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Sketching & Developing Ideas

24hrs: Artists

Looking into the work of Bill Viola and his use of time and sensitivity towards themes such as religion and philosophy as well as nature, it was inspiring to look into one of his first video art installation

'He weeps for you'.

Its intresting this concept of macrocosm and microcosm and how they can both become a reflection on each other. For me it reflected the idea of life being something so hard to comprehend and perhaps even something that cannot be defined or understood but yet it has can still have purpose.

This is BIll Viola’s most minimalistic work when you look at it, with no complexities, it is in fact just a drop but the sensitivity and timing is so precise with tension that it is almost unwatchable when you know what will happen and how it will repeat itself. From Viola’s work you can see he had two streams, one is from experience; watching these raindrops on his glasses and the other from general research or background; going home and testing it out. This is a reflection on the ideas and thoughts Viola was contemplating during this period of time.

The idea of Paraphernalia used today is becoming so vast and accessible that it was useful to have a quick read of the pop art movement and seeing how everyday household object became the subject of art.

My response in playing with ideas in seeing how daily things like getting the grocery can be done, and now most are open with 24hrs service.

Karl Hyde:

THERE & BACK. AGAIN

A collaboration with Peter Blake. The exhibition was made for fashion brand “beanpole” and consisted of 10 individual prints paired with film loops projected through miniature video units. Each is triggered by infra red sensors. All the films run as continuous loops,which in turn becomes a metaphor on the action of cycling (the repetition).

Watching the same film loop over and over forces the viewer to see new details during each replay. This was something I could reflect in how daily things are affected and the way in which new things are seen without be realised.

The title for the show “there & back . again” is a play on the cyclical nature of the images and the outcome. Each time a loop activates, singular musical chimes embedded into the films merge throughout the space. this creates an ever changing sound score triggered each time a loop is activated.

24hrs: Initial thoughts and ideas

Exploring the theme of 24 hours I decided to look into the use of the word ephemera, which derives from Greek to mean things lasting no more than a day.

This and the everyday paraphernalia, this being equipment, apparatus, or furnishing used in or necessary for a particular activity.

Travel is a common usage done daily, whether it is walking, taking the car, bus, train, tram or even cycling. I decided to look into the type and marks found on train and bus tickets since I only really use these means of transport. I came across a few ideas initially.

Thinking slightly bigger I thought about the sun and how the earth spins around the sun in a cycle of 24 hrs.

Contemplating on the word ephemera I thought of living things that really only survive a day. Whether its a human being surviving to live a disease or the impact someone can have as their day develops.

It was intresting to know that the Mayfly can live only one day and the transitional processes it takes to survive its species.

It was also interesting to see the world's air traffic in a 24 hour period, it somehow reminded me of the Mayfly.

Here is another of the deliveries for the American company FedEx.

Each yellow dot represents an aeroplane. What was really interesting is the shadows on the earth as it spins on its axis and the way the light of the day is shifting from east to west. It almost reflect what Bill Viola’s idea on dualism and duplexity - light and dark, loud and soft etc. The daylight pattern move on the earth’s surface would be due to the earth’s tilt, so you can see the summer time in the North by the sun’s shadow and that it didn't quite set in the extreme north and that it did not quite rise in the extreme south, resulting in the cause of summer and winter in the different regions.

You can also see the flow of traffic and how it changes throughout the course of the day, so air traffic leaving the UK in the morning and flying to the American continent in daylight and vice versa the North American airlines travelling at night to arrive in the UK in the morning.

Alternatively when you watch this from day to night the day begins in Australia and start a similar pattern.

So, i came across this, pretty cool considering i almost gave of on tryig to animate something today and then of course me being me lost it. Dont you hate not having auto-save on AE. Anyway, I'm liking this... although i may just use elements of stop motions for bits of my piece... I'm not so sure yet...

check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovvk7T8QUIU&feature=related

...and i just found out that "PES" were influenced by this dude:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5wHMgTPF-s

yea.. i'm liking his stuff more. I mean dont get me wrong 'PES' are more contemporary but its nice to have that more traditional approach - i think that would fit more in with my style. I like!