Artist: Barry McGee and Margaret Kilgallen

We watched a short video on the Artist Barry McGee and Margaret Kilgallen who mostly focus on typography, folkart and graffiti. I like the way Margaret thinks and how she views the world around her. She observes everything that is in front of her instead of passing it. She also see things that don’t look like art you and I, and makes it art. One of her thoughts that crossed my mind is that people are too busy rushing to work or rushing to here or there, that they don’t see the beauty around them, the art around them. I like how Margaret emphasized that people see graffiti as distasteful or meaningless when its art, but how can people look at billboard signs all around and not see it as mindless garbage that fills are heads. Mindless garbage… thats how I feel about things in the world sometimes, mindless garbage. About four years ago, after I had my daughter, my husband and I decided that we were taking television out of our lives. We found it to be filled with trash and mindless crap. It felt like the news wasn’t even reporting real news, but gossip. I didn’t want my daughter to grow up watching all that crap. I felt like if I could limit her tv watching to educational videos or certain kid like movies, that she would grow up just fine. And so far she is, she is growing up fine. We have one television in home, and its hers. It just plays DVD’s.