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Thorn Crown Experiments

2010-03-24T13:49:00.000-07:00

I've experimented with one photo, the 'crown thorn' I took at Coventry Cathedral, I've tried to compose some visuals with limited text/characters and block colours, maybe go in the other direction - print these out and photocopy several times and really add a scratchy/scabrous feel to the whole composition to show the pain.

FMP_The Gates of Hell.

2010-02-10T14:04:00.001-08:00

The Gates of Hell is a monumental sculptural work by Auguste Rodin that depicts a scene from "The Inferno", It stands at 6 m high, 4 m wide and 1 m deep and contains 180 figures. I just love the size of this thing, I've often heared about the doors of heaven and that they're open at the times of Ramadan etc, but never really encountered such a graphic, illustrative version of the opposition; brilliant!! Several of the figures were also cast independently by Rodin.

FMP_Visit to Coventry Cathedral and Ruins- Etched Glass

2010-02-10T12:58:00.001-08:00

Engraved West Screen is adorned with saints and angels. The rows from the top of the Screen represent key figures of saints and martyrs. These rows are separated by angels. The second picture below shows how at close range they look rough and scrawled, yet viewed as a set from a distance they look magnificent and stunning.

FMP_Ruins - charred beams - Crucifix.

2010-02-10T12:40:00.000-08:00

Charred beams which, on the night of the bombing, fell down from the roof and landed in the shape of a cross.

FMP_Thorned Crown

2010-02-10T12:29:00.000-08:00

'The Crown of Thorns' remind us Jesus’ agony prior to his betrayal and arrest. It also tells of the visit of the Angel who held the ‘cup of suffering’ to Christ as He prayed. Especially like the third image below with just the thorns hoisted in mid air.

FMP_Baptistry and other stained glass windows.

2010-02-10T12:16:00.000-08:00

No picture can describe the experience of suddenly leaving the old ruins and entering the new Cathedral. It is something out of this world. It's almost purposefully dark inside the cathedral so you view these exquisite, beautiful, individual panes to its full potential. The way the light is almost controlled on its way in.

FMP_St Michael and the Devil

2010-02-10T12:06:00.001-08:00

Statue of St Michael and the Devil outside Coventry Cathedral, it is called St Michael's Victory over the Devil. Good will overcome evil!!

FMP_BALANCE_RELIGION

2010-02-03T11:35:00.001-08:00

The areas I'd like to focus are on the SPLIT:

Why people believe in religion;

Why believe that God does not exist;

Why violence is part of their religion.

I practice Islam and regard myself as being a 'comfortable muslim'. Believing in, like many religions, the calm, peaceful, serene side. At what point does religion change to being extreme and violent using or involving physical force.

I'm trying to arrange an interview like session with a Muslim Priest and a Priest who used to be the Reverend of Coventry Cathedral.

Deliverable:

A sculpture, maybe a figure depicting the religious sides -

good/bad//evil//wicked//cruel//ugly//spirtual//tranquility//devotion//screaming//death

Posters, printed in the 'split duct process' which will consist of photography of my sculpture with visual typography.

Herbert Art Gallery

Visited Herbert Art Gallery in Coventry to get inspiration. Old painting styles of fleshy demons and divine light, then adding angles/geometry almost like Picasso's cubism but with a sinister beast impression. The painting below could be interpreted as the evil darkness emerging from the pure white or the pureness overpowering and drowning evil.

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2010-02-03T11:30:00.000-08:00

3 dimentionally raised typography, painfully hand stitched!!

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2010-02-03T11:23:00.001-08:00

This is definitely a 'touching and feeling' senses piece. Possibly my favourite, love the texture, the way the outer bigger holes are chamfered, reduced smaller and honed to a smooth finish.

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2010-02-03T11:14:00.001-08:00

Simplicity can also work, add lighting and shadows into the mix it gives these sculptures a new dimension, specially coming back to them after an hour, to find the shadow in a different light, almost moving and not motionless.

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2010-02-03T11:07:00.001-08:00

Even with bits missing off these gargoyles or faces and the simple detail of the eyes, can add to the eerie-ness, almost haunting look.

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2010-02-03T10:58:00.000-08:00

As long as you've got interesting gestures, stances and poses you don't really need to be that critical on the detailing of sculptures:

FMP_Balanced Religion.

2010-01-31T05:08:00.000-08:00

I regard myself as being a 'comfortable' believer in my religion, I practice Islam, and I like many others in DIFFERENT faiths find peace and tranquility within it. I try not to get involved too much in wars, disagreements surrounding religion, am I being ignorant??

