I'm Art

I don't really consider myself an artist, yet I am art. I'm not art just because my name has the word art in it, I'm art because I'm different from the rest of the crowd. I'm made different, I'm a creation made unique and cannot be duplicated. For me, art is an escape from everything, it is a way of expression. My art is not limited to paper. I use the world as a blank canvass. If I'm in the mood to make a video, I'll do it. I have always liked entertaining people and I get a joy out of seeing others happy so that makes me glad to see that people enjoy watching what I like doing. I remember doing a painting my sophomore year of high school. My former art teacher told me about this contest which was to look up a painting made by a French artist and to try to recreate it. Little did I know that I would actually win it. I did it out of interest of art, not for my selfish wants of being better than everybody. So my painting ended up being the winning one and I was real happy since it was the greatest achievement I've received for a piece of art i've done other than in 8th grade my book drawings. I guess that art has been my calling for a while now but I have never actually shown it in real life. I don't look artsy nor do I express my love for art in a passionately way. I'm just myself. No labels, no strings attached.

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

Alright so you guys probably already know that I'm a huge fan of Andy Warhol. I recently received this book in the mail which I ordered from Borders called "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol". Let me just say, this is by far the greatest book I've read. To me, this book is not just one of those books like Twilight or the new vampire trend. This is an inspirational autobiography of a painstaking artist which was an average fun loving guy like most of us. So what is so inspirational about him? Well to begin, he was a well known guy in high school but he considered himself a loner. I think that many people these days are really loners on the inside. They can be the most popular people on the outside but on the inside, they will have the empty, not understood feeling that a lot of us get. Reading this book, I've learned many things about fame. Andy Warhol states that in the future, everybody will have their 15 minutes of fame. I have yet to receive mine but I know that with hard work and self motivation, I will soon reach those 15 minutes or more. I try my personal best to be good enough in my eyes. Whenever I make a drawing or painting, I have to make sure that it is exactly how I like it. I believe that I don't have to impress nor please anyone. When I make a video weather it is for youtube or a project, I do it out of enjoyment, not for the sake of fame. People can't buy their own fame. They just get acknowledged for things they do which make them famous. Andy re-invented art in his own way which was known as pop art. So pop art is a form of art where Andy proved that anything can be art. That brings up my next topic. The Campbell's Tomato Soup can. This is an intriguing piece of art. Andy painted this proving that even a can of soup is art! I wish that he was still alive so that I could have met him. He did things that I would never dare myself to do. He ran away from home when he was about 16 to pursue his dream. He lived in the strangest of places and he could not walk around New York knowing that he will not see one of his ex room mates. So what exactly made Andy Warhol as famous as he is now? It's actually quite simple: He did what he truly loved and believed in and turned that into his profession. He did have to suffer at times but the outcome of his art was superb.

It's only human nature, right?

It's pretty late right now. I'm sleepy and I decided to write a quick blog. I just remember talking to a friend about imperfections. So my friend and I talked it up and I think that I came to a good point. Alright so as humans, we do have the right to make mistakes. Don't get me wrong or anything, I'm not even close to being perfect. I told my friend I think that anybody can in fact be perfect. In my mind, people make the choice not to be perfect. If somebody is overweight, that person can make the choice to lose weight. If people don't like the way they talk, they practice charismatic skills. For me, I have excess body weight and mild acne problems. I make the choice to go to the gym to try to fix that. Yet I am not perfect. Why? I chose to make mistakes. I chose to eat big cake slices at night. I make the choice not to make myself the perfect person in my mind. There can be the perfect "nerd" or the perfect "jock" (I dislike labels so i try to use those words sparingly). So what do I classify myself as? I don't really know what I can be classified as. I can't be the perfect person under a specific group. I have various music likings and I don't dress to show a certain fashion of the music I like. I guess that I'm the best at being the perfect "Martin". Do you guys get what I'm getting at? I can be perfect. I just have to make the right choices. If people chose not to do their own best, they're not the best. I honestly can say that I don't care what people think of me. I know that I have probably been labeled many things. My opinion is the only one that matters to myself now and I should have noticed that from the beginning. My point is just that people can be perfect if they make the choice to be perfect. Originality is just an extra which everybody should have. But now days, it is hard to find originality considering the media influences that impacts the youth these days.