 1953, Hugh Hefner published the first issue of Playboy Magazine. Marylin Monroe posed as the first nude centerfold in Playboy. Although Playboy was controversial Hefner managed to keep pubic hair and gentile out of the photos in the early years, he also used what was considered respectable photography to keep the images from being censored. Not long after Hefner published Playboy, Bob Guccione published a more risqué photos of women in which their pubic hair was visible, the first American publish Penthouse was in 1969. In 1974 Larry Flynt Jr. created Hustler magazine which went where no mass- marketed men’s magazine had gone before, he showed photos where the women showed their genitals, leaving nothing left to the imagination.

“Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler have been the most popular magazines in the history of pornography. Traditionally each brand has dominated a specific niche within the men’s magazine market; Playboy is known for its soft-core content, Hustler is known for its hardcore material, and Penthouse occupies the space in-between. Men’s magazines were the primary vehicles for pornographic distribution from the early twentieth century to the 1970s. Their popularity declined alongside the advent of new technologies.” (Davis, Noble and White)

Men’s magazines are still a primary source of pornography in modern times, although they have also come out with movies, TV shows and books to advance with technologies.

In 1896, Marie, the first pornographic film was created, the film showed a man and woman having intercourse as well as a women giving a striptease, a performance, as in a burlesque act, in which a person slowly removes clothing, usually to musical accompaniment. (Dictionary.com) These films were known as stag films. These films were illegal until the 1970s when the first full-length stag film was created; this film was also the first legally X-rated film. Earlier stag films where less than fifteen mintures long and shot illegally and were silent films. In 1972, the first full length color pornography was made, the film was called Deep Throat, this film was the first approachable stag film for the American public, instead of showing sex explicitly the film offered a plot in which the audience could follow, and a sound track. In March 1973, the censors shut down Deep Throat, only after over two hundred and fifty thousand people had seen it. In 1972, after Deep Throat was released another film named Behind the Green Door was released this film help create one of the most famous porn stars of the 1970s, Marilyn Chambers.

Later the creation of the VHS tape was yet another important milestone in pornography, it allowed people to watch pornography in the comfort of their own home. The Anonymity of being able to watch pornography in their own enticed more people to purchase the films. VHS was the most popular to view pornography until the DVD came out.

The Pornography industry uses technology to its advantage; “Pornography is now the most popular Internet destination for American men aged eighteen to thirty four. It is 50 percent more popular than music sites or eBay and four times more popular than travel services such as hotel and airline reservations” (Davis, Noble and White) People are more open to the idea of pornography in the twenty first century than they were in the 1950s, there are now porn stars like Jenna Jameson who are commonly known celebrities, in fact Jenna Jameson is not only a porn star but an Author, director and more recently a mother. Pornography is becoming more and more acceptable, and most men and women will admit to at one point viewing a pornography.

Erotic Art and Pornography is only as sexual as you make it, although Erotic Art are sexual images made in a less risqué manner than Pornography; which usually depicts people in the act of having sex in a crude manner. Often people argue that Erotic Art and Pornography is the same thing, and often Erotic Art is an alibi for pornography. In the past Erotic Art was used to show sexual encounters and to illustrate stories and the importance of sex in their cultures. Pornography has become its own culture, they now have award shows to celebrate the ‘bests of’ the porn industry.

It seems that Pornography keeps on growing where as Erotic Art continues to have to fight for its place in public, it is commonly mistaken for pornography. Which leads to the question, what makes Erotic Art, Erotic Art and not Pornography? As stated previously in the essay one of the most important differences between Erotic Art and Pornography is in the feelings shared between the people participating in the sexual acts. Erotic Art usually depicts people who share deep feelings for one another, which leads them to make love to one another. Erotic Art shows the importance of these acts in several different cultures and represents the sexual acts in beautiful settings, which have just as much detail as the people conducting these sexual acts. Pornography is images, videos and magazines that are made specifically so that the people looking at them will be aroused. The pornography industry has men and women who make money by showing they having sex or touching them. Pornography shows the crude nature that comes with sex without love, and is usually risqué and not very beautiful.

Women in Erotic Art are usually women with natural beauty and curves while the women in pornography start looking more and more unnatural. Women in the porn industry are trying to make themselves more interesting and fill men’s sexual fantasies by getting plastic surgery and making parts of their bodies larger than they should be. Erotic Art celebrates natural beauty and pornography feeds into the male fantasy woman.

009.

