daniel eatock lecture at LCC! he's so brilliant. his work is definitely some of my favourite around. it's just playfulness and no pretentions, I really love that. someone asked him what the meaning behind his work was, I slapped my forehead. he gave was I think is the right answer though - there's none, there's honestly none. it's just a record of a wonderful way of viewing the world. his work and methods brings a smile to my face.
very refreshing.
gives you hope.
take one with every meal.
this angry blag is practically on fire! ho ho ho.
okay so these are 72dpi roughs for 'all ears' article number three... a dilemma of choice. the two concepts are quite different in the sense that one represents an idea briefly posed by the text and the other a representation of one of the expressed thoughts (just to make it sound really fancy...). SO WHICH ONE SHALL IT BE?
to explain some things, as I left off the notes this time round - in exhibit A (left) there is a slighty indistinguishable blobule in the red circle on the 'stage' front barrier. this is a very rough brain clipart thing, basically indicating: "no brains beyond this point" (cue the static laughter - she is a robot!) the robot part additionally refers to the fact that a group of guys ask her to dance the robot in the middle of her normal repertoire for some extra moneys.
exhibit B, presumably, speaks for itself once you've read the first paragraph of the text (referring to the sudden interest in the 'ethics of professional nudity' when there is a lull in everything else; to hide this fact, it's been upgraded to a science.)
at 7:39AM I feel I have every right to be totally knackered but that's what you get for cramming pretty much most of every major deadline into the last 24 hours before it's due. but hey, it's all finished, so yeah. so this'd be the final (at 72dpi) for the second illustration assignment... done in a weird backwards way but I think it turned out surprisingly close to how I'd pictured it. weird huh.
letterpress workshop, 1/4 (introduction).
crazy to think this is how everything was printed before the introduction of things like mac in 1984. I'd go mad after about a day of that kind of work probably. but it's very exciting in smaller doses.
crazy to think this is how everything was printed before the introduction of things like mac in 1984. I'd go mad after about a day of that kind of work probably. but it's very exciting in smaller doses.
rough for all ears second article. wrote down key ideas of it, going to go for the burning car and pound signs in the end after having a brief talk about it with my tutor. might do it as a linocut...
final thing for the first project... 72dpi version. somewhat small. a little bit different from my rough I think (oh by the way I added some of the other sketches. it felt... useful... to do so).
this is pretty much the first college work I was genuinely enthusiastic about putting together (though that might be because work done was proportional to amount of cookies I was rewarded with). almost as enthusiastic as with my own stuff (which involves no cookies). I am so happy about that. it doesn't feel as impersonal, doesn't feel like I've churned it out just for the sake of an assignment, largely evidenced by the fact that I finished it EARLY. that was a big problem in foundation last year, couldn't connect to the projects and therefore didn't care for the result... was worried it'd be the same this year, but so far, not really. let's hope that continues.
but anywho. time off until 6pm tomorrow. woohoo!
some of the work for the rough draft of the new editorial illustration project, based on a column by Michael Holden done for the Guardian - All Ears. hard to get an image out of the text that doesn't end up relatively 'generic', or sees the text in a new light or whatever. but maybe that's not the point. can't continue trying to squeeze out something when it's probably not even there. must accept article for what it is!
final-ish rough draft is probably the one on the top right. morose man will probably be broken up a bit when it comes to detail. I like the idea that he's "in fucking bits". faces need more... character? right now they're just based on upside down and rightside up half-circles...
Białowieża Forest, one of the last remaining old growth forests in Europe, and the biggest one, located on the border of Poland and Belarus. some trees there are over 500 years old... some over 900. the rare wisent, which are basically eurasian bison, live there, and generally this is the most biodiverse area in the whole of Europe. apparently the Eastern Europe used to be covered in a forest like it in the not-so-distant past. even further back it used to stretch to Britain.
according to 'The World Without Us' by Alan Weisman, this is also what the whole of Europe will look like in roughly 900 years if humans where to disappear completely tomorrow.
doesn't it look incredible? so undisturbed. how amazing would it be to visit, or live in. it's a stable National Park at the moment, actually expanding slightly as the nearby villages are being abandoned for cities. I wonder if we'll ever manage to bring things like this back.
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