As many of you may not know (because I never told you) with the beginning of a new semester came the news that some of our good friends had become a statistic. Their comes a time in every persons life when they to must be a statistic, but for some it comes to soon.

The Rylander (Rhylander? Rielander? Rilander?) was a friend, a fellow dingus, and a fool to pass the time with. On January 18th when Chris, Kyle, Bert, the Rymonger (different), and myself returned to campus we learned that the great Rylander had dropped out of collage, and become a statistic. Before he left us we where able to take a exquisite portrait of is doofy mug which will forever be cherished by the great men of “Acquisitions Incorporated LLC.” (That’s what we call ourselves by the way).

To honor the great Rylander i call to the world to find the doofyest picture of someone else you know and share it with the world! This is the internet, they have no way of knowing who did it (I believe that is how it works), and worst case scenario you can always delete it because nothing on the internet is permanent (again, speculations here).

The elusive wiled Rymonger, being 1/2 vampire (much like myself) does not appear on conventional digital photography an further research is needed in to capturing his essence on a computronic box machine.

Today I have some  “SUPER AWESOME” pieces of news for all of my trusty viewers. First off, I am moving up in the world; I invested a great deal of time and money in upgrading this lame o’ll site. Before ya’ll had to type in that obnoxious and long “HTTP://WWW.NoahHeymman.wordpress.com”, but now because i care about you i have SHORTENED IT to a measly “NoahHeyman.com”. (Very exciting)

Additionally, I am attempting to increase traffic to and from my site, (more to and less from). This realization means something for both me (the computer), and you (the HUMAN). For me (computer) I now need to make more posts to keep ya’ll entertained, and youze (PEOPLE) need to share some links, recommend me to your friends, and plaster my face all over social media!!!

Hopefully if this relationship works out for the both of us (or all of us) we can try to take it to the next step, like dinner, or some Jiffy POP. Until then share my (new) link, have a laugh, and know somewhere out there I am drinking Cool-Aid and thinking of you.

Today Alfred got its first snow day of the year! Last night we got over a foot of snow dumped on us and woke up to an email letting us all know that their would be no school (but the dining halls are open). Here are a few pictures from this morning of the snow!

As a side note, Congratulations to AVI for yet again blowing a meal out of the water. As none of you are aware, AVI likes to make everything from scratch, even their potato chips. Here is today’s catch of the day!

For my second activity I chose to move things.

Unfortunately, due to a large series of unfortunate circumstances i was very limited as to when and where I could move things around. I chose to stick with Scholes Library as well for this activity. Moving things was a particularly exciting activity for me because this is something I try to do on a daily basis in order to keep the world around me on its toes. I plan to continue rearrange things in the future, but for now, I give you… THE LIBRARY! 

Today in CoLab we where each given an envelope containing five activities. We where to chose two of the activities and do one independently and one in a group of two-ish.

The first activity I chose to do was “Measurements of value” (see description below)

For this assignment I decided to work with Madi. I made this decision by standing up and asking the class, “who wants to do the price tag thing” and she said yes, so we exchanged numbers and met up later on. We chose to work in Scholes Library and here is what we came up with. We ended up making the room feel almost like an estate sale or similar, and left the price tags up for others to shop.

In order to further my artistic vision over break I decided that I should  undergo a steam powered revolution! I present to you, six days worth of Steampunkery.

These first pictures are of me in my fancy new Steam punk costume!

Here are some more pictures of my Steam Punk gear itself! I can make custom orders to fit any budget. If you are interested in your very own Noah Heyman original shoot me an email (nlheyman@gmail.com) and we can figure something out! 

It’s here!

For our final assignment in the “STUDIO: the line” class we where instructed to take all of our research from the line, as well as all of the knowledge obtained from previous pieces and create a single culminating installation that embodies The LINE, what we know about it, how we feel about it, and how we think about it.

First pictures, then explanation!

Noah Heyman

“Number 136”

Mixed media

 

For my installation, I decided to stick with my TINY glass vials (3 dram ea.) and collect MORE TINY objects from the line. i ended up with 174 vials, all of which where corked, sealed, and numbered (1 through 175). I Then created a form for each vial that contained the vial number, and the contents of it, with the instructions to draw and then describe the contents. Additionally I laid a linoleum floor to add to the feeling of a laboratory. Once all of the forms are completed I plan to punch holes in them and create a catalog of other peoples perspective on my perspective on the line. Additionally I plan to cover the vials with a sheet of Plexiglas and add hooks so it can be hung on a wall later in its life.

