30 March 2008
Early Morning Dog Walk 4th April 2008
04/04/08 15:02 Filed in: Assignment 2
recording
Transcription:
Walking up the hill again, early morning dog walk thoughts, lots of thinking this morning, firstly that playing around with drag and drop technology as in the website - Rapid Weaver, that's really quite a bit of my research, that is what it is that I am doing, trying to work on things that Kids can use very easily for blogs and and for creating their websites and galleries and so on, so that is my area of research, or an area of research. Another thought that sort of related to Duchamp was readymades, and my own artwork that is very much readymades, and clearing out the garage which is what I have just been doing looking at all the bits and pieces that I have collected for making readymades, that there is a sort of quirky humour to them that definitely taps in to the Wallace and Gromit feel, the cartoon feel as well as the readymade feel. That is sort of where I feel my art is which does all relate sort of to the animation and the fun and the spoons and the words and the language of it so that is really a part of my research as well and I was thinking of my collection my museum because that is a bit of artwork that I have done consistently for years and years and years and years my museum is just a collection of objects that I find when i am out walking a bit like the, walking like I am now and the way the thoughts pop into my head like the randomness of walking and clearing my head so that thoughts can pop in then now and again I find little treasures on the ground that other people have dropped, the detritus, but they become intimately precious in that I have picked them up and collected them which is in some ways, well it is not the same as Duchamp, it is very different, it certainly has a feel of the outsiders which is very definitely an area that interests me and influenced me when I was younger, maybe I should do a little more research on them. And then i plan to go and have a look at the Cranach exhibition at the Royal Academy tomorrow and possibly the Chinese Army as well and how that relates to Gormley who is another artist I really like and have been to see recently I love his steam room and I was particularly keen on his wire sculptures as well, that was on at the Haywood. So going back to my museum I could then maybe relate that back to the web would be in creating a web gallery, a web museum, that I tried doing a year or so ago but this would be more like the Steve Caplin website where you would open the draws you would actually sort of get the draw opening and inside would be the object, or maybe you would click on it like the flash gallery, you click on it and the object is there then you click on it and get the next one click on it and get the next one, and i could do that with the flash page turning thing initially, take all the photographs and turn it into a web gallery of the objects or I could try and do it like you are looking into a box with specimens and they are all catalogued and categorised, all my land-rovers and little people and al that sort of thing. Lots of close up photography, Mind you it would get the box dusted at the same time. Right, enough of this for now, lets switch off.
Early Morning Dog Walk (2) 3th April 2008
03/04/08 14:59 Filed in: diary
recording2
Transcription:
Thinking how my early morning dog walk might fit in with using the iPhone and using MacDictate. Basically the iPhone has made it a lot easier for me to record my thoughts because I tend to carry the iPhone as a music player on my walks - so I always have the phone there anyway so I don't need to be thinking about it in particular. The difficulty with the sound is that it isn't really clear enough and it takes a lot of listening to and ideally I would just take this home and translate it directly into text but the technology isn't good enough to do that yet. I played around earlier in the year with the iPod and iListen to translate what I put onto the iPod but that didn't really work - the quality just isn't good enough yet so I guess the other way round to do it - and it would review my thoughts a second time - would be to listen to the recording from the iPhone on Skype - I am doing this with an answer-phone - letting the message go straight onto the answer-phone, and listen to it a bit at a time and re-dictate it into MacDictate so that I have it there as a text form, because once it is in a text form, I can do searches on it, makes it much more useful and when I end this call magically the music just comes up again.
Early Morning Dog Walk (1) 3th April 2008
03/04/08 11:12 Filed in: diary
Walking
back up the hill this morning, in the sunshine, which
makes all the difference - pehaps my artwork needs
sunshine. Having spent four days clearing out my
workshop/studio, installing a wood burning stove and
sorting out my collection of stuff.
Experimenting with dog walk thoughts again - this time using a skype in phone - line - phoning into this from my iPhone and recording my thoughts on the answer machine. Although the quality is not good enough to transcribe directly it seems to work OK - although I guess for quick searching etc. I shall need to do some amount of transcription - but this acts as a revision of the walk thoughts. I have looked at using the transcription pack with iListen, but the quality of the recording is not good enough. I could just make a summary of the recording, or I could do a typed transcription - I shall experiment with each. The other slight problem is getting the answer machine recording into this blog - it needs re-recording and then translating into a compressed mp3 so that it will play on this blog. Is it worth while?
