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NOTE TO SELF:
http://www.9031.com/downloads/screensavers.html

Super sweet flip-style clock screensaver. For Macs too!

Website.

Whilst suffering badly from a tooth infection & the prospect of a painful Xmas, I have been attempting to distract myself by making bunting & updating my website.

www.eleanorwoodburn.co.uk

I have added a couple of the videos completed as part of my last project, & the club flyers to the illustration section.

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Sophia Coppola did a lovely little advert for a Dior perfume. Totally reminiscent of Virgin Suicides dreamy look with pastel colours. It makes me want it to be summer again.


Also, no awful speaking parts / narration (cough chanel no.5)

GO AWAY MATT J

What happened to photo booths that let you take 4 different photos. :(
let alone black and white ones!


(via found)

I am getting over the whole sleeveface phenomenon, in favour of this:

win? win.

fresh font!

Toothpast type found here


a little disappointed when i realised it wasn't candy canes, but none the less!

hair.

Also from www.booooooom.com Emily Wong's hair drawings:


These drawings are so night and precise. I guess hair is something truly personal yet a controlled form of self expression and I probably would've been able to recognise Jenny Lewis's hair.

Encouragement Project

Encouragement postcard taken from the 'Encouragement Project'

remember!

Wild Combination

Went to see 'Wild Combination: A Portrait Of Arthur Russel' as part of the Leeds Film Festival.

The film show clips from Arthur Russel's life, mainly footage that documents his music. And commentary from friends, family and other musicians influenced by him.
It was created by director Matt Wolf and I thought it was a really insightful look at his life and music. He manages to piece together sound clips of his music with perfectly matching visuals which was a hard feat considering the variety of the music Russel produced.

i am trying to break your heart

Hi!
I saw the Wilco documentary 'I Am Trying To Break Your Heart' recently:

The opening credits are super good and totally empathetic to the song and the general feeling of the film:

They made a good decision to make the film in black and white, it doesn't seem forced at all and there are some really nice bits of filming and you actually get to hear whole songs, which you should. The only annoying part of the film is the editing, which is totally leading to the point where it's a little bit embarrassing, e.g. the frozen shot of jay bennett waving, when he was about to leave the band, these parts sort of undermimed the film and made it feel like a bit of a soap.
Good watch though, great album.
(not as good as dig!)

found this animation somewhere. Can't remember where.it's by someone called
kate jessop. Reminds me a bit of the animation I did for the collection project last year. has a totally nostalgic feeling to it.

Right, I have to go collect dreambike!

e-motions

By artist Tania Falcao e-motions explores how expressions and emotions can be shownin minimal 2-d faces. I think the idea is so simple and the animating is seamless. The result is something slightly surreal a little bit weird, but I love it.

The Hidden Cost of War

The Hidden Cost of War is an animation by artists Matt Owens , MacKenzie Fegan, Andrew Bouvé, Rus Garofalo, Michael Schaubach, Lindsay Utz, Morgan Currie & Jason Bishop.
I love how simple it appears, with the 4 colours and simple lines and shapes, but it is actually quite detailed and clever. Each part of the animation links to the other with perfect editing. I like the style of the editing, with the speeded / zoomed up parts. The animation itself is all curved 'friendly' edges, and is a really good way to communicate something that isn't so friendly. The 'cost of war' content is displayed in an easy to listen / read way, but it is easy to digest.

Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping.

There has been lots of talk of the rise of digital music and how it is going to wipe out traditional, physical music sales. The sort of 'counter-balance' to this has been the importance http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifof the physical media, especially it's design and artwork. Is a really great website that totally reiterates this sentiment. Documenting the best in vinyl/cd packaging.
I especially like this Karftwerk packaging:

What's so great to me is that something like this is not all that expensive to create. Binning the traditional card sleeve for the transparent plastic is hardly extravagant and I think the design is particularly sympathetic to the vinyl format because most people that buy records favour it for so many ways, including it's aesthetic , to cds.

Of Montreal always create interesting artwork to accompany their releases. Their newest record especially.

'Skeletal Lamping' has been released in various formats. Taking advantage of the rise of the digital album, they have offered it in the form of wall decals, shirts, lanterns among others, with the digital download included.
The cd is also packaged well. The album has a cut-out front, and the insides fold out and collapse to reveal hidden artwork:

I think more artists should focus on the art if they want to ensure people pay for the music they're listening to. If a record isn't a nice object to have, people won't pay out for it.

Flat Life

Recently got internet at my house . . .yay!

Went to various things at light night 2008. All very disappointing, not anything to write about.

I am enjoying the posters from here by an artist called Finn Magee. Particularly those created for the project 'Flat Space':


The second image was created for a show at the London Design Museum:
"Flat Life project at the Designers in Residence exhibition, Design Museum, London.
I was commissioned to develop the posters along the theme of designers in residence.
I wanted the installation to be an advertisement for the product. The light is ‘unpacked’ and the clock is ‘hung’ at the gallery entrance."

