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After trying several mediums water colours and indian inks on water colour paper achieve the best quality of illustration. I think because of time and scale experimenting with CAD could be the most appropriate tool because that way I can cut out the time but have just as good as a result. I will continue to pursue now characters but also more than birds because I want to show more than the birds.<br />
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Giants in Liverpool for Titanic Sea Odyssey event

3 giant puppets roamed the streets of Liverpool during 20th-22nd April, and 'Uncle' (pictured), Little Girl and Dog. I think there's a background story relating to one of the relatives of the Titanic, and everyday they told a 'puppet story' on a large scale (the puppets were the size of buildings, and didn't even fit under the Chinese Arch)
I didn't really enjoy it visually because the mechanical puppets seemed almost terrifying and the crowds were quite big, but the story was interesting.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-17797861
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-17787778

Manchester Directories and Documentation

I was made aware that the library held past information about Manchester. As im looking at the history of hotspur i went down to check it out. In the local collection area on the second floor west wing, Theres load of old school documents, such as maps, directory books, loads of handbooks dating back to the victorian era, when hotspur was built. It was great, heres a pic of what i sourced! Hope some of you can use the area as well.

'Textile Sculptues' by Irene Waller

Josep Grau Garriga

I found this book, 'Textile Sculptures' by Irene Waller very interesting and inspiring. The pieces that came to my attention most in the book were these hanging sculptures. All of them are very differant through texture, weight and fabric but they all have share the same heavy, hanging quality which I find really interesting.

 Sheila Hicks

 Ritzi and Peter Jacobs

I think the contrast between the linear sewn quality compared to the drawn lines in the background of the piece above  makes it stand out. By drawing familiar qualities onto the background that are represented within the fabric in the sculpture it makes the piece feel continuos, and to me much more effective.

 Walter Nottingham

 Sherri Smith

 Claire Zeilser

A day in the life

In recent years there has been an uprise in reality tv. Shows such as the only way is Essex and made in Chelsea and so on so fourth, have helped mainstream the metrosexual man. Now it is no race to get ready and young males have been influenced in caring for their appearance in some flamboyant ways to attract their mates. Fake tan, waxing, sun beds, make up are all necessities in the life of the metrosexual and the more organises he and the lower your pants are the more likely the young men think they are in the chance of succeeding to aspire to be the next 'Joey Essex' or 'Mark Wright' and posses all objects (including women) they desire.........

But it may sound strange that I go on to speak about male birds and their flamboyant beautiful, protenious traits that these young men have. The prime example for this would be the peacock. Beautiful displays of their fanned feathers and stunning colours to attract a mate. Yet if you have ever seen a female peacock well you might be surprised of its full whites and browns and this applied with many birds even the common duck. On this theory I took a trip to a bird sanctuary on a last minute adventure and captured some beautifully birds and this made me question the gender and social order which compare to the human way of life. I will take this idea and expand this concept in some cases an exaggerated way but the point is to have fun with this.


Bird sanctuary: Martin Meyer - Tarleton (on the way to southport)

Its not unfair to think when you think of ducks that you think of the common bird you see in every pond and river stream. But when you do some research and look into all the different types you are bombarded with colour, pattern and a lot of inspiration to work from.

Just paper

Thought these were really creative and also inspiring as they are all made with just card or paper. Jen Stark is the artist if anyone is interested

Everyday Listening Blog

http://www.everydaylistening.com/articles/category/sound-art

An interesting blog about all this art and sound related. Check out the video 'Cinematiqué' on it!

Sewing Machine Orchestra - Fact

http://www.fact.co.uk/whats-on/sewing-machine-orchestra

Quebec composer, performer and artist Martin Messier (La chambres des machines) presents his latest work Sewing Machine Orchestra. This performance is entirely orchestrated from the acoustic noises produced by a series of 1940s sewing machines amplified by computer.

Both performances were sold out.

manchester old and new

From visiting the Visual Resources, I liked the images of the ‘old’  images of Manchester, this lead me to think about the relationships between the old and new, here are some images I found from a photographer called Andrew Roche,

I really like the reflections within these next photographs from a website ‘pixalo’

This has influenced me to document  some of my own old and new images!

