#temporal art

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Ancient Rome Meets 80s Computing Power

When Caesar needed that extra RAM for conquering Gaul 💻⚔️

Classical architecture x retro tech chaos

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Temporary Project - Scoliosis Spine (17/11/22)

On Monday/Tuesday I made a scoliosis spine out of wire to explore my temporary body changes as my spine curved throughout my scoliosis journey (my spine was originally straight, then bent, then straight again after surgery). I wanted to develop this idea further so today I decided to make another scoliosis spine however this one was more abstract and made out of recycled materials instead of wire.

I cut the plastic bottles into vertebrae shapes to make the spine

I then attached then with wire. The wire acted as a spinal chord. This time I wanted to make this light up. Out internal body parts (organs and bones) are always in the dark so this time I made my spine temporarily glow using the Diphenyl oxalate and fluorescent dye solution found in glow sticks.

This is the finished piece - the glow is similar to the glow of Dorothy Crosses Glow in the dark sculptures.

It is even more abstract than my wire spine sculpture however I wanted it to be just representational not realistic. however I couldn't bend and restraighten this spine sculpture to show the temporary changes of my spine during my scoliosis journey as the bottle cut outs kept twisting and getting tangled. This confirms my initial thoughts that the wire was the best media to execute this idea. Although this experiment didn't workout perfectly I was still left with a beautiful image of an abstract plastic spine.

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Temporary Project - Mush Has a Photo Shoot (10/11/22)

Today I did another stop motion animation, giving temporary life to my inanimate plasticine friend Mush once again . I combined the skills that I learned from the two workshops I did on Monday. I took the gestures (temporary poses) aspect from the 'Me and You' workshop with the studio photography aspect of the 'Camera Work and Lighting Control in the Studio' workshop.

Here's my plan for the animation :

Before I began filming I stuck down any items in the shot that I didn't want Moving with blue tack. This is something that I wanted to improve on from my last stop motion animation

I then dressed Mush up like how we got dressed up for our photoshoot in the workshop. I used recycled materials - plasticine, a plastic bottle cap and a material string - to make his hat and scarf.

This particular idea was inspired by an episode of 'Morph' (by Aardman Animation Studios) I watched on YouTube in which the characters did a photoshoot doing iconic playful poses .

Here's my finished Animation:

I used the lamp to imitate the camera flashlight. During this Animation I experimented/explored different eye, brow and mouth movements. For the 'cheeky pose' I made Mush a second pair of eyes that are looking to his side as he turned around and I opened his mouth for the first time.

My peers have given me feedback saying how they noticed the positive improvement in the flow of the figures in my stop motion animations. They look less static and robotic. Practice makes perfect! (well not perfect, but improvements)

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Temporary Project - Mush and Beatrice Stop Motion Animation Collaboration - Part 2 (18/11/22)

Today I worked with Juliet @k00283299 . For our second stop motion animation we made my plasticine figure Mush plat Juliets puppet Beatrice's hair. Hair is a temporal element of the Human Body that is constantly changing styles, colours,lengths and textures. At the end Mush and Princess Beatrice did a queen wave as they say goodbye for the moment.

For this stop motion animation I acted as the director and photographer while Juliet did the motion manipulation. This was the first time that I was only the director. This allowed me to focus my undivided attention on ensuring that nothing that should not be moving stayed still and that everything that should be moving did so smoothly.

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Camera Work and Lighting in a Studio Setting Workshop (07/11/22)

Today I did a workshop on photography. We learned how the camera and light studio works and how to use the cameras properly. This was the first time that I used a proper camera. The difference in quality versus my phone was surprising.

Phone : Camera :

I experimented with the projector along with different materials (recycled and natural materials) to create unique effect some of which added colour and/or texture to the photo.

I worked in a group with @k00277552 and @k00281397

Here are some of our finished photos that I later edited to improve the tones and lighting

All of these poses and the different kinds of lighting that we used were temporary.

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Temporary Project - Claymation (03/11/22)

Meet Mush

Mush is my temporal friend made out of wire, polystyrene and plasticine. His plasticine body is temporary like our human body as it is always changing. He is inspired by Aardman's first character 'Morph'

I will have to make him multiple sets of eyes, arms and legs as I want his eyes to move and blink, and from researching Wallace and Gromit and other plasticine stop motion animations I have learnt how these reusable plasticine figures are prone to breaking (temporary) . I have also noticed how dirty Mush's plasticine exterior gets after i film with him. I plan to change his exterior layer after each filming sessions to preserve his pure innocent white look :

Before cleaning: After:

I gave him new big eyes to make him more appealing and loveable for the audience. I also added eyebrows to allow me to express Mush's emotions in future animations

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Temporary States of the Human Body Project : Finger Print Painting (18/10/22)

Yesterday I did a print workshop, so today I followed on from that and made a painting with my finger prints. I did some research on a body print artist called Elizabeth Walden this morning. I did a painting of my spine when I had scoliosis. This painting was from my first x-ray. During my childhood my spine was temporarily bent until I underwent a nine hour operation in 2018 when I was just 13 years old.

However, before I did the painting of my spine I did I experimented with my hand prints and got a feel for what the painting might look like with the white paint on black paper.

I love how you can see my fingerprints so clearly. My finger prints are my identity like how scoliosis was once (temporarily)my identity as a child

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Temporary Project: Lazer Cut Man Dance SM Animation (01/12/22)

Today I developed on from the lazer cutting workshop I did on Monday once again by making a stop motion animation with the cut outs I made.

I wanted to explore the temporary human body and its movements through dance once more. However this time I wanted to do it in a more quirky style as I had the freedom to play around with the lazer cut out man's limbs in a way that I couldn't do with an actual human body.

For this SM i took inspiration from another wooden man - Pinocchio.

I have been looking at disneys animation a lot lately and i thought it would be interesting to take some of the 3D digital characters Pinocchios moves and make them using the traditional 2D stop motion animations style. Also I gave this wooden man temporary human like life similar to disneys Pinocchio.

Link for Disney's Pinocchio inspiration clip:

https://youtu.be/wi6C5jL2CEU