First Day...

...First assignments!


From the Print Studio III Syllabus:

"The aim of this course is to encourage invention both in content and technique. Scale will be explored both large and small, as well as the concept of the edition as the dissemination of numerous repeatable images.

"Assignment 1: Lexpionage/the sleuthing of new words and phrases.
Browse wordspy.com. Choose a new word (or phrase) in today's culture. Collect images, articles, etc. that reflect or use the word. Give presentation about your word or phrase next week. This will become the stuff of your first project.
Presentations due September 17"




From the Painting III Syllabus:

"Goals withing this consultation, lecture, and studio class:
-Hone individual formal, conceptual, and process skills, while developing creative vision and personal imagery
-study of materials, methods and concepts appropriate to this level of study.
-Writing and readings, possible visitors or field trips.
-encouragement of creativity and exploration through experimentation, improvisation and subsequent analysis of work.
-Work with either oil and/or water based , as well as your choices of paint tools and supports. Mixed media work is encouraged, including possible combination of other media in which you work, like print, drawing, sculpture, photo, digital processes or output, etc.
-Work may be traditional or experimental

"Project 1: Appropriation
Goal: To hone your visual, conceptual, material and process skills through the creation of a work that, all or in part, borrows, recycles or copies images, objects or styles from other artists, history, culture, or the media and uses them in your own work.
Description: Create one or more paintings or mixed media works that include paint media, and also appropriates other content, as described above in the Goal section.
Written Component: Write a one or two paragraph statement about the content in this work. Typed rough draft due 9/29

"Minimum time and homework: 34 hours or more of work inside and outside class time.
Due Date: Complete for Review on 10/13"



From the Syllabus of my Humanities and Sciences Class "Profiles of Disease: When the Healthy Body Fails":

"I want to explore with you various aspects of health, such as genetic and reproductive well-being, and our host defenses against countless diseases. Therefor, I plan to talk about heredity, about hormones and the endocrine system, and we will delve into immune defenses, both specific, and how these defenses protect us. We will deal with a host of different kinds of disease, including some critical genetic disorders, some diseases of aging, some orthopedic conditions, certain intriguing hormonal problems, and a number of infectious diseases caused by bacteria, by viruses, by fungi, or by protozoa. Whenever possible I intend to set the biological concerns into a relevant societal context because there are public issues surrounding many diseases that afflict the human family.


"On this first day, I would like to begin a cooperative effort to generate a list of about a hundred diseases of interest, which means ones that you would really like to read about and talk about at some point during the time we will spend together this semester. So this is your first assignment, and we can begin it right here, right now."



Ideas, concepts, things done, excess crap, etc... it'll be in the next post.

A Couplet, for the end of summer

My tongue should be blue from freezy pops,
Not these minty cough drops.

Wouldn't you just know that I'd get a cold right before classes start again? Goodbye, Summer Vacation! You were a lazy one, indeed.

Yay, I'm thinking about sound in video today!

I'm no good with sound, or music, so this is pretty difficult.

Last week, though, I recieved some killer advice for my video/animation on the seven ravens. I was tipped off about John Cage's Suite for Toy Piano.



Pretty cool! I'm having awesome flashbacks to Interlochen and watching 4'33

This is more of a video blog than anything else. I guess that's ok. Remind me to talk about printmaking though, sometime. I've been etching like crazy! Intaglio and relief in the same plate. It's pretty much blowing my mind.

Sometimes I think I'm too casual in the way that I talk about art, espescially on the blog here. I have to write an artist statement for painting, so that'll probably help. I'll use fewer contractions though, don't worry. I'll also use the word "though" less. And I won't write it in second person.

OH, but I was talking about sound. Right, I was also just directed to The Free Sound Project. I am ridiculously impressed by this. Free Sound is amazing. Just fantastic. I had to get sound for an animation I did last semester, and I ended up looking at a Flash resource website that the worst most useless sound on the face of the planet. Never again, I say. Never.

Anything else? I'm going to go to the library and check out John Cage tomorrow (forgot my overdue library books today. yikes.) and meanwhile, I'm going juxtapose some free sounds to my animatic and make a list of remaining paintings. OH and check out a camera, probably.

Go Team.

(there is no "I" in "team" but there is a "me". And there's also no "you". huh.)

L-A-T-E-R that day:

Something I was thinking about in terms of sound and moving image:

The Lost Tribes of New York City

Not really relevant to my projects, I just plain like it.


The Lost Tribes of New York City from Carolyn London on Vimeo.

gathering things in video 2

These are not final images, and are exceedingly low res. It'll do though.






I love horizontals, of course.

The later ones will be used as mostly backgrounds in which cut out figures or objects will be puppeteered in front of.

I love watching things on the internet.

I wish I could swim in my bed with my socks. :/

Video 2 Work

-Presentation to the class my final project
-Presentation of video work. (By BLU)


The Seven Ravens:

Summary:
There was once a man who had seven sons, and no daughter. When his first daughter was born, he was overjoyed, but she was very weak and ill. The man sent all his seven sons to the well for water for the child, but the boys were so eager at the task that in the excitement they accidentally dropped the bucket in the well. The boys were too afraid to go back empty handed so stayed by the well quarreling over what to do next. Meanwhile, their father is angry with them and curses them all and they transform into ravens and fly off.
The young daughter grows up a little completely unaware that she ever had brothers, when one day she overhears someone speaking of them. She is shocked and confronts her parents right away, who admit that her brothers are now ravens and very far away. That night the girl sneaks away from home to find her brothers at the ends of the earth and the break the curse on them.


Formally, the video will be animated through a sequence of static images.
Influences include:
Green Evening Stories by David Troupes
The "Fractured Fairy Tales" Segment from the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
( YouTube Link to The Three Little Pigs)
Concept art for Disney by Mary Blair
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery


Video work by BLU:
Everybody loves MUTO
It reminds me a lot of William Kentridge, except how the graffiti involves the surrounding environment rather than just existing as an image to be a frame in a movie.
But besides that there's also stuff like "ffwd" and "Child" which appear to be more traditional ways of animating.

How's that for now? I'm working on getting some pictures up, but my scanning situation is kind of a hassle. Excuses, excues!

Here ya go:

Have some Autumny Trees, on me.

Picture Time!

The Portrait for printmaking is actually a series of FIVE images. With a common symbol. My symbol is an axe:

Notes and sketch of the portrait of a king with the head of a wolf.

sketches of the queen and the knight.

sketches of the knave and the family crest.

Notes and sketches for the Seven Ravens:

Final display of video and outline

speech bubbles and Ma and Pop

Pop and his pipe, and a few Raven Brothers

More Raven Brothers and some keys from the Morning Star

A sister and someone who is not the Morning Star (I hate that design)

Hola! Que pasa?

Hey hey. Here is a short explaination:
I am an art student. A bad one quite often, as I'm quite disorganized and late on many of my projects. That's no good, is it? Anyway, in an effort to fix this, I've thrown together this blog to update myself on whatever I'm doing. Oh, and maybe my instructors. And future generations of confused shambling art students. You never know!

Currently, I have two projects. Fancy that.
#1. Printmaking Portrait:
It's like a family portrait. It's gonna be weird. It makes me uncomfortable, but I'll put up my notes maybe.

#2. The Seven Ravens
It's for Video AND Painting. Way to kill two birds with one stone, me. No pun intended. Get this, I do a bunch of paintings and then animate them together, like a slide show sort of. Also weird, but that's ok. It's based on the Brothers' Grimm Story.

Images in the next post.