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Stop Motion Part 2 – Movie Quote Madness. May 6, 2010

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Needless to say since my last installment of the stop motion project alot has happened & I’m now delighted to say with a breath of fresh air that i’m sure James & Ciaran would agree with “We’re Finished!” Woo…

So where did we go from the idea of the 2 Action Men & Movie Quotes? Alot!

After we came to a conclusion of what we wanted It was pretty easy to come up with the script & applying the actions to what each character was going to do.

We named the Video: Harry -Vs- Ivan Movie Quote Madness;

I came up with the genius name of Harry, and Ciaran came up with the equally genius name of Ivan as that Action Man had a very Russian-esque feel to him.. Bless him! or should I say : бог благословляет его!?

hahaha

Shooting

Shooting the stop motion was a very difficult & tedious part but all 3 of us learned alot of stuff from doing it. It was hard because we had to use blue tac etc to hold both action men in place aswell as Myself & Ciaran having to hold them in position too as there were some positions where they weren’t steady enough to stand up without falling over.

After 4 days of shooting and hours apon hours of SNAP* {move position} SNAP* {move position} SNAP* {action man falls over} SCREAMS (fix action man} SNAP* …… and so on… we were done!

Editing

So the editng part, which we knew would probably be the hardest part!

For this part firstly we re-sized are images in Photoshop, next we broke are whole 650 Images into different folders as to accompidate Flash troubles etc After this we began editing around are images and stop motion; I believe this part was very tedious; I didn’t do this part of the editing but Ciaran said it took a good bit of getting used to! So i’m kinda lucky I got in charge of sound. So once all the video editing was done.. the Audio was next.

We originally intended to record voice-overs to the movie quotes ourselves but we soon learned it would be very hard to sync up with the stop motion so we just recorded ourselves for the first part of the dialogue and for the rest we just got the audio from the movies, chopped it up in garage band and applied it to the stop motion.

After this it was Intro and Outro Music!

Once this was done myself and Ciaran felt rather than just getting music from the internet or such we would make a little jingle/song ourselves and put it in the stop motion for the  intro/outro. So we got together one day after college with are acoustic guitars and sure one thing led to another and before we knew it we had a funky little riff with some beautifully played chords by the man himself, Ciaran.  Once we felt comfortable with the song we recorded it using GarageBand in Ciarans room. We were very happy with it for the lack of recording gear we had, and we really felt it went well with the overall feel for the Stop Motion.

Overall this project was really fun aswell as equally difficult but I feel we all learned alot and are group got closer now because of it.

Ocean Approaching as we are almost coming to the end of are last semester being first year Digital Media students TEAR* :(

Its being one hell of e year. I’ve really had a ball and have made some really truely great friends that I will have for the rest of my life.

My mam always used to say to me it’s always good to finish with a quote so I Shall leave you with this.

Take me to the Bar,

& Fill me up with Beer.

Much Love xo

Digital Imaging May 3, 2010

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Photo Restoration

As part of the CA for our Digital Imaging module we were asked to Restore 2 old Photographs in Adobe Photoshop.

I thought i’d throw them up for your viewing pleasures…

B   E    F   O   R   E

A     F     T     E     R

B   E    F   O   R   E

A     F     T     E     R

I’m such a geek but I really enjoyed this assignment.

I think its just class the way you can bring a photograph to life again after so many years!

Geeky time over!

Creative Inspirations – Simone Legno May 3, 2010

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Simone Legno

As we had no guest-speaker some weeks ago we were told to delve into the Creative Inspiartions video’s Lynda.com has on offer. This installment of Creative Inspirations was on the Itialian Artist Simone Legno well known for being the creator of the Tokidoko brand which is heavily influenced by Simone’s love and affection for the Japanese culture.

Some of Tokidoko’s best known characters are

  • ADIOS
  • SANDy
  • MOZZELLA

Background


So as I said Simone Legno is An Italian Artist from Rome well know for his Japanese style Animations/Characters.

Simone was interested in Art from an early age as his mother was a Painter, and because his family couldn’t afford much toys for Simone he spent the majority of his youth doing what he loved : DRAWING!

From an early age he was drawing and because his drawings were so good his Teacher in school even put them up around the entire school.

