week 12

ANIMATION
WOOO! So happy I finished this. Been through too much pain with it...not using the correct keyboard shortcuts resulting in loosing photos, computer running out of space therefore not being able to save any of it, location problems, software freakin' out and lack of sleep! The brief was '2 minute dialogue'. I chose the Papageno duet from Mozart's opera The Magic Flute; its humorous, melodic and has a light hearted narrative.

I had difficulty with the lighting as I could only use my one bedroom wall with the window facing it and I could only film when I was free generally in the evening when darker...hence some odd lighting(you can particularly notice it with the reflection on the postcard).Also none of my cameras worked with istop motion so had to use the laptop camera placed on a stool by my door which made my room even more cramped. It also meant I could not move my computer for a few weeks because it was very hard to get it exactly back in place. I learnt soo much by doing this by myself, was a great experience. I will be a lot more organised and prepared for the next. Technology is definitely something I need to work on..as well as editing!

In the lesson we went on a program called Strada which makes 3d images. Below are screenshots of the program. They are both of different subject. The first one of a building is a shape I created and added lights too. The 2nd picture is of objects from the image bank I just put down and added textures and effects too and selected the viewing to as image rather than it in a white grid system.

SCULPTURE
Last of the sculpture series. This week I went into the lesson pretty much empty minded with 120 chewing gums with drawn on ipods on...not really sure what I was thinking!

Vacuum form of gums in City scape. iWanted to then put the gums in 'original packaging form' so in lines.

Result of putting them in lines looks likes X and Y chromosomes. Then Kim came up with the genius idea of a project title 'The iPod generation' WOW. I want to do this.

One advantage of working in this medium...it smells really nice, and the sculpture room no longer smelt of stinky resin but of peppermint! But the gum by the end of the lesson was pretty much burnt from vacuum former, annoying. By the end of it I realised that the gum was also a play on the ipod nano & shuffle, that its always getting smaller. I want to now do a chewed gum piece indicating the 'recycleness' or rubbish of pop songs today and that waste of ipods breaking a lot and loosing value.

Artist of the week: Darren Lago but still lovin' Christian Marclay.

week 11

SCULPTURE
This week I went into my lesson a lot more prepared (research wise) but still had no ideas on what to make. I showed her what I had done.

• I found in a kids magazine there was a funny little ipod so I bought it and used my self drying clay in the mould.She liked those.
• I got lots of gum pieces and drew a square and a circle on to look like a 'nano' ipod. That had positive feedback too.
• Printed pictures of different scarves to represent stereotypes of music as a covering of the ipod to follow on the theme of wrapping.Was not a fan.

So in the lesson I made soo much. I had to leave it up at Sion Hill. My main idea I came up with by the end of the afternoon was a plaster airplane and then drilled in my old headphones coming out of the back. 

Below is the process I made the plaster moulds.

BLIND DRAWINGS

PHOTOGRAPHY
Had my LAST photography lesson today. He went through all of my work from 1st semester. And it was really encouraging :) He really liked my organisation of my work, sketchbooks and in particular my black and white pictures. I need to do more research, per usual.

Week 10

SCULPTURE
This week I made more iPods based on the idea of iDoctor, where you go and get your ipods and macs fixed. It came to me as I was making a replica out of foam and as I was sanding it down, then it snapped. So I then tapped it up and ended up wrapping the whole thing! Christo then became an inspiration to me. In that lesson I also got taught how to cut through tough foam with a massive saw :) and also using other 'scary' equipment, was really fun! Also from made some moulds using the Vacuum former from old dead laptops and keyboards.

 Research

The Artists I looked at Christian Marclay, Bill Woodrow, Bryan Griffiths, Tom Friedman, Tom Sachs, Darren Lago and James Casebere. The images are photos of what's in my research file, sorry for poor quality. 

This pool of bowls when hitting each other sounds like Gamelan. In music there is a Gamelan band-potential.

PHOTOGRAPHY

This week we learnt to take photos of our Art work and 3D objects. We used the 'photoshoot' room and digital cameras. We had to keep checking the light like last week and we listened to The Smiths! Photos should be up next week.

Music Blind Drawings

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Week 9

PHOTOGRAPHY
This week we worked in the studio dealing with adjusting lighting. We then took photos of each-other with a black and white film camera, was a good class bonding exercise as well!After that we looked at each others panoramas.

Me checking light is even and at 5.6

test shot.

SCULPTURE
This week I had sculpture for the first time. The majority of the lesson was looking at machinery, art books and going through risk assessments. I heard a scary story about a girl getting her hand stuck in plaster and burnt her hands!! This did not make me enthusiastic. We then were asked to make anything. I initialy wanted to make something from my inuit sculpture sketches from drawing (but didnt bring them along). I then thought of making a gabriel Orozco style heart(in post below) but that wouldn fit in the machine..its gotta be flat with no undercuts so I looked in my bag and decided to make an iPod. I got clay and put it into a machine and then hot plastic stuck to it to create a mould of it. I then made up plaster and poured it in. Then waited for it to dry. Next week I want to make a resin (see-through) screen.

ANIMATION

I also am starting to think of ideas for my animation project. I want to do a version of the papageno/papagena duet from Mozart's Magic Flute.

Week 8

This week I went on a trip to London and visited the Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco exhibition at Tate Modern. This was INCREDIBLE.GO. I love his concepts he uses and the subtle but essential detail with in all of his works and the representation of everyday life is thought-provoking, whilst seeming incredibly fresh. Here are some I loved.

My Hands Are My Heart, 1991.

By highlighting the insignificant moments of everyday life in the city and redefining familiar objects, Gabriel Orozco  documents and contextualises a world that most people dont given a second thought to. This idea invites visiters to view the everyday world with fresh interpretations, shown in My Hands Are My Heart (1991) that explores the presence of abscence within the bodily space, and in Elevator (1994) that highlights how the internal space of an elevator is the external, public space to the people who use it.

Elevator 1994

I loved the sense of his work creating something unique from the mundane in Dial Tone (1992) in which Orozco extracts telephone numbers from telephone directories and pastes them into a scroll many metres long. The census of anonymous numbers looks like an ancient scripture, documenting a metropolis of countless unknowns.

Whilst I felt a strong association to the installations and artefact's on display, Orozco's painted geometric compositions have less of an impact. The process that sits at the heart of Orozco's work; collecting found  objects and manipulating them to create a new perspective on their value, seems absent. However the process of recreation in the majority of the other pieces makes this exhibition.

Dial Tone 1992

'Until You Find Another Yellow Schwalbe', 1995

Carambole with Pendulum', 1996, purchased by Tate for £152,000

'Four Bicycles (There is Always one Direction)', 1994

'Chicotes', 2010, Orozco's newest work

'Black Kites', 1997

'Obituaries', 2008

'Lintels' (hanging), 2001, and clay body parts, 2007