today we set up the exhibition which we named "look what we made"we all signed up to different groups and rolls i went for marketing because i enjoy making posters and advertising and could be a possible future career. there was 4 of us and the first job was getting an idea for poster. ed proposed useing the image i had taken last night because its quite funny and we are on a time limit. dew to there being 4 of us we decided to go make 4 separate posters then have them linked by the text or something. the pace was really hectic and made miss vital info of ( which i did have but when saving hid the layer doh! ) and various obstacles croped up like the classic the printer doesn't work. so we went to octerpus printing just down the road and asked for 25 to be printed so we had 100 flyers/posters in total. the communication between us and the printers was awful and so frustrating and we walked out knowing that something would go wrong. 
Started working on the focus part of my typography project.
the second day of fabric and form led to some really interesting out comes which i would of never thought of on the first day or done in the past. the idea is simple taking flow and trying to put my exploration across in the simplest way but with the simplicity i think comes beauty. By cutting the paper or canvas in one direction then manipulating the sides the strips contorted and gave the sense of air flow like i wanted to achieve. putting the figure intertwined with the canvas gave me the idea of having the flow be a perfect cast of the figure. so say it was life size u could make out the skin. if the strips where thin enough (or thick) have both the negative and positive of the cast on either side of the strip where it would touch the figure and the rest be smooth. then remove the figure and have it bending out of a perfect straight white wall ,seamlessly like its part of the wall. then the expanse of the wall would be part of the piece and there becomes a mystery of where the flow ends and begins.
I went home and got strait on my mac and downloaded “processing” a open source program to create interactive images in java. And html. Format. After several hrs of reading tuts and trying to make things I have virtually nothing to show. the image is what i manged to make from a tutorial on the processing website(and understand) when you move the mouse it draws a circle and if you click it goes black. i can control the colour, size, outline and shape of the object. its a start but getting my head around the code is proving a bit of a mountain so have to copy and past it then go through it line by line changing bits to see what happens (usually an error) To even start being creative with it is going to take some time but I’m going to stick with it and see if I can possibly apply this to my typography project.
today i concentrated on the word "move" and followed started to follow up the idea of the platform game. and i found this text http://www.non-format.com/archive/wire/5/ and thought about how it could animate and grow out when the figure or mouse is reacting with the letter. the image below was made in illistrator and instead of drawing each indervidual line with some skillish copy and pasting and re shaping i manged to create an organic look with under 30 vector lines. i then tried the same technique in after effects using the glue effect. its pretty time consuming and takes a long time to render might have to look for a new way of doing it if i want to finish on time or come back to it later.
Photo workshop using the D80 with the zoom was so good. I really started experimenting with the aperture trying to get the macro effect. And today was the first time using raw and found the picture so much easier to manipulate how I wanted in post-production. I also wanted to try out an idea I’ve had for a while just never got round to doing it. I’ve done 360 wide-angle images where the camera points out but wanted to see if it was possible pointing into an object. So I set up the object (yellow boot) by hanging it from the roof and photographed around. Coming to edit it I realized I needed to take much more pictures because I was looking at it from a circular (or bubble) view point and it needed to be tailored to the surface area so each curve flattened out. So in the end the image started to take away depth rather than add it, which has been the main focus of most of these workshops. The overall image is probably too high contrast but I did that so the background was black and just made it easier. I could see myself trying this technique again … but maybe as a sculptural practice so with my research project apply the same idea so cut the pages to form many viewpoints of an object creating a liquid like exploded view. I think the main influence today was taken from the composition introduction and lecture where the old paintings showed many perspectives. 
I’ve had some ideas before hand so I started by making a longer than length book because I liked the binding of the book so much. I want to make a sort of book tentacle with the pages sculpted to form different shapes a bit like the continues line drawing we did on the categorizing day. 
Ive bought some wire for 35p that should be strong enough to manipulate the book how I like (photos)
Book binding today was a workshop where we couldn’t really be too creative but I found it extremely interesting and will defiantly do it again and like the book with out the cover better because you can see all the sewing 
Today was really eye opening I haven’t done much painting at all in the past. And it really helps that Simon is clearly so interested and enthusiastic in his medium. We started with a slide show of different painting styles and technique which really helped in broadening the spectrum of what paint could create. Also the technique we used at the start possibly gave me the best start selecting the 10 most important lines then adding another but in a different colour and basically doing what I don’t want to do just letting it happen really ended up working. And making the first one I knew what I didn’t want to happen in the second painting. I was especially pleased with the second picture and using the stencil technique and rubbing the purple down like in my gestalt to create that grunge look with highlights of the complement yellow really jumped out of the page. And I should do more things like it I could easily see it becoming a website or poster background some of the feed back from the relaxed crit as well was really positive “epic” and “stylish”. The second part of the day was reflection on the paintings something I really enjoyed and I found my self putting points across and speaking when I haven’t before (gaining confidence) maybe because we where in a smaller group. And still amazed how every workshop we’ve done everyone’s turns out differently.
