Innovative or Crazy?

Here's a top ten list of artists working in unusual media for non-sequential art.

I know I totally want a sculpture made entirely out of chewing gum.

Also would you be able to eat one of those bread bodies?

Because it's a third of your life...

My SketchUp animation is now posted on YouTube.
Here's proof!



BTW- Dig those posters in the teen room - Ramones, Nirvana, My So-Called Life, Donnie Darko, The Breakfast Club, Daria, Mario in 8-bit, Elliott Smith, Morrisey by way of The Smiths and the 'Hang In There Baby' cat. Alt teen angst, anyone?

Kentridge History

William Kentridge is best known for the fine art animations he began creating in 1989. From the start he worked with his signiture technique of animating and erasing key frames all upon the same ground - creating a visual, charcoal trail of movement and memory.

His work often features two characters, Soho and Felix. Soho Eckstien is a stout capitalist representing the exploitative luxury of white South Africans. Felix Teitlebaum is a softer more vunerable character who empathizes with his surroundings and those about him in suffering. Both characters subtly illustrate their views on SAfrica's brutal aparthied and social tensions between the classes and races. Kentridge's parents were lawers and activists against these injustices that are so thematic in his films.

Though best known for his animations Kentridge also creates non-sequential drawings, prints, small sculptures and collage. Some of which are available for purchase through auction on art.net.

His work has been showcased all over the globe - in his native South Africa, of course, and also Germany, France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, England, Norway, Sweden, Italy, Austria, Israel, Turkey, Cuba, Australia, New Zealand, China, Korea, and across the US.

At one time he wanted to be an actor - if wikipedia is to be believed he studied the art of mime.
Lucky for us, acting was a dream he gave up in favor of his more proficient talents in art.

Kentridge however has never left the stage, taking active parts in acting, directing and writing for the Johannesburg's Junction Avenue Theatre Company. He's also branched into films, co-founding the Free Film-makers Co-Operative.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kentridge
http://www.culturebase.net/artist.php?34
http://williamkentridge.net/

Texture Tiles

I'm doing an interior site for the SketchUp project and I've found myself limited by the amount of industrial textures offered by the program. There's an easy way on both Macs and PCs to import tiled images. I can't really describe it here, but if you're interested feel free to ask me IRL.

Anyway - My point is that in an effort to find the perfect drapes I found a fun website that quickly generates different background tiles to be used in web-design, photoshop, sketchup, etc.

Color/Colour

Just a quick post.
I StumbledUpon this sweet site that generates different color schemes including shade and tint variations. Basically all the stuff you should have learned in Drawing and 2-D Design in one tidy web page.

Also - If you use Firefox - which you should - there's this add-on called "Stumble Upon." It's basically a social bookmarking tool that leads to a variety of user-rated sites based on a variety of interests. It works It's a great timesuck... err... resource.

Looking forward to seeing y'alls animations on Monday.

I can haz keeboard arts?

The other day I StumbledUpon this site that records the typing process and sends it as an e-mail.
It's called Fuzzmail.

I don't know how it could be used in animation - as far as images go... maybe using ASCII or something? That would be an interesting way to make cells. Especially if it was a scene that involved a few close-up shots.

Speaking of ASCII here's a link to an amazing piece that was featured on DeviantArt a few days ago. If you take a look be sure to fullview.

I <3 href="http://azmoonchick.deviantart.com/">my personal page.


UPDATE___
I found this site that will automatically generate ASCII images. Fun!

A+ First Post

So I'm being forced* to write this blog for my ARTS 1040 class at Metro CC.... hence the title.

There is already a blog called "Ten Forty," it is some sort of uber-Christian travel journal. *Shrugs* That's a game for you - type in any random thing and tack .blogspot to the end. See what happens.
Not as quite fun as the "In My Pants" game, where you go to the library, read aloud book titles + "in my pants" and wait to be escorted off the premises for hysterical giggling.
Let's see the last book I read was ...Camus... The Stranger....in my pants.
... It also helps to say it in a funny voice. Melodramatic and serious - and give room for the pause.

The Stranger.....(pause)..... In my Pants.

A little bit better. Timing and tone are so essential to sequential art - whether it's literature, animation, or film. A short, choppy suspense sequence in a movie compares to the short clipped sentences in a novel. Artists in all sequential media face the same challenges in trying to convey their story convincingly - to make their audience believe their story.
Let alone bothering if the story is any good.
Convincing art can movies in theatres so much fun, when later the dvd is disappointing...
...who else hated Pineapple Express?

*J/k. I'd rather do a silly little blog than churn out a paper.