Gordon Cheung

More work here: http://www.gordoncheung.com

James Blagden

Check out the great style and simplicity to James Blagden's animated drawings. See the videos below or check out his website: http://www.jamesblagden.com Great combination of storytelling and visual punch.

Four Zine Links

via http://zineswap.com/


via http://www.elkzine.com/zine.html


via http://capitalbmx.net/zine-mania/


via http://www.caferoyalbooks.com/

Project 4 - Propaganda

Above you will see our syllabus that has been converted into a "real" page turning pamphlet via issuu.com. You can take a multi page pdf paI want to see everyone's final pdf document and upload it to issuu. Then the content can be embedded into your website for viewing. Here are the steps:

1) Go to issuu.com
2) Signup for a free account (skip the step about telling friends about issuu)
3) Click the "Upload Document" button
4) In your documents folder on Issuu the file will be there. Hover over the document and click the OPEN button
5) On the new page that opens click the "EMBED" button. Copy the appropriate embed code.
6) Go to your blog and make a new post. View it in html (*important) and paste the embed code there. Then give it a preview.

Classic Post: How to Data Mosh

These how-to videos are brought to you by Ryan who shared them with me last semester. These tutorials shows you how to create the effects seen in Chairlift's Evident Utensil video.


above: Screen capture of data mosh as seen in Chairlift's Evident Utensil Video. Click here to watch full video.

How To:


Part I


Part II


Part III

Art / Design Links

I thought I would put up a post of some of my favorite Art and Design websites. Great sources of inspiration and ideas. The image below is by Micah Lidberg via changethethought.



http://inspirationlab.wordpress.com/
http://design-milk.com/
http://www.qbn.com/
http://www.fecalface.com/SF/
http://www.changethethought.com/
http://dossierjournal.com/
http://assemblyman-eph.blogspot.com/2009/08/film-poster-paintings-from-ghana.html
http://www.picnic-e.com/
http://www.purple.fr/

Stop Motion Bouquet

Not to confuse stop motion with rotoscoping but the two share the labor intensive frame-by-frame process. The following are meant to serve as inspiration for our current project. Imagine making one of these frame by frame:



The amazing Allison Schulnik for Grizzly Bear
via The Collective Consciousness

The following videos were brought to my attention by Colin, Mark and Cory:


Frank Zappa / Amazing Mr. Bickford "Dupree's Paradise"
via Colin


Official Video for Fleet Foxes song Mykonos Directed by Sean Pecknold
via Cory


Western Spaghetti by PES
via Mark

Exquisite Corpse Etchings by Jake and Dinos Chapman

This series of Exquisite Corpse etchings was executed by the fantastic Chapman brothers. These former YBA stars have gone on to produce a serious body of work that often wheels and deals in shock value (see their piece entitled, Hell). However, underlying their urge to disturb is a solid drawing ability.

Barkley Hendricks @ PAFA

You would be wise to not miss the Barkley Hendricks Exhibition at PAFA. Fantastic use of color and texture. PAFA is located at 118 - 128 N. Broad Street. http://www.pafa.org/Museum/

Vector based student work from previous semesters

From Top Left: Mike Spix, Sarah Lu, Andrew DaChille, Sarah Hallacher, Jake Kozak, Jon Omeara

Papercraft Ideas (440 years too late)

I found a gem of a book up in Paley that is a facsimile of the original 1569 copy in Italian. The book is called La Pratica Della Perspettiva and it is by one Daniel Barbaro. While much of the book focuses on perspective there are some fascinating papercraft-like constructions that I scanned to share with you below. Google pales in comparison to some of the gems that are waiting to be found in Paley. If you haven't poked around up there recently, do yourself the favor of exploring. There is a book with similar diagrams written by Albrecht Durer from 1525 entitled, "The Painter's Manual." I could find neither of these books online but they are just collecting dust up in the Library. Great stuff.

Hiraki Sawa @ Vox

Great use of After Effects on display at VOX Populi gallery (319 N 11th St # 3, ring the buzzer) through November 1st by James Cohen artist Hiraki Sawa. While you are there check out some of the other great art in the show including the big woodblock prints of Rob Swainston and the silkscreen and collage works of Eva Wylie. There is no cost for this event.

