Bat-Sack

In the streets of Goth-sack city, crime runs rampant for all potato sacks. However, when the commissioner Gord-sack turns on the sack-signal, Bat-sack comes to the rescue. The only problem is that he is on a different rooftop and all of his gadgets are failing. The Sackling hook rips off his belt, his cape doesn't open all the way, and eventually he just gets a ladder and walks across to the commissioner.
He was slightly aggrivated at the loss of his pride, but the Bat-sack always prevails.

Interactive Website Research

By looking through various websites I've found that websites concerning visuals depicted through drawn images appeal to me more than others. Olla Lialina's "My boyfriend came back from the war" was one that was both powerful and easy to navigate. It used dividers and didn't switch around too much. By clicking on more and more links the story was furthered as each section divided.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/kunst/war/war1.htm

Zombie and Mummy is a humorous collection of comics with a different showing page for each strip and the page usually involves some sort of interactive activity. I'm much more familiar with comics and imagery concerning panels. I'm also a huge fan of humor so this website appealed to me as well.

http://www.zombie-and-mummy.org/

In conclusion I'd like to create an interactive story somehow connecting panels and telling stories without changing the layout too much.

ARTC: 321 -Music Set to Animation

While I do not have a saved copy of this past Op-Art work, I do feel that with my current skills that it would be fairly easy to recreate. Using the triangles and the checkerboard background I could easily keep the animation mostly Op-art Oriented.
I've done a few songs using the Garageband music application already and I believe that I have a song that could be used for such a piece. It would be a mostly electronic song, so there would be color changes that would go brighter with the movable objects and perhaps call for the background to change to a darker contrast to bring out the brighter moving objects.

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This is the actual op art piece that I will use for my animation.

Website Research For ARTC 331

http://www.double-whammy.com/

I reviewed Steve Double's Site first and I was very impressed. He gives you no instruction, just a small box of smaller boxes in the lower left corner and you can look at all of those to view the different works that he's done for celebrities and important businessmen. It was simple and yet the first site to grab my attention and keep it held.

http://www.urbansoldierz.com/

This was a good site in terms of creativity, "Urban Soilderz" that is. I was immediately drawn in by the loading screen, which was a TNT detonator slowly falling downwards. The entire feel of the site is a rust covered industrial sort of look that showcases graffiti. I was having a good time watching their efficient loading screens and downloading wasn't cumbersome either. However, they use a system where one cannot scroll to get where they are going. One has to position their mouse in a direction that one wishes to go. While scrolling can be seen as bothersome, this site made it difficult to get back to my default position without overshooting my mark. I quickly became fed up.

http://www.freakyfacets.com/site.html

There was an enter screen, then a full page screen... then there was an iconic robot, when I clicked the robot I went into the real website and the gallery blew me away. Small thumbnails with excellent works of art to blow one away. This is an excellent use of having a sort of "host" for the website. The robot guides you around and I feel that he does not detract from any of the pieces. This is the type of website that I would like to emulate, best.

Maya Project 2 idea

The new picture will involve a ginat lung centered in the middle of a room, held up by eight cigarettes. There is an ahtray in front of the lung structure and four pipe/trees surround the tree as well. The cigarettes will have vein like structures branching off of them and connecting to each other, stretching over the lung, going into the ashtray in the center of the room, and also connecting to the tree/pipe on the far right. all items touched by the veins will have a rust texture over them, and the other objects will have a water texture over them. This is supposed to respresent how cigarettes can turn the body into an ineffictient machine.

Revised Op Art

Op Art Projects

ARTC 311: Research Op Art

Victor Vasarely is an interesting artist.
He's been doing art for many years, starting off with early figuration and progressing further and further.
Most of what I've seen is simplistic, yet assembled in a way to fool the mind. Works dealing with black and white or only two or three colors are the most attratcive to myself, because they are simple and aesthetically pleasing. His personal website is very interesting and easy to browse.

http://www.vasarely.com/site/site.htm

While doing an image search on his works I've found that while there are also pictures from his site, there are also other works that he has chosen not to display, most of which involve tunnels, or what appear to be tunnels.



Bridget Riley's work is much more intense than Victor's in my opinion. Her work is always large, and sometimes overwhelming.
I seem to stare at her pieces for longer periods of time, perhaps it takes my mind even longer to be able to comprehend it all. She usually works in graytone, even more so than Victor, and her work always seems flat... well in medium not necessarily for the images themselves.

ARTC 321: ASSIGNMENT_Artists

Leah Dixon

Leah is a sorority girl who branched out into art during her college experience at Ohio State University. She attributed her personality and art style to her involvement with her sorority and the art community. She enjoys painting and prefers working in the abstract style.

In her work, “Temple: Time Tapestry” she takes pictures based off of nature and alters the photos by using symmetrical reflection, very much like a kaleidoscope. All of her images change into each other during her video. Leah goes further by taking screen shots of her video and placing the images next to each other to represent the work in a more 2D way. Each photo looks like a symbol, an icon, a letter in an abstract alphabet. I enjoy making new symbols and sequencing them; I’ve never fully incorporated them into any school works, and I’d like to do more of that.

Lisa Erdman

She is a Dominican American artist who has worked in a variety of multimedia environments. She has been working since 1992 as a digital artist, writer, educator, and performer. She draws form her Dominican American background and other features of society in America.

Lisa does a series of works based off of pharmaceutical ads. She parodies how society is looking for a quick fix by creating fictional medications that are designed to solve lack of patriotism as well as Christian faith. Using pop culture references to create humorous yet meaningful pieces is an effective way to get people interested in one’s works. I’d like to use more humor in an effective and meaningful way.

