Animation Assignment Tutorials and Artists

This week we are working on learning the basics of IMovie and Garage Band. Some of you are working on drawings and live action animation, while others are using the computer to create your imagery. Here are some links to additional tutorials that may be helpful:
IMovie basic tutorials
Garage Band basic tutorials

Photoshop:
Photoshop Introduction Tutorial
Basic color correction in CS5


Artists to write about this week:
William Kentridge


Laurie Simmons

The Music of Regret from Laurie Simmons Studio on Vimeo.

Pierre Huyghe

Scott McCloud TED Talk

Comic artist and author Scott McCloud gives a TED talk about the art of comics.

"Media provides us a window back into the world we live in" - Scott McCloud

Scott McCloud|Journal

Daniel Merlin Goodbrey's Hypercomics
Drew Weing, Pup Contemplates the Heat Death of the Universe

Scott McCloud, The Story Machine - a map to generate ideas

More TED talks on art and design

Additional contemporary comic sites to check out
MK Reed
What Things Do
Atwomic - Twitter based collaborative comic project by Stewart Kenneth Moore

Constructing Space and Time in Miniature

Lori Nix

Lori Nix is a photographer who creates elaborately constructed miniature models. Though the end result of her effort is a photograph, the process of the artist painstakingly creating these artificial environments is a large part of the result. I'm including her as an example here because of the way Nix is constructing her own space and time to translate into a two dimensional medium.

Amy Cutler

Amy Cutler's work depicts a fantasy world filled with women in whimsical and complex relationships. Cutler works primarily with paintings and drawings, but in 2007 she created this installation of 120 cast figures for a sculptural installation titled Alterations for the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid. The female figures with braided hair sit atop a table and are connected to other figures on the floor by small ropes. Read more about this piece in this press release.

Arnie Zimmerman

Arnie Zimmerman is a ceramic artist who explores urban development and change through clay installations. In a recent installation at the Rhode Island School of Design, Zimmerman created a large city in the 4,000 square foot exhibition space that viewers could explore.

Related: Check out the current exhibition Small is Beautiful at Murphy and Dine Gallery in Chelsea, New York City that features the work of diorama artists.

International Yarn Bombing Day Lincoln, Nebraska

This weekend I participated in a yarn bombing in Lincoln's Historic Haymarket. Pieces were created and installed by UNL students, faculty and friends. The whole project was put together in under a week and many participants just learned to crochet and knit a few days ago. We woke up early in the morning on Saturday to install the pieces before the farmer's market, covering parking meters and manhole covers.

International Yarn Bombing Day

Knitted bus from Magda Sayeg of Knitta Please, via The Telegraph

Tree Cozy in Cleveland, Ohio, from artist Carol Hummel

Yarn bombing is a form of installation art, usually created by small groups of knitters and crocheters in an urban area. This non invasive form of soft graffiti has become popular all over the world. This Saturday June 11th is International Yarn Bombing Day, and artists and crafters all over the world will participate in a collective guerrilla-style yarn bombing of urban and rural settings.

Bike rack yarn bomb by Streetcolor in Berkeley, CA

Additional reading:

Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti by Mandy Moore and Leanne Prain, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2009

Welcome to the Fourth Dimension

Welcome 1040 summer section 2011! This blog is a collection of several semesters' worth of work by 1040 students and resources I've compiled to help you with your coursework. You will set up your own blog and use it to complete homework assignments throughout the quarter. Set up your blog using the tutorial below and email me a link so we can share it with the class.