A Town of Its Own

After further amounts of thinking about the project i've narrowed down some ideas but added a few more. My idea has gone on to give the viewer a first person experience o the journey, and to contrast the sound with the video, e.g give playing a video of a peaceful street in Speightstown but playing the noisy audio of Bridgetown and go as far as to interact with the main things I want to stress importance on such as the flowers, I was thinking of running my hands through the flowers and plants in front of the houses in St. Peter and then fading to town where I run my hand and there is nothing to grab. The project needs more data collected such as audio and video but its on a good thought path(in my opinion lol).

Barry McGee

Barry McGee comes from a background of creating unsanctioned work on city streets in his native San Francisco. Acclaimed for his work in the street as a graffiti artist and for his painted installations in galleries, museums and art festivals around the world, Barry McGee crafts a visual language that makes itself understood. Originally signing his works with the tag “Twist”, the artist draws his force and inspiration from the contrast and tension that exists between the city center and the suburbs, between wealthy districts and the slums. It is public, addressing social concerns of urban life, and very private, elaborating a unique personal style that focuses on humanity, one painstakingly detailed, fine brush-painted image at a time.

  In 1991 he received a BFA in painting and printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute. His drawings, paintings, and mixed-media installations take their inspiration from contemporary urban culture, incorporating elements such as empty liquor bottles and spray-paint cans, tagged signs, wrenches, and scrap wood or metal.

 His trademark icon, a caricatured male figure with sagging eyes and a bemused expression, recalls the homeless people and transients who call the streets their home. McGee’s signature tags and markings have inserted an element of the individual and the handmade into a depersonalized urban landscape that has become increasingly crowded with corporate logos, trademarks and advertisements.

 McGee was highly influential on the urban art scene that followed in his wake. He popularized use of paint drips in urban-influenced graphic design, as well as the gallery display technique of clustering paintings. These clustered compositions of pictures are based on similar installations he saw in Catholic churches whilst working in Brazil. He also was an early participant in the practice of painting directly on gallery walls, imitating the intrusive nature of graffiti.

   McGee’s complex installations convey a sense of vitality and chaos, juxtaposed with a precarious nature and sense of alienation. Large-scale wall murals, clusters of small, framed drawings and snapshots, various tools and other street detritus make their way into his installations in an almost symphonic fashion.


Heres a video of one of my favourite pieces by him called Twist after his tag, Its serves in celebration and in respect to Grafitti artist New, Old and Those to come!

Shadow Art ... From the Trash

British-born and -based artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster skilfully skirt the boundaries between beauty and the shadowier aspects of humanity, playing with our perceptions as well as our notions of taste. Many of their most notable pieces are made from piles of rubbish, with light projected against them to create a shadow image entirely different to that seen when looking directly at the deliberately disguised pile.
  Yet the idea of reusing materials to create art gets one of its most visceral treatments in this last piece. Casting the by now familiar shadows of the artists' profiled heads – severed and impaled on spikes in this case – the sculptures are composed of various mummified animals. A nod, perhaps, to aspects of popular culture like vulgar living history, it's another work by this irreverent pair that might mean you now look at all kinds of trash and waste in a rather different light.

One For me

Correct surface to work on?

Yup, I enjoy looking at the bare cardboard box alone then the drawing just blends really well with it.

Public Art

Public art is like an ad, or just one big invitation to come touch it because it so intriguing and unusual most of the time its main goal is to just be out of the norm and catch the publics attention.

Negative Effect

"Movemental" by Tomasz Dobiszewski  two pieces of art that remind you of a furniture advertisement of some sort. The pieces are  not meant to clarify, nor does it simplify but multiplies and undoes the tight order of things. It lets the picture breathe, opens it up, as if it was obvious: the reverse is necessary, the negative, the outline - everything our gaze seems to take for granted. the Artist of this piece adds nothing, he just cuts out and moves,making the pieces fit like a reverse puzzle. 

Art In Ice

I've always thought Ice sculpture was pretty cool, art in ice hmmm.

A cool video I thought I'd Share. Sometimes it might just pay off if you aren't a jack of all trades but a master of one.

Congratulations to Nico Hulkenberg on His First Pole.

Really I think I'm still shaking even right now, In his first season rookie driver Nico Hulkenberg has captured a stunning pole position in the 'Wet' Brazilian Formula 1 Grand Prix going into the weekend this was never expected but hey you can never expect anything in F1, this pole came at a time of insecurity in his presence at the Williams team in 2011 after talks of the team ousting him for the 2010 GP2 champion Pastor Maldonado who would be bringing 15 Million Euros of sponsorship with himself to the team from Venezuela, hopefully this pole can give Team owner Frank Williams some faith in the young German and help Solidify himself in the British team.

Top ten finishers in the flooded qualifying session 3, Hulkenberg's time is over One second faster than all his more advanced rivals in much better cars, sometimes Money cant buy talent. Wonder what he can do with some 'Good Paper'.

Pos  Driver         Team                   Q1        Q2        Q3
 1.  Hulkenberg     Williams-Cosworth      1:20.050  1:19.144  1:14.470
 2.  Vettel         Red Bull-Renault       1:19.160  1:18.691  1:15.519
 3.  Webber         Red Bull-Renault       1:19.025  1:18.516  1:15.637
 4.  Hamilton       McLaren-Mercedes       1:19.931  1:18.921  1:15.747
 5.  Alonso         Ferrari                1:18.987  1:19.010  1:15.989
 6.  Barrichello    Williams-Cosworth      1:19.799  1:18.925  1:16.203
 7.  Kubica         Renault                1:19.249  1:18.877  1:16.552
 8.  Schumacher     Mercedes               1:19.879  1:18.923  1:16.925
 9.  Massa          Ferrari                1:19.778  1:19.200  1:17.101
10.  Petrov         Renault                1:20.189  1:19.153  1:17.656

Who Says A Car Isn't Art.

  Over the years the argument of a car being art has never really been settled, many famous artist have gone to say it isn't and some have this brought to life the concept for the BMW art cars, introduced by Hervé Poulain, an auctioneer and ardent racing driver from France. Poulain was searching for a link between art and cars and he asked his friend and renowned artist Alexander Calder to paint a rolling canvas on the BMW 3.0 CSL that he would race in the 1975 Le Mans endurance race. Poulain’s 3.0 CSL was the first car to create a symbiosis between the world of art and the world of motorsport. Prompted by enormous enthusiasm for this work of art on wheels, BMW then decided to put its brilliant idea of establishing the Art Car Collection into practice the has gone on for 17 generations. New media ehhhhhhh?

The first blog, Guess I'm gonna have to get used to this, hope you enjoy it.

P.S... water?

Longing

Deception

 Tight