Bill and Teds Bloggus Journey

Fill your bowl to the brim
and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife
and it will blunt.
Chase after money and security
and your heart will never unclench.
Care about people's approval
and you will be their prisoner.

Do your work, then step back.
The only path to serenity.

From the "tao te ching" some words of wisdom for all you stressed out there.
also this spectacular contraption

and fascinating item about the fluidic properties of shampoo.

Resevoir Bloggs

just a heads up of my weekend. its been a non-stop orgy of goin to work goin out on the sauce and in between, doing some more animation. its fresh off the cutting room floor here but isn't really finished yet. see what you thinks.


on another note the library sent me an email asking me to return 3 books i didnt take out. YAY!!!!
peace out puny mortals

MECHA-BLOGGZILLA!!!!

this is what ive made this afternoon, god it took forever but i think it's quite cool. its a learning thing and ill get it going better soon, its hosted on youtube to avoid nasty giff loading time and this way i can put music to it (which makes it strangely anthropomorphic, go figure) see what u think.

Comments please! more up soon.

blog VI- return of the jedi

ive been working on some stop motion animation, see what you think
I'll post some more up later on when they are finished.
im gonna do more stuff with paper and on that subject check out this awesome music video by the shins
enjoy

blog V: the empire strikes back (the best one)

Hey everyone, blogging with the current stuff, take a fly dope-raggedy-ass look


Mural down in the merchant city, if youve not seen it its worth a look, i like this photo cause its got a bit of a looney tunes false road feel to it.


exhibits at goma exploring positive and negatives of space, as interesting as any object is it can only be seen in the context of the functional empty space around it.


building up 3d shapes, optical llusion almost, from flat wire shapes

This turned out quite well, i want to see how it'll turn out on a larger scale but i definately dont want to plan it all out before hand :)
anyhow thats me for the now enjoy the gidness,
rock over london
rock on chicago
polaroid see what develops

Blog IV: A New Hope

interesting quote

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of.... I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!
--Andre Breton (Surrealism and Painting, footnote, 1928)
This doesn't have much to do with anything but it is a fabulous quote,
This however is a very interesting piece of art, it "Depicts Georges-Pierre Seurat's "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" using 106,000 aluminum soft-drinks cans, the number used in the US every thirty seconds."

in a similar way, interesting use of material here with ant art

I'm quite interested in the idea of portraiture in concert with psychology, is it possible to create a representation of someones mind as opposed to their body? Our lucian and his famous relation would seem to think so, to what extent can the visual language show about someones intent?
can a brush stroke express a sneer?
can a motion of the wrist while sculpting express love?


surrealism would seem to suggest as much, mattas fabulously expressive strokes were often put in at speed using huge brushes or rags, so as to capture the moment and the feeling of its creation.


my mate keano, photographed by other pal Cara but it really captures what the lad is about.

Self portrait.

Freidensreich Hundertwasser, he was a huge lover of nature and as such believed that perfectly straight lines were not present in nature and therefore had no place in art or architecture.

Jhonen Vasquez, graphic artist with a distinctive stylisation and a wry anti-establishment, anti-poop culture (freudian typo) message
hr giger's dream quest IV(1981)
HR. Giger, designer of alien, causing an army of cyber-goths to get bio-mechanical style tatoos they'll regret hugely in 30 years, silly tits. but making an interesting point about the role of humanity in a mechanised, instant gratification society.

"Be excellent to each other,... And party on!"- Bill S Preston .esq And Ted Theodore Logan.

Post 3- Revelations

ive been toying with the animation idea and expanded the idea with some rough video and sound edits using final cut and garageband, video is shot on my digital camera so hardly ideal and the sound is a heavily processed acoustic guitar, it's not hugely polished as you can tell.


but for me the idea of using myself as subject is quite apealing because it would give me the chance to examine the social conection between the artist and the other. By creating both inwardly focused work and outwardly focused work it would give the opertunity to compare the two, especialy to see how honest i would be in a self critical scenario.
also the idea of projecting this kind of video/ animation work onto things such as sculptures or manequins could be very interesting. I think there has to be a distinction between someones physical representation and an expression of the more intangible aspects of their persona so using light in this manner could be quite good, possibly even onto less tangeible objects like water, ice or smoke.

ive found an interesting wee site for photo self portraiture

some of its good some not but interesting nonetheless.
this inwardly focused idea of photography is very well expressed by this fella

robert mapplethorpe, died '89 although could he have just gone underground?

anyways i'm moving on with some explorations with paint we'll see how well they come out and i'll keep you all posted.
hugs not drugs! Andrew.x

blog the second: return of the blog

since my last post ive been working on these pictures.








Thanks to the folk who posed for these photos it's much appreciated and if you want to use them for anything feel free.
Ive had a rather interesting idea involving projecting these but i'm keeping my cards to my chest just now cause i don't know if i can pull it off. watch this space

Originaly i had just wanted to compare the angles to each other in terms of recognition because i find it amazing that out of everyone in the world we can still recognise people even though everyones face conforms to the fundamentaly same structure and variations are measured in millimeters, yet we still find them and recognise them.
This for me developed into an interesting experiment into exploration of 3d form via a 2d medium, looking at the physicality of an object or persons presence in space.
Following this ive been looking at sculptures purely expressing the body in space
Such as Boccioni's "unique forms of continuity in space"

and picasso's 'woman in the garden"

Ive also been working on this little gent

i dont think ill take him too far tho, it was more of an experiment than anything.

Also started reading Jean Baudrillard's
early work, "The System of Objects" mostly to indulge the post-socialist in me.........
but then i got distracted and went to the pictures... got drunk and dressed as a spartan.

took pictures
photoshop baby




Thats your lot, blog you all soon
hugs, andrew

post.. the first

sitting comfortably?
quite some time

then I'll begin.

Following on from some portions of the last project I found myself thinking about personal representation and the concept of portraiture. For me there is a question in portraiture about what you are actualy depicting, are you making a clear representation of the physicality of a persons body? Are you creating a representation of the moment of contact between that person and yourself in time and space? Are you representing the more intangible qualities of a persons soul? Or is it ultimately self focused, is the portrait a reactive process and therefore a record of the artist rather than the subject?

lots of questions, start as they say at the start.

Representing the physicality of the human form.

One of the things i was fascinated by from a recent project was a work by Christine Borland in which she took the skulls of two unknown people from Africa and re-constructed their faces using forensic techniques. This was particularly good in the context of this topic as it is a purely physical portrait due to the model being very dead.
Interesting to note that forensic techniques modeling faces from skulls have been around for quite some time this was done ritualisticly by the people in Jericho although none of the archaeologists can decide which peoples skulls were chosen for this treatment. Although their methods were not as sophisticated as modern day forensic reconstruction

Other similar examples of this are death masks such as thisaztec mask or napoleons death mask

other than this ive been doing some sculptures and quick studies of anatomical forms,
Starting with some creative cleaning in the studio


then thinking and playing with some ideas of three dimensionality

This is relatively flat but it gave me a good oppertunity just to experiment, i like the cracking in the clay here.

Then i started in on some 3d stuff again investigating.



then working on more complete maquettes with armitures, this is a work in progress just now when its done ill post as a giff animation.


next up im gonna do some people so if youve got a spare 15 minutes to pose for photo/sketchies then give me a shout else ill have to do it myself and frankly no-one needs to see this face in stereo!

hugs! andrew

check check 1 2 1 2 is this thing on?

just double cheking this mother is set up all good......

Heres a picture i took


i think this should work