1641 Collective: October 2009

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

So I finally managed to figure out this picture posting thing... Sorry it took so long. The first picture is what my print could look like with the hippottoman in it. There will be shadows burnt under the hippottoman. The second is the picture with the creature blocked out and when I get a stencil to block out the background I can complete this process.

Apparently, I'm still challenged when it comes to computers so if you could imagine this rotated...

Anyways, this person used to have nightmares inspired by the movie "Them." According to him, he was so scared by this movie when he was a child that when a drunk driver crashed into a tree in his front yard in the middle of the night, he imagined the sound was the giant ants coming to get him. He admits the he then ran out of his bedroom screaming, "The ants are coming, the ants are coming!"

the big bang!

ok so i was inspired by the sculptures of EV day and really wanted to work with this idea of a changing and expanding sculpture. in these pictures i want the viewer to see a globe and in the globe a bundle of dynamite. Yes i am "blowing up the world!" creepy but fun! kind of a pinky and the brain activity if you know what i mean. but seriously these photos are just the first in a series these are just for the viewer to see the world and dynamite and get this sense of urgency. the next photos are of the dynamite being ignited and the explosion! sugestions please!!! im worried you cant see the dynamite.

Princess Lolly

So this is Princess Lolly from candy land. She lives in the Lollipop Forest which i drew in chalk on the back ground to kinda make this seem like she came out of a child's drawing of the game. She is really young looking in comparison to all the other characters, so i wanted my model to be doing the child like poses and playing with the lollipops.

My idea for the project was to take the after image of nursery rhymes. So here i have a boy catching the spider that scared Miss Muffet, Little Jack Horner's half eaten pie, Humpty Dumpty being cleaned up and the plate running off with the spoon in Hey Diddle Diddle. For the plate and the spoon do u think that it is okay that part of my house is showing on the left side, or should i use another location?

I was attempting to convey nightmares/fears (blood, monsters under the bed, giant spiders) with a miniature set, made from mostly clay and foam board, except the blood looks more like slime and the persons head is too big.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

HOMONYMS!!!!!!

I am really interested in language and word play, so my photos are made up of homonyms. These are words that are spelled differently but sound the same, like "ball" and "bawl". In the first picture, Charlotte has a plate on her head, and her hair is plaited (braided). She has rings on her fingers as she is wringing out the towel. And she is hearing something from the X that marks 'here'.

Emil is peeing with a abowl of peas next to him, and his shirt is full of holes while a Holy crucifix is on top of the toilet paper roll on the sink.

Street Fighter-esque?

Basically I wanted to create really actiony sword fighting scenes, reminiscent of street fighter, that's why the bg is the way it is. (Cause street fighter and mortal combat are placed in cityscapes or random contemporary areas) Let me know what you guys think of that. Also, one of the photos kind of has what I was originally going for. Basically, one is a still, another is the jump, and the other one is a movement shot/action shot. I wanted to capture the act of fighting. This is only one of the shots, the others weren't that good and the other ones turned out blank for some reason so I'm going to have to reshoot. Also, it only shows one area where the fight is at, for the other ones I want to turn it/show I want to show multiple areas of the plane with action shots. I also had some hand-to-hand combat, but those where one the same blank reel so I'm going to reshoot that too, but that's the plan. So yea... :)

Jarrod Tredway | Nymph

After the devastating find that 27 of my shots were simply not there, I wiped my tears and moved on to what I did have. These shots are the two from this shoot that I would like to use in critique.

I am still working on the technical aspects to get them to match a little better - one has a lot of dark information and the other a lot of light. However, individually I would say they are well printed. The left leg may be a little dark in the image where she is standing, though.

The idea behind these was to bring a sleek glamour to an organic setting, thereby creating a world all its own. I wanted to play off of the Shakespearean notion of nymphs and woodland creatures, thus the white dress and general excess.

Technically or conceptually, I'd love to hear feedback!