Video Inspiration

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Project 05 Pitch List

All ideas due by the end of Friday:

1) Waking up and coming to class. (Ryan, tuc36261@temple.edu)

2) A kid walking into a classroom to take an exam...then scenes of him / her struggling with the test (like a swirling scene or something). Handing into the teacher...leaving the room. (Brett, tub98366@temple.edu)

3) we make a movie about making a movie. but here's the crazy part. the movie we are making a movie about making a movie is about making a movie. (Kevin, tua76593@temple.edu)

4) Someone brings in a shrinkray to class. (Alex, tub97541@temple.edu)

5) Everyone describing how they get to this class with expressive hand gestures (ex: if I were to pass the bell tower every day I would try to show you the scale of it with my hands as I am explaining it to you). (Derrick, tuc18191@temple.edu)

6) growth. Interpreted however (Francesca, francescavanstolk@gmail.com)

7) ??? (Laura, tud55347@temple.edu)

Contemporary Painters

Claude Temin-Vergez


Joanne Greenbaum


Ghada Amer


DASHA SHISHKIN


DANA SCHUTZ


Donald Odili Odita


Martin Kippenberger


Julie Mehretu

Sculptor List For Project 03

Henry Moore
Jeff Koons
Ron Mueck
Louise Bourgeois
Michelangelo
Alexander Calder

Allison Schulnik

Some clay inspiration from the great Allison Schulnik:

3D/2D Real & Unreal

The digitally manipulated sculptures of Suellen Parker:


The digitally manipulated sculptures of Ida Applebroog:


The digitally manipulated sculpture by a Temple U student:

Wolf Von Lenkiewicz

"I think language is shared through time. There is a shift definitely, but I think we can grasp it. Then we can start deconstructing their intentions by subjecting them to other intentions. I take Michaelangelo's intensions and I subject them to Warho's. At no point do I doubt that I understand their intentions. That is very strange to a post-modern way of thinking actually, which would say that we could never access the past in any real way. ... One starts realizing that artistic intention is accessessible and Roalnd Barthes is wrong"
- Wolf Von Lenkiewicz (Elephant Magazine, Winter 2010)

Video Compression & Upload

The quicktime movie file that comes out of photoshop will most likely be too big to upload to your blog (make a free account and upload your video on YouTube). In general your video should not exceed 200 megabytes.

Here is the way I recommend compressing your video for this project:

Use a video compression software such as iSquint (on the mac) to reduce the file size. On the PC I am less familiar but it seems like a program like Hamster will reduce the size as well.

If using iSquint make sure to keep your video at the same width and height (click "advanced" in iSquint to see those settings). After you make sure your dimensions are correct set it to "Optimize for TV" and slide the quality slider all the way to the right. You are now ready to upload your video.

All videos will need to be uploaded to Vimeo or YouTube and posted on your blog before the start of class on Thursday. If you need help embedding a Vimeo video please see this quick guide.

Artist Share

Below is the artist you picked for your report along with the artist the other students selected. You might be able to find another artist in this mix to pique your interest.



row 1 (left to right): James Casebere, Letha Wilson, Brody Condon, Neo Rauch
row 2 (left to right): Matthew Ritchie, Robert Rauschenberg, Yarg Noremac
row 3 (left to right): JR, Shane Hope, Chiho Aoshima, William Kentridge
row 4 (left to right): Shepard Fairey, Dan Witz, Han Sungpil

How Do You Feel (About Art)?

"In this miniature documentary, a Copenhagen-based filmmaker explores one of the world's toughest questions: How do you feel about art?" via The Atlantic

How Do You Feel (About Art)? from svanes on Vimeo.

Today in Class

Black & White in Photoshop & Illustrator.
+ Live trace with Clipping masks, save for web as a 2 color black and white gif

German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse

German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse
Museum of Modern Art, NY
Through July 11, 2011

"More of this work should be displayed more often, which is to say that the show’s scope reminds us of the insufficiency of the museum’s 2004 expansion. The pieces here represent just a fraction of MoMA’s holdings: There are some 3,200 German Expressionist works on paper — the vast, vast majority of them prints — in its collection.

