Saturday, 28 November 2009

Homework: Experimental and Underground cinema


I rely liked This video. it over the top feel to it ether makes you laugh of want to be sick. wile watching it lulls you into a a seance of sicurity then
proceeds to cut his face multiple times.

Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director,screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation, a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Oscars, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America. Scorsese is president of the Film Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to film preservation and the prevention of the decaying of motion picture film stock.

Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Italian American identity, Roman Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, machismo, and violence. Scorsese is widely considered to be one of the most significant and influential American filmmakers of his era, directing landmark films such as Taxi Driver,Raging Bull and Goodfellas—all of which he collaborated on with actor Robert De Niro. He won theAcademy Award for Best Director for The Departed and earned an MFA in film directing from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scorsese)


The Big Shave is a 1967 six-minute short film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is also known as Viet '67.

Peter Bernuth stars as the recipient of the title shave, repeatedly shaving away hair, then skin, in an increasingly bloody and graphic bathroom scene. Many film critics have interpreted the young man's process of self-mutilation as a metaphor for the self-destructive involvement of the United States in theVietnam War, prompted by the film's alternative title. The music accompanying the film is Bunny Berigan's "I Can't Get Started", recorded in 1939. The film was produced at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts for a film production class called Sight & Sound Film.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Shave)

Friday, 27 November 2009

Finished animation

Today we projected our picture of the 'Running Thing' on the board and traced it onto a pice of card.
we then took it out side so take a picture of every movement of the board along a wall. we first did not think the pictures came out properly out side so we also took some inside. wile editing the shots we could see the 'Running Thing' more clearly on the computer screen so we decided to use both.
Here is the finished video.

I rely enjoyed this task. seeing the picture slowly come to life from a flat cartoon to a running image on a piece of cardboard. i found this task very challenging and tiring but glad we did it.


Thursday, 26 November 2009

Todays Animation lesson

Today we were given a task to create a moving Graffiti animation.
Steve showed us the one he made and told us that the animation had to loop.
This is what me and Tom ended up with.

The animation had to be at-least five frames long and had to be able to loop to give the illusion of continuos movement.
We found this task very had because we were told we could animate what ever we wanted and had almost no guidelines, and left us feeling lost for something to draw.
I enjoyed seeing my animation in motion.

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Today at Coleridge we watched abstract films Pete thought were related to risk. We watched seven videos.Colourbox, Fuzzbox, La Region Centrale, Dog star man, Berlin Horse, Scorpio and Big Shave.

We were asked to find out what we can about two of the artists, me and tom had to do The big shave and La Region Centrale

here are the videos me and Tom had a look at.

I found this task veary usefull in understanding the point to our risk task and understanding what a creative risk was.

Monday, 23 November 2009

Graffiti Art History

planing

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_9YVHiK7j3SQ/SMCdt5hIYWI/AAAAAAAACe0/bkpaGs28TDE/IMG_2610.JPG

http://;ibrary.thinkquest.org/07aug/02099/history.html


http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article4066727.ece

These are referances to my information on my timeline of Graffiti Art.
i also got some information from a book i have called the art of Graffiti, on page 23.
The book was published in 1990 by AuthorHouse

Sunday, 22 November 2009

Margaret Kilgallen

Kilgallen was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up nearby in Kensington, Maryland. She received a BA inprintmaking from Colorado College in 1989 and an MFA from Stanford University in 2001. Kilgallen died in 2001, at age 33, from complications of breast cancer three weeks after the birth of Asha, her daughter with her husband and collaborator Barry McGee. Kilgallen has since been the subject of several posthumous retrospectives.

Mural, LACMA parking garage (now torn down) by Margaret Kilgallen

Kilgallen's first major group exhibitions appeared in 1997 and included the first Bay Area Now show at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, soon followed by a solo exhibition at The Drawing Center in New York City. In 2000, she and Barry McGee had a featured exhibition at the UCLA Hammer Museum. A number of major exhibitions took place after her death. In 2002, her work was chosen for that year's Whitney Biennial. In 2005, a survey of her work was shown at the Gallery at REDCAT. Her work was also an important part of the 2004–2006 touring exhibit, Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture.

Other galleries that have exhibited her work include the Luggage Store in San Francisco; Gallery 16 in San Francisco; Forum for Contemporary Art in St. Louis; and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia.

Thursday, 19 November 2009

Animation Lesson.

In media today we did about animation.
Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement.


We were given a task to do following instructions using 2-D art work to make a image of a ball bounce over a page, Following an arch that had to be the same as the one on the original Animation.
After we did this we had to design and created out own animation.


i enjoyed this lesson because i was interested how these sorts of animations were created. i think this will help me later because i would like to use it in a project we will do.


This is my finished flickbook animation.

My Beautiful Losers Review

Beautiful Losers is a 2007 documentary feature film by director Aaron Rose and co-directed by Joshua Leonard. It was produced by Sidetrack Films and stars Harmony Korine, writer of independent cult films Kids and Gummo.

It premiered at South by Southwest on March 9, 2008 and later in general release on August 8, 2008 at the IFC Center in New York City.

In the early 1990's a group of like artists found eachother at a NewYork City storefront gallery. artists braching from the subcultures of skateboarding, surf, punk, hip hop & graffiti, they made art that reflected the lifestyles they led. They went on to develop their art with almost no influence from the established art world, this group, have now become a movement that has been transforming meany peoples view on art.
Starring a selection of artists who are considered leaders within this culture, Beautiful Losers focuses on telling the stories of these 'main' artists.
A series of interviews with these artists explains their reasoning behind their style of art. As some of these artists discuss their growth in artistic culture they explain how becoming famouse in the art world was something that never thought would happen to them.
As many of the artists began to be recognized they discuss their success: creating advertisements for popular products, designing products themselves, working in film and being hired to paint and create artwork in well known locations.

The film was preceded by a published art collection titled Beautiful Losers. The book was published by Iconoclast Editions and edited by co-curators Christian Strike and Aaron Rose, who directed the film.

The artists discussed and interviewed in the film include Thomas Campbell, Cheryl Dunn, Shepard Fairey, Harmony Korine, Geoff McFetridge, Barry McGee, Margaret Kilgallen, Mike Mills, Steven "Espo" Powers, Aaron Rose, Ed Templeton and Deanna Templeton.