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For Nadia

Nerd vlog

I don't know what to do with this, i think I might imitate these kinds of videos and see what kind of character comes out.

Attention seeking tutorial

I need to make a shirt with an attention seeking catchphrase on it. I saw one that said "I'd do me" something quite egotistical but pathetic...

The Incredible Joseph - "Cleanin' the floor"

The Incredible Joseph cleans the floor.

Machine parts for Lauren

3rd Years Site specific Installation

In this project you will be required to make a new work which takes into account the physical space in which it is presented. This can either be a site specific work or an installation that is set up in a gallery type space.
You will be required to consider how the exterior (analogue) components either chosen or already present in the space influence the reading of the intervention you have created. This project has the potential to be collaborative and you may choose to work with someone either because the size or complexity of the work warrants it or because you would like to make use of a peer’s particular skill in a different discipline. Collaboration must be thoroughly motivated!

Dates for presentation will be considered in relationship to your needs, the nature of the work and possibly the availability of staff to view your installation. It may be possible due to the nature of your work that you will have to submit documentation of the work rather than the work itself for year end assessment. It is therefore important that staff see the work in state at this point.

Consider carefully all 5 senses in your installtion!

Some resources:
http://www.goethe.de/kue/bku/dos/rid/enindex.htm
http://the-artists.org/artistsbymovement/Installation/

Garfield Minus Garfield

I've been looking at Garfield comics as part of this whole cat study and I came across this site that has taken Garfield out of all of the Garfield comics. So you are only left with this Jon Arbuckle character who is just talking to himself. It somehow makes it even funnier than the actual comics. It kind of points out a similar idea to what my project is trying to point out, cats are used to fulfill this need for intimacy. You will notice in the original Garfield comics Garfield doesn't actually talk, his responses are always in thought bubbles, so it is kind of like Jon Arbuckle is talking to himself anyway.

So compare the actual site

http://www.garfield.com/comics/vault.html?yr=2012&addr=120416


to Garfield minus Garfield

http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/

Megalomaniac

I liked the animation and the overlapping of videos. Thought you guys might find it interesting too.

Tom's Youtube Account

So here is the YouTube account for the cat videos.
I will keep posting and see if anybody picks it up.

http://www.youtube.com/user/MrFuurr?feature=mhee

Discharge: Apocalypse Now

Portraits of Soldiers for Jaime

http://www.petapixel.com/2011/12/16/portraits-of-soldiers-before-during-and-after-war/

Genetic Family Portraits For Jaime

http://genetic.ulriccollette.com/

Internet culture.

Why the internet chose cats.

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2011/why-the-internet-chose-cats/

LolCats for Luke

The LolCat Bible:

Ceiling Cat

www.lolcatbible.com

Lol Cat auto translate: http://speaklolcat.com/

See  The prodigal tongue: dispatches from the future of English
By Mark Abley  Chapter 8 words@future.now Language in Cyber Space

Nadia's Vomit Box

Michelle's vomit box

Madeleine's Vomit Box

Bill Bailey interacting with projections -scene from Tinselworm-

I thought this was a really interesting idea, what made it really effective is that it happens randomly during the act, after this whole scene with his different personalities he carries on as if nothing happened. The full show is on DC.

hey guys, yay finally posting stuff! I like the weird and freaky, found a cool website suited for just that: http://www.creaturespot.com/ also there's a huge list of DA artists along the side

Things I've always wanted to do

AMaze ... celebrating the convergence of games, art and society.

F@#$ art competitions that want 'original' artworks and us to supply our own  tech...lets chat about this next class....

A MAZE. calling.

We are seeking for curious, playful and adventurous artists and indie game developers from the sub Saharan region to participate in A MAZE. Interact 2012 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

A MAZE. Interact is an experimental and visionary media art festival, which will take place from 29th of August to the 2nd of September in several locations in Braamfontein, Downtown Johannesburg.

Since 2008 A MAZE. is celebrating the convergence of games, art and society. It is a series of events as well as a conceptual format that offers a regularly emerging platform for interdisciplinary and intercultural exchange. Creatives are encouraged to break down the conventional computer game and surpass established digital or analog concepts of play.

The goal of the A MAZE. Interact Festival in Johannesburg in South Africa in 2012 is to create an annual platform for African and European media artists and game developers. A MAZE. Interact targets the collaboration between artists and the exchange on an artistic, academic and cultural level.

Besides a general interest in the broader field of Gaming and Playing, contributions by the selected artists towards one or several of the allocated modules are very welcome.

*Exhibition:
The exhibition will show artistic computer games, interactive and playful installations, video documentations of public intervention and games.
*Conference:
The conference focuses on the topics "Mobility, Public Space, Games and Play".
*Workshop:
The workshops teach practises of engineering by using open source tools for artistic approaches.
*Public Gaming/ Interventions:
Playful game concepts with amazing and wired rule sets which engages interaction in the public and focuses on social and economical issues.
*Performance:
Performative interventions, music or dance performances, using electronics and micro-controllers in public/ stage, mixing music with realtime visuals, circuit bending.

A MAZE. provides the playground. You are welcome to play with this enviroment and make this festival to a powerful game/ platform for social/media critical discourse with international participants and publicity. Please check us out at www.amaze-festival.de and contact me thorsten@amaze-festival.de

The call is open from February 16, 2012 till June 1, 2012.

Our partners are Goethe Institute Johannesburg, Witwatersrand University, University of Johannesburg, Praekelt Foundation, VANSA, Trinity Session, Transmediale, CIANT, Coded Culture.

The A MAZE. team and I am looking forward getting in contact with you and your artistic outcome.
All the best,
Thorsten S. Wiedemann, A MAZE. festival director

For Jaime: Pieter Hugo There's a Place in Hell for Me and my Friends

Pieter Hugo
Michael Cleary, Cape Town, 2011
Archival pigment ink on semi-matte fibre paper

Pieter Hugo
Ashleigh McLean, Cape Town, 2011
Archival pigment ink on semi-matte fibre paper 

More: Pieter Hugo at Michael Stevenson Gallery

Fragmented Portrait.

Fragmented Portrait. Pen Tool.

I Met The Walrus.

I think a few of you have possibly seen this John Lennon animation, but I really enjoy it. So great.

Rowan Atkinson, Invisible drum kit.

FORM+CODE: Eye & Brain Candy for the Digital Age

 

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2010/10/05/form-and-code/

Delicious Website:  http://delicious.com Get One!

Oh and those of you who aren't posting...neh......yay for Luke! and me of course because i am brilliant (this week!)

Interactive project with chickens! (controversial)

http://ncacblog.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/art-succeeds-in-starting-a-conversation-but-some-call-for-the-cancellation-of-the-project/

ACCESS - an interactive art installation by Marie Sester

First Day of School

Hi Everyone Welcome to/Welcome Back to DA.  I hope we are all going to try and post on this blog.  Yes this includes me who has infinitely more practice at being naughty and lazy than any of you.  This is our virtual club house, wall of ideas and general sharing space.  I will post images/video/texts/links that I think may be useful to all or some of you.  Please do the same.  Please send me your gmail address so that I can add you to the blog if you have not yet done so.

And now some cheesy first day of school motivational speaking with great animation:

Ira Glass on Storytelling from David Shiyang Liu on Vimeo.