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This is my collage. I tried out lots of different artistic ways on how to create texture, patterns, illustrations and it gave me an opportunity to have a wild time throwing everything together. I used lots of different colours too, to see what colours are the best to be fitting for certain aspects! The textures used are papers, paint, ink, pen, magazine cuttings and news paper. There's a few quotes in there, too.
Keaton often has very beautiful videos for his music. I'm on a hunt for who the curator was - who dictates the over-all cinematography but as of yet I haven't been in luck. I love the purple overlay, which somewhat symbolises the mood of the song. I also love the way that the dancing is still heard throughout the song; adding to the effect of how 'raw' the composition is.
Daughter - Still
This video by many people, for Daughter is truly beautiful. Very raw and the colourist did a very good job at setting the mood through the colours. The cinematography make's it feel like the viewer is watching more of a independent movie, than a music video - same with the acting. The art director was Ruth Barlett whilst the colourist is named to be Vic Parker.
James Blake - Overgrown
James Blake, an undeniably unbelievable musician, has incredible videos that aren't quite movie-like, but are very reflective of the music is singing. This one is very close to being more like a movie, but it doe have a very reflective feel of it just being a music video. The over-all composition fits with how beautiful the music is, the entire video is rather slowed down and very coldly coloured. The director was Nabil, but as of yet, I've been unable to figure out the colourist/cinematographer.
The World Is A Beautiful Place and I'm No Longer Afraid To Die - Low Light Assembly
The light throughout this shines straight through which I feel is intentional to grab the viewers intention. All the way through this video, they're underwater, the light speckles/bubbles aren't photoshopped out, to give a magical feel to the video. I love that at the end, we see the sky which is a 'break through'. The light is dull, presumedly to show the 'Low Light' reference in the song title and the bodies are always swimming (that is, until the end of the video when they show the sky - almost like a breakthrough.) I can't find who created/directed the video, it could potentially just be their own since they're a relatively 'do it yourself' somewhat band.
The lyrics are represented as trapped throughout the video - that even though you can see the light and everybody is constantly moving, you're still unable to get to that one point you essentially need to hypothetically be happy. The lyrics are (We can't change this place the way it changes us. The parking lot where we lay is more than home now. Breathe in deep. Please, breathe in deep. The light bleeds through the window pane, into our eyelids. Our bodies drown in Sheetz. Anchored, exhausted. Count the stains one by one, up on the ceiling. The echoes race around the room, they sing together: "We are all the same".)
La Dispute - Objects In Space
La Dispute have a regular thing that they do - this being creating their own music videos for their songs and typically placing their lyrics on the top. Their most typical music videos are made up of home, old videos that are filmed on the cam-corder a long time back. It's evident that they fit, primarily because the videos being silent and somewhat short clips, which gives you the chance to put your own mood on it and fit it with their music and it constantly makes your attention flick and make your previous conclusion of the mood slightly different. They add a cover on the video, to disrupt the video itself and sometimes it can become intentionally irritating. It almost always comes to a sudden stop, as appose to it carrying on until the video has ended, which could create a very strange feeling - almost reflecting that everything can just, well, stop. They're a very emotive band to say the least which their video's indefinitely reflect that.
Modern Baseball - Pothole
Not quite like previously put on video's I've written about, but I love how Modern Baseball have created a black and white video made from short clips. This is typically showing their life whilst on the road, but the way that they've filmed it with mainly shadowed footage, higher highlight area's and the brightness relatively low, with the black and white filter - it makes the composition look soft and delicate. The close up shots that flick to (sometimes) fast forward areas conflict against one another.
The deep guilt you feel inside you wants Keaton to share his soul with you, and he does, happily, sitting upon a stool staring out at you. You sit, you wait, he plays, and your hearts broken – all in less than five minutes. You spend your time, post performance, realising that you’ll never get to see an experience that parallels this.