These are from a pinup photoshoot i had sometime last year. These are long over due for a posting! I am hoping i can have another pinup shoot & use original photos for the memory game i am working on for my Artists' Books class. Special thanks to my models Chelsea, Bailey & Kady!

008.

Sun Therapy
Living in San Francisco has made me appreciate the sun a lot more. The sun puts me in a good mood and helps put creative ideas in my head. I am pale and the sun can be my enemy but something about the suns kisses are necessary to keep me happy. I wish I could put some of this Arizona sun in a jar for later. When I spend to much time away from the sun I find I get depressed and do not feeling like doing much of anything. The sun gives me energy & motivates me to go places, do things & try new things.

007.

http://www.myspace.com/elibpearl

This is REAL Talent.

I think that people(me included) forget
what real music is. I feel that computers
have ruined something else for me....
music shouldn't be made all on computers
i think its important to actually MAKE

music rather than click a button.

I have been wanting to expand my
music library. Taking suggestions.

006.

https://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html
This made me think:

Aren't Hipsters just rich kids
who really want to bring back
Heroin Chic?

&

People who aren't creative

& want to look like artists but
just end up looking dirty.

Either way, it's just another fashion trend.

005.

I took a Mural Painting class over the summer to fulfill my off campus credit I didn't expect to fall in the love with it or even to like it. When the class first started i was disappointed and just mad i was giving up my summer to take a class with a lady who obviously who had no idea how to teach college students. I felt as if we weren't accomplishing anything and when we did design our mural i thought it was horrible. I am ashamed to say i was embarrassed to be part of the Mural. When we finally for to the site of the mural it smelly bad, it was messy and at first we didn't even know what wall we were supposed to be painting. When we finally figured out what wall we were supposed to be working on, we had to scrub and clean up loose paint. At the end of the day i was exhausted and smelt like hobo pee, which to be honest is just as terrible as it sounds. It took a lot of team work, and many misunderstandings to complete our mural and although not ever day was a good day and not everyone in the class like one another in the end, we completed something amazing and completely changed the feel of a dirty scary alley to an alley people WANT to walk down. This mural has made me realize just what public art can do for a community and a group of people. I learned a lot from painting this mural, mainly how to collaborate and just how hard it is to actually collaborate with a group of people. I fell in love with mural painting, there is something really rewarding about painting something so large, and making difference in a neighborhood.

I just want to thank everyone in the Mural class for all the memories & hard work!

004.

Great memories & great friends are something we all take for granted. When I first moved to San Francisco I was terrified and really just did not want to go. When I look back on the weeks before I left Arizona I laugh. I spent so much time NOT wanting to move that I didnt think about all the Adventures and new friendships I would form. The moment I took a breathe in San Francisco I knew this is exactly where i was supposed to be. The first few months I lived here I made some of the Best Friends you could ask for we would go to the beach, have bonfires & party together. The Memories that I have made here and the memories I will look back on and say, "those were some of the best days of my life," and i am completely okay with that.
photos by: Kaylee Bird
Taken: Truckee, California 2010

003.

I used to absolutely love building forts when I was a kid, something about being able to create my own space was exciting for me as a kid. I would make them out of sheets, snow, boxes, sticks, anything that I could build a structure with. I have spent a lot of my adult life thinking about my childhood. Who doesn't miss building forts, riding bikes, playing in dirt & climbing trees? A couple semesters ago I decided to build a fort in the garden area of my school. I felt like a kid again, climbing up and down the tree, almost falling out of the tree. It reminded me of how wild my imagination was. I think the most successful artist would have to be a child. There is something so pure and uneffected about a child's mind. During the construction of, The Fort I had hoped people would see the structure and offer to help. Unfortunately, the garden area of SFAI is not in the most noticable area. Next time I would like to make a "town" of forts. I think that if everyone takes a second to act like a kid again, the world will be full of a lot happier and less stressed people.

.002.

Corning, California ::: December 2009

This New Year is going to bring me a lot of Inspiration & changes. I am finally feeling excited for school this year. It's only taken me till the second semester to get myself in gear. My goal for this semester is to get myself a Show, a nice body of work i can be proud of, and some how get a website made so i can make some sort of portfolio. It's time to get serious.

Phx, Arizona:: December 2009

001.

As an artist part of my job is to promote myself, well promote my art. I am not the most technology savvy person. I would love to create a website to show some of my work, since the world depends so much on the internet. This blog will have to do until i can learn to create that website. I will share my inspirations as well as my journeys as an artist. I am hoping that this will lead to feed back on the work i post and eventually maybe some interest in my work.

Red Rocks Beach, Marin, California