Finally there.

morning everyone, welcome to my life

so here it is.. what this whole project has been building up to.. a poster and a couple of sheets of acetate (bloody expensive stuff)

ok so it might not seem like much, but within these two outcomes i have given the viewer the opurtunity into my life. by looking at this poster and layered acetate, they can see how much i worked, when i ate and drank, how much i was traveling. on these outcomes is a whole months research. me painstakingly writing down every time i ate a single grape, or showing how on one occasion i forgot to brush my teeth untill the evening. little things like this, the things everyone can relate to, but also the things that noone realy cares about, because they are.. well.. mundane. the same things people are publising every day in silly status updates on facebook or twitter, or the silly tasks people watcch when they watch reality tv shows like big brother.

in the poster i have also included some details in the top right hand corner as it is publishing my april, why not make an event of it. the informations open for everyone to see, like an exhibition.

Final Developments

right.. after abandoning the creepy face, and realising i wanted to do somehting with colour, i began categorising my daily tasks so i could then gain some kind of order to my data collection.

i created a graph in excell that i then put everything into.. all of this is on worksheets.

red is work
orange is travel

yellow is eating

green is mecessities like washing and brushing teeth

blue is drinking

purple is play

grey is nothing

and black is sleep

i then worked out how i could recreate this screen printing with 4 screens. red and yellow overlap to make orange etc

unfortunately the prints didnt come out too well, the colours didnt overlap as i thoiught they would.. even with me thinning the paint right down.

The Face

ok.. so i thought id have a crack at something 3d. and as the project is MY april, i thought i should create something to show that.

i began my model by casting my face with modroc

i then painted the inside with latex so it would be easier to remove

i then began filling the mould with resin. i chose resin as i had never used it before so it was something new. also it is clear so if i chose to use it in my final outcome, it would not destract the eye from anything else.after the resin had dried i dampened the modrock and peeled it off

i then peeled of the dried latex also

the finished face is clear but a bit lumpy. i think the resin and latex may have reacted somehow to create bubbles as i ensured the latex was smooth before i put the resin into the mould

i dont think i will use the face in my final piece as it looks realy creepy. and i dont want people to think that my april is creepy or scary.

Gallery Day

so.. back from holliday and iv only been to one exhibition, so i went on spoonfed.com to find a load of galleries to go to. after about an hour of prining off maps and directions i had 8 galleries to try and get to in 1 day.

a 15 minute walk, one travelcard and a snickers bar later i was at the science museum to see the listening post. by mark hansen and ben rubin. in the piece they pull snippets of real time conversations from chatrooms, for computer synthesised coicews to read and LED screens to display.

rubbish photos, but you get the idea.

it was amasing how people thinking they were having a bit of fun chatting away to some random person theyl never meet, were actually broadcasting comments to the exhibition for thousands of people to witness.

as i was in south kensington already i thought i may aswell go to the V&A as i hadnt been in ages and i never know what i might find. although there was nothing realy graphicsy or directly related to my project there was some realy cool stuff in the glass room.

as i had decided to persue the idea of coding, and that i was probably going to use colour this piece stood out for me. although the artist arranges the colours only to look visually apealing, the structure of this sculprute reminded me of a 3d graph or table. if i wanted to i could create something very similar to this for my rinal piece, but with the colours each meaning a different task. i could either do this by what task i did the most, or chronologically showing what i was doing at each moment of april

the layering technique kept coming up in the glass room, convincing me more and more that this should be the aproach i take when coding my data. it is apealing, but has structure and if i use a key or include some kind of instructions people will be able to easily understand what i did in my month.

there was also this realy cool piece that was basically a mummy, but instead of contunuous bandages, it was bricks. i could make a mould of myself and fill it with colours showing what i did. or if i made it transparent i could reflect something through it.

another exhibition i went to was 'i could have been anyone' at SEA gallery in st johns street. it was realy cool because it was about how people percieve themselves, and looking at your surroundings through someone elces eyes, but i dont know how i would apply this to my project.

Idea generation gallery was realy cool too. there was an exhibition on called the art of conversation, where a group of artists created a chain mail type effect where each created a piece of art and the next person had to make a response to it.. the concept was interesting as it was focusing on the use of internet and communication over technology, but again there was nothing that i could directly apply to my project

^^^

'experiments' at GV art gallery in chiltern street was interesting, as there was such a wide range of work. there was one piece that didnt have a name or artist listed near it that was the cloud formations recorded by lazering them into the glass. obviously i dont have the funds to do this for my own project, but the idea of recording something in an alternative methid like this is something that i could apply

Morse code & Brail

when i began experimenting with using morse and brail as the coding format i thought it would be cool and ironic. however after my tutorial and a rethink, i realised that its not actually ironic, just irelevant.

[theres more detailing and experimenting of this in my sketchbook]

i found that with both types of coding although the actual format was pointless the result looked pretty cool. the idea of coding is definately going to be an element of my final piece as it will allow all of the data i collected to be a continuous flow, so people can easily see patterns within it.

Symbolism & Coding

while i was away i also kept seing adverts for an exhibition at rhe mojo gallery in dubai. obviously it was too far to go and visit but i had a look at the website, for the exhibition that i kept seing.

www.themojogallery.com/new-improved.html

although the exhibition has no direct link to my project i realy likes the artists concept of challenging the commercialism of today, and the ironic imagery tpo show this..

also the opening statement of the exhibition:

"We use brands - and their symbolism -

to help decode out increasingly complex consumer world.

we do it unknowingly...

untill someone challenges our aquiescence by changing the code"

this idea of coding is something i could definately apply to my april research so that all of my mundane tasks become interesting and appealing, meaning the outcome would fit the brief

Anatomy again

Ohhh and in that last post i forgot to put this guy in...

work of a graphic design student at the inuversity of newport. if i were to aproach the more sientific blueprints idea i could look into this style a bit more as the humour in the text gives a more lighthearted feel to the scientific anatomical layout.