recording1
Transcription:
The main question to my mind is whether what I am researching in Research Methods is the methods of research themselves or whether I am researching in relation to the school work that I do which is my primary motivation for doing the MA in interactive media or whether the research is towards the artwork that I do in my own practice and whether I am looking at artists that interest me from that point of view and how that then relates back to what I am doing in school because obviously as an art teacher everything that I do and am as an artist feeds back into what I do as an art teacher and what I am enthusiastic about and then that presumably relates back to looking at methodology and who and how I look at. So up until now I have been looking over the Easter holiday at Aardman in particular, reading a book about Aardman and animation, not that I want to be a animator though I must admit that I did have a thought maybe after this MA I should do an MA in animation but that is for the future perhaps. I am definitely thinking that I should be looking at animation although that is not really quite where my own work is. I don't myself want to be an animator, what I work with is very definitely inanimate, more like painting although they are characters, a spoon becomes a person, a fork is definitely anthropomorphic. lots of what I do has that anthropomorphic character. That I am substituting objects for people. So maybe that should be one of the criteria, anthropomorphism, symbolism perhaps, you can't deny that a spoon and a moon are symbolic. And then the playing with words which maybe taps into Ginsberg and poets, maybe there should be a poet on my list somewhere, maybe not Ginsberg, children's books, Lily the Pink, who was the chap that did that? To bring in slightly more of an eclectic mix. There you go enough of that.
Experimenting with dog walk thoughts again - this time using a skype in phone - line - phoning into this from my iPhone and recording my thoughts on the answer machine. Although the quality is not good enough to transcribe directly it seems to work OK - although I guess for quick searching etc. I shall need to do some amount of transcription - but this acts as a revision of the walk thoughts. I have looked at using the transcription pack with iListen, but the quality of the recording is not good enough. I could just make a summary of the recording, or I could do a typed transcription - I shall experiment with each. The other slight problem is getting the answer machine recording into this blog - it needs re-recording and then translating into a compressed mp3 so that it will play on this blog. Is it worth while?
recording1
Transcription:
The main question to my mind is whether what I am researching in Research Methods is the methods of research themselves or whether I am researching in relation to the school work that I do which is my primary motivation for doing the MA in interactive media or whether the research is towards the artwork that I do in my own practice and whether I am looking at artists that interest me from that point of view and how that then relates back to what I am doing in school because obviously as an art teacher everything that I do and am as an artist feeds back into what I do as an art teacher and what I am enthusiastic about and then that presumably relates back to looking at methodology and who and how I look at. So up until now I have been looking over the Easter holiday at Aardman in particular, reading a book about Aardman and animation, not that I want to be a animator though I must admit that I did have a thought maybe after this MA I should do an MA in animation but that is for the future perhaps. I am definitely thinking that I should be looking at animation although that is not really quite where my own work is. I don't myself want to be an animator, what I work with is very definitely inanimate, more like painting although they are characters, a spoon becomes a person, a fork is definitely anthropomorphic. lots of what I do has that anthropomorphic character. That I am substituting objects for people. So maybe that should be one of the criteria, anthropomorphism, symbolism perhaps, you can't deny that a spoon and a moon are symbolic. And then the playing with words which maybe taps into Ginsberg and poets, maybe there should be a poet on my list somewhere, maybe not Ginsberg, children's books, Lily the Pink, who was the chap that did that? To bring in slightly more of an eclectic mix. There you go enough of that.
Review - some films that I have watched
01/04/08 10:53 Filed in: Reviews
I spent a day looking at some classic films, inspired
partly by reading Brenda Laurel's 'Computers as
Theatre' and partly thinking about animation with
students, going back to the classic look and feel of
film. Inspired also about reading a book by Aardman,
with their classic Chicken Run, based on classic POW
movies.
The films that I chose - Tiger Bay, Brief Encounter, Goodbye Mr Tom,
With the former two I was really struck by the quality of the cinematography, shot in black and white, with Brief Encounter in particular, shots of the stations, steam from the engines, railings and passages. A particular shot at the end when the woman contemplates suicide, sitting in the cafe not listening to an inane drone of a crone, the camera sit rotated. When she stops herself from leaping in front of the engine the camera rotates back to level.
A beautiful film because it is beautifully simple, and beautifully shot.
The bit from Goodbye Mr Tom that stuck me was the long bicycle ride down the hill. I was only watching this because it was on!
Other films that I could look at perhaps -
A NIght To Remember, The 39 Steps, The Third Man,
The films that I chose - Tiger Bay, Brief Encounter, Goodbye Mr Tom,
With the former two I was really struck by the quality of the cinematography, shot in black and white, with Brief Encounter in particular, shots of the stations, steam from the engines, railings and passages. A particular shot at the end when the woman contemplates suicide, sitting in the cafe not listening to an inane drone of a crone, the camera sit rotated. When she stops herself from leaping in front of the engine the camera rotates back to level.
A beautiful film because it is beautifully simple, and beautifully shot.
The bit from Goodbye Mr Tom that stuck me was the long bicycle ride down the hill. I was only watching this because it was on!
Other films that I could look at perhaps -
A NIght To Remember, The 39 Steps, The Third Man,