ArtBlog

I chose the Swedish pop group A*Teens in the Girl Power category even though they are combined with two girls and two boys. I choose this band because they make good covers of their songs originally performed by ABBA, and they turn them into more of a Europop sound. It still sounds good as it did back then. Their music fits more with technology because it has more of an edgy type upbeat feel than the songs ABBA originally performed. I highly recommend listening these guys even if you haven't heard of them or never listened to any of their songs. A*Teens are a really a great band and most of their songs are very catchy. I'd rather listen to them than most of the music I hear on the radio now. Songs from A*Teens Mamma Mia! (1999) Super Trouper (1999) Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) (1999) Dancing Queen (2000) Upside Down (2000) Halfway Around The World (2001) Can't Help Falling in Love (2002) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKUX5qDiUgk http

For my performance art, I decided to make water xylophones. I took some small water bottles to create my xylophone. Before testing out the pitch sounds, I poured a little bit of water out arranging them from the smallest amount of water, to biggest amount of water. After that, I used an artificial flavor color to make sure they had a tuning sound. I filmed this outside on the patio. I tested out the water bottles to see if they sounded okay. The pitches increased by a low pitch to a higher pitch for these water bottles. The song I played was, "Since U Been Gone," Kelly Clarkson. I enjoyed playing along to it by using my Bose speaker. It is really cool to make homemade xylophones by using water bottles or glasses with water. I feel like this is a useful tune. I hope to do something like this sometime soon.

I made a spinning wheel for my collage. I used one of my hands on the scanner of my printer to design the wheel. Next, I printed it and started to cut them out. Then I pasted it on a small poster board.

I created some sort of flag type pixel art for my grid art. I used different types of colors for each row to create some sort of pattern. In the middle I created a square full of frames to make it look like a carpet. It looks like a type of mandala.

What I did for my flipbook is I used one of my books I read my junior year of high school and started creating doodles in it. Towards the end I wrote some Chinese calligraphy. I wrote what the letters meant in Chinese, since I don't speak the language.

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