After school Simone began studying Political Science but he soon discovered that this would not be for him.

Internet Revolution

After this, Simone luckily got his hands on Illustartor through a friends brother who was an Architect. Simone was amazed with the prospect of being able to bring his characters to life with the technology advances the web was going through with Flash.

This is what drove his ambition to go to Design school. Through Design school he learned that the classic advertisment route would not be for him so he jumped on-board the internet revolution and set up a portfolio website namd Tokido showing all his animations etc and not before long he turned this into a brand with his buisness partner.

Simone gave some wise words during the video saying ” Being humble is key” . You never stop learning, so always push yourself to learn more be it a particular software; Lets use Adobe’s new CS5 as an example. Some people may think they know everything about a particular software but as technology advances there’s more and more cool things to learn + there’s always someone who will be there to snatch up your place so the key thing he meant was always push yourself.

Something I thought was cool about Simone’s process of bringing a character to life was that there all skecthes first. If I hadn’t watched the video’s I would’ve thought they were made digitally in Illustrator/Photoshop.

Animation Process :

  • Does a sketch
  • Takes a photo with his Iphone
  • Upload’s it
  • Takes it into Illustrator
  • Using the pen tools he draws the outline of the character
  • Using other Illustator tools he apply’s colours to the animation

I thought it was cool how he showed step by step how he brought his characters to life and really enjoyed the overall video. Animating is something i’ve really into over the past few months and would love to learn more about it.

Interview Lecture with Maria Brown May 2, 2010

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Interviews

So in preperation for are forthcoming mock-interview for WIDM ( Which may i add is worth 15%….Eeek!), Maria Brown of are very own ITB came into are class to talk to us about interview tips and techniques and gernerally how to handle yourself in an interview!

First of all let me tell you about this mock-interview. As I was saying for are module Working In Digital Media we will be having a mock-interview in the next week or so. For the Interview Brief, we were giving several different Job Title’s/Desriptions that are within the Digital Media Industry for example to name a few;

  • Web Designer
  • Graphic Designer
  • Sound Engineer
  • Photographer

I have chosen to apply for the photography position myself because it was the one that most appealed to me aswell as having been brought up in a photography type background, that being my uncle being a photographer for the Irish Times, as well as my mam having a huge interest in it too. TRIGGER HAPPY as they say!

The Lecture itself was very benifitial I learned alot of things I didn’t know before.

Maria opened with saying the most important thing to do for any interview is Preperation.. It will determine who will be the nervous one’s on the big day. She also stressed that you must know your Cv, as through Maria’s expeirence you wouldn’t believe the amount of times people forget what they actually put down on there Cv leaving a very awkward time for the interviewee’.. If this has happened to you before in an interview..Needless to say you probably didn’t get a call back. So what she was trying to say

  • TIP 1) KNOW YOUR CV!*

When in an Interview you are selling yourself to the company basically so

  • TIP 2) STAY POSITIVE IN EVERYTHING YOU SAY!*

Even if the thing you are speaking about is quite negative such as a problem you previosuly had with a customer in a previous job position and say how you benifited from your expierence.

& Last but not least, first impressions really do make a Difference ( with a capital D) so…

  • TIP 3) DRESS APPROPIATLEY AND MAN SUIT UP!

All in all it was a very good lecture to have before the Interview, Maria was lovely and anwsered any quesitions we had about the interview.

**UPDATE**

So I had my interview on Thursday.

Thought it went deadly! It’s funny how you kinda grow in confidence when wearing a suit, thought I handled all my questions well, and made a very Optimistic impression of myself ( BIG SMILES). Only got one slightly weird question, was asked what would I say to a class if I was telling them about Photography. Just cause it was such a broad question didn’t know where to start but I handled the question grand in the end.

Now we must sit and wait to get are feedback!

Anywho Interview over, last week of college this week.

HAPPY DAYS.

Working In Digital Media with Robbie Ward. April 27, 2010

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BPM MEDIA- Instore Music & Video.

The Monday just gone before last Robbie Ward of  BPM Media (which is coincidently situated in Blanchardstown Corporate Park) came in to speak to us about his experience within Digital Meda.

