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New Media Project Debrief

  When I got this project, the main goal for me was to do something I would enjoy and like to work on everyday, trying to be adventurous and still do something in tune with my better attributes.
  The first solid Idea was about motor-sports, its technical side and its glamourous side, I came to question what is luxury to a person, what is success, what does being famous mean and what do we do with these and how do we use or abuse these allocades leading to destruction and in the end turmoil for the bearer.
  After a while of thinking the topic through and analyzing what could work and what would be interesting about motor-sports ad the people in motor-sports I came to a point where i wanted to start experimenting with what I could do visually.

  My first experiment was covering something one would see deemed as a successful object with burnt money trying to show the waste of the object, it was a start but I wasn't satisfied with it so I went trying more, I decided on a car hood which was destroyed, its in essence a privilege to own a car and  money and cars go hand-in-hand plus it was a great surface to work on and something I wanted to do for a while. What I did now was do a mock up on the computer:

  I was pretty pleased with the mock up, it wasn't the picture perfect piece but it helped me choose a direction I wanted to go and to get a greater visual of what I was working with, now i was playing with the natural effects of the car crash helping to add a deeper feeling of involvement to the piece and also being very interesting to look at these effects such as chipped an flaking paint, fading paint,rust and the bend and dents of the piece itself. Along also came were the graphic effects of the money itself which were painted onto the bonnet and the faces of the people on the bonnet, using both outdated money and some still in use, this way it shows that what the piece is saying hasn't now started but is something that has been going on for ages, he hood now took on the form of a Money bill itself with the graphics and the montage of faces. Waste of the money was now on my radar it would tie in with the natural waste also, I went back to an earlier trial and used the burn effect along with another effect I found in my researching, I now also inverted the original bill, it was to show the negative effect that this luxurious object which money had bought is going through, its gone full swing in the opposite direction. The hood took on the general practices when painting in a body shop, I sanded it down with 400, 360, 280, 220 and 180 grit sand paper and then spraying with Primer and paint both I multiple coats, a really long process without the right  tools and for which I probably have cancer from now. One pleasant surprise though was the when i burnt the money and stuck it on it didn't look stuck on, and it appeared as the the paint was crumbling away and this  money of all sorts was underneath it. 

  The second piece now was a jogger for me as I warming down, It echo's the first piece but doesn't ride on it, it was meant to be clean and compact while still being fun and engaging. What I was going to do at first was use a trophy and do a two sided effect and sprinkling a lot of coins which I would paint black and white, sort of Ying/Yang effect, the trophy though was limiting in what I could do so I moved onto a Champagne bottle which ties in to success of both motor-sport and of the rich and famous. I started to take a graphic design themed approach on this project, I designed logos for the front and back of the bottle, the front standing out for the success and the back for the unknowns of this success which the average unsuccessful person does not know and would grab for getting instead a kiss of death. I wanted to engage the viewer so instead of just the bottle I put a glass with what was thought to be a nice bit of success in it with an inviting stamp on it saying " come taste a glass of success", in drinking this it was to instantly leave a bad taste in your mouth, much like success and fame in the real world, none of them know what they are getting into and end up with a bad taste in their mouth. As said it was to be two faced piece, and it would stand in a 3D environment so I tried to present it in an appropriate fashion, art galleries have a lot of wine and champagne so I tried to use this setup, come from the front take up your glass, look at the art, sip.. and be shocked, then walk around to the back see the other labels on the bottle and the glass, Maybe that was too complicated though.

The Hyades is named after an open cluster of stars in the Taurus constellation. He asserted that he did not intend to create constellations, but saw similarities between the completed sculptures and the arrangement of stars and planets in space. In The Hyades he created the initial shape from welded wire, then gradually built up the form using drips of molten bronze.

                                                                              Daniel Rozen’s Peg Mirror

The mirror consists of a collection of rotating pegs. Each peg’s end is tapered, and when they rotate in the light, the change in shadow represents shades of light and dark. While it’s a mechanical device, it gives off a very warm and inviting feeling and not intimidating like some other pieces of its type are, certainly due to the warmth of the wood and the amazing precision it shows in reflecting the viewer.

Photographs I Came Across

[William Henry Fox Talbot, The Haystack, April 1844. Salted paper print, 19 x 22.9 cm; image: 16.4 x 21 cm. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa]

[Henry White, The Garden Chair, 11 September 1854. Albumen silver print, 17.8 x 14 cm. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa]


Photography was born in 1839, making the 19th century the first to be recorded in this medium. Since then, photography has evolved dramatically from the original chemical processes to today’s digital technology. But its transformation during its first decades was an equally important transition. 

Cel Shading

Ashley would like this foolisness >.>

...But this flat anime style can be fun, the use of colour is the most important thing with it, you can convey your feelings very easily.

David Hilliard's distinctive command of a cinematic narrative is at once romantic and disconsolate, oftentimes crafting bittersweet vignettes that grapple with notions of sexuality, faith, mortality and nostalgia. His subtle manipulation of perspective and depth alludes to a similar distortion in our recollected memories, wistful snapshots drawn upon to form a chronicled identity unique to the artist yet relevant to all.