rawr!

So, by now I've come to realize the huge amount of research I'm supposed to be doing. Yeah, instead of doing that today, I made this. Then again, it is a fake Godzilla attacking Old Beirut. *adds it to sketch folder*.

Chicken Hypnosis

You could easily hypnotize a chicken by holding its head to the ground and continuously drawing a line along the ground with a stick or a finger, starting at its beak and extending straight outward in front of it. That's what I learned today from research.

In fakery-related research, here are the major themes I could be working with:

-Anthropomorphism: when human characteristics are given to animals and/or non-human objects
-Acting, stage, set, make-up, theater, movies, and all that universe
-Magic
-Myths
-Science-fiction
-Faking death
-Dreams and hallucinations

That's what I narrowed things down to for now.

I Heart Stefan Nadelman

Ramona Falls "I Say Fever" from Barsuk Records on Vimeo.

Amazing music video for the single I Say Fever by Ramona Falls. Similar to Metropia, it makes heavy use of photo-manipulation as an animation technique. Great Stuff. Directed and Animated by Stefan Nadelman.

Verdict

Fakery.

After researching the 3 remaining briefs (post elimination of the first 2), I decided to work on Fakery, mostly because it is very broad, allowing room for experimentation and any kind of end-product.

Fakery: canard, cover-up, deceit, deception, dishonesty, dissimulation, distortion, equivocation, erroneousness, error, fable, fabrication, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, falsity, feigning, fib, fibbery, fiction, figment, fraud, half truth, hogwash, line, mendacity, misstatement, perjury, pretense, prevarication, sham, story, tale, untruism, untruth, untruthfulness, whopper, yarn, charade, disguise, fairy tale, fantasy, imagination, pageant, playacting, make-believe, mask, gag, guise, shtick, burlesque, phoniness, pseudo, spoof.

Metropia

Poster of the movie Metropia

Still from the movie Metropia

Still from the movie Metropia

Still from the movie Metropia

Metropia Trailer from Atmo on Vimeo.

I watched, a while a go, the amazing movie that is Metropia by Egyptian-Swedish director Tarik Saleh. It's an animation movie based on tweaking and altering actual photographs to create the movement. Something really fascinating. I think I am going to be heavily influenced by it when it comes to the end product of the ISTD brief.

t.o.m.

and now something just awesome.

t.o.m. from holbrooks on Vimeo.

The Brief

The brief for the senior project was to choose one of the five briefs suggested by the ISTD (International Society of Typographic Designers), in hopes of actually applying to the ISTD, scoring above 80 over 100 and becoming a member.

The five briefs read as follows:

As part of the first step, we have to eliminate two briefs that we're sure we're not going to work on. I'm probably eliminating on yer bike and mutton quad (as if I'm gonna waste 4 months branding a restaurant).

three scoops please

So, ahem, I started three scoops please in an attempt to make work on my senior project (in design/animation) more exciting. I will be sharing all kinds of research, found objects, articles, photos, links, whatever, and also progress. Hopefully, by the end of this last semester I'd have a project that would get me a job that makes me a millionaire in 2 months, at least in my head. After all, it's your support that matters! (vomit bowls at end of page).