Staring at the Sky

A sample of some of the letterforms I found in the clouds so far. These photos have not been retouched.

Type Brief Feedback

The presentation went over pretty well!

People also presented some good ideas. I think my favorite one was a guy who saw a man walking around oxford street with a tiny sign on a stick that said 'Jesus.' This inspired him to make his own sign and carry it around. The sign was about 10" x 15" and had 12 pt type on it that read "I need air."Brilliant.

I am so glad that I decided to include this last slide in the presentation explaining why I chose the font that I did:

Next step: expand! I've got a fine art major and a textiles major in my group, and we are going to hone our skills in order to create a parallel between the art students at chelsea, and the doctors/ lab technicians that worked there before. Ideas include making signs that look convincing and placing them over the existing signs. This means actually getting some metallic signs made and placing them over the signs by reception. Then we'll have signs that follow throughout the building, leading to the rooms that we've set stuff up in. What exactly we'll set up, we're not sure. I think this is going to be an extraordinary project, though.

Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital

The assignment: choose a place in London and... do something typographically relevant there.
So, my group decided to run with the idea that our school (Chelsea) is housed in an old Military Hospital.
Here is how the typographic experiment turned out.

Barbara Kruger

Last Friday, our typography elective tutors asked if anyone would volunteer to put together a presentation on Barbara Kruger for the following week. The class went completely silent. I didn't think it was that big a deal, and to be honest, I didn't volunteer right away beause I didn't want to look like a kiss-ass.

So, being the kind of person that I am (hating awkward silences, and having an almost illogical sense of optimism) I spoke up.
"Fine, I"ll do it!"

So, why is this proving to be so difficult?

Presentations are usually so easy to put together. So why have I been attempting to put this one together for over a week?
I have to get my head together!

NIMBA shipping

Today we did everything your mum tells you not to do- go into dodgy neighborhoods, get into cars with strangers, fall asleep in those cars... and let them leave you at the port.

We started off in Peckham at 10 AM and miraculously all three of us were on time. We headed over to the shipping company and got some footage of a car being unloaded, as well as some funny characters. Then we got a ride to the port with the company's manager. It was so cozy in the cab of the truck that I dozed off for a bit while Emma filmed him talking. We ran into some trouble at the port, though. They are pretty paranoid since they had a terrorist incident not too long ago. They also had to kick out some people from the BBC who were trying to film there without permission recently.

After re-fueling with what one of the workers at the port said was the 'best fish & chips place in Essex' we hopped on the train and made our winding way back to Peckham for one last interview.

We got a lot of good footage, and are working on getting permission from the port to film there.

Tomorrow morning, we edit for critique on Thursday.

Shadow and Light Type

Found a few random letters today amongst the shadows, and also up in the clouds. How lovely, I can spell out sex!

Maysles Brother Presentation

Here are the results of my toiling away on Hugh's Imac (my 13" screen macbook was just not suited for such a project).
Since I didn't see the hype in the original version of Grey Gardens, I decided to make my own versions.
I think that I envisioned making trailors for two different twists on Grey Gardens, but they ended up being very short films in themselves.

I uploaded these as very small files, mostly because I was thinking of Carmel on her iphone trying to watch them on the go... if she's even following me, that is. Oh, well! Here goes:

First, a horror movie! I call it Beware of Mother.
It wasn't that difficult to find footage and audio that communicated distress and created tension. It was mostly a matter of dramatizing it, and mixing the audio and visuals in an interesting way. It was good fun!



Second, a love story between mother and daughter.
This was more difficult to create. There was a lot less footage to work with in terms of both of these chicks looking happy- ESPECIALLY the mother Edith. However, I think that I've captured almost all of the high points in the film.
I wasn't sure what order to show these in, but I got the advice that it's always good to end on a high note. So I leave you with warm fuzzy feelings all over!
I call it The Girls of Grey Gardens.