Robbie began with showing us a video of an example of the kind of work BPM Media do. The video was a collagae/Mash up of different pop/dance music you would hear in a nightclub on a Saturday night with suttle advertisments stuck in at the end casually as I would say with the music still playing in the background.

If you didn't know what a Nightclub was...................

Interactivity

They also apply some interactive activity for viewers to these such video’s by setting up text messaging lines so people can send message’s to each other. Up to 300 people on average would send in messages each night. Robbie reflected during the talk that they had to set up a language filter eventually because you can imagine the amount of fun people would have with it within a club. Personally speaking i’m not a fan of these videos you see in nightclub’s, I think it’s maybe cause i’m not a fan of the music they apply to them. Like Come on man…. Its hard enough listening to Lady Gaga let alone The Pussycat Dolls & Rihanna.

So yes, thats an example of such work BPM Media are involved in. Aswell as nightclub’s..they also do similar stuff in :

  • Pub’s
  • Cafe’s
  • Shopping Centre’s
  • Retail Outlets etc

At the beginning of the lecture Robbie put a slide up containing the words “Relevance is King”

For his example Robbie continued by saying showing these Music video collage’s during the day in a Cafe just wouldn’t have the same effect as showing it in a Nightclub. However in a Cafe it would be relevent by highlighting a Lunch Special/Coffee.
Throughout his talk he stressed how important it is knowing your audience as in :

  • Who visit’s the venue?
  • How often…. and When?
  • & the important part : Using all of this information aswel as customer expanditure to create a profile!

Effect of Digital Signage

By using Digital Media it can safe buisness’s like Restaurants & Cafe’s money because by having a Digital Menu rather than a print menu the restaurant can change the menu throughout the day to suit the particular time ie Breakfast Menu’s, Dinner Menu’s.

Another interesting point he spoke about was that people believe things more than anything when its on a screen/television. So by using Digital Menu’s Restaurants have the ability to be more presuasvive to there customers for example If a particular desert wasn’t doing well that day, and the restaurant made a change to the menu and said :

Chocolate Cake with Cream – Buy in the next half hour and get 30 % off!

It’s things like this that make people believe there getting a bargin and why they ultimately buy the desert.

Another crucial thing is Audio. This could be arguably more important than visuals. Ever left a shop or anything because the music was to loud? Having everything at just the right level is as i said very crucial.. it could determine whether or not a customer buys something.

I Enjoyed this lecture very much so, I learned alot of things i never really thought about before and can see this sort of buisness becoming more and more popular as the digital revolution progress’s through the age.

VIVA LA DIGITAL REVOLOUTIONARY

Until my next post….

Stop Motion Project – Part 1. April 24, 2010

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Background & Story Idea

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Note to self: So I’m naming this blog stop motion project – part 1 in hoping I will write more about this said advernture.

First things first so as I already stated in my previous post’s as a part of my course Creative Digital Media we will be doing a stop motion group project sometime this year and that time has just come about! We have been split into mainly groups of 3-4 people; In my group there’s myself, Ciaran and James. A worthy team i might add. So the brainstorming process was very messy as expected but we did finally come to a conclusion after a week of many cups of Tea/Coffee, bottles of Coke,bottles of Lucozade (happy Ciaran), packets of waffles, and many more.

So we decided to do a stop motion collage of several famous movie quotes everything from Scarface to Lord of the Rings to even Mean Girls! ( just for the girls) ………….joking! actually a classic movie! I still haven’t got to the hard part, so we will be doing this stop motion famous movie quotes collage using 2 Action Men! ….this shall be fun we thought!

A Little teaser to keeps yous happy!

Untill my next installment of THE STOP MOTION PROJECT.

dun dun don*

Creative Inspirations – Ron Crabb April 24, 2010

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So this week in WIDM as we had no guestspeaker so we were told to delve into the creative inspirations videos that Linda.com offers. The dude I picked was a very down to earth American Motion Graphics/Fine Arts expert called Ron Crabb.

