Final Creative Piece

 I first found the image I wanted to use.

 Then I traced free hand the outline.

 I then selectively cut out the parts i wanted the black to fill when it was sprayed.

I chose to do an Alice in wonderland themed art piece for the Tim Burton film. It it supposed to be more of a marketing artwork for the darker version of alice in wonderland created for the now older fans of the original fairy tale. This piece is done in a street art way to appeal to the teenage audience who would be interested in things like graffiti. It appeals to this audience because they would have grown up watching the original child fairy tale, Alice in Wonderland and now would be interested in the new darker take on Tim Burtons version. The whole idea of the piece was inspired by Bansky's token black and white stencil and text written in red. The colour red of the text represents danger, which would arouse curiosity on the piece! The font is plainly handwritten and "signed" by the director Tim Burton, so onlookers can research the text and signature in order to find out more on the film.

On the down side Im not very happy that the wind was strong, so the text looks hazy. But I guess this could work in my favour to create more of vivid exterior for the film.

Pop influence on graffiti

 This one I found under a bridge in Glenroy where I live on my walk. The colours are beautiful. I actually the the way graffiti was so prominant in the rise of pop culture and colour kind of created this idea of colourful spray work. I also think this tag could have some influence of current fashion trends because alot of bright colours are in fashion right now.

This little girl with the red scarf paste up art I found in 'Centre Place'; a hip laneway in Melbournes CBD. I really liked it, i thought it was gorgeous. I think pop culture has influenced this one in the way that the city has developed a pop hipster hide away type cafe culture in melbourne, where all the hotest places are in lane ways like flinders lane and degraves. The idea of a small innocent girl surrounded by colourful tags and art in a little bustling lane way gives birth to ideas of a child like curiosity and adventure.

Helvetica

The documentary directed by Gary Hustwit on Helvetica was interesting. It was releases on the typographies 50th anniversary. I never once considered the importance of a font, let alone one that in 'perfect'. It was thought to be a safe font in terms of legibility and appearance. Thats why it is so used. It is one of the most popular and most used fonts in the world. The word Helvetica translates to the word Swiss, as the creators didn't deam it appropriate to name the font after the country Switzerland.

Street art: 50 words on Graffiti

This is an artwork done by myself, i have always loved street art and I had a great idea one day. This sewer cap was turned into an eye. Signifying, that the street is alive. It isnt colourful, I used colours of white, black and grey because they best disguise themselves with the walkways and walls. It is a concept of Melbourne that often goes unnoticed and my intention was to make onlookers more aware of 'city life'.

Reflections on film Credit Sequences

EDWOOD

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO

SEVEN

007 GOLD FINGER

Oulipo Literary Movement: Anagram names, words and a sentence.

I created a sentence of words instead of a paragraph. 150 words was difficult, i have around 20.

Thoughts on 'Exit Through The Gift Shop'

I didn’t know how to feel about ‘Exit Through The Gift Shop’. Being a person who is passionate about art I was a little unsettled and began to question everything I think about art.

At the beginning of the documentary, the audience are introduced to a man named Thierry Guetta who is a film maker and documents moments in life that will never be looked at the same again, like his child’s birthday, a laugh or cry. This I admire. He captures moments of awe in his life; art. He then goes on to document the ‘behind the scenes’ works of street artists, claiming to be creating a documentary. He then does nothing with tapes, without a thought to look at them again. When it comes down to the biggest names in street art, Banksy, Thierry is star struck and does everything for him. When he was asked when the documentary would be finished, he panicked and threw together a disaster. Banksy told him to go and “create (his) own art”. Thierry took this as become a street artist.

He called himself “Mr. Brainwash”. All of his art was copied and mutated existing art. Using quotes about his debut show from Bansky and other big name artists, Thierry had created a over the top show with typical street art that had been taken and changed. Banksy took this as an insult to the name of street art, where Thierry had broken all the rules and taken no note of procedure as many other artists have had a journey through. However, Banksy, confused says “there are no rules in street art”.

Later after discussing the documentary with other students, I came to learn that Thierry was just a character, Mr. Brainwash was just a character; characters Banksy had created for the documentary. I questioned what this tells me about Art. That its essentially a joke? That anything can be art, we are told what to like, what to think; anyone can produce art, art is becoming copies, the same, uncreative. I derived that Banksy is outlining a problem in the art world. I took it as a message that new and modern art is all beginning to look the same and originality and creativity is becoming a rarity. Creativity is too much of an effort for people who want recognition fast. Anything new and different will be tossed to the side years before people are able to tilt their heads to the side and recognize the beauty of it.

And I look around and see this even in my world. Banksy has it correct.