I adore the music, the cinematography, the entire concept of this film. I think it's beautifully constructed, again it is very raw and unique and I really love the movement and the filters put on the film to make it look somewhat 'old' but with a very modern twist. The actual content is ravishing and very refreshing to see and I really love the moments within in the short.
The following imagery is her photography for her up coming book in 2016. It's named "Kids In Love" and I love how raw it all looks. I believe it looks incredibly beautiful because the grain, the unplanned positioning of the individuals in the photos - it all makes the photographs worth while. I think it's personally just a matter of opinion because it's the style of photography that I really enjoy - but still. I think this could potentially influence something that I create and it's highly likely that I'll experiment in the style that she creates.
Luz decided to leave her typical canvas painting work to create something a lot bigger, something to draw attention to herself and the art that she creates. She created an art instillation that incorporated literature, light and over 1000 poems by mail. The instillation was created for the 2010 poetas por km2 - a Spanish poetry festival in Madrid. 1,000 white envelopes were hung through the gardens where the festival was taking place, each of which contained a small light and a poem which was specifically written for the festival by 17 poets.
The instillation was lit for 3 days, lighting the space around them and after those 3 days were completed, the envelopes were available for the public to take either for themselves, or for a loved one. Pens were provided for addresses to be written if somebody desired to sent to somebody and once the festival was completely over, Luz collected the poems and then posted all that needed to be sent and the envelopes continued to be illuminated.
The pale fox is an installation by Henrot who decided to throw items, paintings, photos; all together. These items are combination of random things, primarily due to this instance she is trying to provoke. The idea behind this work is that we try to make sense of the work through object - items that legitimately hold no meaning.
"The title of Henrot’s exhibition is taken from an anthropological study of the West African Dogon people published by Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen in 1965. Dogon mythology is thought to incorporate the belief systems of several different cultures, as well as astronomical, mathematical and philosophical systems of thought. Within this meta-narrative, the character of the ‘Pale Fox’ represents disorder and chaos but also creation, bringing about the formation of the sun. "
"his collage works as a kind of exegetic reminder, a buried link to the film Coupé/ Décalé. The 1952 naturist review Vivre plus is one of the artist's prized possessions among her widely varied collection of objects found on the internet. This purchase, as well as the double-page spread presentation, adds a certain complexity to the film's upside-down men. The naked lady's ecstatic expression with arms raised, similar to the male character at the film's end, and the caption that suggests transmitting well-being to children through physical activity, appear out of sync with the Hanged Man tarot card, which represents sacrifice and failure, though the figure's smile is a contradictory sign. Once ideals have been attained, the demonstration of courage is interpreted as a success that takes us back to that of the mystic capable of asceticism, of abandon, of jumping into the void in order to trace a line between heaven and earth."
Mark Ryden's Ladies on a Log. I love how this mixes oil/acrylic paint on a not-so-typical surface. They look very effective, very pretty and aesthetically pleasing. They're a combination of Rydens usual paintings separate from their typical stand within the actual complete paintings. I love the raw texture and how unique it looks.
'The Upset' is a book of Young Contemporary Artists that Ryden created the front page. The book is full of many interesting artists and Ryden crops up rather often. His art is very unique, usually huge and the concept of his art is usually picked up on due to how original and exciting they are.
This is a very Alice In Wonderland, inspired piece but with a extremely unique and quirky twist. I like how real it looks even though you can tell straight up its a painting. It gets your imagination going (definitely!!!) and it looks so perfectly constructed.
This is a crop of a part of Rydens lady in blood. The fairness on the skin and hair is something Ryden likes to repeat often; it gives it a very delicate, surreal effect.
This just wins my heart. I adore the contrast between colours and how comic-book-like it is. The cat is absolutely adorable and I love contrast with how the flowers grow around the cat. The worm and bug both add to how highly detailed this painting is and I find that beautiful.
This is a HUGE painting that Ryden only recently created! It is a female in water and the detail is phenomenal.
