lori nix

lately i've been having an obsession with wanting to create my own landscapes related to my past work. this came from a love i have of sculpture and work from artists like lori nix. i saw her work in the digital negatives class when we looked at a series she did called "accidentally kansas" which was about her growing up in kansas and her obsession with 70's disaster movies. the first image with the birds is from a different series but its the kind of depth of field i want to go for. the others are just funny, and about how u can die in kansas. lori nix

austin,

i don't know who did this, i found it on slapchopped, and it vaguely reminded me of austin's recent installation so i thought i'd post it here.
i'm sure if we messaged the guys who run slapchopped we could find out who did this.

gail gregg

saw this at the beach museum of art at k state this weekend. reminded me of chelsea.

gail gregg

here

Holy crap, Edwin Wurm's new series is incredible. I'd drive that car allll day

michael corridore.

i stumbled into Michael Corridore via Aperture and thought it related to Jason and Justin.

Jason: personal work -> dreamed. the houses on the end and the street shots in general.

Justin: personal work -> no where. the entire set is reminiscent of the things you're working with in that kansas town.

hope you guys like it.

AaaaAAAaaahhh Kansas!

Kansas is in the New York Times! Twice in a day!

One....for not so impressive reasons, you know renaming Topeka "Google" for a month to get Google's attention for their whole deal. Along with many other states who are doing ridiculous things. Although Kansas's video is particularly impressive. haha

The real link I wanted to share:
 Kansas Museum
A unique museum, honoring 1920's and 30's explorers, Martin and Osa Johnson, in Kansas was featured in an Arts Special slide show. The images are more interesting than what they have to say. But....I dig it. Thought maybe some of you might too.

Matthew Pillsbury and McDermott and McGough

I was digging through my artists bank today and found some artists for you guys to check out--particularly Katy and Cory. Take a looksie ladies!

First off I thought Katy should look at the work of Matthew Pillsbury. They both have similar mini themes, dinosaurs, museums, dioramas etc. Their esthetics are pretty similar too composition wise--more in terms of Katy's earlier work.
Mostly, his work consists of long exposures in public places, museums, shops etc and the pretty extreme opposite, very personal places, living rooms, bedrooms and back-yards. His two more well known series' are Hours and Screen Lives.

I'm sure many of you have also heard of McDermott and McGough--nonetheless, I thought I'd post some of their work to gander at. I thought the work would be especially of interest to Cory, and her earlier vintage magazine and collage work. The sense of humor and use of colors are sort of similar.

HDRI

Hey dudes. A friend showed me this really amazing website, HDRI lab. Basically, it's a software you can put in to your digital camera that produces HDRI images. You have to jailbreak it, which voids the warrenty (obviously) but... I think it's totally worth it. This site is awesome because it's all shareware, meaning the downloadable content is free! You can also control your camera via DS lite, iPhone, and various other hardware. And by control I mean like total control. You can trigger the shutter by sound, distance, sun/moonrise and others. This is pretty awesome for me because I was actually just formulating some ideas of different applications (since WB and all of that on your camera are essentially applications) that could be used to alter the input to the camera. Not necessarily to put a filter over the received image in-camera, but something else. I haven't gotten that far. I need to take a programming class. Why don't we have those at KCAI?

delicious

In January, I read this article about artist Tino Sehgal's exhibition at the Guggenheim. I swore I would do my best to go and experience the works for myself but, at last, I did not. Today I read a new article in The New York Times telling me the exhibition is no longer going.
Sigh.
Anyway, this artist, his ideas, and specifically the work "This Progress" seems so simple, yet, really great. I love reading through other different peoples experiences online...
Here are a couple in addition to the previous NY Times links...
Wall Street Journal-by a parent of one of the child guides/interactors
Dahlhaus (misc. blogger)
One of the few negative reviews I can find, with interesting comments
+/- review with more amusing comments.
Jerry Saltz- made one of the kids cry.

TED.

experiencing self versus remembering self. i really enjoyed this in relation to things i've been dealing with regarding self-identity.

Terrifyling youtube

This is mainly directed towards Abby: what was that youtube artist who painted up those ladies and they had the slumber party? We watched it in class after you showed the awkward youtube video. What was the name of that??

Dave Hill

So I just stumbled upon Dave Hill today and he's pretty baller. He's a commercial photographer who does a bunch of different things (mostly for celebs... Under his personal music photo work, there's an excellent She and Him portrait). His work is a mixture of HDR and digital illustration, and kind of has the "E-Lo effect" (how Emily {Lodigenski?}'s work looked) and it gives a detailed tutorial so we can all be little Tim Burtons. Anyway, Dave is pretty awesome and you should check him out!

Lots of love and see you in crits tomorrow,

Molly

Hey you guys

Hey dudes, just checkin' this thang out.

Scott Eaton

Scott Eaton is an artist and technical director residing in London, UK. He received his master's degree from the MIT Media Lab and subsequently studied traditional fine art at the Florence Academy of Art, Italy where he began to combine the lessons of the old masters with modern computer graphics tools. These lessons, and many years of subsequent study, have been integrated into his internationally-renowned Anatomy for Digital Artists course which is taught to game and post-production studios around the world. Scott also lectures widely on art and digital sculpture including recent talks at the Tate Modern Museum, London.

Scott currently divides his time between his art, production, and consulting. His clients include Pixar, Sony, Microsoft Game Studios, The Mill, Double Negative and many other post production houses and games studios.


This piece was his own interpretation on the myth of Prometheus, but is not based on any existing sculptures.

A final image of the Winged Lion

A study in Zbrush.

