Response

In response to my previous post I have created this short clip to illustrate my idea.

This shows what I mentioned before, the two images created a third dimension. This could also be illustrated in a painting by overlaying both images and only keeping the main features like the nose and the eyes. This is an idea that I don't think I will explore until next week.

Rose Tint my world

I created this video using two still images from a photoshoot I did two weeks ago. I was interested in looking at the way surreal make-up could shape/change/distort someone's identity. For this photoshoot I used christmas lights to add to the surreal effect of the photoshoot. The make-up was appied spontaneously, without previous planning. Looking back I wish I had put a bit of thought into it. But I also thought I wanted it to be free and not too predictable. The idea was really to explore how the medium would work and how the subject would react, explore the boundaries. The outcome was very positive, and fun. I had the idea to create this short video when going through my images with my boyfriend. I unintentionally flicked back and forth between the two images to find that it created some sort of surreal animation. The video is in no way a finished product, more of sketch for something else.

1. One way of doing it would be to recreate a similar situation but with an ordinary, plan subject. Injecting a heavy dose of surrealism into daily life could be very effective to recreate a dream-like reality. To do this I would prefer to not use a friend, but a stranger. Someone from the "real world" off the street maybe. A co-operative stranger. If this blinking sequence was played over two minutes, repeatively, at uneven sequences it could be very effective.
2. Another idea I have had is to re-create a similar effect but with two dramatically different photos, creating a third dimension between the two images. This is something I could first try with the photoshoot photos. I have tried this and it creates a third image, very surreal, with the shapes of both images, creating a kind of monster.

blink

Freud and The Psychoanalytic Unconscious

The Unconscious stores :

• Instinctual Desires
• Needs
• Psychic Actions

Past thoughts and memories may be deleted from immediate consciousness,

but they direct the thoughts and feelings of the individual from the realm of the unconscious.

The Unconscious stores:

• Unacceptable Ideas
• Wishes or Desires
• Traumatic Memories
• and Painful Emotions

put out of mind by psychological repression.

Not all unconscious contents have to be negative.

Thanks to Wikipedia.

Lawrence Weiner

Beautiful video on the artist.

Vito Acconci

"Vito Hannibal Acconci (born January 24, 1940) is a Bronx, New York-born, Brooklyn-based designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist."

I first came across him in a lecture last week on Matthew Barney. In this lecture, looking at The Cremaster Cycle, Barney mentioned Acconci as an influence and showed a short clip. His work immediately appealed to me so I decided to do more research on him. "Undertone" was the first video of his I came across, I immediately liked the fuzzy quality and the long-haired man as soon as he spoke. The video tells a sort of narrative of a man and his masturbating fantasies. Despite the sexual undertones, there is something very gentle, caring and loving about this video. This man is trusting us with an intimate fantasy, letting us, the audience, into his subconscious and dream world. The trust between the audience and the narrator grows as he seems desperate not to be judged but just to be listened to. And with a voice like his, it's hard not to.

This video has given me various ideas for my own work, it has made me think I need to strip my work back quite a bit. I need to slow down, I am too eager to produce feature lengths films with complicated technical effects when I should be relishing the basic idea of filming: capturing an emotion, a movement, a voice.

To do this, I am going to start filming on my phone, not too sure how i am going to transfer the films but i will find a way. I want to capture daily things; toilet flushing, opening the curtains in the morning, getting into bed at night. I need to film things with just myself, no other help. See how I manage. This will be my project for next week, film as much as I can and then try and then edit it next week to create a journey of my films.

Sounds good huh?

Thanks Vito!

Bruce Nauman

"Fire Walk With Me"

"Fire Walk With Me" prep work

What Is That?

The Whistler

Mark

image manipulation

Hi again!

Since I last posted I left home, started uni and have been VERY hard at work! Unfortunatelt i've been too forgetful and busy to update this blog, but now that is half 2 in the morning and i'm awake it seems like an appropriate time to update this :)

here goes!