October 24, 2011 - Comments Off on Masterminds and Mascots

Masterminds and Mascots

Happy Halloween week everybody! I hope you all have great costumes lined up. I have a couple of ideas but still need to drop by the many Halloween shops that sprout up around this time of year to pick up a few items. Still no idea what I'll actually be doing this weekend. The morning sketches today were fairly easy and I threw in some older stuff from last week as well. The large headed robotic character near the bottom is something I thought of last night and would like to further develop.

Sad Peacock

For some inspiration in motion I highly recommend the following music video done in one take with hundreds of real customized vinyl album covers. This makes me long for my meager record collection left in DC but I own neither turntable nor amplifier. Despite the awkward size of the medium there's something amazing about their full bodied sound and the role that the album art plays in the music experience. This video seeks to explore the idea that those beautiful large album images, now lost in the iDistribution jumble, can cause us to hear the music that resides beneath that paper sleeve. I definitely feel that the simple soundtrack of this video is altered with each passing image though I recognize only a few.

For stills this week I'd like to share the work of Sam Weber. His work is very similar to last week's but each image feels slightly more developed, the palette remains much the same however. His process leads to some beautiful images. It would seem most of these artists now spend most of the process working with real-world materials and then bring things into the virtual space to Photoshop in the final touches.

Lastly just an interesting Youtube video from Occupy going on downtown. I still haven't visited but am now more interested than ever. True, some of the people there might not be the most representative of those who believe in Occupy's ideals but the democratic system they've developed there is truly inspiring. I think it would be brilliant to digitize the system and work it into an universally functioning political body. Also there's something truly moving about seeing so many people working together for something they believe in. The "human mic" is a bit silly but still very stirring.

Published by: benchirlin in The Sketching Mechanism

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