Berry McKee

Barry McKee's artist lectures are a dividing issue. Many people believe it to be great that McKee speaks so simply about his work and find it refreshing to hear an artist seem so down to earth as they speak. However, his lectures are extremely boring as they consist of minimal incite from the artist and a great multitude of questions from members of the audience, each met with a brief and uninformative response. One could learn much more about the artist with a simple use of google than through the attendance of one of his lectures and in this aspect McKee is far more presumptuous than an artist who actually takes the time to discuss his or her work during a lecture, in that he pretends to understand very little about the work which he himself created and tries to seem unsure of its substantiality while standing in front of a room full of college students and professors who have eagerly taken the time to come and hear him speak. Many find his attitude reminiscent of Warhol, though any attempt on the part of McKee to mimic Warhol is ill conceived at best as Warhol's simple method of answering questions was able to capture the nature of his art in a way that McKee's faked stupor can never come close to rivaling.

Video Essay Critiques

Katie
It was very polished and well organized.
It sounds like your voice is echoing a little bit.
Some pictures had nothing to do with what was being said.
Needs music.
Patrice
Music was great, but should have been lower than your voice.
Enunciate less.
Grainy pictures.
Coleen
Effects where great.
Music was louder than your voice.
Too much time about photography in general that should have been spent on silver eye itself.
Titles.
Julie
Great information.
Too many transition effects.
Jenna
Great definition of doors, helps to introduce door art.
Slow down.
Too much information outside of Pittsburgh.
Jumbled.
A lot of pauses.
Ariel
Poppie Yay!!!!!!
Focus on Pittsburgh.
Transitions.
Sound would be nice. lol
Emily
Nice music.
Muddy voice.
Some of the angles of the pictures made it hard to read the chalk art.
Slides too fast.
Jill
Cool psychedelic thing!!!
Louder.
Change videos more often.
All of the stills used the same effect, try some others.
Sarah
Nice blue prints and old pictures, they look hard to find.
Talk faster and less monotone.
Cut down interview time a little bit.