This is the result of my time lapse research. Without using video camera we are able to make time lapse videos including zoom, pan and tilt movements. There are almost 1400 photographs in the short film. Each scene last at least 3 seconds and for 3 seconds we need to take 72 photographs. Total length of video is 58 second.

There is a 3 essential device for time lapse photography: wide angle camera, tripod and time remote control. For editing video I used After Effects and Final Cut Pro.

Anish Kapoor & The Museum of Everything

You can learn enough from reading Borna's excellent review below!

But don't know if anyone saw this week there was BBC documentary specifically about his Royal Academy exhibition. Really excellent viewing. If you missed it here is the link on iplayer:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00p00f2/b00pcdbc/Imagine_Winter_2009_The_Year_of_Anish_Kapoor/

Would be nice to watch it in class but not sure we're going to have time. If you want to watch we might be able to discuss in class.

for those who were absent, it was decided on Monday that tomorrow we will go and see 'The Museum of Everything' in Primrose Hill. The museum is quite different in as far as it is only temporary (open till christmas) and displays 'outside' art. That is, artists who do not do this as a profession for financial gain. Check out the link below for more info and I'll see you in class at 2.30 (so noone gets lost!!)

http://www.timeout.com/london/art/event/162975/the-museum-of-everything

Anish Kapoor exhibition

The Anish Kapoor’s exhibition is “surveys of his career to date showcasing a number of a new previously unseen works, including a select group of Kapoor’s early pigment sculptures, beguiling mirror-polished stainless-steel sculptures and cement sculptures on display for the first time.” (Royal Academy of Art, Anish Kapoor’s exhibition’s handbook, 2009)

The first thing that catch your attention before enter the exhibition is the towering new sculpture, Tall Tree and the Eye, that has gone up in the courtyard of the Royal Academy of Arts. This fifteen metres heighted art work has a very interesting dialogue with the sculpture of a painter in the yard.

In fact Kapoor’s works are really entertaining. I found his exhibition very popular because people could found themselves a part of the art work. Some of his works are meaningless without audiences such as mirror-polished stainless-steel works. People stand in front of these works and enjoy their destroyed reflect. As usual the dimension and technology of Kapoor’s work are catching. But one of my favourites is those works made by pigment.

Pigment sculptures seem to be influenced by Indian traditions. In deed I would like to focus on these works. There is an interesting similarity between Kapoor and Maharaja Exhibition. One of miniature paintings in Maharaja Exhibition shows a traditional fete in India which People throwing some colourful powder. Indian people use these powders a lot in their traditional festivals.

It is clear that while of being a post-modern artist, Kapoor uses Indian traditions. He changes traditions to present them in a gallery as a contemporary art work. The idea of using cultural roots in new art always has been appreciated and Kapoor is one of the best examples. He knows the specification of new art and how to develop a culture to make it modern.

According to a review on Independent website “His earliest signature sculptures from the early 80s were geometrical solids on the floor, covered in powdered pigments. Their colours were so intense; your eye lost its grip on their volumes. It's good to see these small, dazzling objects again. This isn't a retrospective, but there's enough here to remind you of Kapoor's powers as an illusionist. He's invented some very original optical tricks.” (Lubbock, T, Independent, 24 Sep 2009)

Anish Kapoor

See you at the entrance at 2.15 to 2.30 today. Please tell anyone who was absent about this too. Thanks.

Is it both possible to be ethical and fashoinable in the same time?

My project proposel will be about ethical fashion.

What is ethical fashion?

Ethical fashion is designing ,producing,retailing and purchasing . It covers some seriouse issues such as working conditions,fairtrade, animal rights and the environmetnt.

I will talk about how ethical fashion aims to address the problem and try to help ,solve and spread the cause.It is a very good way in spreading the idea and trying to change their mentality, moreover to spread awarness.

Its considered to be fashionable because most celebrities and models are wearing ethical clothing and the media portrays it as the new trend.

i still havent finished my research or my project proposel :s

Friday's class

Hi All! Good to see you blogging lots!!!

Well, I haven't had much time to get on here either this week but Anish Kapoor was fully booked so we'll have to go next week. If you have any ideas what you'd like to do tomorrow, bring them with you!

But you MUST NOT come without your project proposal!

Ideas for tomorrow: doing crits on your projects, watching a film that might partain to your projects like last week, or go on a visit (my idea would be the national portrait gallery).

Please post any of your own if you read this before class tomorrow.

How are concepts like inside/outside, native/foreigner boundaries, borders and cultural differences represented in the visual medium of painting?

I began my Project Proposal on 3rd October, 09, which began from Liverpool Station, the Swiss Re-building. The reason I choosing Swiss Re-building was that I found the reflections of building in the glass of Swiss Rebuilding look different as normal reflections. They look more abstract. And I compared them with some other normal building. There are hundreds of glass outside of them, but they look different. They are simpler and realistic, without any kind of changing.

Reflections from different kinds of glass could be totally different. Take the window of Tate Britain for example, the light reflections looked like brushes with oil colours, very abstract. However, they look very smooth.

After the collection of different kind of reflection, I tried to cut some pieces of paper to make mini models which represented the Swiss Re-building, and see if there were any abstract element coming up when I shape it in different ways. After finishing that I put an orange inside to show it is 3-Demension.

On 9st October, another inspiration came from a piece of artwork we saw on exhibition. The light on the metal reflects differently, like ice, which is very abstract because of its sharp and thin shape.

Colour on branches of trees was another example that how the abstract images reflected in realistic objects. Branches were mixed with brown, dark yellow, green and blue. You can hardly recognize it as a part of branch just by viewing the different shaped colours.

All the images refer to the concepts like inside/outside, native/foreigner boundaries, borders and cultural differences. As a new foreigner coming from Asia, British culture seems quite different from my home country. Sometimes every person is doing the same thing in certain public occasion, such as driving in the street, however, it seems that there are still some simple differences in Asian eyes.

It demonstrates a sensation like reflection from glass and water. Through a transparent medium, same, but different activities can be reflected to each side of the medium. For example, compared with Chinese, when taking the tube, native British use every second reading, while Chinese do not. Natives and foreigners share same space, using same materials in same time, however, in different ways, between an invisible boundary.

My paintings are going to represent the boundaries and borders of native and foreign cultural differences. The series is a process of the viewing of native culture from foreign eyes. First of all, the whole native culture is like a mysterious reflection of my own culture in some ways, however, not exactly the same. Then, I want to find the boundaries between the two cultures, so the shape of hand is a symbol of seeking, and the light green background represents the fascinating culture in front of me. Next, like wiping out the steam on the mirror after a hot-water shower, the comprehension for the native culture is becoming clearer as time goes by.

The series is not complete. The final piece should be the one of a clearer view of the native culture than the current piece.