The Fall is a beautiful movie and not only did the locations they filmed at were beautiful but the way that Tarsem Singh had filmed it created lots of different meanings. If this movie was made directed at me the message I got from it was that the story and way you perceive it is within the mind of the beholder. This would apply to my work since the message that I may put into my art may be different than how the audience may view it. What I took away was that sometimes the effort and process adds beauty to the movie. When I found out how Tarsem took 20 years to look for locations it was incredible how many years he had dedicated to this project and it seems to be something that is very close to his heart since not only did he dedicate so many years but the way he created a certain atmosphere while filming. The most amazing thing I found out about in reading up about this movie would be the fact no one knew that Lee Pace could walk except for Tarsem and Lee himself. It was genius that no one in the crew knew because it would have had a different affect on the way people would treat him and how the little girl would have acted, which is also another amazing part finding out how she had improvised most of the scenes and was just herself. After watching this I most definitely want to go to all of these places (in the blog below you can see where it was filmed) and especially India and I really want to find this movie to watch it again.
http://thefall-locations.blogspot.com/
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Monday, September 24, 2012
Questions 2
) How much time did you spend working?
I spent most of Stac everyday painting with breaks to let the paint dry but spent five hours at home threading the pieces and thirty minutes gluing it to the box.
2) How much time did you spend thinking about the work - sort of sitting there and staring at it, or listening to it over and over again, etc.?
Ten minutes were probably spent during each break just staring at the work since after a while it doesn't begin to look like an eye and everything looked wrong.
3) How much time did you spend doing other stuff that seems like work to that make you think you're working but you're not?
Five minutes outside of the Stac Stac room to take a break from painting but ended up talking to Michelle on how to measure with charcoal.
4) How much time did you spend socializing?
Five minutes during my break
5) How did you use your community?
I used my community to get a different view of my painting that I might not have seen. I talked to Caitlin about the colors of my work and we came to the conclusion it was to warm so I tones some areas down with blue and talk to Michelle Li about ideas on how to thread the pieces together. I also asked John his opinion and he stated that the pupil needed to be larger and he was right since it looked disproportional.
6) Rip apart your awful project and how did such a disaster happen?
My painting most definitely could have been a lot better if I measured out the proportions better and if the eye brow wasn't to close to the eye and to small. I should have measured out the paper instead of immediately painting to get a better idea of how large I wanted to cut it up since I ended up cutting the pieces to small and decided to thread it instead of overlapping layers.
7) You've completed a step on your path. What is your next step?
My next step is to research about how many different colors are in an eye since a brown eye isn't all brown.
I spent most of Stac everyday painting with breaks to let the paint dry but spent five hours at home threading the pieces and thirty minutes gluing it to the box.
2) How much time did you spend thinking about the work - sort of sitting there and staring at it, or listening to it over and over again, etc.?
Ten minutes were probably spent during each break just staring at the work since after a while it doesn't begin to look like an eye and everything looked wrong.
3) How much time did you spend doing other stuff that seems like work to that make you think you're working but you're not?
Five minutes outside of the Stac Stac room to take a break from painting but ended up talking to Michelle on how to measure with charcoal.
4) How much time did you spend socializing?
Five minutes during my break
5) How did you use your community?
I used my community to get a different view of my painting that I might not have seen. I talked to Caitlin about the colors of my work and we came to the conclusion it was to warm so I tones some areas down with blue and talk to Michelle Li about ideas on how to thread the pieces together. I also asked John his opinion and he stated that the pupil needed to be larger and he was right since it looked disproportional.
6) Rip apart your awful project and how did such a disaster happen?
My painting most definitely could have been a lot better if I measured out the proportions better and if the eye brow wasn't to close to the eye and to small. I should have measured out the paper instead of immediately painting to get a better idea of how large I wanted to cut it up since I ended up cutting the pieces to small and decided to thread it instead of overlapping layers.
7) You've completed a step on your path. What is your next step?
My next step is to research about how many different colors are in an eye since a brown eye isn't all brown.
Questions 1
1) You've worked on a group film and on your own. In which situation are you most comfortable - group or solo? Which do you work best in?