The posters have LED lights in them to created the 'light' effect. I like these posters for how modern they are and their surrealist aspect, I think the idea of 'flat object posters' could be continued extensively.

American Apparel.

I think everyone's pretty bored of American Apparel's near pornographic modeling / selling tactics.

Apparently "Jedediah Johnson" is too!




. . and thus created a kind of American Apparel 'who done it'.
But who wouldn't really.

Thobias Faldt

Thobias Faldt is a photographer, living and working in Sweden.
His photographs are all very stark and pale with extra strong lighting. Even the photos he has taken at night seem to radiate this kind of bright and clear quality to them.

A lot of his photos are very day to day, rather than manipulated set - ups. The presence of people under such intense, stylised lighting does remind me of the work of Ryan McGinley, like the image directly below.

Lucy & Bart

Lucy and Bart (click)
"is a collaboration between Lucy McRae and Bart Hess described as an instinctual stalking of fashion, architecture, performance and the body. They share a fascination with genetic manipulation and beauty expression. Unconsciously their work touches upon these themes, however it is not their intention to communicate this. They work in a primitive and limitless way creating future human shapes, blindly discovering low – tech prosthetic ways for human enhancement."

I love this work, the materials they use are really tangible and lo-fi, yet even with the abundance of these materials they have worked them in a really inventive and innovative way! I also think the images of their work add a new dimension to their pieces. A lot of the images mimic fashion photography, yet they manage to make some slightly grotesque figures look beautiful through this! I guess it would be easy to make links between this and the nature of modeling and things like that, but the colours and materials keep some of the images on lighter ground.






I really like how do-able this is, and how it is such a great concept, that's been captured so well.

You should totally check their website, even if it's just for the first page which lets you make an amalgamation between the two of them.

Rekkids

You can do a lot with old records, the obvious record bowl:

Record Clocks:

(of which I think my white d.i.y rhinestone studded one is better)

But record hats?!!



A little bit insane no?

Nylon

Last week Matt caught me "looking at shoes" in the library. I kind of wasn't I was looking at this article in Nylon:


I guess it is kind of weird bringing old indie - comic book based films into focus again, when writing articles for teens, and the article itself is kind of embarrassing and not well researched!
Anyway, the whole Enid resurgence is probably down to Luella Bartley, with her more sophis cartoon geek look:


I love Luella, unlike most designer wear she takes a lot of risks in her designs and offers something more interesting, not to mention for less expense.

Nicola Starr

on another blog and I had a look at her site and I particularly like the series "Catcher in the Rye"


I saw the work of Nicola Starr

I basically love the book and it seems Starr has taken ideas from the book along with excerpts and shown a kind of visual response to them. A lot like the brief I set myself for my illustration elective.
I think her responses are perfect, witty and imaginative just like the book itself. I think they give a good sense of the setting of the book and although they are obviously collage, she has manipulated the images well, to create a really individual look, which i think can sometimes be difficult to do when working with found imagery.
The mix of the images, string and then the start red works great to add this flair.

political fashion

A project of 'ShowStudio' 'Political Fashion' for the last couple of months has involved particular designers and prominent people in the fash world to make a video about their political beliefs. Some are completely bizarre and others like the victor and rolf vid, seem devoid of any point whatsoever.

Thomas Doyle

Recently I found some work by the artist Thomas Doyle his art involves miniature figures and small scale scenes.
There is a lot of mini people using at the moment, what with the cravendale adds and the channel 4 splashes, but unlike them these are much more dramatic, and encapsulated, within glass domes,or set out like dioramas.

This piece is called 'acceptable losses' and it's perfectly executed. I think that the small scale of it, lets you look at the piece better just as a whole. So perhaps bigger isn't always better!



These images are from a piece called 'The reprisal' Which again is shown in it's little bubble.
lovely!

Flight of the Conchords

So I love the Flight of the Conchords anyway, and whilst I haven't bought their new cd yet, I have seen lots of great images of the packaging. I think the aesthetic reflects them perfectly and cd/record design is so important now that all anyone does is rip music off the internet. I mean, they have to make them anyway, so they may as well be interesting!
I like how detailed it is, how even the backs of them has been drawn on, the colours and style are light hearted and modern and mirror what theyre all about.
it's great.

Sandy Skoglund

I found some work by Sandy Skoglund today and he makes the most wonderfully bold, surrealist images.




The second image reminds me of the film 'delicatessen' where you see the man with all hi snails.
I love the greyness of it all, mixed up with these florescent cats!

The first is just so vivid, with the contrasting blue and orange, there's something so dreamlike and perfect with it. The blacks really give it the depth of an 'underwater' image. The room itself reminds me of Rachel Whiteread's casts, all one colour, detailing and all.

