Brown Foundations: October 2008

Friday, October 31, 2008

Kristen - Grassland

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/10/grassland-tribbles.php

Thursday, October 30, 2008

serin, erika, judy, hilary- animation

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Quinn, Brandon, Tom, Kaori - Animation

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Kaori - Animation and Baroque

An awesome animation my friend showed me last year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGaqLT-gO4

Also, while skimming through the blog I realized that I never posted the baroque piece I found...

Ecstacy of Saint Theresa by Bernini 1647-52, marble

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Picture 1
A very interesting view on perspective in what has been described as 6-point perspective. Not wonderful spatially, but very interesting to me none the less.

Picture 2
Lost&Found. One of my favorites. I very much enjoyed playing around with some of my favorite artists' works: Dali's Living Still Life and Chicago by Nadir Afonso.

Picture 3
Entitled Quadrality, I really like this one and how I started to explore just going off my emotions. Very unrealistic, but it did get me interested in the Italian Futurist movement and artists (and musicians and the like).

Pictures 4-6
These three are demonstrations of a bit of perspective combined with wire working that I've found to be very interesting. Depending on which viewpoint one takes, the object can be perceived as one full object or rightfully as two separate pieces. I did not count these towards my 5 as they were not really for any class project, but I found them cool none the less.

Picture 7
Perhaps the only drawing I've done that I'm actually proud of for it's realistic nature, this was of the second model I believe.

Picture 8
Actual Image, St Francis in Prayer before the Crucifix, El Greco
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:El_Greco,_St_Francis_in_Prayer_before_the_Crucifix.JPG
I've added in some more somber images to reveal my actual feeling on the church during the medieval ages.

I think in conclusion I very much enjoy toying with my ideas and expressing them (if on paper, or in 3D, so be it). I look forward to the more free part of the class to be.

Dave - Critique pieces

This is a recreation of a portion of the hell panel of Hieronymus Bosch's triptych, the Garden of Earthly Delights.

This is a picture of my twin brother. We aren't identical twins.

Self portrait. I put myself in the Scream. It's supposed to be a joke, of sorts.

I'm pretty happy with how my figure drawings have been turning out.

Serin-Midsemester Critique Pieces

^the self-portrait that luckily looks better than in actuality

^from the RISD museum

^the face is a little messed up here, but i like how her body looks like it has movement and volume

^this is my most recent piece, i feel like it has some sort of a bulbous volume in the behind

Brandon-Animation

Sorry, a little late, but I found this type of futuristic animation with the use of many polygons to portray and internet like matrix (or what I imagine it to be) in this ancient cartoon (Reboot) to be very neat:

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Quinn: Midsemester critique

It was hard to pick a best 5. But here is a 5. (in the order that I scanned/photographed them)

The weightlessness of sleep.

One of my better perspective studies. There seems to be a guitar body on the next page.

This isn't my best execution because I drew it in a hurry and a moving car. I do, however, like the concept.

Copy of LaTour's Repentant Magdalen. Original: http://www.kean.edu/~jtuerk/images/6_RenaMannBaro/04_BaroquePainting/36.jpg

My mustache.

Q

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

D.A.N.C.E. video by Justice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s25VmS4Y6zc&feature=related

The first video is one I found on youtube that takes simple shapes and curves and shifts through them nicely.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49esza4eiK4

I especially like how they incorporate animation with real objects such as t-shirt designs and sounds coming out of the radio.

Reshma Ramachandran

Bill Plympton cartoons- Alex

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVOBewHhph4

Elena - Animation

This is a television program from 1999 called "Home Movies" that used "squigglevision" animation.

mat becker

This is from The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), one of the earliest animated films.

Blur- Sasha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWUil383us4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ild1NevnhO0

for some reason that commercial makes me very happy.

Monday, October 13, 2008

becca/animation

i can't figure out how to post my video correctly, so just click here!

Natasha--animation

Judy Hwang: Animation

This is a tiny clip from the show Robot Chicken created by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich

Quinn: Animation

This is a really fantastic claymation piece one of my sister's friends did at the University of Washington:

Also, if you've never seen the computer animated short film Ryan about the animator Ryan Larkin, it too is on youtube and is worth the watching.

Thomas- Gnarls Barkley annimation

I did what the help menu said to do but I'm not sure that it worked. The link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92K13c7P33k&feature=related if you are interested

the Neverhood

The Weasel Chase:

And how it ends:

This is from a computer game I played a lot of years ago.

-Dave Hanyok

Serin S. -Animation

Hilary- animation

this is Icelandic singer Bjork's music video for Wanderlust. you may want to turn the volume down if you don't like how she sings but the animation is great to watch. there are videos of the making of it and of it in 2-d as well.

Erika-Animation

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Max Grey - Animation

Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal from TLOBF.COM on Vimeo.

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Kristen - Animation

Friday, October 10, 2008

ANIMATION - DREW FOSTER

here is an animated short that i saw at an animation festival years ago that i think about all the time. love how it looks and feels. it's called "mount head" in english. its japanese.

and here is an animated short that i made in seventh grade that i can't really explain or defend. it's crazy. this was six years ago - i don't know where my head was. it's poorly done and silly. but funny and cute to look at now, so my friend put it up as a little chuckle.

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Elena- Baroque

"Nativity" by Josefa de Obidos, 1669

Christ Before the High Priest by Gerrit van Honthorst (1617)

Quinn: Rembrandt's "Philosopher in Meditation," 1632

Look at this guy, just by the window in his wizarding tower, thinking really hard. The attention to quirky detail is pretty good: Rembrandt got the spiral staircase and the hobbit-sized door and the apprentice stoking a fire. However, the empty space in front should be filled with candles and skulls and globes and tomes and bubbling vials and...

Q

Baroque - Drew Foster

Federico Barocci
Aeneas' Flight from Troy, 1598
Galleria Borghese, Rome

Cavaraggio, 1600, The Conversion on the Way to Damascus

-becca

Brandon - Alonso Cano

Ideal Portrait of a Spanish King, Alonso Cano

I very much love the contrast of colors in this picture, especially the vibrant orange and dark background, as well as parts of himself (the sword, etc.) that seem to disappear into the background.

In addition, this is the cover of Colonna Hours, by Giulio Clovio

mat becker

Rubens - Massacre of the Innocents - 1611

Baroque--Natasha

Rembrant, 1634 Abraham and Issac

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Judy Hwang: Baroque Period

Rembrandt's Abduction of Europa 1632

Baroque: Francisco Ribalta

Deposed Christ hugging St. Bernard Clairvaux - Done some time in the first quarter of the 17th century.

-Dave Hanyok

Baroque Artist-Josefa de Óbidos, c.1679

Still-Life, by Josefa de Obidos

The contrast of black, white and blood-red is not only noticeable, but breathtaking. It makes me want to pick out one of the pastries and eat it! Also, there is evidence of shallow space, as in the Carvaggio paintings we saw.

-Serin S.