Bits...

This is how in an ideal world my video would be played but it's a little impractical for an assesment.

Finnished Press And Drag bag of goodies!!!

Displaying Ideas

My idea to display my work with the instructional tee is based on the idea that someone has bought it and has been sat down with a bag of their purchases and then just left the room. The bag can be opened and the content spilled out, people can come and inspect what's in the bag (everything is tagged etc) and the adress to the website is in the bag.

 My building as a screen is displayed so that people can look at it through both sides, I don't think lighting it is really an option while marking will take place during the day, although If I could ideally display it any way I wanted I would have lit it by candlelight, but it's not really fair to light candles when other people's flamable work is sitting around mine.

I'm taking my five min video back into it's surroundings, And then recording it. If I could display it in an ideal world, I would have used a room and lit it with a single lamp and then had two monitors playing the two videos on a loop, on a "bed" like the two computers were talking. Then i'd possibly ask people whether they thought the silence of the piece was harmful or intimate.

Finnishing bits.

The other side to my two sided screen :)

Tried a torch for lighting - too bright

Fairy lights work well.

:) lit up car near the bull ring, really goes with what Im trying to do, outlines all lit up etc. really cool, nearly got my phone nicked while I was trying to take this picture though :/

http://www.2dix.com/view/view.php?urllink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.handcraftedgreetings.com%2Fpdf%2FGiftBag.pdf&searchx=making

Gift bag time :) Printed off my "post cards" to go with my bits for the website/tshirts. Everythings coming together!!! :D

I've  been experimenting with different ways to present my final idea for marking, originally (see above) I was thinking about fairy lights behind the scene, trying to make the most of the transparent-ish paper, but you could very obviously see them and it wasn't exactly practical for placement.
(I've still got them just in case)
Then I was told it looked good in natural light and overlapped so i started to think, if i did two, one in a different style to the other, when I put them over the same frame so people can see through then it'd give a bigger depth of field to my work and make it look maybe abit more dreamlike and like a proper representation of some buildings (they're not all lined out the way i've done them).

I may try and take a candle in too...like a sunset as a point of light but i dont think everyone would be too keen on a candle burning willy nilly in the middle of everyones work...

following with my ideas on the shadow buildings and line work i stitched into some paper nylon - and idea that i was given from the textiles workshop, i used some of the same techniques as Michael Ecconomy, but on a sewing machine, I like the spare strands - they look as if they've been drawn rather than sewn now.

Pulling together.

Okay, 2 projects almost done, the building as a screen got a massive push this week and i've been making, building, sewing...painting...it's been hard

I took photos from the tops of my buildings etc and did this with a few, i like how everything can be condensed so easily, and they're just the shadows of buildings. the variation in line work adds depth too.

Press and Drag gets a facelift.

http://thevelveteenrabbit.webs.com/newstuff/PressAndDrag.html

:D ta-daaa! all it needs now is content.

I've been breaking down various famous tshirt webstites and how they use text and layout and I think my version, although it's not all java and flash is pretty good + It should work on lots of low res computers since it's just pngs and html/css.

just a quick example of things i gathered from looking at them.

I was playing around with the idea of going with the "all artists are like" blurb on context but I think instead I'm going to go mad with production for my Pencil brief. Like use text in an acceptable way on a webpage and gift bag thingy?

I've been doing research again:

First of all Rogan Josh, and his excellent minimalist posters are really fun and colourful and it's really nice to have something so stripped down.

Stefan Brüggemann is my second super find,

doing what I kinda want to do, i need this website idea to be very very minimalist so i can show off my work to it's fullest.

Ideaaaa!

Present my final idea for the tshirt/pencil project on a webpage...like when you buy tshirts? I can create like a big cartel website for it (obviously not a real one) and make a gift bag...now i need some cool paper.

finally...

I've fallen in love with http://silhouettemasterpiecetheatre.com/ Jarringly funny in some places and very well thought out, Wilhelm Staehle is a genious.

And it's given me some thoughts for my final project, I think I'm going to tackle the context :
"A small print on a mailbox becomes something really precious..." explore surroundings..

That one, anyway, I was thinking from looking at these, you know when you see something and it doesn't quite look right, I could try and recreate that? I'll do some more research and get back to you ;)

& more..

I went to a textiles workshop today (after missing the metalwork one I was really looking forward to :( )

and got to grips with a sewing machine again. I forgot how much I actually like working with textiles.

Apparently there is some material in the textiles room thats slightly see-through, abit like tracing paper, and since looking back over my research I could maybe stitch a "building-screen" together, like one long piece?

i had another idea about shadow puppets or shadows on tracing paper, but I think this one could look more professional, maybe abit Tilleke schwarz-like.

sorteeeed. Now all I have to do is actually do it haha.

Catching up.

I've been so ill it's untrue, but i've also been a busy bear.

I did a quick photoshoot of my tshirt idea:

:) tshirt DONE! haha i've been looking into how to present it, and it seems the easiest way would be hang one up and put one in like a gift bag?

time to learn origami.

Okay..

After thinking about it at length, decided I'm going to do two tshirts (different versions of eachother) so people can choose, i had a fiddle with a new design too, something abit cleaner.

And I started making my own shadows, in line with thinking about projection and such :)

Left over bits, but I thought it looked cool :)

Now to take them into the big bad world.

I'm totally confused.

...And disoriented.
I finally get my act together about my tshirt design,

Which is the reasoning behind all the research, all the photoshoots etc.
& I'm just not keen and I don't know why.
I started looking at just general designs around town etc, on some of the thsirts and I think it's because it's very busy. So I've been simplifying...

I really like the last one, but then again it's not much to do with my research, although it is entirely what a pencil manual would be in my head. I'm considering making two and then just photographing them both and letting other people choose. I think because it'll be on a white shirt it may look abit naff (my original design).

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On another note, i've got a new direction with use a building as a screen.
William Kentridge is amazing and i'm sad i havent discovered him sooner.

and this guy --->Robin Rhode

Maybe I could use a "shadow" as my thing I'm putting on my building canvas?
I think i'm onto something :)

A bit of inspiration!

Two perfect examples of the type of thing I want, both taken from a Magzine, the kind of styling at the moment is very "Mad Men" esque, like so:

which is very on tack for what I wanted.