I am most comfortable working solo since I can make my own ideas but I also enjoy working in a group since it can be easier to get things done and it is interesting to get other people's inputs on ideas.
2) What did you learn that you expected to learn?
I learned how to paint an eye but also detail and shadow the eye area with charcoal which made it more interesting to look at.
3) What did you learn that you didn't expect to learn?
What I didn't expect to learn was how fish wire doesn't thread easily through water color paper if you want it to hang straight but threading surprisingly works very well.
4) What didn't you learn that you expected to learn?
What I didn't learn was how to make the eye more realistic.
5) Praise your amazing achievement and explain your brilliant plan for pulling it off.
I love how my painting turned into something that isn't just a painting but a structure. It is amazing how threading worked so well to keep the square pieces of the picture together and how it became even more interesting when attached to the box. The box give the dark lines in between the each piece since there is space and provides a puzzle feeling from all the individual pieces . It was also a good idea to get rid of some pieces to fit the box since it was not necessary to show more than the eye.
I am most comfortable working solo since I can make my own ideas but I also enjoy working in a group since it can be easier to get things done and it is interesting to get other people's inputs on ideas.
2) What did you learn that you expected to learn?
I learned how to paint an eye but also detail and shadow the eye area with charcoal which made it more interesting to look at.
3) What did you learn that you didn't expect to learn?
What I didn't expect to learn was how fish wire doesn't thread easily through water color paper if you want it to hang straight but threading surprisingly works very well.
4) What didn't you learn that you expected to learn?
What I didn't learn was how to make the eye more realistic.
5) Praise your amazing achievement and explain your brilliant plan for pulling it off.
I love how my painting turned into something that isn't just a painting but a structure. It is amazing how threading worked so well to keep the square pieces of the picture together and how it became even more interesting when attached to the box. The box give the dark lines in between the each piece since there is space and provides a puzzle feeling from all the individual pieces . It was also a good idea to get rid of some pieces to fit the box since it was not necessary to show more than the eye.
Final day of Intensive
Day 3
After two days of painting and a day with charcoal and cutting my project, it is finally done. I think my final outcome came out better than I had expected it to come out but I have to admit I was scared to cut my piece and definitely made a mistake by cutting some a different length. Although it could have been executed in a better process I like my final piece.
Monday, September 10, 2012
DAY ONE!! : Intensive week
A problem with my watercolor painting is that when you stare so long at the painting everything begins to looks wrong. Now that I am seeing this as a picture it didn't seem as bad as I thought it looked before. Another problem that I keep running into would be the top lid of the eye and the shadow underneath the eye. Both are very dark in the photo but when I make the color it doesn't seem to be in the within the color theme of the skin tone. Tomorrow I am willing to take the risk to go all out with charcoal and maybe add a bit of blue to the darker shadows.
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Intention statement
Iris is going to be a blown up painting of an eye that will be painted with watercolor and detailed with charcoal. The painting will then be cut up and altered to show how what someone chooses to see can be not what is actually present. Someone can be blinded to see reality when they deny the truth. Iris (might change the name) to me means how many people chose to blind themselves from the truth.
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Creative Questions:
- 1. What is the first creative moment you remember?
- The most creative moment I could remember would have to be when I was around the age of four or five and I was sitting on the carpet inside my apartment drawing with crayons. There was a piece of masking tape on the paper to I peeled it off and folded the tape. I tried to bend it into a rectangle but the sides wouldn't stay together so I went looking for more tape to tape it down. I taped the side down and decided to make more rectangles and put them together. It eventually started looking like one of the tiny people from Legos so I made tiny figures out of tape.
- 2. Was anyone there to witness or appreciate it?
- My mom was there and saw me folding tape so she didn't think much about it until I started taping paper together to make a house like the ones for my barbies.
- 3. What is the best idea you’ve ever had?
- The best idea I ever had was to not listen to my sculpting teacher in my school and made figurines instead of vases because it lead to my interest in art and thinking outside the box.
- 4. What made it great in your mind?
- What made it great was that even though someone tells you to do something you always have a choice to not listen and think with your own mind. People can't control the way you think, you can chose to think that way or chose to build off that way.
