I’ve used the last of the squint-eye sized boards* so now I am onto a slightly more manageable 16 x 9. This is a view slightly to the north of the previous scene. Again I’ve prepped the surface with acrylic … Continue reading Adur landscape #2
Video featuring the Frock painting, a desaturated version made in MotionLeap, and audio. Video made in Filmora10, audio recorded on Voice Recorder for iPhone and processed in Filmora. Sources: voice, guitar string, amplifier. Continue reading Frock stays on, mate
Following a discussion with my tutor about matters such as impact and the artistry of art, I am submitting this video, made in response to the curation task, as my final assignment. The curation post can be found here. The … Continue reading Assignment 5 – revised submission content
The last day of British Summer Time this year. Continue reading Wet and windy
I’m keen to get a better grip on my video editing software and to begin incorporating better sound tracks and so I used a selection of paintings from one of the earlier exercises to play around with transitions between images and to experiment with adding sound files. I’ve been a little bit rushed (self imposed) with previous films and as a result not really trying out anything new, so the idea was to really rummage around and see what could be achieved with this piece of kit. There’s an upgrade on the horizon, will it be worth the extra outlay? … Continue reading UPM postcard paintings – a video
This is from my other blog and comprises a critique of Eno’s lecture to the AA School of Architecture while acknowledging the initial questions Eno asks and his stated premise. Brian Eno’s lecture to the AA School of Architecture takes on the problem of how to talk about, to write about, to classify and describe art. Or that was the plan. The lecture starts well with the idea that the arts – all of them – are everything you don’t have to do as illustrated by screwdrivers. The business end is a fixed design, functional and with no room for … Continue reading Brian Eno on art, value, and culture
I think I’m working my way towards using the underneath of the bypass for this. I liked the exploratory sketches and the brutal nature of the concrete, which has nevertheless been appropriated by humans, and how it sits in the middle of a natural environment of clay, rocks, uncultivated vegetation, and water. It’s often dripping; the sounds under there echo; the traffic rumbles and thuds above. Today, I was on the far side from where I’d taken those initial photos and I could hear music. It was coming from the vicinity of a man who was sitting on the river … Continue reading Assignment 3 – outdoor scene preparatory work
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