Looping moving image

In this Process and Production group we created looped moving images from videos we collected of a moving object/thing. I found this video of an elephant chasing it's mother and decided to use it in my piece. We trimmed the video to 5 seconds long and drew around the object for each frame, this was a very lenghty process which required patience. We cut out the rest of the video so that all you could see is the object that is moving, I then found this background and changed te hue/saturation to make it fit in with the colour of the elephant better. I feel the overall video has a strange quirky look to it and I enjoyed playing around with the final outcome by adding more copies of the moving elephant onto the video.

Typeface and Phrase

In this second Production Workshop with Nick, we were working on a large scale with our typeface; 1 letter per A4 page. I found this quite interesting and I enjoyed working at this scale with the type, it allowed me to find a final typeface which I feel looks good and fits well with the phrase "I am a person." 

I placed the letters on the floor and worked on the arrangements, however I found that I did not like some of my letters and decided to change them to fit with the rest of the type

I changed the 'I', 'm', 'e', 'r', 's', 'n' and '.' to follow the typeface more accurately. I feel like the outcome is good and works well with the phrase.

 

My finished Typeface and Phrase.

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Business Lecture- Population crisis

Lecture notes:

In 1880 there were around 1.5 billion people in the world, population growth has since been dramatic and in 2015 there was approximately 7 billion people, this number is rapidly growing and could result in a worldwide crisis. 

Thomas Malthus was influential in the fields of political economy and demography. He came up with a basic model of a population catastrophe, which he described as showing how if the population rises above the limit of resources, there will be a crisis resulting in war, famine and disease. 

Macabre

Macabre style is a big influence on me, most of my favourite artworks have a macabre style, I find it unusual and eye-catching.

Macabre is the grim or ghastly atmosphere of an artwork, works often emphasise the details and symbols of death.

Some of my favourite examples of macabre art are shown below

Anton Semenov

Wendy M. Effendy

Roby Dwi Antono

Rudolf Kurz

Lowbrow Art Movement

Lowbrow art describes an underground visual art movement that arose in the LA, California area in the late 1970's. It is a populist art movement with its cultural roots in underground comix, punk music and hot-rod cultures of the street. It is also known by the name pop surrealism, and has a sense of humour- sometimes the humour is gleeful, sometimes impish, and sometimes it is a sarcastic comment. Lowbrow artworks tend to be paintings, however they can also be toys, digital art, and sculpture.

These are some Lowbrow pieces which I find most interesting.

Malojo Art

Mark Ryden

Jaime Best

Luke Chueh

Pete Mckee

I find illustration very interesting, this kind of unusual and creepy style is my favourite form of illustration.

James Elkins & Types of knowing: Can art be taught?

Lecture notes:

Elkins has written some provocative, skeptical texts, such as ‘Why painting cannot be taught’ and ‘Artists with PhD’s' and ‘On Pictures and the Word that Fail Them’. Whilst celebrating the trans-formative or ‘alchemic’ practice of art production, Elkins has been critical of the close alliance of practice and research (which founds the idea of practice based research). Elkins sees his art practice and art criticism as operating in very different registers. He separates his own work in terms of theory and practice, but also suggests that critics and historians should ‘learn to paint’ (and stop assuming that there is a ‘total meaning’ to any given work, or attempting to see semiotic significance in every random mark)

Elkins is an historian and art critic at the Art Institute of Chicago. Having been a painter but having become an art historian, he occupies an interesting place on discussion of painting/writing and rationality in particular. He believes that art/painting are irrational practices and that art cannot be taught.

Theories suggest that in the context of art, enthusiasm, commitment, passion, responsiveness and sympathy are important parts of teaching. A certain amount of art can be taught, however it is mostly argued that the main practice of creating artwork cannot be taught. Some believe that no subject can be taught, and that we are born with the ability to do certain subjects and cannot learn something to the full extent if we are not born with that knowledge.

Business lecture- Advertising

Lecture notes:

Advertising- Thinking outside of the box

Advertising is a huge competition and to get your product seen and known is a big task, thinking outside of the box is compulsory for a designer. We have to evaluate where and when the advert is going to be shown and work with that.

Ambient advertising is one of the most eye-catching forms of advertising, it is when you place an advert somewhere where you wouldn't expect to see it. 

Examples of Advertising outside the box.