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!

FMP: EXPERIMENTING

Now don't judge i was EXPERIMENTING and its reeeeally raw, remember not musical ;)

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Becki please take centre stage ...

yea ok so its clearly is no way nearer as good as Eboman (the guy is a genius i'm a peasant) but are we liking this?

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ahem...well its a work in progress...

(i'm not even gonna put up the one i did with Rob...)

ok so my next thing was to go to someone more musical orientated - it makes sense right?

so i did, check it out....

This is peter brown me in his studio. i'm on the mic can you see my shadow in the wall...first timer on mic

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Again not exactly what i wanted and i may not even be musical but that sounds slightly on the cheesey factor. I know i was going on like i really liked it too in production....

i was just amazed how you can manipulate voice honest dont judge....

So maybe this idea is scrapped until i meet someone who is a little more experimental... until chapter closed methinks.

FMP: RESEARCH

i decided to look into Dadaism, and found great art work by Raoul Hausmann. He had some great sound poems too which were pretty cool and i loved the collage of madness with typical images relating to the time.

i loved how it was his take on the war that was going on at the time and in one of the paintings he encompasses the word 'voice'. i loved it - i wanted to see how exactly "we voice" our opinions.

i guess you can say we do to a certain extent have freedom of speech, and it is something that has been granted in this part of the world within reason. But in certain parts of the world there is that underlining censorship and people cannot voice their opinion.

Facebook is something that can be used as a tool for voice and

this was my take on evaluating the freedom of speech how we have the freedom to speak and when we do we speak about "person being a for taking my top" or " i'm having beans on toast" which is fine, but i do wonder if the people that cant have their 'minds' voiced what their facebook status would say?

This was a photomontage by Raoul Hausmann, you're loving it arent you? i really liked the prominance of face surrounded by collage of objects and text.

Tell you who else i'm loving, Robert Rauschenberg. Love the decaying nature of his subject and the black against the softer shade of colour in the background.

Yeeep.

Next comes my favourite - this dude is uber cool - he makes samples of video and makes a great beat out of it or as he puts it "sample madness - i think that quote madness and genius should come here....amazing.

So he was a huge influence on my project - gotta say he did a wayy better one with Chris Cunningham.

(CC and Eboman - can it really get any better??)

so i cant load the video but the link is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZJjNfcNPqo

wanna see my version?

i'm only reluctant cos i have not one musical bone in my body apart from my ears appreciating damn good music but my experiments were jus wrong.... wrroong...

Lasse Gjertsen (from the article in my passport magazine) did a similar one - another genius! it took me AGES to realise how they actually did...yea not so genius after all, just bluddy clever.

ok so the idea behind these influences, was basically showing the decaying nature of society and how miserable we really are and in doing so i put a censorship on the status i think are pointless and frankly annoying. i'm showing you people, the mad nature of people by juxtaposing their mad opinion ... not nice really is it? hah.

Next i looked into Rapture.

http://vodpod.com/watch/538386-the-raptures-house-of-jealous-lovers

I'm really thinking of ripping this off? Don't you love the japanese anime.

and of course http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SNHtKfDxlg

like anybody can ever tire of this.... really...

But it influenced me in that i wanted to create a similar theme of war. We unfortunately are living in war times and i think it would be unjust for myself to not express the politics and voice those peoples opinion. (whether i can in a non judging manner is another thing).

But i wanted to focus on why and how we are understanding the past and our future. Do we have a future? Greed and the education of life, these are factors i want to incorporate but i hate that, judging factor so im working on the idea of football players and aeroplanes. OK just kidding, something similar though.

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So, experimenting and incorporating all the research i have undertaken i came up with this. (It makes sense to go for animation since its something i want to enhance from last year and ideally make a magazine of images. But i thought through facebook and its meaning and why it ever came about - did you know

"The original concept for Facebook was borrowed from a product produced by Zuckerberg's prep schoolPhillips Exeter Academy which for decades published and distributed a printed manual of all students and faculty, unofficially called the "face book".

It got me thinking on badges not the safety pin ones but these ones:

They look militant too. Imagine school children in

aeroplanes (primal scream xtrmrntr)

innocent and naive like our soldiers maybe... hmm

Anyway i came across this book too and its called "The Museum of Kitschy Stitches" A gallery of Notorious Knits... so i cant knit but they gave some great colours and ideas on to how i would go about it.

i also used the typical american university font - you know the one, on their uni hoodies, sorry "collage hoodies"

(its university for petes sake)

Check it out:

Aw its such a shame the whole image wont load - i'll try again later when i have more patience with this blog...

