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)

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

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)

Ways of Seeing

Open publication - Free publishing - More advertising

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.

ZINES ZINES ZINES

Megawords Zine Workshop at ICA. April 2011




Paperback Magazine


Hamburger Eyes


Ryan De La Hoz


Faesthetic

Rotoscope Notes

The "order" for project 04 is above (photo of notes on dry erase board) in case anyone still needs it.


Dan Scher


Waking Life Trailer

Artists from today's lecture

Visual notes from today's talk:


From left to right: Matisse, David Hockney

The parents of art: Line, Shape, Pattern
Random Art Historical Examples:


From left to right: Goya, Friedrich Bertuch, Domus Aurea Frescos

James Benjamin Franklin

More work at http://www.jamesbenjaminfranklin.com/
via: http://www.changethethought.com/

Unexplained Explosion

From The Love Awareness Program (http://blog.fuct.com/index.php?paged=4)

Illustration

From http://www.misprintedtype.com/v4/


via http://www.picnic-e.com

From the Flog

The following 2 images are from The Flog (http://the-flog.com)


Ulrike Rosenbach. Source: http://the-flog.com/berlin/?p=803


Alison Brady. Source: http://the-flog.com/berlin/?p=803

Film Poster Paintings from Ghana

Amazing film posters from Ghana via http://assemblyman-eph.blogspot.com


Cujo (Lewis Teague, 1983)


Sleepwalkers (Mick Garris, 1992)

Source: http://assemblyman-eph.blogspot.com/2009/08/film-poster-paintings-from-ghana.html

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/

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/

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.

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/

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/)