Murat Germen

This artist uses multiple photos and reassembles them to create an entirely new environment. He blends photos from different angles to create optical illusions of impossible space. I’ve done work recreating an environment from pieces of another and I found them to be successful. His work feels more like an optical illusion and I’d like to recreate my environments to seem the same way yet also realistic.

Most of these artists also use bright colors in their works. I find bright colors and a high contrast aesthetically pleasing. I’d like to work with these tools more to improve my work overall, as well.

ARTC 311 M002

It's the first day of class in 3D digital modeling.

Sculpture Artists

Louise Bourgeois

An artist that does sculptures that realates to spiders. I find that the spiders are compositionally pleasing. They appear to be made from recognizable polygons that have been texturized and stretched. I can see myself making insect like creatures that have similar features. They seem dark in a Tim Burton sense, but still pleasing.



David Smith

His artwork seems based on cubes and spheres that have been altered to make almost minimalist sculptures. The works remind me of symbols or monuments. Only pleasing for composition, which I find extremely enjoyable. Using symplistic shapes with smooth symbols. Being minimalist means extreme attention to detail with the smoothness of the sculptures, which is something that I admire. I think his works may be the most incorporated in my future project.

http://www.pbase.com/demdeepellummusic/image/62573059
http://www.pbase.com/demdeepellummusic/image/62573053

Tony Smith

His works are polygonal cubist sculptures that are large in size. All sculpures are smooth and prysm-like. They are remniscent of optical illusions. I am attracted to optival illusions for one can look at it and be confused, amazed, or simply look at it for long periods of time. Being able to make something so complicated and compelling is truly inspiring.




Robert Smithson

Another polygonal artist. I especially like his peice "Cardboard Holiday." Working with edgy cubist shapes he is able to made surreal furniture. Everything looks very sharp and neat An excellent Artist.




Barbra Hepworth

An artist who employs curves and holes with her sculpture peices. The peices are interesting because you can see through the clean holes in certain areas while the actual sculpture is hollowed out. By looking at the sculptures through different angles the peice becomes more interesting. Employing a-symmetircal aspects to the peice creates unique eye path to the peice. I believe that symmetry is very effective in creating a pleasing composition, however Barbra Hepworth's works show how a-symmery can be affective as well.

Proposal For Video

The concept behind my video is interacting with people using different personalities. Different people can mean friends, family, or even different personalities inside ones self. I plan on shooting in my dorm room as well as in the Arts Village common room. I will have conversations with three of my friends as three different people and end the video by having the different personalities interact with each other. The different personalities include, myself as seen normally, myself as a pirate, and myself as a scotsman (I will go through extreme lenghts to protray the scotsman by dying my hair red and wear a kilt). The shots will consist mostly of face shots or bust shots, as well as profile shots and over teh shoulder shots. Audio will involve conversations and monolouges of the people in the video including myself and the two other personalities.

Response Quiz

1) John Baldessari is an artist that does conceptual work in front of a camera. In his film , "I am making art" he stands relatively still while saying the title over and over again.

2) Phyllis Baldino is an artist who in "I'm not a girl who misses much." She dances in front of a camera while repeating the title, as she continues in her dance is becomes somewhat of a mock of MTV and the image of women in society.

3) Thermogenesis sounds like an interesting work by Robert Moog, as it deals with images based on sounds.

4) Video art is a legitatmet art form. What we can do through digital programs today like voice overs, scene cuts, effects, and other things were all started through the pioneers of the video art realm.

5) Video art is used to create an emotion or portray a feeling purposefully (it is made as an art piece). While an artful video may have another purpose like reporting the news it can still be filmed in an interesting way.

Scans

Entry #1

http://www.stenslie.net/stahl/

The image is a large cylinder made out of granite. The monument is 7-1/2 meters tall and grey. There are Orange letters warpped around the center of the cylinder that are organized in such a way that they are actually a from of codding for the map of the human "suicide" gene. The tips are capped off with a shiney steel and the structure stands vertically outside of a carving production facility in Halden, Norway.

The "suicide" gene is the gene that causes a cell to self destruct shold it become damaged beyond repair. This is the gene that prevents cancer, for if a cell becomes too damaged it becomes dangerous to the body as if will continue to reproduce, the "suicide" cell ends that. This is a poweful message that can be interpretted as being able to sacrifice a part of ourselves to better us as people. Sometimes we have to give up on things or sacrifice time or things that we want to do, but in the end it will make us better as people. Putting the coding for this onto a monument is symbolic and extremely interesting. This is my favorite work out of the ones I have seen.

http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/exoskeleton/

The structure is a mechanicle spider-like device made out of metal and hydrolics. It has six legs and is bare with wires and circutry showing how it works. There is a standing platform for those who wish to mobilize it along with two metallic gloes that I suppose are used to move the machine. It is an exoskeliton used to move others aound.

An exoskeleton in an interesting way to incorporate ones digital self into ones actual self. This expressed the inhuman deals that one manifests when contemplating the digital world. Mechanical insect legs and extra hands give humans the evolutionary edge that they need to further themselves. This brings the interest of the digital world to tehe outside of the being and makes them more evolved as technology has made humans more intelligent and accesible to information.

http://www.juliafriedman.com/work_cheang.html

The peice is a collage of words and images peiced together digitally to portray a meaning. Words and phrases such as, "swap" "Exposure", and "He's a she" are in different white rectangular spaces and surrounded by body shots of the artist and shots of different objects that can be seen as representalitions for genitalia. Colors are primarily grey, black, and white, however blues, flesh tones, and other various colors can be seen throughout the collage.

This peice protrays the exposure of the artist as a transgender to society. Bolded and large print letters help to express the shock and objectable nature of the situation. Body shots of the artist and the objects that represent genitalia show how the thoughts that one may view when finding out that a person is a transgender. It shows how the artist is looked at with slight horror and exposure. I find that this sort of peice is very powerful.