Fact - Robots & Avatars Exhibition

Robots and avatars exhibition explored the connections and developments of robots and avatars in work and play.



ADA by Karina Smigla Bobinski (Interactive ball) - I was interesting to see such a large space used for mark making.

Compass by Lawrence Malstaf (Magnet walking mapped robot) - Questions whether the visitor wearing the magnetised robot will resist or follow it. Connections with my project = walking back in time/exploring the space with sound and bringing the viewer back in time.

Gallery 2 - personal boundaries of when a robot becomes a living thing. They can touch but not feel.


Robot world by Martin Hans Schmitt - Is a collection of around 200 clips of robots showcasing their uses, and focuses on the development of robots and technology. It made me realise that technology is quite advanced already, and the human fascination with robots had been around for quite some time. Violin music was used in the background of the clips because it's closely linked with the human voice, giving the robots in the clips 'a voice' of their own.


Rep.licants.org by Matthieu Cherubini - Artificial Intelligence on your Facebook/twitter posting status updates/Tweets, making you 'who you want to be'. Questions who is really who!
The electronic man by Salvatore iaconesi and Oriana persico - Crowd sourced content and collective collaboration. Scan a QRcode and makes your phone vibrate. It adds you to the 'Electronic man' with other people around the world, and everytime someone is added everyones phone simultaneously vibrates.

After viewing this exhibition it highlighted the importance between music and the art piece, and this can change the way the viewer feels; comfortable, soothed, uncomfortable, scared, jumpy etc..

gender steotypes

As seen in the my last entry the gender role stereotypes (particularly feminist stereotypes) is a wide a diverse topic to get my hands on. I have found it hard to find a purpose in this subject because I feel I cant achieve a statement without standing on someone toes. Taking risk is a big factor in my work and usually I would challenge these gender roles and experiment and innovate my ideas, however this topic does not reach out to me so i am extending on my 'post it' notice board and I am going to look at animals in social role to produce a tongue in cheek scenarios reflecting on the human condition today from out wonderful rioting youth, the 'chav' generation and other social classes from middle, upper and working class.

Spice Grils in Suffragette poster and riot GRRL band mock up

Abby Clansy 'wag' in WSPU suffragettes poster
mock up 

Damien Hirst exhibition, Tate Modern.

Hirst’s exhibition was full of his life’s work, showing a variety of art works from animals preserved in formaldehyde to glass cabinets full of crystal’s. The majority of his exhibition focuses on death and life cycles.

Although quite disgusting I found Hirst’s piece  ‘A Thousand Years’ very interesting, consisting of a glass cabinet containing a rotting cow’s head, a box of flies and a fly killer. Showing a whole life cycle within one piece. 

Throughout his exhibition there are lots of ‘spot paintings’, which consist of a variety of sized canvases with multi coloured spots painted accurately across the canvas. Seeing these spot paintings, and his cabinets full of perfectly placed drug boxes you get a real sense of his attention to detail and accuracy.

He seems to obsess over certain objects, one being butterflies. He exhibited the butterflies in an interesting way, relating back to life and death. One room was full of bright canvases with dead butterflies placed on looking peaceful. In the next room he had stuck cocoons to canvases, the room was full of beautiful butterflies that had emerged from these cocoons. Another object he seemed to focus on was cigarettes, through having various cabinets full of cigarette butts, placed a centimetre apart and a huge ash tray full of butts leaving a rather horrible smell. He described a cigarette as a 'mini life cycle'.

I don’t feel Hirst’s work represents artistic skill, considering he has a large team of technicians who work for him, but what I found interesting was his vast interest in death and his confidence to explore it. 

Brendan Dawes

I really enjoyed Brendan Dawes work because he seem like like a an ordinary guy who just wakes up and makes things. I liked the DIY aesthetic to his work. I like that he is very in tune with the latest technology and how he merges it with his rather than shirk off any 'new thing'. His talk taught me new ways of working rather than the conventional way that I am used to i.e sketchbook.

