Dominic Ewan: December 2016

'Virtual Sheffield' - learning 3D modelling

Artists Research: John Whitney

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzniaKxMr2g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7h0ppnUQhE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzB31mD4NmA

Ken jacobs-
Exciting flickering loops that capture crumbs and snippets of time and space which combine into movement. Originally used magic lanterns & Projectors but then moved onto digital format. He lives in New York and is in his mid 80s. Greg is Mates with Ken and his wife... apparently!

They're like projected viewmaster slides combined using time rather than 3D anaglyph or polarisation.
They are also impressively easy to make- Just take two photos slightly spaced apart, using 1 or 2 cameras. I am considering using this technique in my project.

4D Human condition- Looking at camera shots

Enter the void
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoQ2jJgJImU
The main protagonist dies after 20 minutes. For the majority of that part it is filmed from his Point Of View. After he dies, the rest of the film is shot from his perspective once again. If I remember correctly, it is one single, fluid shot. Almost always looking down from above the ceiling. This gives a feeling of suspension and unease. It also means that things can be upside down or sideways.

Jan Svankmajer

'all my life' 1966 Bruce Baillie

'Necrology' 197something Standish Lawder
This is a very clever and very simple film which is a metaphor for birth, life and death like 'All my life' but packed into an even shorter timeframe. The film is very simple footage of people on an escalator in the New York Subway (or London?) but the film is reversed so that they are all facing the camera or down while they all ascend. This gives the effect that the people of the bottom are in the front always and the people at the top are mostly shrouded before they disappear off the top of the screen altogether.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dadi7mw5gCs

'The girl chewing gum' 1976 - John Smith

Bernard Herman- music composer

'In 1935, Marcel Duchamp published Rotoreliefs, a set of 6 double sided discs meant to be spun on a turntable at 40–60 rpm. Duchamp and Man Ray filmed early versions of the spinning discs for the short film Anémic Cinéma. A manifestation of Duchamp’s interest in optical illusions and mechanical art, the two-dimensional rotoreliefs create an illusion of depth when spun at the correct speed. These rotoreliefs were produced in an edition of 500, and were initially displayed and offered for sale at the Concours Lépine inventor’s fair.'
http://thebluelantern.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/the-marvelous-rotoreliefs-of-marcel_25.html

Artist Research: Chapman Brothers

Ok so I'm meant to be doing some research into Jake and Dinos chapman.

I'm very lucky to have a mum who takes me to art shows and events. I used to complain about it as a kid because every town or city or place we went to, mum would be sure to take us to at-least one art gallery of museum. Now I'm an art student I'm very grateful, haha!

Two years ago, mum took me to see the Chapman Bro's 'Hellscapes' in the Serpentine gallery pavillion in Hyde Park. These hellscapes consist of literally thousands of miniature Ronald McDonalds, Nazis, Zombies, Mutants and Mutated Zombie Nazis. These pieces become surreal due to the scale and gory, disgusting extremity taken to comedic levels.

I considered including other photographs of their work but I fancy just showing the photos I took two years ago because I feel a connection to these pieces since I've seen them in person and these pieces are definitely ones you need to experience. A photo doesn't do justice. These hellscapes are huge and highly detailed with many tiny scenes frozen in motion. I'm interested to know how all of the figures were produced. They looks custom and hand painted which must have taken a lot of time and patience. I'm guessing the Chapmans have a team of artists doing this work for them since the brothers are far too busy being controversial.