Friday, 19 October 2007
Thursday, 18 October 2007
005. - Fallen Art.
One of the movies shown during Poland St Underground was Fallen Art (Sztuka Spadania) (2004) by Tomasz Baginski, an animation I saw a few times already, as one of the 'priviliges' of being a pole is to know who Mr. Baginski is or, at least, to heard about him. There was a small nuanse I did not pay attention during previous viewings. It has a Heath Robinson machine in it!
The movie tells a story about a forgotten military base somewhere in Pacyfic. People departed there are old, mind-ill generals that army can not get rid off in any other way. One of them has a passion for photography, another for young soldiers and the other one for something completely different.
well, the other one creates an art, an animation, kind of ballet made out of photos of dead bodies with blood splashed on the ground round them.
The machine that is being used to do it (animation, kind of 'line-tester') is an interesting object itself - definately Heath Robinson inspiration. Theoretically.
It's a definate suggeston for Mike, when buying new 1st year room's furniture.
The movie tells a story about a forgotten military base somewhere in Pacyfic. People departed there are old, mind-ill generals that army can not get rid off in any other way. One of them has a passion for photography, another for young soldiers and the other one for something completely different.
well, the other one creates an art, an animation, kind of ballet made out of photos of dead bodies with blood splashed on the ground round them.
The machine that is being used to do it (animation, kind of 'line-tester') is an interesting object itself - definately Heath Robinson inspiration. Theoretically.
It's a definate suggeston for Mike, when buying new 1st year room's furniture.
004. - Marcel Duchamp.
I thought of having some industrial type of 'control room' in this 'machine of consequence' with lots of monitors displaying the same video. A mood-creator rather than something epic and very important. As a video I thought of Anemic Cinema by Marcel Duchamp. Its hypnotic loop of rotating movements would be a good contrast to what we'd see in the enviorement.
But of course we can go the other way, and try some futuristic visualisations, typical ones, with numbers droping by (notice how the word 'typical' – in its futuristic sense – changed since the premiere of The Matrix), or some data-screens with a robot-model rotating in the corner.
Saying that I should we should try to avoid any The Matrix-reference. It could be just tacky.
Crème de la crème of futuristic fonts may be a The Designers Republic – a studio responsible for the visuals, packaging and manual for the PlayStation/Sega Saturn game Wipeout.
(photo)
But of course we can go the other way, and try some futuristic visualisations, typical ones, with numbers droping by (notice how the word 'typical' – in its futuristic sense – changed since the premiere of The Matrix), or some data-screens with a robot-model rotating in the corner.
Saying that I should we should try to avoid any The Matrix-reference. It could be just tacky.
Crème de la crème of futuristic fonts may be a The Designers Republic – a studio responsible for the visuals, packaging and manual for the PlayStation/Sega Saturn game Wipeout.
(photo)
003. - Moloch.
After Bartholomew brought Moloch – a polish animation – to Rave, I thought to look even to things as distant as Fallout and its world.
Well, mechanisation is huge in this post-nuclear land, defective, rusty mechanisation – I have to emphasize. Nasty, bloody, Ajdinesque creatures can be found there as well.
(more research)
002. - Metropolis.
Today I saw Metropolis by Fritz Lang – less machine reference in it than I thought, but still, something to look at, especially in the first part of the movie, just the very beginning. It was done in 1925 so, yes, some designs are really impressive. It just seems how groundbreaking was this film (or I believe so).
Maybe less topic related, but still useful – been to The Golden Age of Couture exhibition in Victoria & Albert Museum. Besides all the matters of delicate sublimity about Mr. Dior and co.'s tailoring there was a great chance to see some brilliant pieces of fashion photography by Richard Avedon, Irving Penn and Frank Horvat. Majority of their works was for American magazine Harper's Bazaar – but also some illustrations made by Rene Gruan and Jacque Demechy.
A surname also worth looking at: Munkacsi.
Maybe less topic related, but still useful – been to The Golden Age of Couture exhibition in Victoria & Albert Museum. Besides all the matters of delicate sublimity about Mr. Dior and co.'s tailoring there was a great chance to see some brilliant pieces of fashion photography by Richard Avedon, Irving Penn and Frank Horvat. Majority of their works was for American magazine Harper's Bazaar – but also some illustrations made by Rene Gruan and Jacque Demechy.
A surname also worth looking at: Munkacsi.
001. - Heath Robinson, Rube Goldberg and HR Giger.
The aim of the project is to create something what Jared described as 'the mechanism of consequence', in other word – exaggerated in mechanical terms environment involving actions and reactions to those.
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It was advised to look at work of Englishman, Mr. W. Heath Robinson and his American counterpart Mr Rube Goldberg - concept drawing makers, or: concept illustrators – famous for their unneccessary complication of detail.
Jared told us to look at two books about them – but when I went to lrc to have a look – of course they were taken out already. So predictable. I think lrc should do something to 'protect' these books of high demand because a tutor advices so his students. Maybe they shouldn't be borrowed, just availible for viewing and scanning, maybe the last copy shouldn't be borrowed. Purple group has this disadvantage of having the same lecture what Green group had two days before, so in some way – we (Purple group) are two days behind, in the process of research.
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Giger. We decided to take on board his style, or at least look at his in more detail, and take out as much as we can – planned to go to Switzerland to Gruyere to see his museum – later on advised not to go to, because it would be more of dissapointment and time waisting. We still think of doing some research trip, maybe to have a look at the Swiss architecture in major, maybe something else.
I've borrowed a book on Giger with lots of drawings by him - biomechanical stuff, as expected, but also lots of erotics.
Also seen a VT1750 with Without Walls programme on it – at some point it had greying Giger speaking in pidgin English that only hand and legs are good in human body because anything else can get a cancer. Interesting. No.
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It was advised to look at work of Englishman, Mr. W. Heath Robinson and his American counterpart Mr Rube Goldberg - concept drawing makers, or: concept illustrators – famous for their unneccessary complication of detail.
Jared told us to look at two books about them – but when I went to lrc to have a look – of course they were taken out already. So predictable. I think lrc should do something to 'protect' these books of high demand because a tutor advices so his students. Maybe they shouldn't be borrowed, just availible for viewing and scanning, maybe the last copy shouldn't be borrowed. Purple group has this disadvantage of having the same lecture what Green group had two days before, so in some way – we (Purple group) are two days behind, in the process of research.
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Giger. We decided to take on board his style, or at least look at his in more detail, and take out as much as we can – planned to go to Switzerland to Gruyere to see his museum – later on advised not to go to, because it would be more of dissapointment and time waisting. We still think of doing some research trip, maybe to have a look at the Swiss architecture in major, maybe something else.
I've borrowed a book on Giger with lots of drawings by him - biomechanical stuff, as expected, but also lots of erotics.
Also seen a VT1750 with Without Walls programme on it – at some point it had greying Giger speaking in pidgin English that only hand and legs are good in human body because anything else can get a cancer. Interesting. No.
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