I also enjoyed the way he used the Makerbot Thing-O-Matic 3D Printer to make and print 3D product in plastic in his own home. 


This is his business card made using the machine, which i thought was more interesting than a bog standard rectangle card.

One of his prints LISSAJOUS ITERATION PRINT / 2012

visit his website for more images HERE

Watch THIS

I watched to very different programmes last night one was a scienctific program called How it works? and the other was called Sex and sensibility. You can watch Sex and sensibility by CLICKING HERE  and  How it works here CLICK HEREHow it works was a programme about material science and how metals changed the world entirely, it depends what you are intested in. I thought this programme was interesting because I learned that if people/ scientist had not persevered with metals the  world around us would have been very different. He investigates metals at the atomic level to reveal mysterious properties such as why they get stronger when they are hit, and he discovers how metal crystals can be grown to survive inside one of our most extreme environments - the jet engine.Whereas in Sex and sensibility spoke of the allure of art noveau in Vienna. The programme explores how Vienna's artist rebelled against the established in the 19th Century  and brought their highly sexed version of Art Nouveau. The programme features works by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele.

Linder Sterling

From listening to the talk featuring David Haslam on margins vs. mainstream, I was also interested in the effect of the underground, and how this was influenced within art, David Haslam also mentioned Linder Sterling- who created the fanzine and album covers for bands.

Even today there are hand-outs from club promoters advertising pre organised events, showing the female body, prevogitivly, this makes me think, has todays culture come to terms with society? Are there no limits – what is seen as acceptable?

 

 

Damien Hurst

A documentary on Damien Hurst

Damien Hurst: The First Look

Damien Hurst takes noel Fielding on an exclusive walk through his new show at Tate Modern, providing a behind the scene look at the first major retrospective of his work in the UK

Art critics talking about his work, including Hurst’s Art teachers and friends describing him as a person,  from looking at his work I would think of him as being very surreal, whereas after watching this he is like very much ‘normal’.  (catch up on 4od)

 First look at his work exclusively before the Tate opens you can see this at - Channel4.com/Hurst

Also showing tonight at 12.15am Damien Hurst; Thoughts, Work, Life- channel. Where he talks openly and honestly about his life.

Visual Resources, John Davis.

After having a presentation from Special Collections, on slides of old Manchester, I felt very inspired. I found these images from Visual Resources of Market Street throughout 14 years. The reason I looked at Market St is because I found it very interesting to see how somewhere I personally know quite well has looked liked throughout different time periods.

Market Street, 1975

It is really interesting to see in this image that this is where the Arndale is now, but this image was taken before it was built. 

 Building the Arndale, mid 1970's. 

Market Street and the Arndale Centre, 1989

gender role and sterotypes

As seen in the my last entry the gender role stereotypes (particularly feminist stereotypes) is a wide a diverse topic to get my hands on. I have found it hard to find a purpose in this subject because I feel I cant achieve a statement without standing on someone toes. Taking risk is a big factor in my work and usually I would challenge these gender roles and experiment and innovate my ideas, however this topic does not reach out to me so i am extending on my 'post it' notice board and I am going to look at animals in social role to produce a tongue in cheek scenarios reflecting on the human condition today from out wonderful rioting youth, the 'chav' generation and other social classes from middle, upper and working class.<br />
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Brendan Dawes

Brendan Dawes was originally a photographer, but is now a designer. He likes the idea of taking something consistent and shaping it in to something new. He creates things that surprise and excite people. He either wants people to love or hate his work, never wants anyone to be in between. He is constantly trying to create new interfaces that people might find a bit weird and that might cause a debate.

Doodlebuzz, http://www.doodlebuzz.com/, is a way of researching articles and facts. It is used in education, it is purposely chaotic and messy. The way he created this was by experimenting with a few ideas that on their own were not very interesting, but when he put them together they created something new and exciting.

Cinema Redux, , http://www.brendandawes.com/project/cinema-redux/, is Alfred Hitchcocks’s film vertigo, it’s the entire film and he has taken a frame every second. Each line is one minute of the film, the end product of this piece is very interetsing. He put this piece out on the internet which then led to it being exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art, New York.