In his first few video’s he talks about Brainbridge Island, his home and his workspace which would be considered unsual for a Motion Graphics Editior as the majority of people in his field would live in such place’s as Hollywood,LA. He go’s on to talk about how he asked the people he was working for would they mind if he moved to this place Brainbridge Island which is in Washington as he could do all his work from home because of the glorious internet and the freedom it offers to people in are field of work. They seen no problem with this and this is what ultimately led Ron to becoming a Matt painter as it allowed him to work from home compared to a Motion Graphics editor who would have to be on set editing, and shooting etc!

As a Career plan Ron didn’t really have one which is kinda funny for such a  succesful person that he is now. He originally intended to be an illustrator but because of requirements etc he needed two foreign languages. So he went to a few classes to bump up on his languages but didn’t like it so he went out on a limp and as he says in the video” Sold his bike and went to California to try and become an artist.

He first got a job at a ski shop desiging t-shirts which was his first expierence of being an artist, which then led him to doing logo designs. Then one of the guys in the shop got him an interview at some art college called aacp which he got accepeted into. In this he did news graphics which then led him into the path of Motion Graphics which led him on to Matte painting.

So Matte painting , what is it? Ever seen a movie where you asked yourself : God how did they film that or make that look so realalistic? ..In this case the background was most likely matte painted. This is so easy to do now ( well not the actuall painting) but easy to put into practice today with all of the Digital improvemens the world has expierenced the past few years with Photoshop etc. Even little adjustments to a scene that movie makers want they might get a Matte painter to paint to safe money aswell as time.

At the moment this is Ron’s as he puts it “Bread & Butter”

An example of A Matte Painting:

This is an example of a Matte Painting that you would see in such fiction based movies like Star Wars

Ron has worked on such movies as

  • The Last Summari
  • The Bucket List
  • X-men 2 and many more…

In the movie the bucket list starring Samuel L Jackson & Jack Nicolson there’s one scene of the movie where there at the Taj Mahal in India, and this particular matte painting was quite difficult as he to add a camera move to his painting, to make the painting look realistic.

Working In Digital Media with Fiona Kelly. March 29, 2010

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In WIDM this week are guestspeaker was Fiona Kelly from Glimmer Digital Design her own idependant buisness & She is also apart of FLK studio.

Here is the link to her website > http://www.glimmer.ie/

The theme of this week’s lecture was “Inspiration!” and this is what Fiona came into to talk about . Over the course of the lecture, Fiona shared her knowledge of the best ways of finding inspiration and how it’s not actually stealing! HAPPY days!

Fiona started of her talk by showing us a Quote from a guy called Jim Jarmusch. This quote could be considered very controversial. You’ll see why now.

“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with
inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films,
music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random
conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds,
bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from
that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft)
will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent.
And don’t bother concealing your thievery
- celebrate it if you feel like it.”

Jim Jarmusch

He really doesn’t hold back eh?

After showing us this quote, Fiona begin telling us about loads of cool websites where we can draw all types of inspiration’s from.

  • Smashing Magazine
  • iStock Photo
  • FFFFOUND
  • Del.ic.ious
  • Digg
  • and many many more…

Fiona then told us about some projects she did and the process of finding Inspiration she went through over the course of the project, and how she applied this to her work without actually infringing copyright or plagiarising the original author’s work.

SCOOTER ISLAND – Web Design

When first starting of a project, Fionna spends the first few weeks researching her clients previous work etc and possible idea’s etc So this is what Fiona did first when doing this project. As she was designing the footer for there website she spent a lot of her research looking at Scooter Island’s previous logo’s, and style’s, and seeing how she could apply this to the footer.

So firstly in any project! RESEARCH RESEARCH RESEARCH.

She noticed through her research that Scooter Island had used alot of Vespa – Mod – Ska styles in there advertising etc, so she knew she’d be using something similar to this is her footer. Next she looked through vinatage, 50′s + 6o’s website’s and took out design elements from these websites she liked and seen how she could apply this to her’s.

In the end she came up with this! >>

Finished Header!

Fiona told us the final footer & finished product was something like her 5th attempt and went through many different prototypes! Something else Fiona told us.. To always save your work and keep previous projects cause you never know when you might need it again. So another message from the talk.

BACK UP YOUR WORK.

