here is a look at some of the vinyl installations i was working on for the end of this term....
redesign lawrence.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
final cutout design.
also thinking of alternative ideas for what to put in the extending hands. instead of acrylic cut words - to go along with the idea of overflowing words - maybe something like cut paper words that are flowing out of the hands....
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
progress.
things are starting to come together. i received the mannequin hands in the mail today. i have almost all the work on the 3 vinyl figures done too. the vinyl portion will go pretty quickly from here on out i think. it will be a challenge trying to fit some vinyl onto the hands though. well see. i will try and drop off the words to be laser cut later this week / next week. for now, here is a preview of my 'google' vinyl figure (without hand, because that will be coming off the wall). as of no she measures about 70 inches tall by 21 inches wide. am looking forward to spending hours peeling this out....
Thursday, February 11, 2010
final plan of attack.
so i have spent most of this last week working out all the little details of my project. finally, i think it is in its final stage and ready to begin coming together. so there have been a few changes to my plan, but the idea is still essentially the same.
in order to avoid any problems with securing a location large enough to install in, i have decided against the use of a full size dining table and chairs. instead, i am going to go with the idea that the vinyl figures on the wall are serving you the 'food' out of their hands. so heres how it will work.
there will be three figures made out of vinyl words on the wall (one for each search engine: google, yahoo and bing), each with a protruding mannequin's hand holding a bowl or plate of more words (the same internet searches that the people will be made out of) cut out of acrylic. this way the installation requires much less space so i wont have to look for a large room that is free to set it up.
for my progress report, i have three mannequin hands on their way to my house now and have begun creating the people out of text in illustrator. once that is done i will just have to print it out (making a little extra to cover the mannequin hands) and figure out how to use the laser cutter to make my words for the bowls and plates. more info and pictures of my progress to come soon.
in order to avoid any problems with securing a location large enough to install in, i have decided against the use of a full size dining table and chairs. instead, i am going to go with the idea that the vinyl figures on the wall are serving you the 'food' out of their hands. so heres how it will work.
there will be three figures made out of vinyl words on the wall (one for each search engine: google, yahoo and bing), each with a protruding mannequin's hand holding a bowl or plate of more words (the same internet searches that the people will be made out of) cut out of acrylic. this way the installation requires much less space so i wont have to look for a large room that is free to set it up.
for my progress report, i have three mannequin hands on their way to my house now and have begun creating the people out of text in illustrator. once that is done i will just have to print it out (making a little extra to cover the mannequin hands) and figure out how to use the laser cutter to make my words for the bowls and plates. more info and pictures of my progress to come soon.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
settling on an idea.
after weeks of tossing around ideas i think i have finally settled on something i can be happy with. i have been thinking a lot lately about the enormous amount of time most everyone spends on the internet these days and, in that vein, how much search engines (google, yahoo, bing, etc.) dominate our search for information, news, inspiration, etc. i know at least for me personally, there are many days in which you could easily define my interests and thought processes by a quick history search of my google search bar.
i began thinking about just how much this idea of instantaneous information search and retrieval defines people, and just how much you could tell about a person based on what they have typed into a search bar. yes, a lot of it may be completely frivolous information and a lot of cat videos. but even these things tell us a great amount about no only individual people, but our species as a whole.
so i began looking more closely at different search engines' statistics on most popular searches. if an individual can be (somewhat) defined by their personal searches, why not use the most abundant search topics in a country to try and shed light on the conscious of an entire civilization? yes, it will be absurdly broad and inaccurate. but i think it is an important question to ask and an even more important thing for people to see, if for nothing more than to allow us to think about what types of information we value as both individuals and as a species.
now for the execution:
i have known from the beginning that i wanted to communicate my idea through some sort of 2-d print design. i began thinking about the different ways to illustrate this idea. and i liked the thought of blending this very new-age type data with the images and aesthetics of a more traditional and iconic view of our human culture. that is, taking this modern technological information and combining it with something that looks more old fashioned. this line of thought immediately brought me to the iconic images of things like the nuclear family, dining table scenes, etc.
so what i want to do is create a scene out of vinyl and other found objects as sculpture. it will depict a typical family at home, perhaps eating dinner at the table. the people will be made of cut vinyl, laser cut acrylic on the wall, and their bodies will be filled with the text of the top 30 most popular searches on the internet in the past year. the dining table scene (or whatever it end up being) will be an actual table, chairs, etc. only things like their plates will be filled with acrylic cut words of the same popular searches. the idea is to see how much the average individual / family is influenced and (in some way) defined by the kinds of information our species deems most worthy of our attention and time.
i began thinking about just how much this idea of instantaneous information search and retrieval defines people, and just how much you could tell about a person based on what they have typed into a search bar. yes, a lot of it may be completely frivolous information and a lot of cat videos. but even these things tell us a great amount about no only individual people, but our species as a whole.
so i began looking more closely at different search engines' statistics on most popular searches. if an individual can be (somewhat) defined by their personal searches, why not use the most abundant search topics in a country to try and shed light on the conscious of an entire civilization? yes, it will be absurdly broad and inaccurate. but i think it is an important question to ask and an even more important thing for people to see, if for nothing more than to allow us to think about what types of information we value as both individuals and as a species.
now for the execution:
i have known from the beginning that i wanted to communicate my idea through some sort of 2-d print design. i began thinking about the different ways to illustrate this idea. and i liked the thought of blending this very new-age type data with the images and aesthetics of a more traditional and iconic view of our human culture. that is, taking this modern technological information and combining it with something that looks more old fashioned. this line of thought immediately brought me to the iconic images of things like the nuclear family, dining table scenes, etc.
so what i want to do is create a scene out of vinyl and other found objects as sculpture. it will depict a typical family at home, perhaps eating dinner at the table. the people will be made of cut vinyl, laser cut acrylic on the wall, and their bodies will be filled with the text of the top 30 most popular searches on the internet in the past year. the dining table scene (or whatever it end up being) will be an actual table, chairs, etc. only things like their plates will be filled with acrylic cut words of the same popular searches. the idea is to see how much the average individual / family is influenced and (in some way) defined by the kinds of information our species deems most worthy of our attention and time.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
illustration ideas.
working on a self portrait project in my 394 class. thinking about using this sort of style for my illustration - melding a hand drawn sketch look into a more rendered look. kinda like this, but a lot more rough looking..
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