Collage

God's creation, Human destruction

Collage

Half way through... another 30mins to complete

Inner LandScape

Inner Landscape

Visual And Content Research

The work of:
Mark Gertler - Merry Go Round(1916)

This work "Merry-Go-Round" was painted during the first world war. Its is about men and women, some of them soliders, sailors and cilivians, sitting in a rigid pose with their mouth crying in silence, and being trap on a carousel that turns endlessly.

From my point of view, since it about war, i think it also shows how horrible and scary war can be and that fear will be always around them thats why they are trap turning endlessly. And it also like like there an explosion in the background.

Edward Gorey

Edward Gorey is a illustrator as well as an writer for his own children's story books. He even design the costumes for the broadway 'Dracula' which earned him a Tony award in 1978. When he was in his late sixties, Gorey produced, wrote, directed, and occasionally even acted in his own community theater productions in the Cape Cod area, where he lived and worked in his later years.

About his work and style, its often concerned to death and horror. And I think its kinda gothic. The reason why, if you notice most or i should say all of them are in black and white. His work are just simple looking drawing, like just using a pencil or pen, with simple details. I think he really inspires me alot! Its shows me that with just simple drawings and it can look pretty good. And the 2 pictures above are my favourites ones. =)

Thumbnails Sketches

The Emperor Wears His Invisible Clothes Walking Proudly In His Kingdom Capitial Full Of Dog And Monkeys

Synopsis

The emperor was giving a speech to his "people", dogs and monkeys, of his kingdom and they were all cheering for him. When suddenly the legendary dragon came to attack his kingdom. Everyone including his guards were scared and they ran for their lives, leaving the emperor alone.

The dragon then blew fire from his mouth at the emperor. He wasn't hurt but his clothes were all burned into pieces. Only thing left was his crown and his sword. The furious emperor then withdraw his sword and stab the dragon in its weakpoint ,the heart.

The dragon died and everyone celebrated the emperor's victory. And he walked proudly in his "invisble clothes".

Influences

The 2 illustrators above are the ones that influences and inspires for this inner-landscape assignment. The surrealisim of their illustrations influence me to draw my characters and background as weird and nonsensical as possible. So thats the path I'm heading for.

More ideas to come!!!!!

I'm not so sure whether this idea of mine is a good? But I'm still thinking of better ones. I will be doing more research each day. So hopefully I'll come out of a better idea.

Unable to post my research and thumbnails today

Sorry miss sherlyn!! I'm unable to post my researches and thumbnails by today because my brother needs to use the computer badly for his hotel management stuffs for his work.
no choice so i will be blogging it either later or tomorrow.

Never learn my lesson (I hate myself)

Omg im blogging again. I can't believe it. Well I might get use to this crap. Hah anyway only 2 person knows my blog.

Haiz always never learn my lesson. Never will i plan things ahead always last last minute then do my stuff. Color theory ONE GRADE DOWN. MTV assignment like shit. What the banana!! I HATE MYSELF! When will i ever ever learn from my mistake.

O well 2 weeks of term break tomorrow so HAPPY! Finally can take a short break. I gona SLEEP day and night. Hahaha. Man i not yet sign up the drawing workshop dunno still can join anot.

Its getting late. Dunno tomorrow can wake up anot? HAIZZ I HATE MYSELF.

Goodnight Ashton!

PROJECT PROJECT PROJECT

i going to die soon thanks to all the PRRROOOJECCCTSS!! Omg life without a MACBOOK PRO SUCKS!! The school closes at 9pm and there's nothing i can do about it.. Weekend so much time but no computer to do my project..

And so what if I have a macbook.. My brain just can't generate good ideas for my projects..
I'm NOT creative at all.. *Sigh~* how to find job next time?? O_o
I got lucky to get an A for the 1st project... lets see how the MTV one goes.. i bet i'll get a C for sure.. i just keep getting lousier and lousier.. HOW MISS SHERLYN? hahaha

Conclusion
i need a MACBOOK PRO with all the softwares of cause... hahaha
i want to be more creative!!!! (But I don't know how)
sad to say~ Perhaps back to ENGINEERING? (NOOOOOOOO!!!!!)

GoodNight Ashton!

Juxtaposition (Part 2)

This Website has lots of examples of Juxtaposition

http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/Juxtaposition

Examples:

Love/Hate
Man/Nature
Needed/Unwanted
Static/Changing
East/West
Lucky/Unlucky
Together/Apart

And many more from the website.

Juxtaposition

Juxtaposition is an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, esp. for comparison or contrast.

My Examples: Pictures of a Fat And Skinny person
Pictures of a Tall And Short person
" " A Dark And Bright Place

Pictures of Juxtapositioning

This ironic juxtaposition of two signs on a public beach reveals the complex task that society faces in protecting both land and water quality.

Old and new architecture, juxtaposed

Another Old and New building of Juxtaposition

Young And Old

Andy Warhol

ANDY WARHOL

Birth name
Andrew Warhola
Born
6 August 1928, (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.)
Died
22 February 1987 (aged 58) New York City
Field
Painting, Cinema
Training
Carnegie Mellon University
Movement
Pop art

Andy was born in 1928 in Pittsburgh as the son of Slovak immigrants. His original name was Andrew Warhola. His father was as a construction worker and died in an accident when Andy was 13 years old.

