Czech animators/Film makers...

Worth going to at the Horse Hospital. This is the blurb from their website...
An exhibition presenting work by five Czech film directors, artists and animators: Michal Zabka, Vaclav Svankmajer, Noro Drziak, Jan Bubenicek and David Sukup. All graduates of the Film and TV School of the Academy of the Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU), they share the heritage of the great Czech animation school as represented by the works of Karel Zeman, Jiri Trnka, Jan Svankmajer as well as having the great animator Bretislav Pojar as their teacher. Already acclaimed for their work while at FAMU, all five filmmakers are now working on their highly anticipated first feature length films. Photographs from their films, puppets, props, designs and story-boards document their filmmaking processes and illustrate their highly individual work.
Curated by Zuzana Povysilova

The exhibition is complemented by screenings of their films at the Ciné Lumière on 14, 18 and 20 April.

Johnny Kelly's Lipsync workshop with some of our first year group

Results of a two hour stop motion workshop with Johnny Kelly (movie kindly donated from his Vimeo page) at Camberwell College of Arts, November 18th, 2009, involving BA Illustration First Years students and FDA Design Practice and Illustration (for Sequence & Interaction) students, and some sections by the production company who represent him, Nexus Productions.

A very successful and impressively organised workshop with great results! Thanks Johnny. See photos of the workshop here...

Participants listed by Johnny Kelly as follows:-

0:00 — 4:00

Maelle Noe

Eun Kyoung Ju

Ben Woodcock

15:08 — 25:04

Lucy Towle

Sophie Whetton

Victoria Wilmott

Charlotte Jones

25:05 — 29:06

hemalodedra (sorry I don't know full name here!)

Aaron Cook

Lewis Stringer

29:07 — 34:05

Ella Mclean

jozy2 (sorry again, real name unknown)

Emma Williams

37:11 — 41:09

Maelle Noe

Eun Kyoung Ju

Ben Woodcock

Manifesto club in a constructivist style

The manifesto club website's manifesto. Using type and symbol in a style reminiscent of russian constructivist posters which you can see examples of earlier in this thread/Author_society pt1 threads both of which cover aspects of different ways of being, social groups, ideals, doctrines, dogmas, rituals, behaviours.

Haeckel's Embryonic forms

An awareness of origins of form as depicted by Haeckel.

He demonstrates his belief that the embryos echo the history of evolution from fish to reptile to human, and a trail of those forms being tailored to origins and environment and resultant needs.

Folkloric costume from the Museum of British Folklore

Images of costumes of British ritual and celebration via The Museum of British Folklore...it doesn't exist yet as a museum but you could help it happen









The purpose of these costumes are to invoke spirits, relate to and reflect natural powers, and to communicate with an audience. They often serve specific ritualistic needs... love, anarchy, peace, fertility, harvest, beer, temperance, celebration, protest..

Hello.

For those of you who don't know me, I am Jim Stoten, and I teach on the 1st year Illustration course at Camberwell.

I haven't ever put a post up on a blog before, so I am putting this picture of me and my friend Tom up as an experiment.

Me and Tom do a podcast every time we get together, and you can listen to them if you want.

They are here.

http://tomandjim.co.uk

Just go to new podcasts at the top, and then click on the image to listen to the podcast. Something to listen to when you are fed up with music.

All comments are welcome.

Richard Wentworth, Making Do and Getting By

Richard Wentworth is best known as a sculptor whose work tends to focus on the idea of transformation in alteration and juxtaposition of everyday objects. Looking at his works our perception of our world is changed too, because of the alteration of the connotations of those objects and their inherent symbolism.

The images below are from his photographic series Making Do and Getting By in which he observes the ingenuity of humankind in the appropriation and adaption of everyday objects for new uses, new meanings, and new narratives. A wellington boot becomes a doorstop, a cup becomes a window prop, a brick and piece of board become a ramp, a book becomes a means to steady a chest of drawers (but is rendered impossible to read).