- 5. What is the dumbest idea?
- The dumbest idea I ever had was to listen to my cousin about making homemade perfume by putting conditioner and water in a spray bottle.
- 6. What made it stupid?
- What made it stupid was that I accidentally sprayed a kid in the face and got into a lot of trouble, but the kid was a jerk to begin with.
- 7. Can you connect the dots that led you to this idea?
- I had first thought about metal slides that use to be in my old elementary school and on a hot day it was the dumbest idea to go down a burning slide but then I thought about my old school and then how I got in trouble with spraying a kid. Whoops.
S.T.A.C. Year: Number Three
Even though it is hard to believe that I am a junior it is even harder to believe that this is my third year in Stac. I look at my old blog posts ,even though I admit I'm not the best person to kept up with it, and it is crazy how much Stac has changed me.
I read my first post from freshmen year and it is honestly embarrassing to read since my grammar was, and still is, absolutely horrid. The bad part is that I remember writing it and remember how crazy everything in Stac seemed to me. "When I first walked into the room everyone knew each other and there was so much stuff going on. As I looked around I saw everyone was so different but they all had this one thing that flowed trough all of them and that would be the talent. I guess thats what STAC is all different people that come together to learn from each other." Stac to me as a freshmen was a chance to prove myself and little did I know that it became not only that but it changed the way I viewed everything. I had went in for an interview with a mentor and the topic ended up talking about this show that I had watched in Stac. My mentor and art teacher had never expected me to understand and know what Myths by Joseph Campbell was and were impressed. That was when I realized how much Stac has changed the way I thought since Stac teaches what is used in reality not what needs to be used in high school. Some thing that Luke had brought up again this year was how interesting it was to see the oldies instantly know what to do while the newbies are a bit more hesitate. This had happened last year to and this was what I had said about it: "He said that the oldies seemed to breeze through the activity then the newbies and it has got me thinking about what has changed from thinking like a newbie to thinking like a stacie. Or about how my mind set has changed because of S.T.A.C. it seems like a light switch has been turned in your head. After a year being in stac , you learn how to think like a stacie. You just learn the expectations."
Something that I have regretted last year is the fact that I was not as productive as I was the year before. I had grow to comfortable and lost a sense of self motivation. This is something that I am most definitely working on this year. Junior year is said to be the hardest year but I won't let the regret of last year affect this year. Maybe this year I'll reach out of my comfort zone and try other things besides art. There is always something new to try in Stac........
I read my first post from freshmen year and it is honestly embarrassing to read since my grammar was, and still is, absolutely horrid. The bad part is that I remember writing it and remember how crazy everything in Stac seemed to me. "When I first walked into the room everyone knew each other and there was so much stuff going on. As I looked around I saw everyone was so different but they all had this one thing that flowed trough all of them and that would be the talent. I guess thats what STAC is all different people that come together to learn from each other." Stac to me as a freshmen was a chance to prove myself and little did I know that it became not only that but it changed the way I viewed everything. I had went in for an interview with a mentor and the topic ended up talking about this show that I had watched in Stac. My mentor and art teacher had never expected me to understand and know what Myths by Joseph Campbell was and were impressed. That was when I realized how much Stac has changed the way I thought since Stac teaches what is used in reality not what needs to be used in high school. Some thing that Luke had brought up again this year was how interesting it was to see the oldies instantly know what to do while the newbies are a bit more hesitate. This had happened last year to and this was what I had said about it: "He said that the oldies seemed to breeze through the activity then the newbies and it has got me thinking about what has changed from thinking like a newbie to thinking like a stacie. Or about how my mind set has changed because of S.T.A.C. it seems like a light switch has been turned in your head. After a year being in stac , you learn how to think like a stacie. You just learn the expectations."
Something that I have regretted last year is the fact that I was not as productive as I was the year before. I had grow to comfortable and lost a sense of self motivation. This is something that I am most definitely working on this year. Junior year is said to be the hardest year but I won't let the regret of last year affect this year. Maybe this year I'll reach out of my comfort zone and try other things besides art. There is always something new to try in Stac........
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