On the other hand, the museum has announced that on Sunday, when the exhibition opens to the public (it is in members’ previews on Friday and Saturday), all 3,200 will become available for online viewing at moma.org/germanexpressionism. In addition to its own considerable merits, “German Expressionism” should provide a good grounding for a digital immersion — and spur hope for seeing more of the real things."

source: Bleak Visions From Early-20th-Century Rebels by Roberta Smith

Rauschenberg's B/W BMW

BMW 635 CSi Art Car (1986)
Robert Rauschenberg

"In 1986, he was commissioned by BMW to paint a full size BMW 635 CSi for the sixth installment of the famed BMW Art Car Project. Rauschenberg's contribution was the first to include the wheels in the project, as well as incorporating previous works of art into the design." (source: wikipedia)

Reception: Thursday, March 31st, 2011 at F/O

Around the age of eighty, after nearly sixty years as a designer, Janette Laverrière began making "useless things." This exhibition examines five artists who re-invent, re-imagine, and re-purpose the use, meaning and worth of functional objects in daily life and domestic space. The result of these endeavors often begins with the implication of a utilitarian object: a vessel, a newspaper, a handkerchief, a mirror. However, by denying their primary identity, these objects change from implying a use we know to registering as "useless" or non-functional, and acquire a new use dictated by the artist.

Fleisher/Ollman Gallery
1616 Walnut, Suite 100
Philadelphia, PA 19103

Sample Booklet

Open publication - Free publishing - More sample

Publishing on Iussuu from an Illustrator PDF

1) Create account on Issuu.com
2) Click Upload Document to upload your pdf
3) Fill out required information on the following screen
4) Upload the document and wait for it to finish processing
5) View your Library on Issuu to select the document
6) Click the "Get Embed Code" link under the pdf preview. It looks like this "< >"
7) Use the default settings or change them on the following screen
8) On your blog create a new post and make sure you are in "Edit HTML" mode instead of the "Compose" mode.
9) Copy the "embed code"
10) Paste into the HTML of a new blog post

Ways of Seeing

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The text above comes from John Berger's 1972 BBC documentary Ways of Seeing is still relevant today. Though the footage is dated his argument isn't and he states is case in bold language. Where are these bold words from creative intellectuals in the 21st century?


It's difficult to draw up a long list of names who speak so provocatively today beyond, perhaps, Matthew Collings.

Ryan Travis Christian: Black and White Freak Out

West Coast artist Ryan Travis Christian uses Graphite to achieve amazing results. Some people see a lack of color as a limitation. For Ryan it seems to be pure cosmic freedom.





More of his work here and here.

ZINES ZINES ZINES

Megawords Zine Workshop at ICA. April 2011




Paperback Magazine


Hamburger Eyes


Ryan De La Hoz


Faesthetic

Armory Show This Weekend Piers 92 & 94

Thursday March 3rd - Sunday March 6th in New York.

The Armory Show is America's leading fine art fair devoted to the most important art of the 20th and 21st centuries. In its eleven years, the fair has become an international institution. Every March, artists, galleries, collectors, critics and curators from all over the world make New York their destination during Armory Arts Week

Click here for information on getting to the show.

The Triptych (Static & Motion Based)

Bosch, "Garden of Earthly Delights" (c. late 15th century)


Francis Bacon, "Triptych - In memory of George Dyer" (1971)


Hans Memling, "Last Judgement" (c. late 15th century)


Max Beckmann, "The Actors" (1942)


The above video features only a portion of Cliff Evan's Epic 3 channel video, Road To Mount Weather.
Watch the complete video in hi-def on Vimeo

Ryan T. Riss

Patterns Patterns Patterns.
More here: http://www.craptical.com/

How To Place An Underdrawing In Illustrator

01) Open a new Illustrator document (File + New) and select the desired proportions (how large you want it to print). Since we are printing these make sure they are in CMYK color mode


02) Click File + Place. Navigate to your underdrawing file from on your hard drive


03) On the "Place" dialogue box uncheck the "Link" box.


04) Once placed in your document make sure it is selected with the black arrow and stretch or shrink the image to suit your needs by using the nodes on the bounding box that appear around your image. Hold down the shift key while adjusting to keep the proportions of the original.


05) In the layers panel double click Layer 1 (containing the "placed" photo)


06) On the dialogue box that appears, check the "Dim Images to 50%" checkbox along with the "Lock" checkbox.


07) Click the New Layer button at the bottom of the layers panel. This will create the new layer in which you will draw.


08) With the underdrawing layer locked and the new layer ready to go you may now begin drawing your shapes with the pen tool.

Pattern, Shape & Tension

Some artists who use pattern and shape as a source of tension for spacial development


Martin Kippenberger


Tim Biskup


Inlaid wood paintings of Alison Elizabeth Taylor


Jules de Balincourt


Indian Miniatures


Mickalene Thomas


Barkley Hendricks


Andreas Gursky


David Hockney