Fat Kitty Films – Logo Design

For her next project she was approached by this film company to design there new logo. They told her they wanted something with a 50′s- esque design element, so for research she spent alot her times looking through hunderds of font’s associated with the 50′s, colour scheme’s, shapes and many other things associated with the 50′s aswell as Illustarted Cat’s as the Company’s name was Fat Kitty Films.

Fat Kitty Films Logo

Dublin Gay Theatre Festival  -  Web design

For her next project She was approached by Dublin Gay Theatre Festival to design the layout of there new Website.

For her research she looked through other Gay festival website’s – and took elements from these websites she liked and tried to apply this to the website of the festival.

She also looked through general web design layout’s, + looked through the previous logo’s and design’s of the previous years of the Dublin Festival.

( Which she didn’t like)…But was told she had to include this into her finished design so her orignal idea of designing a new logo/webpage went out the window but this was to be expected so it didn’t bother Fiona that much.

Finished Layout

My Home.ie – Banner Ad

Fiona was approached by Myhome.ie to create a banner ad in there current online campaign on “Buying Holidays Abroad – A future investment or a new home “

As this campaign was on home’s abroad she wanted to create a banner that would show elements of life aborad – Sunshine, beaches, you get the idea.

This is a snippet of her finished banner which she created in adobe flash professional.

Myhome.ie - Banner Ad

Puca – Website Redesign

Her next client was Puca who are mobile marketing phone company, they approached her and asked Fiona to re-design there website based on stuff they liked from other marketing websites, combining them together to make the puca website . Intelligent stealing – which was what this blog was all about!

Fiona's Re-Design of the puca website

I learned alot of from this lecture. I know now that when starting a project the first thing I should do is RESEARCH, RESEARCH,  RESEARCH, & more research……. Such a simple thing but I never realised how easily you can get inspired by anything be it over-hearing a conversation on a bus between two people, seeing a photograph you like… and the list goes on. Overall this lecture is something I will take through the rest of my life.

See ya next time …

Digital Media Field Trip go dtí an Dáil Éireann + the Science Gallery! March 23, 2010

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Today on the 23rd of March 2010, on a suprisingly dull grey Irsh day ( amazing weather we have here in Ireland ) the 1st year students of Creative Digital Media payed a visit to the Oireachtas which to anyone not from Ireland or who doesn’t know this is are goverment buildings and house of representives mainly known for the td proceedings at the main building inside it the Dáil.

Oireachtas - Dail Chamber

http://www.oireachtas.ie/parliament/

+ To the Science Gallery in Trinity College Dublin.

My day started off with an hour’s bus journey into the ye ol’ City Centre. My Bus Journey was not exactly pleasent to say the least. For my entire trip into the city centre I was lucky to sit infront of somebody who had a particular intrest for Metallica, so for the majority of my journey I heard this music belting out of this guy’s GIGANTIC headphones _ usage of the caps on gigantic was truely needed i swear to god. These headphones would litrually kill you! … although the last song i did hear him playing was “All you need is love” by the Beatles.. so there is hope still! for mysterous gigantic headphone metallica lover .. I will be refering to him as “MGHML” in my future post’s and throughout this particular post. + Seriously why do people feel the need to discuss there private live on Public Transport! – My god woman there is a time and a place. I discoverd this particular female ( i did not see her but bloody well heard her) had just had a nose operation and now as she said ” looked like a bleedin’ cocaine addict” + everything else said would possibly be a little bit to explicit for this particular blog.

Anywho….

Finally in City Centre. Yes!

I was actually looking forward to the wanderings around town today would bring.. as i no longer travel much through town as i get a lift to college with a fellow student . HAPPY DAYS. You see I live in a little town by the sea in North County Dublin called Rush so you see for the first 4 months of college I had to get 4 bus’s in 1 particular day – was not a worthy expierence! ..anyway yes was looking forward to rambles in town :) On arriving in town, Myself and fellow Rush-ianian ( a person from rush) – stephen (the kind guy who gives me lifts to college) met up with the wonderful Ciaran, Aza, & James outside Mcd’s on Grafton Street. Next it was to the OIREACTHAS! woo

We all met outside the main building at 10.45 am… but as for usual…some peoples were late …fashionably may i add ;) Anywho after a 10 minute or so lag we were all ushered into the waiting area within the Oireachtas where we were told of the order of the day’s proceedings within the building… Before are guided tour around the building we all went for Tea/Coffee in the lovely posh cafe’ within the Oireachtas… also during the briefing Ronan commented on are wonderful dressing. Big Kudos to the digital media peeps for keeping it real. I liked the comment by a so called annoymous student :

I THOUGHT WE WERE GOIN’ LEISURE PLEX’!!!!!!

hahaha! bloody brilliant.

