Back again - Digital Media MA

So we know my child Oculus. He has an eyeball for a head and an amazing sense of style; I've had a look into characters with objects fo heads. The first thing I looked into was the works of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, famous for his still life portraits. Then I took to the internet and found an artist named Andy Vible who, in 2012, created a series of sculptures of people with objects instead of heads. I'm trying to find significance in the "object-head", but it's suprisingly tricky to find things. It coul possibly allude to yanonimit, or lack of humanity.  Perhaps a represenation of one's deeper self. The ego. I will be looking into Freud's study on the ego, obvs. But for now I'd like to collect a series of interesting images and illustrations that I have found one the web. Lets dive in! A lot of the characters I found had mostly electronic devices like TVs and radios.   But also, understandibly, a lot of chracters...

I am in the first quarter of Waking Life, film made by Richard Linklater. So far it appears to be a young man's journey through different schools of thougt about the phylosophy of self and ego. It's almost as if he is intererviewing the people he interacts with, all of them giving him a different imput. What strikes the first cord howerver, is the aesthetic of the film, which is completley rotoscoped from footage to animation. Although visually stunning, I'm struggling to watch certain shots of the film, as almost every element of the backgoround moves; it gives me motion sickness. Never the less, I will soldier on and update this post when I finish the film. *Never updates again*

GUYS. SO,  I've recently found a series on YouTube called Petscop. I say recently, I mean last year. It's a "Let's play" format series of a what appears to be a Playstation 1 game titled Petscop. The user is also named Petscop. It's all Petscop. You may be asking, what are you talking about? Why is this so interesting? BECAUSE my children, the Petscop game does not exist. It is all in fact, an art project, or narrative created by an unknown person or team, and they have created a masterpiece. It's not known if the videos are animated to look like game, or if the game is being produced and programmed in real time, and the footage is someone actually playing the game. Whatever it may be, the whole this is shrouded in deep deep mystery. The beginning of the game seems to be a standard explore-collect affair; we are introduced to Paul, the player and narrator, who seems to be recording to prove that the game has hidden secrets. He speaks as if he...

I'm in my studio today, in hopes to revive the stagnant pool of crativity before it dries out. I have alway wanted to get into character design. I live for it. So, sleeves up, I went to the library and got myself this: Character Design from the ground up - Kevin Crossley   Very informative although with not much stylistic versatilty, then again I only looked at the pictures and flicked through it so far. Today, whilst trying to write this, follow Sherlock and not eat my lunch at 10am, I was able to look more in depth into the book and trt sketching some characters out myself, but I have to say, I have drawn better. I find myself in the most horrendous art block, and I'm a bit lost on what to do. I followed all the wiki-how advice, cleaned my desk, had a walk, tired something new, but I'm still in the swamp.  UPDATE - 31/10/2018 It's halloween and I'm feeling a whole lot better! My nails are on point and I've drawn a character I'm actually pleas...

Where can I start. Well, here is a picture of the Tate lights.   Cool. Now here's a picture of the first exibit I saw in the Biennial.   This is Haegue Yang's, and it looked colourful and fancy. And that's all I got from it. As I explored the Biennial and tried my best to take it all in, I couldn't help but feel a lingering dissapointment. Not in the festival, as I wasn't in town long enough to appreciate it fully, and I'm sure it would have been great. But dissapointment in the art that hung on the walls and stood in the middle of busy rooms, art that I once loooked at and admired now is hollow and devoid of a point. The more I research the more I find that the "Process" is the primary focus of art. I don't believe it should. Michelangelo didn't mess about when he carved David out of his marble prison, and we didn't care about his thoughts as he made it, we care about the moment we see him, at the end of...

Like any other human being, I enjoy things. One of those this is a good tune. What goes with a good tune? A decent set of visuals. " A  music video  is a  short film  that integrates a  song  with imagery, and is produced for  promotional  or  artistic  purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a  marketing  device intended to promote the sale of  music recordings . There are also cases where songs are used in  tie-in  marketing campaigns that allow them to become more than just a song. Tie-ins and merchandising can be used for toys or for food or other products. Although the origins of the music video date back to  musical short films  that first appeared in the 1920s, they again came into prominence in the 1980s when the channel  MTV  (originally "Music Television") based their format around the medium. Prior to the 1980s, these kinds of videos were described by vari...