Oh, and any last little shred of sympathy for naked girl disappeared with the whole "I took a picture at the apartment" thing. WTF do you mean "one person shouldn't get to decide who can use what."?? Peregrine didn't decide, the producers of the show whose rules you agreed to decided it.

Idiot.

I cheered her departure.

I was just so over the "I keep photographing myself naked and surviving the challenges" thing. And I hated Miles' installation for the opposites attract challenge.

I know and it was just a picture of an umbrella in the bathtub - no nudity at all

Actually I'm pretty sure they also briefly showed one of her nude in the same bathtub.

We got to see Miles' ass.

Yeah, that had me pretty pissed off as well. I also didn't like her "I need the money more than the others so I deserve to win" attitude. But, she's just a shy, modest girl that worked with Jeff Koons.

And it was sweet. :snap:

Ding ding ding ding, give that man a cigar!

Give Abdi 3 months and boy howdy can he pull something together! I totally agree with the judges that the body bag painting had something that completely elevated it. The light coming from that subject was mesmerizing. And, it just wouldn't have been Abdi without the last-minute mayhem as he broke his sculptures apart unpacking them. Hah!

I also really loved Peregrine's exhibit, but agree with the judges that it was just too unfocused. Abdi made the comment that he only kept the pieces that were really good. Peregrine needs to learn that skill. Because she most definitely has pieces that are really good, but get buried in the pile.

Miles, Miles, Miles. It's funny, I relate so much to him. I know that if I were to ever sit down and try to "be an artist" I'd pretty quickly end up where he ends up. He starts with a 10,000 foot view of something and recognizes that there's meaning in it. He zooms into it at the most microscopic scale and in doing so finds that meaning within himself. And then he stops there, which is where, every time I consider trying to communicate in that way, I fear I would stop too. HE knows why that ultra-zoomed level has meaning, but he's unable to step that zoom back a few notches to communicate that to the audience. He needs to find a way to bridge that gap between the representational and the meaning that HE sees in the fully abstract. Which is no easy feat. I know I would have no way of articulating the meaning I feel from the abstract doodles I've churned out, I just know it's there. If he can find that optimal zoom level, he'd be an artistic giant.


I can't believe it's over! I want more! Bring on season 2!

I would have given it to Peregrine...but Abdi was extremely strong and I'm not surprised he won. Both of them did so well!

I can't believe Miles didn't build something. Kind of a let down. I thought his zoomed in pixels were beautiful but lacked meaning. Would be nice decor for a pixel-based business.



I had a dream about a crazy artist last night. He was a big man and frighteningly intense. I stuck sitting with him while he worked on a piece of wall art and talked to me about the process for what seemed like more than an hour. He went somewhere else for a little bit and I was trying to figure out how to get away from him. I think on some level I knew it was a dream (Inception has messed with my head) but the way I tried to leave was by trying to "delete" the work he had made, perhaps thinking that he was only here because the art was here. I only succeeded in deleting the work he had done in the past hour and suddenly he was back. Once he saw what I had done he was in a towering rage. I dropped to my knees trying to make him understand how very sorry I was. End.

Why I had a nightmare about this show I'll never know.