FMP: WHAT'S ON YOUR MIND?

So for my Final Major Project i was pretty stuck on ideas. Especially in trying to stay away from typical cliched final art pieces and actually wanting to create something thats more contemporary and something i can personally share with others.

So what do i decide on? Well, i thought on the idea on creating visuals for popular social networking sites people seem to be engrossed and addicted to. In this instance i focused on Facebook and the status' of people.

(i'm not on twitter)

So what is so great about this site and why are we all on it? Well i delved a little deeper and concluded that its because people want to flash their dirty laundry and tell not just the next person, but the world....well yea maybe

The idea of claiming few seconds of fame - hollywood, reality tv, airport scanning, random wars with no explanation or poor explanation, global warming, freak weathers, politics, music, fashion, chip and pin, GM foods.... this is madness and we live in a crazy world thats gets more mental and bizarre day by day.... in fact the more bizarre the more "normal" and accepted we are in society today ... this was an angle i wanted to approach. Madness.

The world was mad back a few centuries as it is today and i think people were just as miserable then as they are now.

RECORD LABEL: PLATFORM, PUSH, LOOT

Platform Records:

Platform records a music label and a recording studio. Founded by musicians, our structure seeks to emphasize independent artists who are very advanced in their musical development. Platform creators remain entirely owners of their music and is what it is, creating a platform for whatever style of music.

Push Records:

Push records a music label and a recording studio. Founded by musicians, our structure seeks to emphasize dance and electronic experimental artists who are very advanced in pushing their musical development. Push label creators remain entirely owners of their music.

Loot Records:

Loot records is a music label founded by musicians, of conscious rap and the soul seeking to emphasize their unique experimental beats and looting samples that even your gran-mammy ain't heard of and you can say hip to the hop. Loot label creators remain entirely owners of their music.

MAGAZINE: PASSPORT

Passport is a magazine created for the target market of people who have no clue to good music. No, i mean the really good stuff that no one hears about and what's special, is its from around the world... no not world music.

All genre from the six continents from around the world check out the cover of issue 1 and manifesto of magazine:

REFORM : ANIMATION DRAFTS AND FINAL

Here it comes the first venture into Cinema 4D, are we loving this or what??

Hmm yea my thoughts exactly...FLOP!

Ok so i work backwards or depending on where exactly i want to take this...

this became the end and i ditched the crazy small box shattering into pieces - i mean i really wanted to animate each piece and have some kinda video on top of one, but time and patience was not on my side especially as i was total rookie at this stage...

Yea i guess i was contemplating on this to go in the beginning or in the middle somewhere, but no, it definitely was an end thing...

This was composited in after effects. Still not right as its far too crisp and nice nice like.... needs roughenin up

REFORM : RESEARCH

I also loved the vivid colour

and abstract shapes in this one..

Amon Tobin : Cover Art 'Foley Room'

Who do i like?

Well this guy for starters...

Amon Tobin: Brazillian electronic musician and DJ and best known for his use of sampling on Ninja Tune Records. His music was part of the late 'trip hop' genre during the late 1990s.

But its not just the music thats good, look at that album cover---> Beautiful!

I'm not sure who the main person that actually designed 'Foley Room' - but i reckon its DJ Food.

(shame bout the name huh?) but i think we can let that pass - are we looking at the record cover again :) yes yes... beautiful

REFORM: EXPERIMENTING

Here are a few examples of combining the objects and what i tried to come up with...

I wanted to enhance Jon's drawings by recreating them in black pen and then experimenting to form a hybrid...

REFORM: INITIAL DRAWINGS PENCIL/INK

I was thinking how different each drawings were - i seem to have more detail in comparison to Jons linear approach this was something i wanted to incorporate towards my animation.

Jonathan's Drawings

Here are some of my pencil and pen drawings...

This project was about producing a 30 sec animation on the hybrid of two objects. My object consisted of a cassette (cos i'm old skool like that) and this was combined with drawings made by Jonathan, a camera tripod.

So i'm on finally and already feeling the hate towards the orange and white b symbol...sigh...