39/LieutenantLowercase.
The brief was to produce, direct, film, act in and edit a 60 second film combing a movie genre and a graphical term drawn at random from a hat.
Each film had to include three objects :
- an egg
- a ladder
- a cat
Have three lines of dialogue :
- “how much for the little one?”
- “see you next wednesday”
- “the most important thing in life is…”
and also include the word Chelsea somewhere.
This is the effort of Christian Jeffery, Jessie May Peters, Joshua Carpenter and myself with help (and many thanks to) from Mark Hawkins. It combines the movie genre War and the graphical term Lowercase. It follows the rescue of Lieutenant Lowercase having been captured by the deadly Vietcong.
Presenting Lieutenant Lowercase : The Last of Nine. Winner of Best Film, Best Special Effects and Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the Chelsea School of Art and Design GDC1 Oscars 2010.
Watch the film on Vimeo or after the jump.
36/P/ptI.
Something I’m currently working on with Matt Flynn aka electronic b-b-b-b-bad-boii Sduk. The project is to develop and push a method of printing resulting in an edition of 50 prints, 12″ x 12″. Whilst much of the swing toward analogue printing methods is an attempt to capture “happy mistakes”, the digital world isn’t perfect; amongst the 0s and 1s it’s a messy place, there are mistakes there too. Using Photoshop to lose yourself three stone and gain the perfect skin complexion? Purr-leaze. Things look like they are going to turn toward fucking with code and the traditional output method of your digital console – the inkjet printer.
Here’s some of our inspiration : -
- Super Mario Clouds
- Some of my favourite Jodi workings
— %8.02 WRONGbrowser
— http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/ (view source)
— Screen Deconstruction (Q might be needed)
- Blackmoth.org
- Yvette’s
- One of many Angelfire sites
- My own feeddeath
Nothing beats early internet (non-)art. Scan courtesy of the Brother HL-1450.
31/Processing/FeedDeath.
Currently playing around with processing.org. It claims to close the gap between programmer and artist; each programme is a ’sketch’ rather than anything else, only had it open a day or two but the potential seems vast. More on the project I’m attempting to do with it later but here’s something I did today that started out as my code going very wrong.
This ’sketch’ takes information from the latest feed on guardian.co.uk, reorders the body text placed over the header and bleeds it down the screen window. The resulting pattern from the feed dying is completely different every time The Guardian posts a new bit of news; it can take information from pretty much any RSS feed on the web too.
Screen grabs after the jump.
30/Inspired/First.
An animated typography project, Inspired. We had to take a short passage of speech that has either inspired us or would inspire others and bring it to life. This is original turntablist Grandmaster Flash talking about being first, the transcript goes on and I really want to develop this further; we’ll see what happens.
Video after the jump.
29/VersionTV.
Some actual #gdc1 work now. This was a joint project with Olivia Tythlerleigh in response to a brief set by Peter Chadwick. The brief was to imagine and produce an ethos and identity for a music channel.
The ethos : -
A music channel solely driven by user-created content. Offering a platform for fans and creatives to show off their creativity and put their own mark on music artists’ work. About participation and interactivity, a deliberate contrast to existing channels where a specific, highly-glossed image of music is dictated toward the viewer. Works as a refined and selected showcase opposed to an over saturated Youtube, where the best work is easily lost in the archives.
The identity centred around bits being brought together; be that geometric shapes, blocks of wood or youtube videos in much the same way the makers of videos that our channel showcase use the resources and ‘bits’ they have to piece together something very creative.
Logos, posters, flyers, on screen identities and a sting after the jump.
23/Pollution/ptI.
Currently middle of a project called Wordplay. As the title suggests, looking and and playing with words. Everyone has their own word, mine is Pollution.
This was a one day project to realise a prototype for a 3D installation of our given word. This one is pretty self explanatory; geometric shapes appear abstract but reveal the letter P when a movie (hinting at pollution) is projected through.
Video after the jump.
17/ComicSansDestroyed.
Following the creation and gathering of our Comic Sans character it then had to be destroyed. Destroying Comic Sans should be both a right of passage and initiation for any graphic designer. Whilst others burnt, melted, ate, swung at and clobbered theirs, I thought I’d take mine for a box. Location is so key to this series of before, during and after, definately wanted to capture the fight amidst some epic scenes. Photography by Bhav Mistry.
Photos after the jump or on Flickr.
16/Rules/Play.
Response to a brief to produce a series of postcards about Rules. My series took three traditional games and looked at one creative possibility and opportunity when rules are bent or broken; play.
See all three after the jump.
15/DoItAgain.
Got the finished poster done at Graham Bignell’s letterpress the other week; process and early prints here.
Full poster after the jump and on Flickr.
14/Jimi.
I’m not proud of this. We had to recreate a classic portrait, I chose Jimi Hendrix, what with the hair and everything, the result kind of speaks for itself. In my tutorial I got told it was like “if X-Factor produced pornstars” and I can definately see where he’s coming from.
Photo after the jump.