Stop-Motion

Stop-motion films in themselves are daunting to do. One picture is taken per frame and there are about 24 frames per second of footage typically. Every small movement must be photographed and, as you can imagine, stop-motion requires a lot of patience and time. Now, I don’t have the patience to make such films, but others do and props to them! Here’s a music video all in stop motion that blew my mind. And did I mention that the animated background was all done with… JELLY BEANS?! Prepare to be blown away.

Oh, and if you’re interested in how the music video was made, check behind the scenes! It was a crazy process, but definitely worth the time and effort.

Arts & Crafts

You know the scraps of paper you have after you cut out your gauche swatches?

Don’t throw them away just yet! I’m an arts and crafts person and I saw potential in these little strips of paper. So with a hot glue gun at hand, I made...

Nothing should go to waste.

Possibilities with Paper

Sherin showed some us in her 2 pm class what one student did with his/her left over Bristol paper for the last project. He/she created this lovely, delicate, 3D piece that reminded me of Regina Spektor's "Samson" music video. Please enjoy!

I encourage you to watch the entire video. The paper stop motion gets more complicated as it continues.

Helvetica- A Documentary

I recently watched a documentary on the font, Helvetica, originally named Neue Haas Grotesk, by Gary Hustwit.

It was eye opening to learn about the importance of a neutral font and the world of typography in general.

The film talks about the importance of negative spaces around the letters that holds together the positive space together to form a coherent and clear type face. Made me think about our last project how we utilized negative space to frame our eyes to make strong compositions!

There is much more to the film, but you should definitely check it out for yourself. It's an eye opening 80 minutes into the world of typography!

Check out more information on the film by clicking the picture! 

- Lisa G. Yoo

Project #2 - The Process

Hello friends!

I just wanted to stop by to share a few process pictures from Project #2. Below are some shots of my "Balance" painting, plus a few avian amigos from my "Proportion" piece.

I actually ended up with a lot of really neat cutouts from this project - hopefully I can use them for something else later on! That's all from me, congrats to everyone for wrapping this project up, I was beyond impressed with everyone's final results.

-Nikki D.

The Sky (Getty Exhibit)

I am always amazed on how the sky can make me feel so little, how it constantly changes, and can shift the ambience of a day. There's an exhibit at the Getty Center focusing on the sky from July 26 to December4.

Although this is a photography exhibit, I think we can learn a thing or two about composition through these photos. The sky is such a large expanse of space and we can see how the photographers compose their shots to create mood and illuminate the beauty of the sky.

TED Talk on Advertising

Stumbled onto this TED video on advertising and marketing... Enjoy!

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2HFiv1/www.ted.com/index.php/talks/rory_sutherland_life_lessons_from_an_ad_man.html