I'm not a fast reader so setting the bar too high can be frustrating, so I'm just going to list out book that I want to read over summer.
1: The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
2: Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky
3: Amusing Ourselves To Death by Neil Postman
4:Principles of Economics by N.G.Mankiw
5:The Art of Seeing- Kodak workshop series
As well as a bunch of art books for daily inspiration & practice
2016年5月6日星期五
2016年5月5日星期四
Week 10-Maya Deren
At Land
I've chosen to watch Maya's films because I'm always more interested to female directors. Her films from what i've gathered, are very experimental and freely expressive, shots occasionally reminds me of my childhood dreams. At Land's one of films in particular, stimulated that part of my memory as a child. Cuts that connects one simultaneously to two scenes as the characters move, it's like entering an alter dimension in a lucid dream.
The fact that she puts herself in a sort of observer's perspective is quite interesting.
Meshes of the Afternoon
I see it as a stop motion animation for some reason, At Land also has a stop motion quality to it.
I think that intrigued me about silent films is that you can be so creative with cognizable/ various sound affects and background music, one can easily turn a experimental film to a horror film.
She's probably David Lynch's muse, just saying.
2016年4月23日星期六
NEWSWORLD
Question 1: STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Man he can talk
As I started reading this, the author's memoirs like writing style soon got me going into the flow. This almost long-winded stream of consciousness writing style has never been my cup of tea, mostly because it takes long effort to capture the writer's point or view (what exactly is their point!?).
Question 2: LET'S DESCRIBE EVERYTHING SURROUNDING US!
Yep that's pretty much it
One thing that really kept my attention while I was reading is that the writer used a lot of words to unfold their surroundings (air; water; heat; families; girlfriends) this more immersive descriptive atmosphere helps the viewer to put themselves in the writer's shoe better.
Question 3: HAVE YOU PLAYED LIFE IS STRANGE?
A must play!
very similar to the writing style of this work, Cross platform video game Life of strange developed by Square Enix, is an episodic first person graphic novel game. (The game is in third person view) They both share a unique stream of consciousness feel so if I were to adapt this in another media, I would create a video game that's similar to Life is Strange so I won't have to change the writing system a whole lot. (copy and paste baby!)
Man he can talk
As I started reading this, the author's memoirs like writing style soon got me going into the flow. This almost long-winded stream of consciousness writing style has never been my cup of tea, mostly because it takes long effort to capture the writer's point or view (what exactly is their point!?).
Question 2: LET'S DESCRIBE EVERYTHING SURROUNDING US!
Yep that's pretty much it
One thing that really kept my attention while I was reading is that the writer used a lot of words to unfold their surroundings (air; water; heat; families; girlfriends) this more immersive descriptive atmosphere helps the viewer to put themselves in the writer's shoe better.
Question 3: HAVE YOU PLAYED LIFE IS STRANGE?
A must play!
very similar to the writing style of this work, Cross platform video game Life of strange developed by Square Enix, is an episodic first person graphic novel game. (The game is in third person view) They both share a unique stream of consciousness feel so if I were to adapt this in another media, I would create a video game that's similar to Life is Strange so I won't have to change the writing system a whole lot. (copy and paste baby!)
2016年4月16日星期六
Manga/Comics that I'm gonna show to class
Online Manga: http://mymangaonline.us/manga-info/vagabond.html
Vagabond- Author:
Main Characters:
Musashi Miyamoto
Sasaki Kojiro
The reason why I chose this specific piece to talk about is because it's one of my very early artistic influences and guide book as an artist when I was a teen. Many of my inking drawings are deviated from Takehiko's style. The wild brush marks of characters in movement capture the rawness from this very chaotic time period in Japan.
It's also one of very few manga produced in modern age that goes in depth questioning the meaning of life through character's course of adventure and various masters/ antagonists he encounters and fights. Eventually in his older times he realizes that the people he'd killed and overcame could not quench anything but his superficial ego. Hungry for an answer, he settles down and finds inner peace and enlightenment from being alone in the woods and eventually realizes that everything he's fought against and struggles with all start and end from no one else but his inner self.
more info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagabond_(manga)
Vagabond- Author:
Inoue Takehiko
Main Characters:
Musashi Miyamoto
Sasaki Kojiro
The reason why I chose this specific piece to talk about is because it's one of my very early artistic influences and guide book as an artist when I was a teen. Many of my inking drawings are deviated from Takehiko's style. The wild brush marks of characters in movement capture the rawness from this very chaotic time period in Japan.
It's also one of very few manga produced in modern age that goes in depth questioning the meaning of life through character's course of adventure and various masters/ antagonists he encounters and fights. Eventually in his older times he realizes that the people he'd killed and overcame could not quench anything but his superficial ego. Hungry for an answer, he settles down and finds inner peace and enlightenment from being alone in the woods and eventually realizes that everything he's fought against and struggles with all start and end from no one else but his inner self.
more info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagabond_(manga)
2016年4月4日星期一
2016年4月1日星期五
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
When we were watching the film I was mostly caught by the color and glamorous medieval costume of this British film. I was specifically intrigued by the ways they had done their prop staging and lighting; the cold color tone on character's flesh against the violet back light really makes this entire film looking like its coming out of a renaissances painting. I did a ton of painting and costume studies of this piece and here are two of them:
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