Monday, April 6, 2009

CLIENT QUOTES


ALFRED NOBEL

"If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied."

www.buzzle.com/articles/ideas-and-sayings-about-them.html





JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU

"Bouyed by water, he can fly in any direction, up, down, sideways, by merely flipping his hand, underwater man becomes an archangel." Jacques-Yves Costeau

'Poet of the Depths', Time, (28th March 1960)





KEITH CAMPBELL

"I want to try to explain to people...the positive uses for this technology, the benefits that it may have for human therapeutic medicine and improving the quality of life for people with certain genetic disorders." - Keith Campbell, interview 6/22/01

www.mblwhoilibrary.org/services/lecture_series/campbell/index.html


Wednesday, April 1, 2009

FINAL SUBMISSION - IMAGES

MY ORIGINAL MODEL GREW FROM A COMBINATION OF 2 SECTIONS OUT OF MY NOTEBOOK, MY FINAL CONCEPT IS THE COMBINATION OF THE LOWER FLOOR FROM MY 1ST MODEL AND THE UPPER FLOOR FROM MY 2ND MODEL. RESULTING IN THE COMBINATION OF THE ABOVE SECTIONS :P


FRONT

REAR


SECTION - UPPER; ROSALIE GASCOIGN: STRUCTURED,
- LOWER; TRACEY MOFFAT: CONFRONTING.
MATERIALS INCLUDED PRECAST CONCRETE PANEL WALLS, CONCRETE FLOOR SLABS CAST IN SITU, TOUGHENED GLASS, STAINLESS STEEL RAILINGS, TIMBER STAIR TREDS


STAIRS COMING FROM UPPER INTO GALLERY

STAIRS FROM BELOW TO GALLERY

FINAL SUBMISSION- ANIMATIONS






Monday, March 30, 2009

YOUTUBE VIDEO

36 TEXTURES



PRODUCTION METHODS

‘SOMETHING MORE’ BY TRACEY MOFFAT IS A SERIES OF 9 IMAGES OF WHICH THIS ONE SHOWN IS #5 OF THE COLLECTION. THE ENTIRE RANGE OF THESE HAVE BEEN TAKEN IN A STUDIO AND SET UP WITH PROPS AND MODELS. THIS ONE IN PARTICULAR INVOLVES TWO FEMALE MODELS AND A MALE MODEL. EACH IN THEIR POSITION AND SOME IN MOTION AND SOME NOT, MAKE UP THE BACKGROUND OF THE IMAGE WHILE IN THE FOREGROUND, THE PROPS CONSIST OF A WOODEN TABLE, ON TOP OF WHICH IS PLACED A DINNER PLATE, A FORK, AND MOST FORE FOCUSED AND SALIENT IS A KNIFE WHICH HAS BEEN STABBED INTO THE TIMBER TABLE TOP. MOFFAT HAS USED THESE MODELS, PROPS, AND STUDIO IN CONJUNCTION WITH HER CAMERA.




ROSALIE GASCOIGNE’S PIECE TITLED ‘FOREIGN AFFAIRS’ IS AN ABSTRACT FORM OF WHICH SHE HAS CREATED OF SAWN WOOD SITTING ON CRAFT BOARD. IN CONSTRUCTING THIS SCULPTURE, ROSALIE HAD A WORKSHOP TYPE SET UP WHERE BY SHE WOULD HAVE REQUIRED A STURDY PLATFORM SUCH AS A WORK BENCH AND THE USE OF A VICE. GASCOIGNE HAS TAKEN PIECES OF TIMBER AND USED A SAW TO CUT THESE UP INTO BLOCKS OF VARIOUS SHAPES AND SIZES WHICH FORM THE PIECES THAT MAKE UP HER COMPLEX PUZZLE. SHE HAS THEN CAREFULLY ARRANGED THE WOODEN ELEMENTS TO FIT IN WITH ONE AND ANOTHER THROUGH FORMS OF TRIANGLES, RECTANGLES, AND SQUARES THAT ARE FASTENED TO THE CRAFT BOARD CREATING ONE LARGE SQUARE. RESEARCH WOULD NOT REVEAL BUT IT APPEARS THE TIMBER WAS PAINTED IN SHADES OF GREY WITH THE BLACK STENCILED WORDS PRIOR TO ROSALIE CUTTING THEM INTO BLOCK FORM.


Monday, March 23, 2009

MODELLING & STAIRS

SECTION FOR INSPIRATION OF 2ND MODEL

STAIRS IN 2ND MODEL


2ND MODEL CONCEPT

SHOWING CANTILEVERED SUPPORT IN STAIRS FROM BASEMENT TO GALLERY

STAIRS IN ORIGINAL MODEL

STAIR FOR 2ND MODEL FROM 1ST FLOOR TO GALLERY


STAIR FOR ORIGINAL MODEL FROM 1ST FLOOR TO GALLERY

STAIR FOR ORIGINAL MODEL FROM BASEMENT TO GALLERY