Monday 22 September 2008

Some of the Contents of atlas


building from steven holl - this is a kind of perspective drawing (looking up the view of the sky from the ground level)


Face map (steven holl) -basically I used tracing paper to trace the architect's face and the major colours i chose to represent the colour of nature such as the colour of water, grass, moutain, and sky.

a window in red centre - this is the window we did in the class which was collaboration work.
Each of the panel was painted by each different group members so each panel has different feeling. Main theme was for the window was "frustraion".

tonal key

designed elevation with the colour key- yellow, purple and green

colour wheel- painted for the colour inside and collage was done for surrounded area

Cover page - used tracing paper to make the map stands out.

Research + Reflection

William Kentride
He is a South African Artist best known for his animated films filming a drawing, making erasures and changes, and then filming it again. He started studying mime in the beginning of 1980s in Paris. He had wanted to be an actor, but he found that he was not talented enough to be an actor. His animations normally deal with political or social issues from his point of view.

These lists are all his films:
 Johannesburg:2nd Greatest City After Paris, 1989
 Monument, 1990
 Mine, 1991
 Sobriety, Obesity & growing old, 1991
 Felix in Exile, 1994
 History of the Main Complaint, 1996
 Weighing and Wanting, 1998
 Stereoscope, 1999
 Medicine Chest, 2001

Automatic Writing, 2003 - As I have watched some
of his films and trailers, the most striking film is
Automatic Writing. This film shows dynamic
movement with moving objects such as fish in the
fishbowl and the each of the letters.

Footnotes :
1. Kentridge, William, William Kentridge : telegrams from the nose : films, sculpture, drawings, tapestry, etchings.,
(Sydney, N.S.W. : Annandale Galleries, 2008), 6-20
3. Wikipedia , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kentridge. (accessed : 17. 08. 08)

Reflections
The title of the film is “Happy GO!” which means each of the different emotional eggs are all ended up with smiling, but they express all different emotions while they are doing each activities(washing dishes, taking supplementary pills, eating) in the kitchen. The descriptive statement is that “Whether I like or not, I have to do” which means the emotional eggs represent me with each different emotion for the activities. The one of the photos(has this mark?...! on) might be questioned as it is noticeably abstract. I tried to express that the feelings for the pills for myself which are always questionable whether it works on me or not but I could have found out that it actually keeps my body in a good condition.
I had difficulties with taking photos because I had to take photos all by myself. Thus, I had to boil the eggs which are usually easy to be broken and needed to use fishing lines which is not as visible as normal strings. The play-doh, tissue and a real dishcloth were used to do modeling and tracing paper was used to do drawing (since the cost of colour photo printing is expensive). In addition, some materials such as rice paper (washing dishes-bubble), cotton string on the top of the play doh(the word “well-being”) and colour transparency film have been used to do crafting. The pictures with colour transparency film on are saying that the red is unhealthy mode, the yellow is careful mode, and the green is healthy mode. I have found that the quality of the pictures changed after re-picturing the original printed pictures.
Moreover, the shadows can be seen in the re-pictured photos especially at night.

HAPPY GO.- FINAL MOVIE