Culture pub website

Our new lecturer told us that this website is a good place to watch adverts, and he was right!!!
I've been sat watching this screen for about half an hour, which doesn't seem long, but when youre watching 30 second adverts, it is.

The funniest ones i came across were the ones advertising 'Snickers' chocolate bars, there were only two out of about twelve i watched today that I'd seen. The adverts all have the same theme/ selling point, "when you're hungry, you're not yourself". The different scenarios that have been thought up and created are funny, clever and memorable. I think that the older ones are funnier.

This french advert site is something that i will be checking on a regular basis, a great source.

Publications

In a couple of weeks, on my course, we will be learning some book binding/making techniques to help us when we come to make our won publications for our degree shows in 2nd and 3rd year.

I found 'Publications UK', whose clients include Michelin, NHS, Reanult and Crown Paints. This company does everything needed to advertise companys, such as organise events, produce brochures and magazines, design logos and posters.

The next one took me a while to find, i was searching through a long, long list of names of publications, finally i came across 'MediaEDGE'. They have over 50 clients, and the website says that they have made over 100 industry specific products.

All i need to do now is look for some techniques how to make publications...

Adverts

I love watching T V, but adverts these days are so long, the break between programs gets longer and longer everytime i turn the damn thing on!

But not all adverts are annoying and stupid. We looked at Ridley Scott's 1973 'Hovis' advert and Alan Parker's 'Birds eye beef burgers' advert. Very funny, witty adverts.

Then i came across all of the adverts for 'Hamlet mild cigars', these really made me laugh! There is one i love youtube, uploaded in 2006, but i don't know if that is when it was produced. It is the advert where there is a man sat in a photobooth, he has a combover, and everytime he looks down, the photo takes, so funny!

Visual culture; John Berger

Our tutor has told us to look at John Berger's video "ways of seeing". The first thing that caught my attention, was the typography used, very 70's!!
I watchedthe first quarter of the first episode and funnily enough, found myself feeling like i were in a trance, which we talked about in class, when learning of advertising. The images and the music/ voice over are very calming, the camera zooming in and out of the picture made me feel like the painting was actually real infront of me, and as if i were leaning into a gallery wall to get a closer look.

Eventhough this was filmed in the seventies, it makes real sense with what he says in relation to the ease of art work being seen all over the world, by thousands of different people, at the same time. Technology has allowed us to do this, allowed me to visit a gallery without leaving my house- thanks to the internet, allowed me to see my favourite piece over and over thanks to my camera, allowed artist's work to become famous thanks to mobile phones.

The soap...

Here is one of the photographs i have taken of the soap carvings that i did at the start of the summer holiday.

When i'd made the face, which i wanted to resemble a cameo, i had the idea to make my name, with the head as the 'o'. I think that it looks good inbetween the 'z' and the 'e'.

Then i got an idea for the viral that my tutors wanted us all to try and come up with to advertise our degree course.

Idea... Carve letters to spell out 'fine art for design' out of bars of soap, then use everybodies individual carved head, to act as light bulbs around the title, which would then look like a sign lighting up. This would only be the first few seconds of a viral, but i thought it would look good, and it will advertise our work at the same time!

soap carving...

I did my soap carving last week and am very pleased with how it has turned out. I made my younger sister join in and gave her a little art lesson as we were doing it. She wanted to do something for her art summer project, India, so i helped her carve an elephant. I started on my idea of the cameo face, so i found a photograph of the side of my head/face and sketched onto the bar of soap. Then i got my rusty carving tools out and started hacking away at it, and before i knew it the table was covered in soap dust as my sister called it, and i was quite surprised that i had managed to do it without it crumbling!

I still wanted to find some other peoples work, so here is what i found on a quick search.

This is by an artist that i found on blogger, called Von Glitschka in 2009. It is quite similar to mine in the way that it is very curved and smooth.

I will put photos of mine up when i get onto my own pc.

balloon portraits>>>

As part of my summer project i am to make a balloon portrait of myself. i have attempted two so far but am not happy with the outcomes. I am trying to make all of my work link together, and as i love cameos as much as i do, i thought that this would be a good link for the work. So, so far i've just drawn my side profile from a photograph on the balloon, but its just sat in the middle, so im doing a little bit of research.

This first image is from "Lady luck rules ok" site which closed down some years ago, but i like the naive quality to the drawings.

Next i found a woman named Serena, who makes "twisted balloon art" on cruise ships. I thought her work was lively and has great character!

Here is a more intricate detailed balloon model, i think that the hair idea in this one will help me in my own work...

This man's work, Nathan John Booth, is different to all of the others that i have found so far, but when i came across it, i realised that i have done something similar to this myself already! When i drew some quick first attempts, and then popped them, the same effect was given, and i actually thought it looked good, so now ive seen a similar peice, i thik i may even make them like this!