Thursday, 15 April 2010
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Iain Foxall: an insperational speach
Its Friday 12th March and we are being given a lecture by one of the founders of foxall associates, Iain Foxall. We have been here for 50 mins and so far I don't know what the aim of this lecture is. I'm surprised to see a graphic designer who fails to give us quality photos. there is an awful bland colour pallet being used for this presentation and the rhythm of the photos doesn't seem to change at all.
During the introduction of this lecture we were told that this would be an inspirational talk about how you can work in industry doing anything you enjoy doing. so far its hard to see what we are looking at, there is no clear line ever drawn between the artists work and things he uses for inspiration, aka stuff he found on google. Also the artist here considers himself an illustrator, yet there is a distinct lack of illustrations being shown. im not seeing this guys love in his work if thats the case. So how does he plan to tell us we can make money off what we want to do when he isn't.
His words are often getting lost under the mumbling of his monotone voice. I start to notice I'm not the only one fidgeting in my seat. Many students have pulled out sketchbooks and seem to have lost all interest. There is someone laughing with an awful, forced and over the top laugh........ *groan*.
I'm sure this guy is a nice person, it shows. Yet due to his lack of charisma and poor presentation this inspirational talk has been lost into the box of bad lectures where I always think "I could have got some work done instead."
During the introduction of this lecture we were told that this would be an inspirational talk about how you can work in industry doing anything you enjoy doing. so far its hard to see what we are looking at, there is no clear line ever drawn between the artists work and things he uses for inspiration, aka stuff he found on google. Also the artist here considers himself an illustrator, yet there is a distinct lack of illustrations being shown. im not seeing this guys love in his work if thats the case. So how does he plan to tell us we can make money off what we want to do when he isn't.
His words are often getting lost under the mumbling of his monotone voice. I start to notice I'm not the only one fidgeting in my seat. Many students have pulled out sketchbooks and seem to have lost all interest. There is someone laughing with an awful, forced and over the top laugh........ *groan*.
I'm sure this guy is a nice person, it shows. Yet due to his lack of charisma and poor presentation this inspirational talk has been lost into the box of bad lectures where I always think "I could have got some work done instead."
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Wednesday, 3 March 2010
Thursday, 18 February 2010
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
The White Cube?
Its Wed 17th we are having a lecture given by Dr. Julie Sheldon. A doctor of what? you may ask and a doctor of I don't know what I will reply. I may have just fazed out when she explained but all I know is she teaches Art History.
You could tell this was an art history lecture due to the bad photos that bombarded the screen. Pixilated, glared and presented in a plain manner that lacks oomf.
I really didn't know it was possible to have an entire lecture on the colour of the walls inside a gallery space. Im sure that history wise artists and painters really did place importance on how and were they was hung in a gallery space. but personally as a modern illustrator, thinking of going freelance this really holds no importance or relevance to me. Despite this I'm more than happy to be educated.
We are being shown some vaguely interesting galleries and as this happens im wondering to myself, "should i switch to practice by Discourse?" I mean I love to go to galleries and look at all this stuff but my god im fed up at looking at awful photos of galleries with so much white that I don't want to look at the screen.
"Im not listening any more, I really should listen to her. It might be more interesting than it looks...... why am I finding it so difficult to listen?....... its too hot in here. I knew I shouldnt have sat so close to the projector.......... omg shes showing rothko rooms at tate millbank. I hate rothko, I really didnt like seeing them when they came to liverpool, I don't see why he has such a name for himself. This Isn't gonna help my state of mind....... whats the time?..... omg I've been sat here for an hour."
The lecture continues as I let my mind spill out onto the keyboard. Now we are being told about white cube theology using quotes by Brian O'Daugherty, and in the fist quote we are given a picture that shows the Mona Lisa in a negative place in the gallery. Apparently the Mona Lisa was looked at as a monstrosity once upon a time. Now thats interesting why aren't we getting told more stuff like this?
The doctor moves on to the quote. I'm not even listening to the quote, I think the Dr has missed the mark on what to teach us.
Ok here is the lowdown galleries now have white walls to deal with how art has changed over the years. Traditional artworks used to be placed upon silk wallpaper etc and that showed them at their best. they was also hung differently showing a hierarchy within the paintings. Nowadays though artists want to place unusual items into them and also some wish to paint on the walls, in order for this to work a constant is required for the traveling artist to use. This constant is a plain white flat surface on all the walls in order for this to work. I get it, this lecture is being fluffed out a little too much.
Finaly we start to get to the end of the lecture. This has been an interesting lecture but I can't help but feel like things I would want to know were missed in order to talk about small, less interesting topics within this subject and fluff them out to an extent that I lost all interest.
You could tell this was an art history lecture due to the bad photos that bombarded the screen. Pixilated, glared and presented in a plain manner that lacks oomf.
I really didn't know it was possible to have an entire lecture on the colour of the walls inside a gallery space. Im sure that history wise artists and painters really did place importance on how and were they was hung in a gallery space. but personally as a modern illustrator, thinking of going freelance this really holds no importance or relevance to me. Despite this I'm more than happy to be educated.
We are being shown some vaguely interesting galleries and as this happens im wondering to myself, "should i switch to practice by Discourse?" I mean I love to go to galleries and look at all this stuff but my god im fed up at looking at awful photos of galleries with so much white that I don't want to look at the screen.
"Im not listening any more, I really should listen to her. It might be more interesting than it looks...... why am I finding it so difficult to listen?....... its too hot in here. I knew I shouldnt have sat so close to the projector.......... omg shes showing rothko rooms at tate millbank. I hate rothko, I really didnt like seeing them when they came to liverpool, I don't see why he has such a name for himself. This Isn't gonna help my state of mind....... whats the time?..... omg I've been sat here for an hour."
The lecture continues as I let my mind spill out onto the keyboard. Now we are being told about white cube theology using quotes by Brian O'Daugherty, and in the fist quote we are given a picture that shows the Mona Lisa in a negative place in the gallery. Apparently the Mona Lisa was looked at as a monstrosity once upon a time. Now thats interesting why aren't we getting told more stuff like this?
The doctor moves on to the quote. I'm not even listening to the quote, I think the Dr has missed the mark on what to teach us.
Ok here is the lowdown galleries now have white walls to deal with how art has changed over the years. Traditional artworks used to be placed upon silk wallpaper etc and that showed them at their best. they was also hung differently showing a hierarchy within the paintings. Nowadays though artists want to place unusual items into them and also some wish to paint on the walls, in order for this to work a constant is required for the traveling artist to use. This constant is a plain white flat surface on all the walls in order for this to work. I get it, this lecture is being fluffed out a little too much.
Finaly we start to get to the end of the lecture. This has been an interesting lecture but I can't help but feel like things I would want to know were missed in order to talk about small, less interesting topics within this subject and fluff them out to an extent that I lost all interest.
Holidays, holidays, holidays: Part 1
Its been a while since my last blog. Xmas and New Year, followed by a weeks holiday in Berlin and an intense group project at Uni has kept me busy.
For Christmas this year I decided to make some cards and gave them out to pretty much anyone. I was surprised to find that the local Tesco's new expansion had added a photo shop/printers. It only took them a couple of hours and £20 and i had a decent pile of self designed cards that I didn't have to do all the printing and folding for. If i would have waited a week I would have got much more value for money and could have had a full bleed page but I had left it too late and had to settle for the express service.
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