Sexy type

I enjoy staring at this a lot.

Stare away please and repeat after me

'ahhhhhhhh" (sigh)

the amazing Chris Hewitt

Awesome directing! I LOVE IT!

Blamma! Blamma! - Collide Sparks from Christopher Hewitt on Vimeo.

Helping the little one with his art homework...

Sam was asked to write his name in graffiti for his art homework... well we went one step better and looked at how Banksy does graffiti ie. Stencils. I helped Sam cut out a stencil... he is terrified of blood so I didn't want to let him work out how sharp my craft knife is. And then he chose some colours of paint and this is what he made!

Pixar animation

I just think these shorts are beautiful masterpieces. The attention to detail and the rapport you feel with the characters is just staggering. I think these shorts are some of Pixar's best bits!

New little design seedlings!

Helloooo,
I've had a fair bit of free time on my hand recently so I've been doing various bits of creative stuff because it makes me HAPPY!
One of the things I have been doing is helping a very exceptional young lady with her Graphic College work. Her name is Madi and she is definitely ahead of where I was before university and wonderfully geeky (although she hasn't yet realised this is a cool thing)
So she has been doing some posters for her college performance of Wizard of Oz. This is one of the pieces I helped her with (see image). I made sure she got to grips with the pen tool in illustrator and pushed her to think about why she chose the aesthetic style that she did. So in the end she decided to use an eye catching 'news headline' style but with a bit of Barbra Kruger's influence. And then she drew three characters with a pen tool to suggest a hand-made element to the production. I think it is promising work for a 17yr old. How about you?
xx

Projection mapping and stop motion...

SCINTILLATION from Xavier Chassaing on Vimeo.

Projection mapping and stop motion using over 35,000 photographs!

BEAUTIFUL STUFF AND WORTH WAITING FOR THE TIME IT TAKES TO LOAD.

everything is OK....

MARVELOUS!

Henna Tattoo

Well I don't know how you are spending your Sunday evening but I have just finished watching Dr. Strangelove by Stanley Kubrick, it's ace........anyhoo whilst watching/listening I did this... a little regression in my 16 yr old self when my feet and ankles were almost permanently covered in Henna!

The tube cost 69p from the Asda in Moss Side (Manchester). You draw it on to your skin and let it go crusty... after an hour flake off the crustyness and the henna underneath gets darker after 24hours. Much fun but maybe try your first few designs on parts of the body you can cover up if you decide you hate it.

Also just to finish tonight's blog... went to the Darwin Exhibition at Manchester Museum which I highly recommend. If your a designer then you will appreciate the design I'm sure... they use a heavy dose of my favorite typeface - Clarendon. Loverrrly stuff.
It get's me thinking a lot because I think evolution is a great idea and everything but I don't think it is the whole story. I just find that humans really don't fit into the evolution thing? We couldn't survive a night in the open yet we are the most advanced creatures on the planet! Also we make choices that are the polar opposite of animals. For instance if a squirrel is in trouble he will save himself rather than the other squirrels that may also be in danger (in a 'dangerous scenario') but a human in a house fire starts trying to save everyone else rather than running off to save him/her-self. These are just little examples of the kind of thing that is fluttering around in my mind tonight. And just to qualify that I do believe the theory of evolution as a template but it leaves a lot to be desired in terms of other questions. It definitely does not ascertain the whys and hows of human behavior and a few other things. I've got to say that I still believe creationism wholeheartedly and I think science doesn't disprove it but boost it's credibility.

Aaaannnddd just one last thing (oh there could be three more others but I will hold back until a later date) READ UP ON GAIA THEORY! I happen to be a crusader for this theory right now. I'd defo hedge my bets on it standing the test of time. For those who don't know it is a theory propoosed by James Lovelock who is a fantastically inspiring independent scientist. His hypothesis states that (here is the non-technical Becky-interpretation) the Earth functions like a giant living organism. It houses on it many (parasites?) other organisms (maybe not parasites but like how mitochondria have come to exist as part of human cells tho at one point are believed to have been independent 'things' of their own.) And the Gaia system (Earth) will replenish, repair and respire, it was born and it will die etc. So when the Earth gets too hot (ie Global Warming) it will take measures to restore the temperature however this may not kindly consider human beings. This is a short intro into the idea but his book The Revenge of Gaia should give you a pretty exciting (although terrifying) insight into the consequences.

James Lovelock is the prophet of climate change.
see Amazon Books


Erm anyhow abrupt ending because my skin is hurting and I need to wash my crusty layer of henna off to reveal my beautiful pattern underneath (it better had be beautiful because I'm stuck with it for about 3 weeks!!!)

Fascinating...

I made a fascinator. I think these things are amazing but I think they can be quite expensive to make. I bought the 'bits' from John Lewis and it worked out quite expensive. But hey! it was fun to make. So there is a big piece of net fabric that I have sewn into a layered giant bow shape and then used pearls and flowers on little wires down the centre of the bow. It's all attached to a little headpiece and then tied with black ribbon to an Alice-band.

What do you think?

xx