During are tea/coffee break there was a wee bit of discrimination between the tea and coffee drinkers .. having us split sides! Tea on the right Coffee on the left!!!! – What side are you?! – You tell me! ..myself .. I am a right hand man through and through .. although i have dabbled in the so called left hand antics so to speak.

After this little Tea pre-tour pep talk by are very own Ronan Mullen….which had him ranting on his own thoughts of are goverment proceedings/ system’s to everything from that to his thoughts on bran flakes …maybe not that but that would be cool. Next it was are guided tour around the main building!

Firstly we went up to main part of the building – the dail’ . This as I was saying early on is were all the main proceddings and talk’s happens between are goverment td’s etc – and is what you would see on any given news bulletin @ 9.0o in the evening. I really enjoyed this as having done History for the leaving cert, it was really cool to actually see what I always heard about. + Also on walking in it was amazing the feeling I felt…I mean the air of the place, the amount of history that this building has seen over the past 80 + Years or soo….

Just gave me a funny but nice sensation.

One thing which really stud out for me that I never knew before was that Michael Collins was the one who actually suggested the building would be great if Ireland ever got its own goverment….low and behold it did!

After this we were shown around the main parts of the building itself, I really liked the house itself…liked the general feel to it and all the history it had been through. One cool thing I learned was that the building is actually a country house as it only has a front enterance & a garden at the back. Amazing how this house built in the 18th Century would eventually become the centre of all of Irelands Goverment procedures throughout the 20th Century and still to this day the 21st Century.. madness.

Throughout the building there was loads of paintings of past taoiseach’s &  famous td’s etc such as Michael Collins, Cathal Brugha, previous Taoiseach+President of Ireland – Eamon De Velera. There was also one of the original Irish Declarations of Goverment written by the man himself Padraig Pearse that was sent around Dublin. Having done history again. This was very cool to actually see this.

Staircase in the main building - (this part of the building was built for Jfk's Visit in the 60's)

As we weren’t aloud take any photographs’ within the building this is the reason for the lackage although I did get one photo of myself taken on my amazingly crappy camera phone – I took this in the lobby of the main entance of myself but the idea was to get the beautfil architecture & artsy design on the roof of the building -

I love being a geek ……

In the main entrance....

All in all it was a very pleasant tour through this historic building. At least I can say I was there anywho :D

After a brief Interlude of some delicious food from the wonderful Bad Ass Cafe!…………………

……………………………IT WAS TO TRINITY SCIENCE GALLERY- WOOO

Apon coming into this Sciene gallery I wish Clodagh told us to swallow a dictionary of some sort .. some very big wordy concepts being said here! ;)

So yes…as part of are field trip today we also payed a visit to the science gallery where there was a current exhibition going on about ” Hyper-Bolic Crochet Coral Reef”

A funky groovy crotchet wolly design - So want this for my room!

Basically in simpler terms this is an exhibtion to highlight the dangers are reef”s are in through the usage of Mathimatics – Science – & Art. Currently due to global warming are reef’s are dieing basically due to this. My understandings of this Hyper-Bolic stuff is that scientists once said that it didn’t actually exhist within are world but then it was proved recently by a scientist who showed this through the usage of art I think. I really don’t wanna copy & paste what it means from Wikipedia cause you could do this anyway but yeah that’s my quirky understanding of it.

More funky wolly hpyperbolic designs!

The first people to do this arty/ hyperbolic/wolly funky cool design’s were two Australian twins Margaret & Christine Wertheim of the institute for figuring in Los Angeles. As there Australian they naturally were worried for the well being of the great barrier reef, so thought that Yes! This would be a excellent way of hightlighting this.

Working In Digital Media with Emma Wade March 20, 2010

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This week in WIDM are guest-speaker was artist Emma Wade.

