I have a number of apps with which to make the moving images that I use to overlay or incorporate in my art work, and the ones I use most are PowerDirector for making videos, MotionLeap for its effects library … Continue reading Making videos and using effects
With no clear notion of why, I took photos of my shadow a while ago, performed a bit of digital magic with them, then abandoned them to Google. The whole shadow idea has re-emerged once again as the USA is … Continue reading Shadow Army
I’ve mentioned the Artivive app before – it’s an app that calls up video hosted on their site and linked to a specific image. For now, it’s mostly used in galleries where lighting and connectivity are generally good. I used it for my contribution to our lane’s Advent Window fundraiser (for the local school) whereby one window a night is ‘unveiled’ and then stays lit for the rest of Christmas, which meant viewing in the dark from the garden in a village where mobile signals aren’t always great. It was a big test and it passed! Artivive has a torch … Continue reading Artivive in the wild!
These seem mostly to be used for collaboration but they’re also handy as a repository. I’ve collected most of my art-related videos on this one. Continue reading Padlets
Artivive is a way of linking an image to a video without the need for QR codes on the work you’re scanning. Take a painting, for instance; you might want to add an animation or some clips of it being … Continue reading Artivive
If you’re going to do excruciation, do it early and do it big so here it is, my one take, unedited, no embellishments assessment presentation. Not even a cat turned up. Contracted to Zoom, probably. Continue reading Formal assessment – video presentation
Flamepainter for iPad is a free app and it’s wonderful for quick, if somewhat erratic, sketches. The process is easy to work out – choose a brush, set the size and other parameters, change the colour if you want to, draw. The last part is the trickiest as the ‘light’ zooms around the canvas as if possessed. Best plan is to try one combination of brush and speeds and get used to it before altering anything else! The image above is made on a black canvas using a number of brushes to pick out the light that might be from … Continue reading Part 5 – personal project preparatory work, digital seas
I think I saw this on TV a while ago, knowing nothing about her or her work. If this is what I saw, there is a point when her past lover appears in front of her as she plays out her two minutes of silent looking with strangers. It was heart breaking. The DVD is on order and I see it discusses whether or not this is art, which probably goes for a good many of the more contemporary installations and performances that appear now in galleries. So different from the traditional oil painting, the representational depiction of a something … Continue reading Marina Abramovic – the artist is present
Netflix 2018. Trailer via YouTube. This is a documentary made by two people who discovered Szukalski’s art then found that he lived almost nearby and went on the trail of the man and his work. What they found was both stunning and disturbing; massive bronzes reminiscent of the landscape of the 1920s film Metropolis – overwhelmingly solid and diminishing of human scale; a driven man with an extraordinary background that included idiosyncratic lettering and symbols in his writing; and a disturbing involvement with the Nazi movement. Most of his art work was lost in WWII and he seemed forever in … Continue reading Struggle: the life and lost art of Szukalski
https://www.immerseuk.org/case-study/royal-academy-of-arts-and-htc-vive/ This was a BBC documentary and I can find no trace of it now. In it, several artists, including Gormley and Hockney, were introduced to the use of virtual reality in creating pieces of art work for the Royal Academy. Wearing headsets and flailing around in apparently empty air, they had to get to grips with this novel medium and somehow tame it – or at least render it harmless – within a given time-frame. I thought the outcomes were variable and that some of the artists at least would never touch the idea again, but that, as … Continue reading Royal Academy and Virtual Reality
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