Etienne Jules Marey

Etienne Jules Marey was originally a French scientist and chronophotographer. Etienne is believed to be one of the pioneers of photography and cinema.Just like the Bragaglia Brothers, Etienne found a way to capture various movements of an object through one image.

In 1882 he created a way to record several stages of movement on one photo by using a chronophotographic gun. It would take 12 frames a second of the moving image and record them on the same photographic paper. He studied all animals including birds, dogs, fish and insects. In 1890 he created a book called the ‘Flight of Birds’ that showcased his work.

His method was different to the Bragaglias as Etienne’s gun was a lot different toe exposure. When the trigger was pulled the plate rotated once in a second, while the shutter opened the same number of times each second. Etienne then pointed the 'gun' at the bird, and continued to press the trigger while following the bird with the gun. The result was a plate with 12 different images set around the edge, which showed the different parts of a bird's flight. Again a very complex but ahead of its time method for capturing moving images. I prefer the style of the Bragaglias method as i like the different opacity levels of each level, where as this method just seem abit too cluttered for my liking.

The Bragaglia Brothers

The Bragaglia brothers were one of the first group of people to capture movement within a photographic process. They visually captured human movement, be it the movement on the arm or leg, walking, nodding your head or even sitting on a chair. As well as capturing the frozen image they also capture the motion in what ever was moving, rather than having that still image.

The way they achieved this was keeping the shutter speed on the camera open as long as possible while the object/human was moving. This then created the multiple images of the subject moving.

During this time, this would have been a benchmark in photographic process. It is quite crazy to see what they did over 100 years ago, compared to what we can do now. Although I do love the raw/distorted feel to the images. A good technique to show time through still images, although its very complicated to capture 24 hours in one image.

David Pt 3

Just been checking out work from Thom Puckey & Kevin Francis Gray. Really getting into weird and wonderful sculptures and how they are exhibited & created. I think this work from both parties are really beautiful.

David Pt 2

Just Browsing.

Parris Wakefield

Studio Parris Wakefield are another design agency that seem to work with any one and every one who is big in the game. I stumbled across them from a blog I was checking and found their work to be quite interesting. I checked their website out and straight away I was met by this array of colors that looked very beautiful. I then began to check their work, and boy is their work nice. Straight away I was hooked by the albums covers they have produced for some iconic bands such as joy division, new order and suede.

I originally jotted down in my sketchbook i had no idea who was part of this team as i seen some saville work within their portfolio. After looking beyond the portfolio page i found out that the team is consisted of Howard Wakefield who used to work with Saville at pentagram, Maria Fugaria who graduated from the university of wales and Sarah Parris. Pat on the back to them all for amazing work.

Practise

I came across a new design studio called Practice, which is run by James Goggin. James graduated from London’s Royal College of art in 1999. In 2010 he then moved to Chicago where he now design director for the Museum of Contemporary Art for Chicago. James has worked at various design studios around the world including the Netherlands. His work ranges from books, posters, typefaces, design, video and textile designs.

Shadows

A shadow is an area where direct light from a certain light source cannot reach due to obstruction by an object. It occupies all of the space behind an object with light in front of it. The cross section of a shadow is a two-dimensional silhouette, or reverse projection of the object blocking the light.

Length of Shadow = Tan(θ)*a. Where a = object's height, and θ = angle between the point of light and the object.

Shadow length will change quite dramatically throughout the day. The length of a shadow cast on the ground is proportional to the cotangent of the sun's elevation angle—its angle θ relative to the horizon. Near sunrise and sunset, when θ = 0° and cot(θ) is infinite, shadows can be extremely long. If the sun passes directly overhead, then θ = 90°, cot(θ)=0, and shadows are cast directly underneath objects.

Rick Owens Portrait

Came across this sometime ago, but could help me with various elements of my 24 hour brief. Currently liking:

* The various shots of Rick Owen along with the white flashes appearing throughout the video
* The music compliments the video so well
* The negative space used at 0.48!!!

Rafael Lozano Hemmer

When i was up Manchester the other week i went to the art gallery to see what their latest exhibition - Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.

Rafael is a Mexican electronic artist. Rafael is well known for creating these theatrical interactive installations in public spaces across the world. He uses robotics, real time computer graphics, film projections, sound, internet links, video and sensors and LED screens to create these mind blowing installations.






The exhibition in itself was quite interesting, i never got the chance to have a go on any of the exhibitions because their was a huge group of OAP's getting too excited so i let them be. I like the idea of science and art coming together, something that i am possibly interested for in my FMP. But what i did find interesting was the way these installations were implemented into the gallery. Gives me a good look into to exhibit my work within the future.

As well while i was their i check out Lowry's paintings which i had never seen before but only in textbooks so that was quite interesting as well.

David

24 HOURS + Baroque

Thought he was done man, thought he was finished. BUT HE IS BACK IN THE GAME!!!

Got an idea for 24 hours and last week i began to actually start completing this brief. I am quite happy with the outcomes of what i have done so far, need a few more photos i think and i have also done a small 3 - 4 minute movie to complement the photos as well.

I dont care what people say, HD movie capturing is needed! I can understand it all depends on what type of style you are going for, but for this, i really need a HD movie recorder. Without it, the movie looks whack!!

Now to do some research.

I am currently all over things like this............

THIS BRIEF

Really struggling to gather ideas for this '24' brief. Various ideas are coming into my head but implementing them in a way that would coincide with the brief is becoming a real challenge.

I'm trying to work out what is life in my point of view and then what is life in terms of my friends. I like the fact that i am 24, im thinking on integrating this in some one way or another.

I am also looking at the whole time vs life equation, but then looking at the time i, myself, have in order to complete the equation.

What is the answer to Time vs Life, surely i am the one who creates the answer to the question. It hasn't been created yet, its up to myself to create it.

Hmmmmmmm??

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Currently loving the work of Hiroshi Sugimoto. Really like his 'stillness in time' work, it seems to be having a huge influence with various ideas of my brief. I personally like the 'theater' project.

'in which he photographs auditoriums of American movie theaters, and drive-in movies, during showings. The exposure time used for the photograph corresponds with the projection time of the film. This allows him to save the duration of the entire film in a single shot'.

Really intrigued behind his vision behind this and what he thinks about it and what i personally think about this.

1. Very interesting that the picture from the projection screen creates this huge white rectangle.

2. A Gateway. More of a religious look into this, a gateway to another dimension, religion, world. Over so much time been recorded this 'gateway' opens and you all of a sudden expect the stereotypical image of someone appearing from the 'other side'.

3. A full feature film turned into one documentation. This document has a life of 2hrs (length of the the possible film), its interesting that 2hrs of footage has been documented in this way.

Bill Viola

Loving the work of Bill Viola at the moment. I love his addition of spiritual traditions such as Zen Buddhism, Islamic Sufism, and Christian mysticism. Loves how he interlinks them with "video art", especially his early stuff back in the 60's, a true pioneer of contemporary video art.

24

2 x 2 x 2 x 3

2 x 12
3 x 8
4 x 6

1 x 2 x 3 x 4
4 or 4 Factorial

3 + 5 + 7 + 9

1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24

Currently looking at various numbers and how can play around with them. Finding it hard to interlink them with the current theme of 24 hours. Interesting to see everything associated with the sum of 24 and various techniques of displaying these.