Heres another music video for Bon iver's Holocene.
Parts of it show waves in slow motion crashing against rocks.
Take a look see.
29.12.11
Clare langan
An Irish film maker -Clare langan works with Photography/film/installation art. These videos are very interesting, I like how she uses different experimental techniques to record these videos, such as painted glass over the lans and super slo-mo cameras. Like the bon Iver video in the last post, the music is timed very well to the piece.
The clip that interests me most is the final clip called becks fusion which shows slo-motion water. Its was a response to a piece of music by Sigur-rós. The clip was shot in Iceland.
Its very mesmerising and sublime. I love it.
http://www.clarelangan.com/becks_trailers.htm
here are some stills from the piece for becks fusion
Here are stills from another piece called 'the ice above the fire below'
here are some stills from the piece for becks fusion
Here are stills from another piece called 'the ice above the fire below'
This was a film of the sea, shot using a high speed digital Phantom Camera. The camera enables the use of extreme slow motion not possible with a regular camera. The film creates a wall of water in the space emulating the effect of being in the middle of, or surrounded by a tidal wave. Projecting the videos in a gallery situates the viewer in an immersive panoramic experience of sound and vision.
the film can be seen here at http://www.clarelangan.com/ice_trailer.htm
28.12.11
More Ink
Heres a video I came across, Its a video for a song called Minnesota, WI by one of my favourite artists - Bon Iver. About 2 minutes in you can see ink moving through water, It brings me back to some of my earlier experiments. The footage in this video is beautiful, sublime and full of very rich colours. The video is slowed down and rewinded in seperate parts to fit in with the music.
Take a look, its pretty epic!
Amy x
Take a look, its pretty epic!
Amy x
Catching some waves!!
Ohkay!
So Ive already looked at words that come to mind when I think of surfing and being in the sea. This made me think about surfing talk, I thought about simple things like the face of the wave, a rip, surfs up.. and various other mottos/sentences/quotes/phrases. I was interested in how the words, "I'm going to catch a wave" make total sense to me as a person who surfs but might make no sense at all to a non-surfer. I decided to look deeper into those words and I tried to represent them in different ways
Here are some of the things I came up with..
So Ive already looked at words that come to mind when I think of surfing and being in the sea. This made me think about surfing talk, I thought about simple things like the face of the wave, a rip, surfs up.. and various other mottos/sentences/quotes/phrases. I was interested in how the words, "I'm going to catch a wave" make total sense to me as a person who surfs but might make no sense at all to a non-surfer. I decided to look deeper into those words and I tried to represent them in different ways
Here are some of the things I came up with..
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| first I started looking at how a person waves. I'm wondering how I could show someone catching that . Sonething I need to get back to, Ive to keep pondering about it a\anyway. |
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| These were just 2 drypoint prints I did, Overlaying the same print again and again to make it look like the hand was waving. |
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| heres an original sketch showing how I'd use Typography to show a hand literally catching a wave. |
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 Heres an original drypoint print I made. |
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| Next I printed on lettering using seperate blocks from the viscom room. |
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| I tried various different type |
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| I glued on hands to the drips coming from the word wave - which was written using spray paint - The hands look like they are grabbing the strings of a balloon or something. |
 In these 2 images I tried to show a hand catching water. Because thats what waves are made of after all... |
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25.12.11
19.12.11
Brainstorming!!!!!!!
I'm majorly brainstorming now on how I could make a kinetic sculpture like these but depicting the movement of waves...
I've love to try something like this!
Here are afew of my sketches, and ideas of how I could possibly make something like one of these!!
Wave sculpture
I've collected all of these found objects over time, they were all washed up on the beach from one place or another. I've also been keeping a diary of all the pieces I've found and what interests me about them. One of the most interesting things about the pieces collectively is the fact that they all came from distant places such as Spain etc and ended up on the beaches of Kerry. I'm planning on making a sculptural piece out of them to come back to my development of a wave idea, to create a hanging piece in the shape of a big ripple effect.
/\ one of my sketches are above.
here are some things that inspired this idea
Hanging Garden Installation
BMW kinetic sculture
here are some photographs of the piece
Here is another similar piece made by the same people.
Also the work of Pae White inspired me.
13.12.11
Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo Da Vinci explains how to represent a tempest:
If you wish to represent a tempest consider and arrange well its effects as seen, when the wind, blowing over the face of the sea and earth, removes and carries with it such things as are not fixed to the general mass. And to represent the storm accurately you must first show the clouds scattered and torn, and flying with the wind, accompanied by clouds of sand blown up from the sea shore, and boughs and leaves swept along by the strength and fury of the blast and scattered with other light objects through the air. Trees and plants must be bent to the ground, almost as if they would follow the course of the gale, with their branches twisted out of their natural growth and their leaves tossed and turned about. Of the men who are there some must have fallen to the ground and be entangled in their garments, and hardly to be recognized for the dust, while those who remain standing may be behind some tree, with their arms round it that the wind may not tear them away; others with their hands over their eyes for the dust, bending to the ground with their clothes and hair streaming in the wind. Let the sea be rough and tempestuous and full of foam whirled among the lofty waves, while the wind flings the lighter spray through the stormy air, till it resembles a dense and swathing mist. Of the ships that are therein some should be shown with rent sails and the tatters fluttering through the air, with ropes broken and masts split and fallen. And the ship itself lying in the trough of the sea and wrecked by the fury of the waves with the men shrieking and clinging to the fragments of the vessel. Make the clouds driven by the impetuosity of the wind and flung against the lofty mountain tops, and wreathed and torn like waves beating upon rocks; the air itself terrible from the deep darkness caused by the dust and fog and heavy clouds.
If you wish to represent a tempest consider and arrange well its effects as seen, when the wind, blowing over the face of the sea and earth, removes and carries with it such things as are not fixed to the general mass. And to represent the storm accurately you must first show the clouds scattered and torn, and flying with the wind, accompanied by clouds of sand blown up from the sea shore, and boughs and leaves swept along by the strength and fury of the blast and scattered with other light objects through the air. Trees and plants must be bent to the ground, almost as if they would follow the course of the gale, with their branches twisted out of their natural growth and their leaves tossed and turned about. Of the men who are there some must have fallen to the ground and be entangled in their garments, and hardly to be recognized for the dust, while those who remain standing may be behind some tree, with their arms round it that the wind may not tear them away; others with their hands over their eyes for the dust, bending to the ground with their clothes and hair streaming in the wind. Let the sea be rough and tempestuous and full of foam whirled among the lofty waves, while the wind flings the lighter spray through the stormy air, till it resembles a dense and swathing mist. Of the ships that are therein some should be shown with rent sails and the tatters fluttering through the air, with ropes broken and masts split and fallen. And the ship itself lying in the trough of the sea and wrecked by the fury of the waves with the men shrieking and clinging to the fragments of the vessel. Make the clouds driven by the impetuosity of the wind and flung against the lofty mountain tops, and wreathed and torn like waves beating upon rocks; the air itself terrible from the deep darkness caused by the dust and fog and heavy clouds.
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