As part of my FMP I want to focus on the SPLIT, the transition onto the 'other side' or 'either side'.

What makes people believe in religion and not want to ever consider believing in a religion?

When are you regarded as a religion 'basher'

At what stage are you regarded as an extremist/fundamentalist?

....issues effecting any of the above is an FMP on its own, I initially was only going to consider typography on the Humorous Posters you get displayed outside churches, and thought how impressive it'd be if I could design a similar style poster for my religion.

I hope to interview a very good friend

FMP_6 ideas - Humorous Church Posters

2010-01-09T08:29:00.000-08:00

Who says God does'nt have a sense of humour! These are near my workplace, I've been walking past these for almost 13 years (not the same ones). Different bright flourescent coloured backgrounds with witty, almost comical quips.

FMP_Resourceful Overprinting

2010-01-03T03:12:00.000-08:00

My project’s low budget this year due to unforseen circumstances dictated the need to do something similar to split duct printing as mentioned in the H+S Posters in my blog below. its two-color printing but getting more colours out., so I thought maybe using this method as well as overlapping colors, images to emphasize the intersections between design and using set up sheets from preprinted make ready paper or screen prints on different substrates like card/plastic/metal/fabrics in large sizes. I need to visit some printers to get an idea of availability and price.

FMP_ Split duct Posters

2010-01-03T02:29:00.000-08:00

These dramatic and economical designs use photography and overprinting to create powerful images. To make best use of paper resources during the war most posters were printed 2 up. Ink and press runs were kept to a minimum, maximum impact was still the underlining brief, they were mainly printed using a technique called, 'split duct process', two colours in one pass and a black key colour on top, ending up with a 3 colour poster on a two colour printing press.

FMP_German Master Plan

2010-01-03T02:16:00.000-08:00

The Nazi party's obsessions with cultural dominance extended far into calligraphy, lettering and type:

Bauhaus, one of the most important and influential design movements of the modern era.

FMP_Limitless Colours!!!

2010-01-03T02:00:00.000-08:00

Lovely, colourful graphics, folk paintings, decorations on Indian vehicles. Buses, Trucks, Bullock carts, Autorickshaws, Cycles....anything Indian!

FMP_Moire Pattern

2010-01-03T00:38:00.000-08:00

Effect, defect, accident or design? Moire is the name given to a group of visual effects that most designers know well, at least by sight. Most moirés are incidental: they arise naturally when two or more gratings, sheets of fabric, wire screens, fences, or dot screens are superposed.

FMP_Moire Video

2010-01-03T00:36:00.001-08:00

Animated Illusion, Solved! - The funniest videos are a click away

Shell Rolled

2009-12-02T16:18:00.000-08:00

Tried to imagine the conker shell rolled out flat, the

colours depict the four seasons; spring to winter.

Jermaine Francis Poster

2009-11-29T09:35:00.001-08:00

Geometry + Grids

2009-11-29T09:14:00.000-08:00

Very similar to Antoine and Manuels poster called GOD, I tried this with simple geometry, shapes and form, I concentrated this time more on the abstract personality of the shapes and i think it reveals just as much detail as the more complex 3 dimentional structures in Cinema 4d.

Lily Photoshopped

2009-11-29T08:55:00.000-08:00

Took close ups of the paper lily and tried to focus on them both (conker) needing sun, strangely the inside of the lily resemble the spikes on the conker??

Antoine & Manuel

2009-11-29T08:35:00.000-08:00

I've been looking at French designers Antoine and Manuel. They have worked on a wide range of projects from designing campaigns to constructing crazy 3-d sculptures. There’s lots of amazing typographic treatments and some really cool looking illustrations, I especially like the way they use hand rendered artwork, vectors, photography and mix it all up to create interesting designs.

C+L (b)

2009-11-15T06:41:00.000-08:00

This was inspiration from a 'Michael Paul Young Design' font called 'Agostina' and the letter A, admittedly theirs looks awesome, it starts off as a random shape and after a lot of morphing shape shifting turns into an A. I thought I could apply the same method and make the spikes and conker revealed!!

C+L (conker & lily)

2009-11-15T06:34:00.000-08:00

Still playing around with ghosting/transparency to make the animation look eerie:

B+W Animation

2009-11-11T15:35:00.000-08:00

May have gone off on a tangent here, but thought I'd experiment making the whole thing B+W and the animation judder, blink and add some noise.