Emma gave us a run through of her time-line from everything she’s done from college, to her general working career as a graphic designer then to becoming an Artist.

Firstly to start things off Emma graduated in 2002 from the Institute of Art & Design Dun Laoghaire. Apon graduating for the next 2 years she worked in Design Company. Next she then worked in high street printers for a good year or so. Emma said she gained alot of experience here & head up that other Graphic Designers didn’t have, because she worked in a printers she was accustomed to working under-pressure and was used to the stress of meeting deadlines not forgetting the knowledge of printing also.

Sometime in 2005 Emma went to IMMA – the irish museum of modern art. After experiencing this – She then knew it was Art where her destiny lay.

Wanting to become an Artist Emma did a Masters Degree in the Fine Art Department in NCAD. She commentted that for the first year she didn’t half a breeze what people were talking about half of the time, as Artists are thought to think completely different.

The Cheer Up Project for NCAD

For her big project at the end of first year Emma created the “Cheer Up” sound installation. This idea spanned from one morning when she awoke to the sound of cheering as she lived in the inner-city and there was a national marathon taking place and she thought to herself – wouldn’t it be awesome to awake to that every morning . A real feel good eh? The way her project was set up in the muesem was very simple. There was a mat with two large speakers facing towards the person that was standing on the mat. Next when someone stud on the mat cheering would begin and the more time you standed on the mat the louder the cheering got. Emma showed us some videos of people on the mat. One that stud out was an actor on the mat. You know how they love themself’s!!

Cheer - Up Project.

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A Video of peoples reactions to the cheer up

Rexotrek – Emma’s Masters Project.

One day after bringing her parents dog “Rex” on a walk, Emma thought to herself wouldn’t it be great to see the life through the eyes of a dog so she thought she’d do some study and attempt to do it. So for the next 6-8 months Emma studied her dog day and night studying all his move’s & habit’s. To help her more she used a  gps, a mini cctv camera and a skype headset to get a more Point of View from Rex. She commented that Rex loved all of the stuff she attached to him for any of you animal lovers! From all of this Emma created an Exhibition called “Rexotrek”. To see the project you had to crawl on your hand’s and knee’s to really expierence the point of view from the dog . She said this was quite a risk but was really surprised with how entusiastic people took the exhibition.

Emma preparing the Rexotrek Exhibition.

The Dog himself! – from a close source he really enjoyed the expierence. haha

Rex

People interacting with the Exhibiton


http://vimeo.com/4119693

> Rexotrek Video on Vimeo.

After completing her Masters Emma took part in a 3 month internship at the Guggenheim museum in Manhatton, New York.

Emma thought people Adobe Photoshop and more about Art. She said it was a chance of a lifetime and that she was delighted she got the oppurtunity to do such a thing. While her she built up some good contacts that would help her with some exhibitions down the line so it was a very benefital 3 months for Emma . She also loved the teaching aspect of it which she thought she never had it in her.

I’m a huge fan of architecture and the guy Floyd Llyod Wright who designed the guggenheim building in New York  is one of my favourite architecture’s. This Design was something that no-one had ever tried to create before.

The Interior of the Guggenheim Museum.

On the topic of Guggenheim make sure to check out an awesome Irish Folk/Rock/Pop 3-piece called The Guggenheim Grotto. One of my favourite bands!

Recently Emma has taken an Artist resedincy in the Limerick City Gallery of Art where she worked on a project called “Behind Smoke & Mirror’s” for a month. Emma said it was a weird experience – saying it was almost the Big Brother for Artists! People from the general public could wander in and just talk to them about there current work, they also gave a number of lecture’s & workshop’s.

Emma’s latest work is the H.U.G.S. (Human Utopian Generation System) Inspired from the recent global phenomenon of “FREE HUGS”.

The System gives the user the sensation & feeling of getting a real hug.

The jacket is made out  of bin bag’s and bike tubes.

I really enjoyed looking at all of Emma’s projects, they were all interesting and I loved her style and the way she could generate an idea from everyday life. Personally I dont think Art combined with Digital Media would be the right direction for me but who knows maybe a trip to Imma in the near future may have the same effect on me as it did with Emma!

Until my next post….

See ya!

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