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Heres another music video for Bon iver's Holocene.

Parts of it show waves in slow motion crashing against rocks.

Take a look see.

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'

 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

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

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..

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.

These were just 2 drypoint prints I did, Overlaying the same print again and again to make it look like the hand was waving.

heres an original sketch showing how I'd use Typography to show a hand literally catching a wave.

Heres an original drypoint print I made. 

Next I printed on lettering using seperate blocks from the viscom room.

I tried various different type

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...

.A merry merry christmas to you!!

.This is officially my favorite Christmas song! Happy holidays!

Brainstorming!!!!!!!

 I'm majorly brainstorming now on how I could make a kinetic sculpture like these but depicting the movement of waves...

I've been sketching up Ideas all night. I've come up with some far fetched but some very possible ideas. these videos were some examples of my inspirations

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

http://frothofdays.blogspot.com/2009/05/hanging-garden-installation-inspiration.html

                                                    Hanging Garden Installation

BMW kinetic sculture

http://www.artcom.de/projekte/projekt/detail/kinetische-skulptur/

here are some photographs of the piece

Here is another similar piece made by the same people.

http://m.artcom.de/projekte/projekt/detail/anamorphotic-logos/

Also the work of Pae White inspired me.