Showing posts with label Martha. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Martha. Show all posts
Sunday, 5 June 2011
Thursday, 24 February 2011
Martha
6min
Clear communication.
Two different slides for personal and objective
Illustration of the experimental design studio?
More images?
Sometimes images don’t add anything, it’s not playing its job.
Sunday, 20 February 2011
Thursday, 17 February 2011
Thursday Meeting - Martha
Martha:
Is the strive for perfection a barrier for creativity?
Imperfection is human – experiments with circles.
Symmetry – mirrored faces – even the human body is imperfect.
Type – imperfection and beauty in type.
Imperfection is the real perfection.
Target group: person working in the creative field that are perfectionist and have afraid of risk taking.
Collection of interesting imperfections – outcome (print).
Experiments with contrasts/opposites.
It might be boring?
Suggestions:
Sequence of circles - feeling of how different people have done it. Get the feeling of the movement.
Try technology – video in pdf?
How you can involve the audience if you want to? Does this looks strange?
We don’t think is boring!
Future: work can help your professional work.
Sunday, 13 February 2011
Thursday, 10 February 2011
Wednesday, 2 February 2011
Henry Drager
I don't know if I'm too ignorant, but I just came across this artist Henry Drager. I like the images and I reminded of you...
Thursday, 27 January 2011
Photography for Design
Mischa Haller
The Swiss photographer had an incredible amount of work to show us, he seemed to have been nearly everywhere in the whole wide world and had been working for many different people already.
Mischa Haller started off by saying "If you want to do interesting stuff, you have to do it for yourself". And this is what he did. He made a little book in the size of a postcard with pictures he likes to make, made a dummy and then went to several book shops like Magma to ask whether they would sell it or not. Haven gotten a positive response from all the shops he decided to produce a small amount of copies to sell. Despite the fact that he had to pay for the productions costs, it turned out to be the right decision as he got his next job offer through it.
He is especially interested in social and cultural documentaries. A tip he gave us was not to show the whole part of the object you want to illustrate, but leave a certain part to the imagination that can tell the rest of the story.
When talking about a documentary he did on an island, he explained how he worked and what he was looking for in a good picture. He told us that he sometimes spends one hour in the same place, for example a fish and chips shop, until people kind of get used to him, then he waits for the perfect moment, usually when something interesting happens, to take a shot. Furthermore he said that people give life to the photograph, therefore you shouldn't take a picture of a place without people in it, as this is "boring".
Mischa Haller
The Swiss photographer had an incredible amount of work to show us, he seemed to have been nearly everywhere in the whole wide world and had been working for many different people already.
Mischa Haller started off by saying "If you want to do interesting stuff, you have to do it for yourself". And this is what he did. He made a little book in the size of a postcard with pictures he likes to make, made a dummy and then went to several book shops like Magma to ask whether they would sell it or not. Haven gotten a positive response from all the shops he decided to produce a small amount of copies to sell. Despite the fact that he had to pay for the productions costs, it turned out to be the right decision as he got his next job offer through it.
He is especially interested in social and cultural documentaries. A tip he gave us was not to show the whole part of the object you want to illustrate, but leave a certain part to the imagination that can tell the rest of the story.
When talking about a documentary he did on an island, he explained how he worked and what he was looking for in a good picture. He told us that he sometimes spends one hour in the same place, for example a fish and chips shop, until people kind of get used to him, then he waits for the perfect moment, usually when something interesting happens, to take a shot. Furthermore he said that people give life to the photograph, therefore you shouldn't take a picture of a place without people in it, as this is "boring".
Performance and Design
Pete Brooks
Pete Brooks started the lecture by showing us sequences of films, starting with his first production in 1984 and ending with one from last years MA-students.
He told us that he was especially interested in telling stories with his work.
Furthermore he compared the theater to the cinema. It is far easier to get lost in the story of a film and even from time to time start crying, which is seldom the case when watching a theatre play. The reason why we don‘t get that emotional is because through Brecht we tend to think more critical about the content of a play and don‘t just lie back and let us overwhelm with emotions.
Also, theater plays tend to tell more intellectual stories than most of the mainstream films do.
Pete Brooks wants to use the digital technology in a narrative context. He gave us an example by showing us a sequence of the performance of "Hotel Methusela". There you could see the actors on stage and in the background you saw a close up of the current situation on stage as a video projection. It was very impressive to see how differently I reacted to the different outputs of the same performance. The video projection made it seem more real for me and I felt closer to what they were saying, even if it was the same performance at the same time. Your eyes where guided to the most important part of the scene and it was even a blown up close-up, it therefore made it easier to follow the piece.
I think it is very important to involve the new technology when it is adequate to the piece you are performing. I wouldn't recommend to use it at any time. It can also be an overload sometimes. Digital technology should support the play and should not cover the real performance.
Pete Brooks
Pete Brooks started the lecture by showing us sequences of films, starting with his first production in 1984 and ending with one from last years MA-students.
He told us that he was especially interested in telling stories with his work.
Furthermore he compared the theater to the cinema. It is far easier to get lost in the story of a film and even from time to time start crying, which is seldom the case when watching a theatre play. The reason why we don‘t get that emotional is because through Brecht we tend to think more critical about the content of a play and don‘t just lie back and let us overwhelm with emotions.
Also, theater plays tend to tell more intellectual stories than most of the mainstream films do.
Pete Brooks wants to use the digital technology in a narrative context. He gave us an example by showing us a sequence of the performance of "Hotel Methusela". There you could see the actors on stage and in the background you saw a close up of the current situation on stage as a video projection. It was very impressive to see how differently I reacted to the different outputs of the same performance. The video projection made it seem more real for me and I felt closer to what they were saying, even if it was the same performance at the same time. Your eyes where guided to the most important part of the scene and it was even a blown up close-up, it therefore made it easier to follow the piece.
I think it is very important to involve the new technology when it is adequate to the piece you are performing. I wouldn't recommend to use it at any time. It can also be an overload sometimes. Digital technology should support the play and should not cover the real performance.
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