Andy showed an early talent in drawing and painting. After high school he studied commercial art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. Warhol graduated in 1949 and went to New York where he worked as an illustrator for magazines like Vogue and Harpar's Bazaar and for commercial advertising. He soon became one of New York's most sought of and successful commercial illustrators.

The Pop Icon

In 1952 Andy Warhol had his first one-man show exhibition at the Hugo Gallery in New York. In 1956 he had an important group exhibition at the renowned Museum of Modern Art.

In the sixties Warhol started painting daily objects of mass production like Campbell Soup cans and Coke bottles. Soon he became a famous figure in the New York art scene. From 1962 on he started making silkscreen prints of famous personalities like Marilyn Monroe or Elizabeth Taylor.

The quintessence of Andy Warhol art was to remove the difference between fine arts and the commercial arts used for magazine illustrations, comic books, record albums or advertising campaigns. Warhol once expressed his philosophy in one poignant sentence:

"When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums".

THE FACTORY

The pop artist not only depicted mass products but he also wanted to mass produce his own works of pop art. Consequently he founded The Factory in 1962. It was an art studio where he employed in a rather chaotic way "art workers" to mass produce mainly prints and posters but also other items like shoes designed by the artist. The first location of the Factory was in 231 E. 47th Street, 5th Floor (between 1st & 2nd Ave).

Warhol's favorite printmaking technique was silkscreen. It came closest to his idea of proliferation of art. Apart from being an Art Producing Machine, the Factory served as a filmmaking studio. Warhol made over 300 experimental underground films - most rather bizarre and some rather pornographic. His first one was called Sleep and showed nothing else but a man sleeping over six hours.

Nearly Murdered

In July of 1968 the pop artist was shot two to three times into his chest by a woman named Valerie Solanis. Andy was seriously wounded and only narrowly escaped death. Valerie Solanis had worked occasionally for the artist in the Factory. Solanis had founded a group named SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) and she was its sole member. When Valerie Solanis was arrested the day after, her words were "He had too much control over my life".

Warhol never recovered completely from his wounds and had to wear a bandage around his waist for the rest of his life.

Andy Warhol Art in the Seventies

After this assassination attempt the pop artist made a radical turn in his process of producing art. The philosopher of art mass production now spent most of his time making individual portraits of the rich and affluent of his time like Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson or Brigitte Bardot.
Warhol's activities became more and more entrepreneurial. He started the magazine Interview and even a night-club. In 1974 the Factory was moved to 860 Broadway. In 1975 Warhol published THE philosophy of Andy Warhol. In this book he describes what art is:

"Making money is art, and working is art and good business is the best art."

Films

Warhol worked across a wide range of media—painting, photography, drawing, and sculpture. In addition, he was a highly prolific filmmaker. Between 1963 and 1968, he made more than sixty films. One of his most famous films, Sleep, monitors poet John Giorno sleeping for six hours. The 35-minute film Blow Job, is one continuous shot of the face of DeVeren Bookwalter supposedly receiving oral sex from filmmaker Willard Maas, although the camera never tilts down to see this. Another, 1964's Empire, consists of eight hours of footage of the Empire State Building in New York City at dusk. The 45-minute film 'Eat consists of a man eating a mushroom for 45 minutes.

Death

Warhol died in New York City at 6:32 a.m. on February 22, 1987. According to news reports, he had been making good recovery from a routine gallbladder surgery at New York Hospital before dying in his sleep from a sudden heart attack. It was alleged that hospital staff had failed to adequately monitor his condition and overloaded him with fluids after his operation, causing him to suffer from a fatal case of water intoxication,[citation needed] which prompted Warhol's lawyers to sue the hospital for negligence. Prior to his diagnosis and operation, Warhol delayed having his recurring gallbladder problems checked, as he was afraid to enter hospitals and see doctors.

Warhol had so many possessions that it took Sotheby's nine days to auction his estate after his death; the auction grossed more than US$20 million. His total estate was worth considerably more, in no small part due to shrewd investments over the years.

Some of Andy Warhol Work

References

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol

Semiotics Assignment

SEMIOTICS

Defination

Semiotics also known as semiology a general theory of signs and symbols; the analysis of the nature and relationships of signs in language. The field was most notably formalized by the Vienna Circle and presented in their International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, in which the authors agreed on breaking out the field, which they called "semiotic", into three branches:

1. Semantics: Relation between signs and the things they refer to, their denotata



2. Syntactics: Relation of signs to each other in formal structures



3. Pragmatics: Relation of signs to their impacts on those who use them. (Also known as General Semantics)

History

The importance of signs and signification has been recognized throughout much of the history of philosophy, and in psychology as well. Plato and Aristotle both explored the relationship between signs and the world, and Augustine considered the nature of the sign within a conventional system. These theories have had a lasting effect in Western philosophy, especially through Scholastic philosophy. More recently, Umberto Eco, in his Semiotics and philosophy of language, has argued that semiotic theories are implicit in the work of most, perhaps all, major thinkers.

Pictures of Semiotics

References

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem02.html

Testing Testing 123..

Wohoo My 1st ever blog!! And also the last one too.. hehe
Damn I'm such a noob for all this blogging stuff.. Now trying to figure out how to blog.. haha..
Well there goes nothing.... Time to publish my post!! *Click*