Art and Copy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLfvmiB4edI

Ive been watching this trailer, and i've spread the word about this, i've got to say i'm really looking forward to seeing this.

I know that this film is going to slate the industry i'm working towards entering. I know that it will say harsh things that will probably stick with me throughout any possible career that i get but none the less im facinated by it and i want to hear every word they say good and bad. On top of that i will most likely agree with most of what they say.

Long time no Blog

Its been a while since i last posted a blog , and a lot has happened since i did, my website is now up and running and is a constant work in development, but it shouldn't take too long to sort out.

One of my highlights since the last post is my trip to Edinburgh. during the trip i really enjoyed the views and sights. although these veiws where great I really wanted something more to add to my photographs of my trip, so was born the adventures of Righty:


This I felt Righty added a little more humor to my Photographs and also represented my journey walking though this fantastic City.

What i found most impressive about this city is not so much how big it is or the Architecture, that is impressive, but what really left a lasting impression on me, was the amazing views and serenity that gently followed you round the city.

The City sits comfortably in between two mountains that give anyone who wants it the best view of the city and its castle, especially if you wait till sunset.


Its easy to get lost in the hustle and bustle of the city in Edinburgh as a lot is always happening, but it is even easier to find yourself in a nice peaceful spot and almost guaranteed the sound of bagpipes off in the distance.

To sum up, Edinburgh is an amazing city with plenty to offer including a lot of inspiration a lot of work i produced afterward.

Mercy Magazine- Show

The show went well eventually, the video footage was edited together into 3 separate screens all showing different angles of the work in progress. The poet liked and used our piece the night was a general success and I feel much happier knowing that my name has been out there.

Out of uni Project- MercyMagazine


I have been asked by Nathan Jones with two friends to produce a piece for a show to take place on fri 17th and sat 18th oct 08. This piece is based on a poem called a horse at midnight. it was suggested that we find some way of depicting some of the descriptive words used in the poem and produce it along side the the person reading it at the show. (poem to be added)

through this we quickly came to the realisation that drawing a picture wud take too long to do during the course of the poem. the only real fast way we could find of producing a fast effective drawing was to cut out stencils and spray paint them. for example:



this would allow us to produce the images as fast and as easy as possible to keep up with the poem. we then decided that each of these images should be placed on a set of 3 warning signs, triangle, circle and hexagon:



once this was decided we had a bases on which to produce multiple images all refering to words used in the poem. but the poem being called and talking about a horse at midnight we decided that we sould produce a stencil of a horse. we would spray all the smaller images and the warning shapes onto the much bigger stencil of a horse and then at the end of the poem remove the larger stencil to revial the horse.

monday 13th oct:
met up to take a practice shot at the piece using random colours, produced a horse stencil that will probably change and was able to practice to the point that we were happy with the results:




Wed 15th oct 08:
had a meeting with Nathan Jones to show him what we had come up with and talk about what was going to happen. after showing him the piece nathan was extremely pleased to see the work but was concerned about the helth problems with using spray paint indoors during the show, after considering alternatives such as acrilics in spray cartons we come to the conclusion that it would be best if we produced a video that can be edited and used on both friday and saturday night during the performances. slightly disapointed we wont be able to do this live but at least we get to go to the show and see the video at its best, we have also been told that there should be other dates such as one at fact that we will be able to do the piece live. the practice run looked somthing like this:



for this one we used the colours that we intended to use and also produced a different stencil. making it a much better piece.


Thursday 16th oct 08:
Filming, today we had to film the piece with nathan reading the poetry. this morning the rain convinced us that we would have to cancel the whole thing, not having a place to film was a big problem. so using the little time we had i made a quick dash to Zap graffiti arts. the studio in zap graffiti was the perfect place to produce the piece not being bothered about mess and with a decent ventilation system. I quickly made the most important call for this project to succeed. thankfully zap was available and was happy to house us for the filming of the piece. the whole piece came together, with a film man by the allius of Smeech (who works for LJMU) we were able to film the whole thing 4 times all at different angles to be edited later.



now we just w8 till saturdays show to see the final finnished piece

Tests

Aswell as doing my proposal, i have used what little bright light shone through the window today to test out my current idea

This was just a basic cutout, a lot more thought cud be put into it. although the shadow cast, works well.

research and bolgging

just set up my blog, not sure if its required yet but i thought i best get somthing on here, don't want an empty page.

Artist & object: Vik Muniz & spectacles

got some good research on vik muniz: This being my favorite so far.

ive bin finding it i lil hard to think of an idea that involves using glases and a style that wud be similar to Vik's. looking at what other artists have done with specs to see if it starts sparking some ideas. Example1, Example 2, Example 3.