HENNIE HAWORTH

Hennie Haworth is a freelance illustrator based in London. Her illustrations have a kind of naïve quality to them which is very much popular at the moment. I think what takes her work to the next level is that she places many of her illustrations together to form what she calls ‘diagrams’. Some of these show made up machines, which look like children’s projects.
I like the way that her images show how some of these things are linked together to create these ‘diagrams’ and often they show and emphasise movement within these. I think the way that some of these images appear to be half finished again support this idea of movement, as if they have been created quickly to show something as fast.

I like the science element to the images, but how the style detracts a little from this and make them more playful. I also like the colours used and the textures created by the media chosen to draw the images.

oliver jeffers

Oliver Jeffers includes scientific elements into his work in a subtle yet focussed way. Often in the form of equations, aesthetically they may not make any sense to the piece, but sometimes when the title is revealed, somehow, the communication seems clear. It is like Jeffers is holding something back, so when we first look at his work it is purely for it’s aesthetic quality, then we get to comprehend it through further investigation.
This leads me to thinking, do we always need to understand work to appreciate it? Does all work have a message and if so, does it really need to be so clear?
For some illustrations for example comic books, yes, they need to be easily read, but they are often backed up by ongoing narrative. At other times, it is nice to have image for images sake, and more enigmatic meanings are nice, in the way that meaning can be taken from pieces in various form, personal to the audience.

"POPULATION OF THE WORLD AT LAST COUNT"

Eagle Vs Shark

I saw Eagle Vs Shark the other day, mainly because the main character (Jermaine Clement) is also in Flight of the Conchords. Yay.
Basically his character, Jarrod is an older, New Zealand, less likable version of Napoleon Dynamite. Eagle Vs Shark tells the story of two social outsiders, getting together and drawing a line under school bullies.

I loved their fancy dress! I think even though it is a tale that we have heard a million times before, there are numerous individualistic details that save the film from just being an 'indie-off-beat-romance' homage: Bowie songs, little animated apple cores, side-burns, shell suits and shark costumes. I thought the film was pretty good, even if you want to kick the characters occasionally.

Son of Rambow

I went to see the Son Of Rambow yesterday. It was very very good! Basically, as a Bretherin who is not allowed to watch tv, Will meets Carter, and then sees his illegal copy of Rambo. For a competition they decide to make their film 'son of rambow' and will is the stuntman. The film basically highlights the problems of growing up and friendship.
I particularly liked when will imagined his role as the 'son of rambow'and we saw the naively animated scenes, with the chains and 'movement marks' I think they fit very well with the drawings that Will had done and also with the time in which the movie was set, mid-80s. I especially liked how everyone in the 6th form was a new romantic.
Ace.

Eric Anderson

Eric Anderson is the brother of Wes Anderson. Until recently I didn't realise that it was Eric who created a lot of the illustrations that feature in Wes's films.
Eric's work is featured most in the film, The Royal Tenenbaums. He helped visualise the set, and when i was watching the extras on the dvd, I learned that he has illustrated a lot of the wallpaper that was put up in the various rooms in the house! He also illustrated the portraits of Margot Tenenbaum that were created by 'Richie Tenenbaum' in the film.

You can see the wallpaper in this frame:


I am so impressed at the amount of detail in the films. They have gotten me thinking about my film. I really think that little details like this really adds to the character of the film, making it more believable and easier to slip into just accepting it. I think they also help to say a lot about the character, and whilst they may be slight exaggerations, it is after all a film!
Whilst I don't have the money or the time to be doing up my sets, it doesn't mean that I can ignore them. I intend to create pieces to hang on the walls of my characters room, and really take into account what little i can do that will add to the overall feel of the story.

Tom Gauld

Tom Gauld is a Scottish cartoonist / illustrator. Much of his work includes very detailed textures, often in monotone. His work has been used for multiple book covers and he has a weekly cartoon in the Guardian Newspaper.

His pictures are often quite minimal, the dark and light draws attention to the subject matter. His images are dryly humorous. All of his marks are totally detailed and precise and within his pictures he manages to make them different.

His pictures often contain few words, as they manage to be self-explanatory purely through the visuals. There are however, lots of reoccurring themes that carry through his images, particularly monsters / mechanical beings and astronauts. His images are often surreal and a modern take on these widely used themes.

Gauld recently published some of his work in a series of mini comics; in each set were two sequential comics and one book. I think that the nature and characteristics of his work suits this format completely! I think Gauld shows just how much detail you can achieve through limited space.

Jacques Henri Lartigue

Jacques Henri Lartigue (June 13, 1894 - September 12, 1986) was a French photographer and painter, whose photos seem especially before their time. Non-composed compared to the rigidity of other photographs of his era, his photos had a great sense of movement and spontaneity. Lartique started taking photographs when he was 6 and his photographs seem to have soaked in his childlike experience of his surroundings. There certainly seems a degree of glee and romance within his photos, but all the subjects remain dignified with a retained elegance. Over composed / planned photos just seem ridiculous in comparison to these, the monotone palette outwarms full colour completely!