Curious about whats in those vials? well, due to high resolution, CLICK THE PICTURES TO ZOOM, and read bellow for the complete list!

(Vials are left to right)

• Snow

• Creek water

• Puddle water

• Moss

• Moss

• Long leaf

• Egg shaped leaf

• Several small leaves

• Small africa shaped piece of slate

• Triangular piece of slate

• Medium sized pebble

• Rounded pebble

• Long pointy rock

• Dark dried leaf

• Fiber

• Pointy plant matter

• Crumpled tan leaf

• Long spotted leaf

• Small red lead

• Long skinny red leaf

• Brown with green poking out

• Prickly brown stick

• Red Prickly mulch

• Thin stick

• Thin stick

• Thicker stick

• Fuzzy stick

• Very thin stick

• Similarly thin stick

• Short stick

• Light brown bark

• Long bark shaving

• Light tan piece of wood

• Small flake of plant life

• Orange peel

• Banana peel

• Pod with three seeds

• Three seeds

• Red plant matter

• 1/4 acorn

• 1/2 acorn hat

• Broken snail shell

• Artificially yellow feather

• Artificially green feather

• Green fibers with wood shavings

• Blue yarn

• Black yarn

• White yarn

• Natural string with knot

• Small burgundy ball of fibers

• “Lemo Heal & FRIENDS”

• “Wonka Nerds”

• Shiny blue pink and white scrap

• Blue Tootsie roll wrapper

• Yellow Tootsie roll wrapper

• Yellow Starburst wrapper

• HALLS wrapper

• Dark brown wax paper

• Crumpled gold foil

• Reeses cup foil

• Reeses wrapper

• Laffy Taffy

• M&M Ice cream wrapper

• “Dum Dums”

• “‘S”

• Blue metallic plastic

• Blue and white plastic

• Yogurt lid

• “Strawberry”

• Tan and brown plastic

• “Nutrition facts”

• “Duck Sauce”

• “Protein chewy bar”

• “protein”

• Cigar wrapper top

• Cigar wrapper

• Gold foil

• Tax Seal

• White cigarillo mouthpiece

• Black cigarillo mouthpiece

• Blue cigarette

• White cigarette

• White cigarette

• White cigarette

• White cigarette

• Tan cigarette

• Dark tan cigarette

• Dark tan cigarette

• Cigarette filter

• Losing lottery scratch ticket

• Receipt

• Mailing address

• Mailing label

• “Helping hands” sticker

• Princess duck tape

• Superman duck tape

• Blue painters tape

• Packing tape

• Zipper

• Green zipper bag

• Rusty bottle cap

• Red soda tab

• Piece of old soda can

• Silver soda tab

• Silver foil

• Silver foil

• Silver foil

• Stride gum wrapper

• Trident gum wrapper

• Tan gum

• Green gum

• Blue gum

• Green ball of foil

• Dark blue ball of foil

• Light blue ball of foil

• Small light blue piece of foil

• Dark blue gum wrapper

• Piece of metal can

• Aquamarine blue plastic

• Half of fork head

• Plastic knife

• Paper stick

• Paper scraps

• Triangular foam thing

• Translucent plastic scraps

• Part of plastic cup

• Reflective honeycomb material

• Reflective material

• Broken mirror pieces

• Small aluminum nail

• Longer steel nail

• Dirty silver foil

• Dirty brown glass

• Small brown glass shard

• Small green glass

• Small blue glass

• Larger blue glass

• Blue ribon

• Blue hair pick teeth

• Black piece of plastic

• Slice of tire

• Black coated wire

• White coated wire

• red coated wire

• Red wire coating

• Red sprinkle

• Orange sprinkle

• Yellow sprinkle

• Green sprinkle

• Pink sprinkle

• White sprinkle

• Piece of tared rock

• Sarpie ink

• Liquid pen ink

• pen ink cartridge

• Pen part

• Pen part

• White straw with red stripe

• Red straw

• Red ceramic thing

• Piece of coffee cup

• Piece of foam cup

• Mint wrapper

• News paper

• Dirty paper towel

• “What do lawyers where to court?”