Cut/crease Origami

2009-11-06T09:06:00.000-08:00

Had a shot at the second half of the animation using the masking tool, almost as if the lily is being folded and creased, don't think I'll use the orange background, much prefer the natural photo colour of the original animation below.

Shattered Origami

2009-11-06T08:52:00.000-08:00

Photoshop layers exported from After Effects, almost like an origami puzzle.

Falling Conker

2009-11-01T12:55:00.000-08:00

Made use of the blustery and horrid day we had, got a bit of video footage, the noise of the wind sounds cool in the background, I somehow want to morph the origami lily more half way through this animation as if it were changing in mid air with the conker falling effect in the background.

Collages Photoshopped 1

2009-10-31T14:21:00.000-07:00

Mix of architecture and nature to make this collage, the pyramid geometry of the dome can be depicted as folded paper and the other dome with the holes almost looks as if the spikes will protrude from these, I've also used the leaf background as before and inserted fold/crease direction markings

Petal/Section Kaleidescope Animation

2009-10-31T14:10:00.000-07:00

Had a quick try to see what the viewfinder animated would look like...

Petals/Conker Section

2009-10-31T14:01:00.000-07:00

For some reason the colours look weird on the blog, but are more similar to the single petal/section below and sticking with the theme of abstractness, I'll try and incorporate this as a background in an animation maybe.

Kaleidescope view

2009-10-31T13:44:00.000-07:00

Again using points and geometrics, how the shapes mixed would look from the viewfinder, almost abstract:

...below, these could be interpreted as the different state the lily/conker would look in different seasons.

Kaleidescope

2009-10-31T13:35:00.000-07:00

I saw these on the internet and thought I could some how use a similar kaleidescope technique to force the 2 objects into a hybrid, below I've just experimented, taken the geometric shape of the origami lily and the round section of the conker and repeated the shape, (ok it don't look that great!!)

A Season in Hell

2009-10-21T13:22:00.000-07:00

This photo's by Robert Maplethorpe, the juxtoposition between the delicate, almost dying white flower held up by the dark thorny branch I thought was quite apt for my Conker and Dan's Origami Lily.

Cinema 4D vs After effects

2009-10-20T13:51:00.000-07:00

Much prefer to use After Effects, Cinema 4d is a $@#@#!

Although I clicked to export with the Alpha Channel it kept coming through with the black background, very frustrating!!

Cinema 4D Texture Test

2009-10-20T13:40:00.000-07:00

Screen grabs of conker with textures added

Collages Photoshopped

2009-10-20T13:33:00.001-07:00

For some reason the colours have come out a bit weird on the blog!!

...maybe use these as textures in Cinema 4D to cover the conker??

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2009-10-20T13:29:00.000-07:00

Collage work

2009-10-20T13:19:00.000-07:00

Struggled more than I thought I would doing this collage, trying to merge a geometric shape with a naturally created object.

Soft Spikes

2009-10-13T14:06:00.000-07:00

The soft stage the conker is in before the

tough spikes/exterior is formed.

Strokes and Outlines

2009-10-13T13:54:00.000-07:00

Created outlines/strokes of the conker spikes but using the skin/shell randomly positioned, I could use this within an animation

Spike Animation 2

2009-10-12T13:11:00.000-07:00

Spike Animation

2009-10-12T13:02:00.000-07:00

Cinema 4d

2009-10-12T12:46:00.000-07:00

Had a go at making a simple spiky ball to resemble the conker outer shell in Cinema 4d, hopefully try and animate it:

Reform

2009-10-04T03:38:00.000-07:00

Decided to use a CONKER as my object for the Reform brief.

The spikes I can visualise as nature intended repelling/armouring itself protecting the inside, at the same time I can see it morphing/clinging onto another object or maybe a bit of both and making an interesting Hybrid.

I've added a few photos but don't know which I'll use.

Public Enemy & Tricky CD Covers

2009-07-01T08:13:00.000-07:00

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2009-07-01T08:02:00.001-07:00

Tricky

2009-07-01T07:42:00.001-07:00

FMP London Show 09 'Expanding Time'

2009-06-08T12:26:00.000-07:00

MOTHER - tears of a clown

2009-06-08T11:52:00.001-07:00

The worry, sleepless nights, pain a mother goes through and yet always has plenty more to give. To entertain and smile, the real sadness/hardship masked.

