Ali, Olivia, Sam, Kaleigh-Wake Up

PEAS ON THE MOVE!

Made by Caroline, Hannah, Emily, Sophia with help from some peas.
This is up on youtube, but, sadly, without the sound.

Gillian - produce madness

Hand Wash Only

Enjoy!

<3 Nic, Brielle, Kevin, and Julio

Corlis - Froggie Love

Here's the link to youtube for our animation project!
This was made by Corlis, Aubrey, Neil, and Kat

Kaleigh - Flipbook Animation

Henry - Campain for Burma (Human Rights)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTlrSYbCbHE

Awesome video. It has really cool transition scenes, and the art goes really well with each message.

Zack Bornstein - Animation

This is a very entertaining stop motion film that isn't amazingly well produced, but demonstrates effectively the range of possibilities associated with stop motion films and hints at future possibilities. A film such as this is impressive, because of its funny and powerful effects, but also because as a filmmaker, I am impressed and overwhelmed by how long this must have taken and the patience of these two. The fluidness of the stop motion and wide range of actions demonstrates how meticulous these filmmakers were about planning, shooting, and editing this film.

Sweet Human Skateboard Video

Olivia - Inspired by Blu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho-7W15BF7I&feature=related

Kevin: Stop Motion Animations

Sofia - Octopus Animation

I thought this animation was really cute and creative.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BolgBSXjxeE

Julio- Animation

This video is called Khoda. It apparently took two years and 6000 paintings to produce this film.


Khoda from Reza Dolatabadi on Vimeo.

Allison-Animation
I loved this short animation...sooo funny and good sounds and colors.

caroline: animation

BATHTIME IN CLERKENWELL
Music by(The Real) Tuesday Weld
Animation by Aleksey Budovsky

An army of cuckoo clock birds take over London and force people into cuckoo clocks.

Samantha Carter

AN Animation. I like this, simple, riveting, and... violent? A bit violent considering it's just stick figures.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oraONu7Jp_Y

Brielle - annimation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3-OSwVDtug&feature=related

thought this was cute. it's short, but i hope you like it :)

Emily - Animation

Here is a link to "Starless Night" I thought it was simple and quite cute.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30AZF8ZKhnY

Nic Mooney -- I Love Egg

This isn't anything particularly deep, but it is perhaps my favorite animation ever. It's a bunch of eggs singing in Korean...what could be better than that? I think primary colors and a simple style are used particularly well in this animation. It's interesting how a few tweaks of proportion and a face can make something as random as an egg become adorable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CT9V7z0BhM

Gillian - animations

Well, short animated films are actually one of my true loves in life, so I have 3 examples and could provide many, many more:

This is a self-portrait by Helen Sanderson, a photographer who shoots in black and white film. I really like this portrait because of the dramatic contrast between dark and lights. I also think the way her body is positioned in the photo creates a very interesting composition. To me, the photo seems to convey a deep sense of agony. Also, I like that her face is completely hidden in the photo.

Hannah M: Animation

Two animation videos to share, both from a great site called mediathatmattersfilmfestival.org
The first is the Meatrix, about factory farming (not exactly my activist style, but wanted one about food).



The second is about E-waste, which we heard about earlier in our t-shirt project.



I like how both use art and animation to address social issues and educate viewers.

Julio- Self Portrait

This is a painting by Gustav Courbet, a 19th century French realist. I chose this image because of the attention put into detail and lighting to create a specific expression. The painter is not just trying to paint himself, but also convey or invoke a feeling. It is properly called "The Desperate Man" as it shows the desperation within the painter himself, putting so much of his character on to a canvas. The gestures, his hands pulling his hair, the bulging eyes, and the way his lips are slightly open as if in awe, demonstrate the realness of the painting.

Nic Mooney -- Albrecht Dürer

If one thinks about it, the idea of a self portrait can seem quite strange. In western civilization, art was first used for religious purposes, and then for portraits of nobility and royalty. The idea that somebody would paint him or herself, rather than bowing to the wishes of a family or serving a loftier religious purpose seems rather self involved -- or independent. Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was one of the first prolific European portrait artists. I find this work from 1500 to be especially interesting, as he clearly painted himself to look like the Western convention of Jesus, from the face to the gesture. An artist painting him or herself to resemble Jesus seems like a pretty cliche idea today -- Jesus in contemporary art is rather tepid -- but it's shocking for the 14th century. I want to crawl into his mind: Was he skewering conventions? Was he egotistical? Was it simply unconscious? The intentions artists have behind their self-portraits are mysterious and fascinating.

Neel - Self Portrait

I think the most interesting self portraits are those where the artist forfeits accuracy to highlight aspects that speak to their nature. To exemplify this, I've included a self portrait by Andy Warhol. Rather than doing a self portrait that show himself exactly as he is, Warhol plays with color and shading to highlight two important features of himself. He highlights his distinct face and white wig, which speak more to his nature than any normal photograph. In this way, the artist changes the definition of what a self portrait is, and brings into question how we see and define ourselves.

Kevin: Self-Portrait (Botero)

Botero has been one of my favorite artists since middle-school. As a freakishly skinny kid growing up, I was drawn to abnormal bodies. The massive figures in his art are very distinctive and his work offers a contrast to the perfectly shaped bodies that are featured in Classical and Renaissance art. His pieces manage to make obese bodies seem perfectly natural and beautiful.

His self-portrait is more slender than most of his other work maybe reflecting the fact that he himself is fairly fit. I wonder where he drew his inspiration...

#? Allison Wang-Self Portrait
I chose this self portrait by the artist Salvador J. Vallagran Jr. because I liked his own representation of what a self portrait is. Instead of focusing on the face he focuses on the body language and position. He also incorporates light and dark which helps the painting to say something.

Sofia - Self Portrait

This are two of many self-portraits done by Angus McBean. He would make one every year, between 1936 and 1989, and send it out to his friends and family in the form of a Christmas card. I really like McBean's photography, and the way he juxtaposed different elements - he was the master of photoshopping before computers existed. I also like the idea of a new self portrait every year - reinventing himself each winter and sending the results off to the people he knew. 

Kaleigh- Self Portrait

This painting was done by Salvador Dali. He claimed that unlike most self portraits that looked into the soul this was only the appearance, the outside of himself. He shows his face as being held up without his head or skull, or essentially his being. Just his appearance is shown not his actual self. I thought this was a very creative way to portray oneself, because it is not actually him, just a non-emotional or even non-humanized face being held up by posts.

Hanah M: Self Portraits

I have a couple friends who are amazing artists, so i send out a few emails to collect some self-portraits. Most of them have produced numerous self-portraits over the years, and sent me just one.

The first by my friend Annie, in which she says she is dressed as her aunt would dress a clown. I thought this was interesting, as its a picture and representation of herself, but not dressed in her usual way. Its Annie as a clown, herself but not herself.
The next is by my sister, and is a more traditional self-portrait in which is painting a truthful/accurate representation of herself. I believe this painting was painted from a photograph.
I'm curious to see what the result would be if i told them to paint a self-portrait in the style of the other one!