I was inspired by this video to try something new with my artwork (thanks Craig R for sharing it). Though it is good to develop personal style, I find myself doing the same thing over and over. With time on my hands I gave the technique a go a few days ago.
The premise is to be influenced through music to explore creativity. I chose “In Sickness and in Health” by The Legendary Pink Dots from their The Whispering Wall album. I had no plan in mind and simply went with it, playing the song over and over for about an hour until the work was complete. It’s harder than it sounds and I doubted myself throughout the whole experience.
My goal was to simply break out of my comfort zone and explore new possibilities and various techniques that I usually don’t use. I used graphite, pastel, ink, coffee, charcoal, gouache, watercolour and collage.
The final piece itself is not a work of art, but a document of an exploration process, something newer art students may struggle with. I recorded the process in the video below and sped it up reducing it from fifty minutes to approximately three (you may also click the photo to take you to the Flickr page).
Wow, two Star Wars related posts in a week. My friends and I are seriously considering doing this. This is real, fun collaboration. Why didn’t I think of it? But hurry, clips are going fast.
Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.
Enter your name, and Personas scours the web for information and attempts to characterize the person – to fit them to a predetermined set of categories that an algorithmic process created from a massive corpus of data. The computational process is visualized with each stage of the analysis, finally resulting in the presentation of a seemingly authoritative personal profile.
These Star Wars light saber chopsticks will be on sale in Japan from November for approximately 10 USD from Kotobukiya. You may also visit here (Japanese only) for more info. C’mon, you know you want them.
I got this idea over at the Drawn blog and thought I’d give it a go. It’s a series of stills set to music of all the culture that has influenced me and my work. Of course, as soon as I was finished, I remembered a few more.
Sorry, this post is not related to teaching or IT, but I couldn’t let go of John Hughes whose movies influenced my generation. As reported by Variety, John Hughes passed away yesterday at the age of 59. Hughes directed The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and Weird Science. He also wrote and produced Pretty in Pink and Some Kind of Wonderful, as well as many, many others.
Over the last few years reality-show casting calls have become almost as much of a cultural commonplace as the shows themselves — the familiar scenes of hundreds of anxious strangers converging on a street corner with their résumés, their headshots and their A games, hoping for some kind of immortality or at least a more interesting career…
Produced by Sarah Jessica Parker, the show, which doesn’t have a title or a broadcast date, will try to do for the contemporary art world what the cable channel has done for the worlds of fine cuisine (“Top Chef”) and fashion (“Project Runway”): discover young, or maybe even middle-aged or old, unknowns with the talent to command the attention of both a television audience and a serious audience in the creative field to which they aspire.
Yes! Apparently Tokyo is number 1, but for the wrong reason. Since I live here, I thought I’d share what the BBC has reported and what we expats have thought here for a while now:
Tokyo has knocked Moscow off the top spot as the world’s most expensive city for expatriates, a survey suggests.
The strengthening yen meant the Japanese capital now had the highest cost of living, followed by Osaka, said data firm Mercer.
I was inspired by this video to try something new with my artwork (thanks Craig R for sharing it). Though it is good to develop personal style, I find myself doing the same thing over and over. With time on my hands I gave the technique a go a few days ago.
