Xmas time means I will update the versions of the site, format my computer and get drunk on red wine at work Christmas parties.

Here’s another visualisation I made for my good friend Tom Jackson aka Freshcut.

Also going to be putting a few of these into my portfolio once I render them in a quicktime format (Youtube rinses the quality).

Owen from HMC Interactive pointed out to me the work of Joshua Davis who has some amazing print work created from generative Flash work. I definitely want to look into this more as Flash is a lot more dynamic than After Effects, something to keep me busy over winter

For my critical context essay I would like to look at the relationship between graffiti and digital art.

Graffiti and digital art were always going to breed: it was just unclear what the offspring would look like and whether it would thrive

Scien - 123Klan

Although graffiti still stands to be a predominantly hated artform, you cannot argue with its massive presence in modern day art and design whether it be commercial billboards and idents or simple typography. There seems to be some sort of double-standard on the issue however most agree that graffiti is a creative outlet which in turn has created various amounts of creative style that are used in current graphic design trends.
So digital art’s way of saying thankyou is by allowing accesible creativity from individuals all over the world to collaborate, innovate, showcase, research and experiment their ideas, styles and stories.

On the street and off, on the web, the barriers to being creative have never been lower

Marc Schiller - WoosterCollective.com

I find these relationships very interesting, how one has evolved the other in many forms and would like to delve further into them.

Quicknotes;

Explain graffiti in relation to art practice
What makes graffiti ‘art’
Relate back to brief

References; banksy, c3.org, GRL, deschamp,

I like…

After watching the video I hope that the ideas and messages that I wanted to convey were clear and understandable. The idea behind the video was simply taking the connotations of a spray can (illegal, freedom of speech, graffiti) and turning them on their head. I wanted to incorporate this with the idea that advertising is essentially a form of graffiti although nothing is done about removing it.
A lot of people have issues with the tremendous amount of advertising in public space which gave me inspiration to touch on, being able to include the ideas I had for my spray can model which is used as a tool of censorship that would allow its user to block out the advertisement billboards, posters or whatever form they are in. This way I have created parallel narratives which twist in the middle.
Using titles I felt I could create a narrative for the video which would include the viewer and try to provoke a reaction from them if they have any opinion on either advertising or graffiti. These titles tend to include questions that the viewer can reply to in their mind.
Usually I use a music track to create an atmosphere for the video but I felt that using the audio from the advertising footage helped make the viewer feel that they were physically in the sort of public environment such as a train station or on a city street. Whereas a music track may be quite distractive and not let the viewer concentrate on the image that was trying to be conveyed.

Overall I felt I have created an interesting and though provoking video which was done by just swapping the connotations of an object.

References:
Kaapital Video: Smack Studios

Handed in my simulacrum video yesterday, here is the final product exploring the connotation, history and other ideas of a spray can.

I used the idea of advertising as a form of ‘economic graffiti’ and turning the use of a spray can on its head and using it as a censorship device, rather than the ability to give an individual the freedom of speech.

In a bit of a rush so will post the rest of the work up this weekend sometime.

Just remember, it doesn’t matter how early you managed to finish the project and how much time you had spare, but remembering Steve Anson has your uni card which you need to hand your work in half an hour before the deadline is not as funny as it seems.

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