Expanding Time Lightboxes

2009-06-08T11:48:00.001-07:00

The aim of this project in brief, was to develop my thinking behind TIME, do we need it, why do we rely on it, does it help as much as hamper our systematic, controlling day to day life. This project partly stemmed from my mentor, guide, Mu’allim (arabic teacher) who after dedicating ten years of his life teaching me Arabic, a couple of years ago passed away. I seem to recall a friend saying, “its only a temporary pause”, you will meet him again, which was so true (the pause part), this mean’t I was playing and I too will be paused and stopped. Was this the reason we focus so much on trying to get as much out of time as possible, nearly all gadgets, inventions, technological advances, has one underlining objective, less ‘make ready and down time’ equals more production, inevitably this equals to more time, more time - more money and so on the next thing you know you’ve joined the rat race, on that wheel round and round, the faster you go, the less time.

To initiate the project I started researching Arabic calligraphy in more depth, in particular I found the Cursive and Kufic styles both visually and conceptually interesting. I wanted to some how explore the division between text and image and bring them together. The calligraphers that influenced me most were Hassan Massoudy, Samir Malik and Brody Neuenschwander, who all had one aim, create beautiful calligraphy but were so different in the way they executed their distinctive styles. Jackson Pollock was also thrown into the mix, who “wanted no physical constraints or boundaries to hinder or limit his paintings” and “wanted to express his feelings rather than illustrate them” this I could relate to.

The narrative behind my main piece [Expanding Time] is how we can control time to a certain extent but underneath our chained timeframes there is chaos, mayhem we will naturally be forced to disengage, the heart will have a rhythmic beat and rest, the eyes will need to blink and open, are we in control? are we in synch? If so, for how long?

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2009-06-08T11:44:00.000-07:00

2009-06-02T07:26:00.000-07:00

Animation 4

2009-05-20T15:01:00.000-07:00

Monitor Stand.

2009-05-20T10:53:00.001-07:00

Still needs paint.

animation 3

2009-05-18T14:36:00.000-07:00

Needs music/sound!

animation 2

2009-05-13T14:08:00.000-07:00

Another attempt at animation.

Animation 1

2009-05-12T12:54:00.000-07:00

Flashing life.

Slow down and appreciate the slow.

Chaos.

Floor Layout.

2009-05-11T14:16:00.000-07:00

Maybe have lightboxes portrait in a wavy arrangment?

Layout - although the perspectives may need looking at!!!

Killing Time.

2009-05-11T14:05:00.000-07:00

Disengage.

2009-05-09T12:55:00.000-07:00

Spiral 2.

2009-05-09T11:42:00.001-07:00

Laser Cut Plastic

2009-05-07T14:23:00.001-07:00

Spiral.

2009-05-06T23:37:00.001-07:00

Chaos

2009-05-06T23:30:00.001-07:00

Acrylic paint & Ink

2009-05-04T04:41:00.001-07:00

Day.

Morning.

Midday.

Evening.

4 Lightboxes.

Lightboxes Lit

2009-05-02T13:17:00.000-07:00

Decided to paint boxes black.

All boxes wired and ready for switch on.

let there be light!

...and there was light!

Making 6 Lightboxes

2009-04-30T13:28:00.001-07:00

Wet start to the DIY day.

All shapes and sizes.

(4ftx2ft) 1 down 3 to go.

Breeding boxes everywhere!

2 babies (2ftx2ft).

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2009-04-30T13:15:00.001-07:00

All boxes MDF Primered, apparently you need to this because its porous and absorbs the paint, and makes it warp??

Ready for wiring and painting, don't know whether to paint them black or white?

Red light box

2009-04-23T00:01:00.000-07:00

Does red stand out better than white?

Technology vs Time.

2009-04-19T12:47:00.000-07:00

...needs sound though!!

Light - Life Flashes.

Disengage.

Galeleo's pendulum theory.

If technology...

Eyes blink.

FMP - Paint Experiment.

2009-04-16T14:06:00.001-07:00

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2009-04-16T14:02:00.001-07:00

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2009-04-16T13:37:00.001-07:00

FMP - time

2009-04-10T03:32:00.001-07:00

Disengage.

S, Y, SH, D letter animation.

Flow-less calligraphy font - letter SH.

Kufiq element.

Play, Pause, Stop.

Mother - tears of a clown

2009-04-10T03:20:00.002-07:00

A supreme achievement in clean entertainment.

mothER.

See now it was love.

Tears of a clown.