• “Lawsuits”

• Wood toothpick

• Wood toothpick

• Red pointed rod

• Red hearted rod

• Pink plastic with knot

• Half of plastic lid

• Small hard thing

Title explanation: If you have have read this far you have won the title explanation! When stamping the vials with their numbers my helpers and I (chris and bert) missed a number and only realized once we got to the end and hit 175 instead of 174. After going back and checking them all i found that i was missing #136, and a title was born!

For this assignment we where instructed to take our word (tiny) and go out onto the line and create three different collections based on it. Then we where to create a three dimensional installation in the Cohen studio of one of our three collections. More information on the assignment can be found HERE!

For my first collection I decided to use photography as my means of collecting. For this collection I focused on the tiny’s of the natural world. These photos where all taken with the same zoom and focal point (55mm plus 13mm extension). See examples bellow! Additional images can be found here!

THESE IMAGES WHERE TAKEN WITH “ALL OF THE PIXELS” CLICK ON THEM TO OPEN THEM UP IN A NEW TAB, THEN CLICK AGAIN TO ZOOM!! There is a lot to see in these images and it is really worth taking the time to blow them up!

       

Next I decided to make a collection of the Tiny’s of the man made world. Again, I decided to use photography as my means of collecting and took them with the same zoom and focal point (55mm plus 13mm extension).

See examples bellow! Additional images can be found here!

THESE IMAGES WHERE TAKEN WITH “ALL OF THE PIXELS” CLICK ON THEM TO OPEN THEM UP IN A NEW TAB, THEN CLICK AGAIN TO ZOOM!! There is a lot to see in these images and it is really worth taking the time to blow them up!

  

Lastly, for my installation, I decided to select a small glass vial, and collect anything that i could fit inside it. This turned into a slightly interesting task because it was teetering between pouring snowing and hailing while I was trying to collect my objects. I did manage, however, to collect a wide assortment of both natural and man made objects from the line. I had decided that i was going to limit myself to 60 vials (the number of corks I had). After bottling and corking each object, I sealed them with wax and stamped each seal with a number, one through sixty. I then created a list of the contents of each vial and set up my installation!

1. Water from puddle
2. Water from creek
3. White straw, two red lines
4. Red straw, broken
5. Pen part, mechanical
6. Pen part, front
7. Three small seeds
8. Stick with pointy things
9. Small leaf with fuzz
10. Crumbling dried leaf
11. Orange peel shaped like africa
12. Small rock
13. Larger rock
14. Lower portion of blue dum-dum wraper
15. Foil gum wrapper, unknown flavor
16. White orbit gum wrapper
17. Green crumpled foil
18. Small piece of foil
19. Blue gum, chewed
20. Tan gum, chewed, with debris embedded
21. Green gum, chewed, with debris embedded
22. Small mint wrapper
23. Halls wrapper
24. Yellow Tootsie roll wrapper
25. Blue Tootsie roll wrapper
26. Yellow Staurburst wrapper
27. Brown/green Laffy Taffy Wrapper
28. Metallic candy wrapper, peeled
29. Top of Nerds box
30. Part of Reeses wrapper
31. Corner of fruit snacks wrapper
32. “Good source of PROTEIN”
33. Part of yogurt lid
34. Duck Sauce packet
35. Lolly pop stick
36. Popsicle stick with joke “What do lawyers wear to court?”
37. Popsicle stick with punchline “Lawsuits”
38. Yellow cigarette butt
39. Tan cigarette butt
40. White cigarette butt
41. White cigarette mouthpiece
42. Black cigarette mouthpiece with part of cigarette
43. Cigar wrapper
44. Top of cigar packaging
45. Small green zipper bag
46. Losing scratch ticket
47. Unknown plastic material
48. Part of plastic bottle cap
49. Quarter of plastic fork
50. Half of plastic knife
51. Soda tab
52. Part of mirror
53. Unknown material
54. Reflective tape
55. Nail
56. Black plastic
57. Short ceramic rod
58. Shorter wire insulation
59. Blue yarn
60. Circular blue ribbon