Some interesting videos

These guys are amazing, not only do they animate well, but they bring a sense of art and culture into their work. I hope to animate as well as they do. Achieving this won't be easy, but I will try. Anyway enough of my rambling, check these out.







This one's just adorable:


If you want to see more of their work, check out their youtube site:
http://www.youtube.com/user/gobelins

VCT Today

Today in VCT we talked about a system in design. My god, did my head hurt, but basically todays lesson was to help us with our essays that I'm really stressing out about...anyway, I had a little talk with my tutor and I decided I might MIGHT talk about the book I recently bought. 

Hopefully this will work. So ya...awesome...

A trip to the circus

No I did not go to the circus, but I did go to a museum about the circus' art.

The assignment was to visit the museum of everything and it was hard to get there, but after asking for directions from complete strangers I succeeded to getting there.

When I arrived, I was baffled to what I was seeing. Colourful hallways, clown statues, circus posters and funny mirrors? I thought I was in some sort of fun house. But through some careful observing, I started to gain interest to this exhibition. Carl Hammer owns this entire gallery.

To me, the theme to this gallery was the circus after seeing the large banners of freak shows and outrageous stunts. The art style was quite childish in a way, but I guess that was what they were aiming for. Fred G. Johnson and Snap Wyaat made these posters. Sadly, was not able to read much more about them. Don't ask why... Many of the small posters were made using collage techniques and screen-printing. I found it quite clever how they manipulated the images into creating these posters. Also, the typography they used were bold and quite colourful, which really appeals to children. So in a way, these posters use the image and text technique, which in fact, we are studied in VCT on the first day.

But what I thought was the best part in the museum was Potter’s work. Potter was the village taxidermist and not only does he stuff dead animals but he makes dioramas out of them as well. My favourite one out of all of his work would have to be his animatic diorama of two rats boxing. He made several dioramas with the same characters but in different position creating a sort of short movie. I even made a few sketches of some of his dioramas. (Note: will update images soon). Also, Potter had some of the weirdest looking animals, like a lamb with two faces and one that had two bodies and one head! ...Freaky… David Price, one of the workers, told me that farmers actually found these weird animals the way they are before he stuffed…. I would freak out if I saw something like that…

Cut, Paste, Observe…

Today we learned about how manipulating an image can change it’s meaning so much. The first thing we did was to cut these images we were given and match them with the cropping instructions. We were to work in a group for this task. I worked with René, Iza and Shodor, great people by the way. It was kind of hard for us to decide how to and where to cut but we managed to finish it in the end. 

I got to cut stuff, hooray!...*ahem* sorry about that.

The next thing we did, which I thought was quite interesting, was to produce a narrative sequence using the newspaper given to us. To me, it was sort of like creating a comic strip, which I love doing. Anyway, I chose two of the six sequences we were given which were ‘movement to movement’ and ‘Non-sequitor.’ (I’ll put some images of my work later.)

Then we had lunch! I had the fish…it was….meh. Let get back to my session.

The next thing we did was just cut out images left in the newspapers, cut out headings and subheadings and stick one of the images with one of the headings. We were to make four of them so in was quite a hassle to dig through the piles of newspapers and find some decent images and headings. Somehow I managed to finish them. They weren’t as great as the other ones displayed, but at least I got something adequate. (I’ll show some of the photos as soon as I can find a plug that can attach my camera to my laptop)

Well that’s all I’ve done today. I feel like I’ve practically used an entire forest for this session. But if I were worried about deforestation, I wouldn’t be constantly drawing on paper everyday.

My First Week Back at LCC

I've really enjoyed my first week back in LCC. My tutors are very nice (and one of them is Irish) and I've got to meet a lot of my classmates for this year, even some of my old classmates from ABC Diploma Graphics were there as well.  We did some short assignments in our first day back and it really help get my graphic brain working again.

On Thursday I got to do a VCT session with Vishua Mahabir. We learned about the relationship between context and imagery. The idea of how much the text and image help each other really fascinated me. Also, it was very fun to match these images to these captions we were given. My one was an image of a church with the caption "Spread of lies." That really gave a lot to talk about, considering all the atheists and discriminators out there.

Tomorrow, we're gonna learn about 'image.' I make another post after the session. But overall I really enjoyed my week and meeting my new tutors and meeting new people in my class.

I See You

This was a little excercise my class did in our freshers week. We had to put googly eyes anywhere around the school and take a photo of it. The image above was mine. It was a simple idea but I like it anyway.

My First Blog

Truthfully, I never knew what a blog was at first, but on my first day in Fda graphic I was showed a presentation about what a blog was and examples of different blogs in the internet. I was fascinated by how helpful a blog can be for my graphic studies. Many of these blogs I've seen have very useful info about different medias in graphics and stuff about galleries they've seen. I quite excited to see how far this blog goes at the end of the year. 


After the presentation, we were given an assignment which involves all the things we've learned throughout that day. We were to get into groups, come up with a theme, and create a blog about it. I got into my group and the first thing we did was to get back the lunch we missed from the presentation we had. It was a good presentation and all, but I really wanted my lunch. So anyway, me and my group decided our theme should be about conflict. We some photo of people arguing with each other and began writing our blog. Sadly time was not our side, we had to rush making our blog and to quickly upload our photos. Somehow we manage to finish it in time. 


 Well anyway, that's it for this post. Hopefully I'll put some more exciting posts than this one. 


Signing off! (that is so cliche...)