Two Houses, One City

Two events to catch this Wednesday, October 7th 2009


Film @ International House
Wednesday, October 7 at 7pm
The Windmill Movie
dir. Alexander Olch, US, 2008, video, 82 mins, color

Dusty boxes of film, 200 hours of footage, a broken editing computer: these were the parts of filmmaker Richard P Rogers’ daring attempt to make his own autobiography. He died in 2000, leaving behind a lifetime of filmed memories. Working with Wallace Shawn, Bob Balaban and acclaimed photographer Susan Meiselas (Richard’s wife), student and protege Alexander Olch began to make an impossible film out of the pieces. An autobiography that isn’t; a documentary which is fiction; a lifetime of questions, finally answered.


THE WELCOME HOUSE

Wednesday, October 7 at Love Park
Eugenie Perret & Candy Depew
Join Eugenie for a day of knitting as she knits herself into a giant cocoon, while Candy creates an expanding, colorful mural decorated with various Love Park motifs.
7-10 pm: Please join us for DesignPhiladelphia's opening night party at The Welcome House

Project 2 / Three Ideas

As I mentioned in class, the particular parameters of project 2 will most likely lead you to experimenting with one of the following three options:

Composite: Using all of the individual elements to form one new entity or series of entities (below: Fred Tomaselli)


Landscape: Using all of the individual elements to create depth and space in the way that traditional landscape painting does (below: Bosh's, Garden of Earthly Delights)


Abstract: Using all of the individual elements to create a significant representational or non-representational abstract painting (below: Julie Mehretu)

Paper / Sculpture / Ideas

Great sculptural work from students at the Architectural Association in London (Intermediate unit 3)
http://aainter3-net.fromform.net/


Buckminster Fuller (Montreal Biosphere on right)
Idea: What if we could make the future better for everyone?
http://www.bfi.org/


Paper Alarm Clock (paper & adhesive tape)
Idea: What if instead of getting rid of paper in the future, we made it better?
Flat Futures project: Exploring Digital Paper + http://www.miquelmora.com/flatfutures.html


Script Furniture
Idea: Open Source Furniture Design. "Script Furniture is based on a digital computer script written for an analogue series of furniture.
Lucas Maassen + http://www.lucasmaassen.com/LUCAS_MAASSEN/Entries/2009/6/12_SCRIPT.html


OpenStructures
Idea: "Everyone Designs for Everyone"
http://www.openstructures.net/


Polypolyhepdron
Robert Lang's pdf instrutions: http://www.langorigami.com/science/polypolyhedra/polypolyhedra.php4
See Also: TreeMaker and Origami Simulator

notes: the above material was largely appropriated from the "Design and the Elastic Mind" exhibition catalog. The exhibition was up at Moma from Feb-May 2008. View Virtual Site here: http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2008/elasticmind/

Kenn Munk: Paper Sculptures

Thanks to Seth for the heads up on this artist.
See more here: http://www.antlor.net/

More Contemporary Sculpture: Think Tank

Below are a list of other sculptors we have looked at in class. From top left: Richard Serra, Rachel Whiteread, Jeff Koons, Frank Gehry, Kristen Morgin, Jessica Stockholder, Damien Ortega.

Paper Sculpture

Below is a list of artists who came to mind in regards to working with paper. Although we are thinking about creating something that is 3d for project 1 I have included other artists who work with paper mostly in 2d for inspiration and reference. I found some of these artists from this post: http://www.thecoolist.com/papercraft-perfection-10-amazing-master-origami-artists/

For template references see: http://readymech.com/, http://www.paperrobots1999.com/, http://www.bertsimons.nl/files/bouwplaat.pdf, http://www.foldschool.com/


Bert Simons (http://www.bertsimons.nl)

Peter Callesen (http://www.petercallesen.com/)

Oliver Herring (http://www.maxprotetch.com/main.html?id=8&show=3)

Jen Stark (http://www.jenstark.com/)

Tom Friedman (http://www.gagosian.com/artists/tom-friedman/)

Kara Walker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_Walker)

Philadelphia based Hunter Stabler (http://www.hunterstabler.com/)

Richard Sweeney (http://www.richardsweeney.co.uk/)

Susy Oliveira (http://susyoliveira.ca/)

Shin Tanaka (http://shin.co.nr/)


Osang Gwon (http://osang.net/)

Paper Wars (http://www.core.form-ula.com/2008/05/29/paper-warsexhibition-in-london/)