An images that was created for a Zbursh tutorial

Here is his latest digital image. It is based on the death of Chiron by a volley of arrows for the hands of Hercules
website: www.scott-eaton.com

new director at nelson

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/05/nelson-atkins-museum-turns-to-east-harlem-for-new-director/

Channeling Bridget Conn

Bridget Conn

 

Cleaner Laundry
2004
Photographs, twigs, thread on sheets

Conjuring Great Aunt Someone (Tea Secrets)
2009
Inkjet prints on teabags, paper, metal, wax, wood
7in. x 10in. x 2.5in.

Here is a link to an artist I just discovered, Bridget Conn. Much of her work reminds of the things I started exploring last year and wish that I had continued with. Perhaps once the senior show is in place, I can start playing with that series again. (Hey a girl can dream right?) Projects I had really wanted to make were--cyanotypes on my great grandmother's tea towels and a cyanotype on a quilt--but I never got the process worked out well enough for the quilt.
Anyway.
Conn's work, Quilt of Days, a quilt made out of images on teabags, really made me miss that body of work and the adventure I found it to be. Some of the work also really reminds of past graduate, Nicolette Hall's work, with the installations and reoccurring birds. Also, I find the artist's writings to be quite nice--similar to her work style-wise.

Some of my favorites (that you should probably check out because they're awesome) are : Ancestor's Worship, Reliquary, and Conjuring Great Aunt Someone from her 'Recent Tea Projects' section. I also love love love her Cleaner Laundry work within her Stillmoreroots series. whew! 

I also thought these works might be of interest to E. Henson, with the family history and what not.

But everyone should check it ouuuutttttttt.  

gustafson.

so i saw these images and thought about emily's series where she deals with travel. these are a lot different because they're from a series of photos where he jumped out of a plane with a 4x5 camera attached to his head and shot them (AWESOME, right?), but aesthetically i thought they had a similar feel. not bad to see/know.

VICE GUIDE TO NORTH KOREA

http://www.vbs.tv/watch/the-vice-guide-to-travel/vice-guide-to-north-korea-1-of-3 part 1 of 3...2 and 3 on site.

here is a link to vice tv for a video that was made by a guy who explains his experience of going/getting into north korea. very bizarre, frightening, sad and seems like another planet, maybe? it shows a lot of older footage from north korea of the military being commy together, plus new footage, which i thought was good, being able to mix old and new footage. i also found it really interesting learning about how people get in, considering they let almost know one come in, and then you see how they treat the people who do get in, taking tourists to tour places that symbolize the tourists home land failing at entering into their country, while at the same time realizing how isolated everything is. if you get time, i recommend watching it.

Yesterday when I was flipping channels on my TV. I came to a channel that was talking about one of those Ice Hotels they where doing an interview with a photographer by the name of Eric Mutel. what he does is takes portraits and then places it behind a 1in or 2in plain of ice creating an image that was distorted. I thought this would be interesting to Austin, CJ, and Steve.










Eric Mutel
http://eric.mutel1.free.fr

I have been exploring a computer program called Zbrush. This program is based on digital sculpting and painting that has revolutionized the digital arts. This interface uses the most advanced tools, that allows Zbrush to sculpt up to a billion polygons. Designed around a principle of circularity, the menus in ZBrush work together in a non-linear and mode-free method. Giving the artist a new form to create 3D models and 2D images. One of the core functions of ZBrush is being able to provide artists the ability to create an environment that allows them the freedom of expression. An artist is only limited by there imagination

I also been exploring other artists who has worked there creative ideas in to realty. Steve Jubinville is just one of these artists. Graduated from the NAD Centre, Steve Jubinville is one of the new artists masters in digital sculpture and character modeling. He started his career at Skuad Studios, Then working his way to CAE Electronics and Ubisoft where he worked in the Cut-scene Department as Character Artist. He began work on modeling the main characters for Prince of Persia, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, Far Cry and Assassins. As for right now Steve is teaching at NAD Centre the Organic Modeling and is a Zbrush leading artist since 2004.
The artwork below is some of his latest pieces of artworks

barbara crane.

these are for jori. and emily too, i suppose. i feel like jori likes the alternative portrait and the fragmented view rather than the full. and emily likes eggleston who has a fair amount of just... awkward portraits, which i feel like these fall under.

jonathan harris

so this is a ted with Jonathan Harris. if you can get past his voice, he has a lot of interesting ideas, not all super awesome but at least interesting. the thing i thought was really interesting was his "We Feel Fine" project. i think it would be interesting for katy with the database aspect, chelsea with her found images and her interest in history or other peoples stories and maybe even megan after her number project. so here is the talk, itself. and below that is another talk about the we feel fine piece.

vik muniz.

this is a Vik Muniz TED talk that i talked about in an earlier post. i think he makes a lot of interesting points about perception and ways of seeing that we've either talked about in class/should talk about in class. and either way, i feel as if this is kind of motivating or inspirational in a way. i really enjoyed it and i think you will, too.

"it's not about fooling somebody, it's about giving them a measure of their own belief."

paula muhr

i posted this to emily's facebook, but i feel like it would be nice to repost here for everyone to see and discuss.

http://iheartphotograph.blogspot.com/2010/02/paula-muhr.html

she's doing something similar to emily, recreating images of her mother. but i feel as if it's quite a bit different because she is DIRECTLY reproducing the situation, even down to costuming the shot and image degradation whereas emily is reinterpreting family photos and even stories making them into photos. let me know what you guys think.

jamie oliver TED

this is for abbe. i noticed she was talking about cakes and preservatives and being conscious of what's in your food and Jamie Oliver, the 2010 TED Prize winner, just did a lecture about teaching children about food and the dangerous position we've put ourselves in with our diets, talking about fast food culture, frozen foods and losing the traditional family meal/not cooking or passing down recipes.