why so serious?

Why so serious?

Caught the 12:10 showing of batman last night, or should I say this morning. And, all I can say is that it was everything I wanted it to be, and much more. Perfect. The acting was amazing, every character was cast beautifully. From Christian Bale, who once again nailed the part of batman, and also is the only batman to make a second movie! All the actors and actresses were incredible. But to me Maggie Gyllenhaal was the weak link. She pulled of the role, and she’s a good actress. But I almost feel like she was “overacting” which came off as “UNDERacting” if that makes sense to any one? Some of the lines were just lacking something, and other had too much. Can’t put my finger on it cause im not really ready to criticize the movie yet…ahaha.

But I will end this with a little something about Heath Ledger. Unbelievable. Amazing, incredible. An exact representation of what the joker should be, and more. His acting, was just…something every actor should strive for. He was twisted… cruel… heartless …insane …funny … crazy… truly a mad man. He WAS the joker. I was so convinced that I feel that he wouldn’t of been the same if he were still with us.

Any way, amazing film, have to watch it again, again and again. I shouldn’t say much more because my thoughts are to scattered right now. Loved it. That’s all.

3 point

I think this was my 3 point perspective project for “perspective for animation” class. What I tired to do was create some post-world-war type of make shift colony of survivors. Very vague setting…perhaps…remove the head? Eh? Jake?

Anyway, I was happy with it. After I took this picture I brought up the values just another notch, to add more contrast. I was happy with it. I feel like it’s still lacking some detail. I could of taken it a lot further and pushed it a little more, but I think that’s a pretty good summary of this past semester. No messing around this coming fall.

Portrait

I wanted to put all of these in order, but by the time I coordinate my self to do that, I’ll have other things to post. So I’ll just give ‘em up as I get ‘em.

This was our second portrait assignment towards the end of April. Which I was hoping would come out better than the first, but life doesn’t always work out that way. A good try I think. Faces in general have always been an issue for me. Also, I think I’ve been taught to ignore the face and focus on expression through the body and proportions and anatomy type junk. And I think I naturally avoid drawing faces anyway…oops.

Any way, the beautiful thing about clay is that you can pull off that rough, choppy, and messy on purpose kind of look. So things like a crooked mouth look intentional.

I love clay…

‘T Was Beauty That Shaved the Beast

GOAT: eh...dude, it's like 80 degrees out here...

SHEEP: you think i wear this by choice ass wipe!...ugh...

GOAT:...just sayin'.

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Sheep...everyone loves sheep.

pure beauty.

Photography Taboo

So, the amateur photographer in me says no! But the colors say yes!

I see flower shots as something that’s hard to mess up, but at the same time difficult to pull off. Every picture of a flower I just see as a cheesy, over used, easy, gift card, kind of a shot. It takes some degree of professionalism to take a photo of a flower and express some kind of idea of feeling, and I think it’s obvious when someone takes a photo for artistic purpose, or artistic intentions; which are very different things. Kind of like when some guy throws a rock in the ocean for whatever intentions, and Andy Goldsworthy throws a rock for artistic purpose or discovery. But maybe that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense…

Any way… confession: I took a bunch of cheesy flower shots because I mean, if they’re there, and you have your camera, you really can’t help it. Especially when a model like this one makes it even easier.

Golden Gate Park Rose Garden

Starting with this one back in February, it was the very first assignment in figure modeling class, and my first clay figure in like…4 years.

A note worthy attempt I think. I was pretty proud of it.

My critique, if I remember correctly, was about the ankles getting too thin, and other proportional problems.

C work.

more to come...SOON!