25 May 2008

DWT 29/05/08

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A final missive on this inauspicious day inauspicious because it is the last day of this module, it all has to be handed in this afternoon and it is my talk and I only have about half an hour left. inauspicious as well because yesterday was the day that Beryl Cook died, and I have been thinking quite a lot over this module about naive art and she definitely fits that criteria but I really do not like Beryl Cooks work at all i am not sure what I think about her dearth but I don't think that it is a great loss to the art world and yet there is naive art that I do like so what it is what is it where does my taste lie in that minefield.

DWT 27/5/08

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Walking up the hill with my phone possibly for last time seeing as how this has to be in on Thursday and it's a different hill seeing as how it is half term thinking that I should be getting on with doing an evaluation of the term part of the evaluation would be really what I have learned in terms of methodology .........as well as what I have learned about me getting the quote that I found yesterday I shall have to go back and have a look for it some thing like like 'all art is metaphor' also thinking about doing some more of my own work over the summer for the new new build exhibition it would give me the motivation to do that it made made me think quite a lot about it so it has been a really useful term for all sorts of different reasons thinking about ...............the animation days I have a huge amount of work to do over the next fortnight getting these talks and things organised that I was planning to do for assignment 5 but I have run out of time so I shall just have to talk about what I intend to do ....................................also in the summer really what I want to do is to get going on Tom's work for next do as much of the viewing and reading for that as I can.............. I can't get away from the fact that what I am doing here is the MA.... too windy............. I'll stop

The Sound of Music

Watching the Sound of Music on a bank holiday Monday - well listening to it really, as I was ostensibly at work on assignment 5. But in light of the conscious film watching that I have been doing over the past few months I found myself looking at the film in a new way. It is showing signs of age in this age of CGI - the jump from set to backdrop shows in places, but as it is a film of stage show I liked this - and thus watched much of the film as if it was on stage rather than film - watching for the set changes, costume changes, lighting effects. But mostly I was struck by the eroticism of the film - not explicit, but implicit in the naive young beauty and sexuality of Julie Andrews - throwing herself about in gay abandon - breasts very prominent beneath the (attractive to me) 'demob' costume at the start of the film, as she first meets the captain, the eldest of the girl von traps soaking as she climbs through the window, Maria again as she confronts the captain, having fallen into the lake from a boat. The contrast between the un made up nun and the sophisticated belipsticked heiress from Salzburg. And the bump in the tight jodhpurs of Christopher Plummer, as he sings Edelweiss in the finally. I have not seen the film in this way before. Or is it just me?

tromp l'oeil

Thoughts on trompe l'oeil website design - relation to Bush and Apple/windows where might it go from here - publishing, collaboration, connect etc. assimilating media into life - mobile devices , google earth

evaluation

evaluation of diary

animation

Musing on animation this morning - the mixing of live action and CGI in Titanic and I Robot - but more the comings and goings between film and adverts - car adverts - the stacked object adverts - the car bits and the Guinness advert - and this going back into Robots