Stop Motion project

Some Cool Stop Motion Type Stuff

I know we've been looking at a bunch of cool videos and stuff, so I decided to venture out on the interwebs and find some on my own....





215 loafs of Bread (it was found or expired so don't worry, it's recycling)

Shepard Fairey

Although Fairey used someone else's image to create a graphic piece of public art, he used what we like to call "creative freedom". Since the limits of this "freedom" are undefined, what he did was completely reasonable. First of all, in the Colbert interview, he mentioned that he did not care about gaining profit from this image. This is very respectable and he should not be looked down upon for transforming this image. He used a standard press image to create a graphic poster/statement without intent of profit. I see nothing wrong with this. Shepard Fairey owns his image and the photographer of the image Shepard Fairey based his piece on owns that image. They are two different pieces. Secondly, in order to create the iconic poster, the original photographer would have needed Shepard Fariey's creative intelligence. The "poster" image Fairey created mimics his personal style. It is not only iconic of Obama's campaign but of Fairey's artwork. There will always be a debate about this. It is near impossible for people to come to one consensus when profit of a image is involved.

Composite Image

Image laws...or not

Reflecting on the TED talk we watched in class about creativity and freedom and the news report about owning your image posted online, I've realized copyright laws need to be revised. There are too many situation that are unaccounted for. There needs to be a consent law put in place. I don't think it is right for an advertising campaign to use a personal photo without the person's consent, even if it's on public internet domain. In addition, editing a copyright photo, transforming it to a completely different visual aesthetic, should not be illegal. However, if that edited photo is then used for corporate advantage or for a particular income, than consent from the initial owner of the unedited version of the photo should be obtained. If the image has no background information and it is near impossible to find the original owner, it should be up for grabs in terms of use. There is an overwhelming amount of personal photos uploaded onto the internet that is unknowingly being used by outside parties. Programs like Photoshop allow people to create new images from something basic. This should not be outlawed. It would be limiting creative freedom. However, it should be regulated.

Smooshed

Typography

I had only worked with letters/wording in art a few times so I am still getting used to it! This assignment, however, furthered my understanding of letters as forms sometimes with and sometimes without meaning.

The first piece I did was a representational composition. I traced the contour lines of a photo, edited slightly, and lined each path with a letter. I changed the font size of the letters and overlapped paths in order to make certain lines stand out more, flow more nicely, or create density.

This piece is based off of the artist we looked at in class, David Carson. He used letters as forms and ordered different words or letters in order to make an interesting composition. This is a quote by Salvador Dali, "Have no fear of perfection, you will never reach it". The first phrase phrase of the sentence I repeated to show the obsessiveness of someone who only tries for perfection. With the rest of the quote, each word got bigger and more pronounced leaving the last word "it" as the largest. By doing this, the last part of the quote, seems more pronounced and important, and you can feel the message rather than just reading it.

With this abstract design, I tried to focus on the letters as forms and play with layering and opacity in order to create depth within the shapes. The lines that move between the swirled shapes are simple "I"'s layered with different opacities to create an illusionistic line. The swirls are layers and layers of random letters in different opacities.

With my 6 word bio, I wanted to use some expressive qualities of the words while also creating an interesting composition fitting the 6 words together. They make up me so they should all be connected in some way. I combined methods that I had used in the other pieces, like changing the opacities, making the word "small" feel small, making letters look like forms with the word "love" and creating letter paths.

Adventure Time!

This past Saturday my good friend Tim was planning on getting his first tattoo at Moo Tatto on South St. So lead by his adventurous spirt, we got on the subway around 5:30 pm and instead of getting off at the normal spot, Lombard and South, we got off the stop after and ventured toward South St. in order to explore. On our way there we passed an Asian shopping center of sorts. There were some wacky little shops and then a big food market connected to them. In one of the weird shops, there were rows of all different statues of Buddha in all different colors, shapes and sizes. The really large ones were wrapped in plastic and looked, although happy, trying to break through the film. At one end of the store, there were little kits and sets of home items, like a shaving kit for example, but everything was made out of paper. Kids' toys? One of the most prominent paper items was a house, like a doll house. There was a front yard, a garage, a dog, and door man, everything. It was made entirely out of thin cardboard. In the super market, past the awful smelling fish shop, the last isle, there were boxes and boxes stacked and lined up of all different kind of drink and liquids, ranging from yogurt drinks to squid juice.

After we left the market, as we got closer to our final destination, we stumbled upon a used bookstore. Attracted by the books and photos outside, we went in and looked around a bit more. As we sifted through old photos of strangers, we notice a sign that said "thousands more in the back". As we went to the back of the store, there was a door. We pushed open the door to find a huge back room, twice the size of the one we had just been in. It was filled with everything from old Life magazines and records, to miscellaneous household items. I recognized it immediately. I had taken a Saturday course at UArts about 3 years ago called "Collage and the Print". In that class we took a local field trip to a thrift store and a random used book store. Unfortunately, I didn't take notice to the street it was on during the class and have been trying to find it ever since. Consider it found. By the time we left this store, our other friends were calling to meet up with us to get Tim ink'd, so we figured we were almost there, crossed through and parking lot, and ended up exactly across the street from the tatto parlor. Perfection.