Video Projection

Another form of installation art, video projection art has also been something of interest for me lately. Video projection involves putting a video onto a surface that enhances the piece to make a scene. I haven't actually seen this done in real life but I have seen videos of it before and needless to say I think it's pretty amazing to watch. My favorite forms of projection have to be those that are on large scale objects like buildings that can provide a very surreal experience.

I have included below a link to one of my favorite video projections of all time. I the video, a projector is able to take full advantage of the building in front of it, making it transform and shift in a large variety of ways.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=699NBQp6Jfg

Stencil Art

We were tasked in class to make a stencil. Yet again I found myself doing something that I had never done before...

So, in order to prepare myself for this, I did what I could to apply what knowledge I already had and my own resources in order to make a decent stencil. I used Photoshop to make a stencil outline of a Shy Guy from the Mario series and then printed him out, carefully extracting him from the surrounding paper with an exacto knife. I then tapped him to a piece of cardboard and went to work with a can of black spray paint until there was a think layer. Unfortunately, it bled a little under the stencil itself so there is some mess but I think it came out pretty well for my first time ever using stencils.

If it has any sort of meaning, I guess it can relate to the silent majority of the country who have to done masks in order to speak out for fear of losing what they hold dear.

Installation Art

A few days ago, I took an interest in what was called installation art.Installation art is not only something I knew very little about but it was also the name of a class I happened to be taking next semester so I figured I had better get acquainted with it. What I learned was actually quite interesting.

It seems that installation art is a pretty broad subject that can really encompass a lot. It's art that can be set up in any area and then viewed by anyone. It's art that takes advantage of it's environment to create something out of the normal. The more I learned about it, the more I came to realize that I had actually been involved in several installation art projects at my old college that I went to. I never really understood the purpose of it then but now I feel like I have a greater understanding of it.

Below is the only image I have of the piece I helped create three years ago.

Performance Video Artists

We were tasked to find and write about performance artists so here it goes.

For my first artist, I guess a major one would be Miley Cirus. She's a person who is consistently seen as acting out or is always making headlines with some outrageous action or outfit. I think she's a performance artist because what she claims to be doing is making art. Art is anything that the artist makes it out to be so if she claims that her actions and her stunts are art, then it's art.

Another artist who is no longer with us would without a doubt be Robin Williams. Robin Williams is someone who constantly used his art and performance skills to entertain people both on the set and in his normal life. There are many instances where he has used his Mrs. Doubtfire costume to fool and confuse people on his gender and identity. 

Yoko Ono is the other artist I would pick as a well know performance artist. She has done and continues to do performance art as a way of showing her thoughts and as a way of protesting touchy subjects to the public. One can simply search the Internet and in a matter of moments find something about her or one of her many performances.

Flip Book

This was an interesting one.

Instructed to create a two hundred page flip book, this quickly became a very difficult task for me to accomplish. I had so little inspiration when creating a flip book.

Hours I spent looking at my papers and having no idea what to do, but then I just started to draw. Nonsense turned into more nonsense and soon enough I had two hundred pages of nonsense being passed in front of my eyes by relaxing my thumb.

Unconventional Grid

One of our latest assignments was the create a grid out of items that your normally didn't expect to see a grid made out of. The assignment itself seemed simple enough but when it came down to execution, it became rather difficult in the long run. I had a lot of trouble coming up with ideas for what to do but I eventually settled on one thing.

Candy.

It was so simple. Candy came in so many colors and it could be used in a variety of ways. The next question came to be, where would I get all that candy from? Luckily, I had several bags of Starbursts lying around from when I purchased several bags months back. I laid them out, all facing the same way and with the same side facing up, and slowly built an image out of my favored flavored treats. The end result? A large question mark block signature to that of the Mario series.

3D Toy

I was given the task of creating a 3D model of a weapon that could also be categorized as a toy. To add tot he difficulty of this, I had to make something that wasn't already a toy which turned out to be quite a lot of things. To work around this I made a bullet of sorts but added a shark face design to it to make it more action like and appealing to a younger audience. It is of course not a real bullet but instead is something that is simply plastic. It could fired from a sling shot like device if need be but probably should be aimed at anyone's face.

Here is the image below of the finished product.