Monday, March 31, 2008
Portfolio
Here are some pictures of my portfolio pieces. My three choices are Art Ed, Sculpture (I'm going to try to double major in those two), and Fashion Design.
Well that does it for the flat work (minus one drawing that I haven't photographed). I'll add the sculptures later. I also put my flipbooks and flash in there but I don't feel like waiting thirty minutes for them to upload again.
Well that does it for the flat work (minus one drawing that I haven't photographed). I'll add the sculptures later. I also put my flipbooks and flash in there but I don't feel like waiting thirty minutes for them to upload again.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Rime 2.0
Here is my flash project again. It is still a little choppy and skips a few frames (including the last few), but is much improved.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Artistes
This weeks artists are weird as hell.
1. Matthew Barney.
I really wish I could see the full Cremaster cycle. Watching the trailer and seeing pictures of the sculptures and characters are completely unsatisfactory, and reading about it is just confusing. I watched a video of Barney talking about it and he really doesn't make much sense either. But from what I have been able to watch, Barney's work looks awesome. The characters and stories he creates are original and bizarre, and he combines inspiration drawn from so many things. While Barney considers himself primarily a sculptor, I must say the sculptures themselves don't excite me that much. Although I admit I'm pretty much awestruck at the exorbitant amounts of vaseline he uses.
http://www.cremaster.net/
2. Bill Viola
Again, I would like to see Viola's recent works. The stills from many of them look interesting, but I can only seem to find his old ones. The transitions in "Reflecting Pool" seem a bit disjointed, and I don't really like the narrative of the man jumping in and getting out- I think the video could do without and exist just for the sake of experimenting with video. I do like the reflections in the water when no one is there to cause them. While Viola is credited as a pioneer of video art, I would rather see his current work, which I'm sure is much improved with better technology and bigger budgets.
http://www.billviola.com/
3. Pipilotti Rist
Pipilotti Rist's videos were kind o boring to me. They all seemed very repetitive. Bill Viola's wotk was similar. With both, I felt like I was missing something and should watch the videos over because there was sure to be something in them, but it was like rereading the Dew Breaker. I wasn't interested enough the first time to spend the time watching them again. Also, she is another artist much of whose work sounds very interesting, so I would like to see some more of it. Her website is pretty fun
http://www.pipilottirist.net/begin/open.html
1. Matthew Barney.
I really wish I could see the full Cremaster cycle. Watching the trailer and seeing pictures of the sculptures and characters are completely unsatisfactory, and reading about it is just confusing. I watched a video of Barney talking about it and he really doesn't make much sense either. But from what I have been able to watch, Barney's work looks awesome. The characters and stories he creates are original and bizarre, and he combines inspiration drawn from so many things. While Barney considers himself primarily a sculptor, I must say the sculptures themselves don't excite me that much. Although I admit I'm pretty much awestruck at the exorbitant amounts of vaseline he uses.
http://www.cremaster.net/
2. Bill Viola
Again, I would like to see Viola's recent works. The stills from many of them look interesting, but I can only seem to find his old ones. The transitions in "Reflecting Pool" seem a bit disjointed, and I don't really like the narrative of the man jumping in and getting out- I think the video could do without and exist just for the sake of experimenting with video. I do like the reflections in the water when no one is there to cause them. While Viola is credited as a pioneer of video art, I would rather see his current work, which I'm sure is much improved with better technology and bigger budgets.
http://www.billviola.com/
3. Pipilotti Rist
Pipilotti Rist's videos were kind o boring to me. They all seemed very repetitive. Bill Viola's wotk was similar. With both, I felt like I was missing something and should watch the videos over because there was sure to be something in them, but it was like rereading the Dew Breaker. I wasn't interested enough the first time to spend the time watching them again. Also, she is another artist much of whose work sounds very interesting, so I would like to see some more of it. Her website is pretty fun
http://www.pipilottirist.net/begin/open.html
Thursday, March 20, 2008
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
First flash movie, based on Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and done in William Kentridge's style. I think I will edit it some more... sometime.
Ok, so I just took a look at the video and it is not playing properly- it is going too slow and skipping a lot of frames. Maybe it will work for you but if not you can at least see some of the drawings and get an idea of how I animated it.
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Flash Artists
matthewmahon.com
What a brilliant presentation. This is seems to not be just a work of flash, but Matthew Mahon's personal website featuring his photos and snippets of personal information with no apparent order. I guess if I had to look him up for my sketchbook that would be annoying, but I do think its clever and different. It reminds me of youtube, afer you watch a video and the little floating bubbles pop up.
thecircularlife.it/frameset
I really like this one. The most interesting part is stopping at different points around the circle to hear what is going on. In the Venice one, there are church bells at different times during the day which accentuates the idea of the circular nature of life. I think my favorite is the Lago Santo, just because the location looks and sounds so serene and beautiful, and the changes in the light and reflections on the lake are fascinating to me. It also has some unexpected sound bites, such as a chainsaw (pretty distressing considering how gorgeous the landscape is) and people yelling in the distance.
thehalcyonhours.com
This one's not my favorite. Some of the clips where she is just reading a paper or rolling around in bed aren't very special, but the clip where she is having a cigarette and especially the one where she is in the art gallery are creative and offer more than just a glimpse of what she is doing at that time. Still, I think what I like best is just the window with the landscape outside for its plainness and starkness.
What a brilliant presentation. This is seems to not be just a work of flash, but Matthew Mahon's personal website featuring his photos and snippets of personal information with no apparent order. I guess if I had to look him up for my sketchbook that would be annoying, but I do think its clever and different. It reminds me of youtube, afer you watch a video and the little floating bubbles pop up.
thecircularlife.it/frameset
I really like this one. The most interesting part is stopping at different points around the circle to hear what is going on. In the Venice one, there are church bells at different times during the day which accentuates the idea of the circular nature of life. I think my favorite is the Lago Santo, just because the location looks and sounds so serene and beautiful, and the changes in the light and reflections on the lake are fascinating to me. It also has some unexpected sound bites, such as a chainsaw (pretty distressing considering how gorgeous the landscape is) and people yelling in the distance.
thehalcyonhours.com
This one's not my favorite. Some of the clips where she is just reading a paper or rolling around in bed aren't very special, but the clip where she is having a cigarette and especially the one where she is in the art gallery are creative and offer more than just a glimpse of what she is doing at that time. Still, I think what I like best is just the window with the landscape outside for its plainness and starkness.
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