Brothers Quay

Speaking of Jan Svankmajer, I may as well talk about some people who were hugely inspired by him. The Brothers Quay are twins who work with stop animation which is, believe it or not much weirder then Jan Svankmajer.

If you've ever watch the youtube video "Salad Fingers" you will know that uncomfortable sensation when watching something as spooky as the Brothers Quay's videos. The style of these stop motions remind me of my mother, as the lady of the bed has long black hair and dresses similar to my mother when she was creating her own art.


Just a quick video



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Jan Švankmajer

Dimensions of Dialogue Part 1

Dimensions of Dialogue Part 2 and 3

Jan Švankmajer is an artist who well known for his surrealist animations. I first saw his work when my friend sent me his Alice film (though the whole film isn't on youtube) which I fell in love with straight away, it has many elements I love in the film, such as animal skulls, old fashioned toys and random events happening. But the videos above called "Dimensions Of Dialogue" are my favorite video's I've seen of his, they have a very political story behind each of them and they are very clever.

Jan Švankmajer has inspired many modern artist and film makers today, you could probably guess who they are. Such people as Tim Burton, Terry Gillian and another amazing artist's the Brothers Quay.



This "Punch and Judy" based stop motion, is quite funny but uncomfortable at some parts. I am in love with the murdering Punch as he steals the gold from the house, as if he feels guilty. I also love the church like feel as each puppet is put in the coffin.

I would really love to own Jan Švankmajer on dvd, every single one of his animations. Maybe one day!

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 I'm currently doing print in university, (I love print so much) we had to create our own stencils and these are the ones I created. We had to make up an imaginary journey and mine was the path to happiness by following a ball of string. I want to create something like a fairy tale, so I put me in an old fashioned dress. I really love the trees I drew, I was helped by my little kitty who was playing with pen while I was drawing.

I created some mono prints the other day, which turned out really good. Really messy, which I love. When I get a chance I will take photos and post them on here later. 

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Quentin Blake's life drawing.

 

I found an artist the other day called Georg Baselitz, who's work looks very similar to Quentin Blake's illustrations. So I searched for his wonderful art in some of my most favorite books by Roald Dahl, like The Enormous Crocodile and Fantastic Mr Fox. When I came across this nude image of a lady by Quentin Blake. Well I was shocked to see such a well known children's illustrator drawing something so grown up. It's really funny more then anything else.

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I got this image from: http://www.dezeen.com

Old photography.

I was looking through all my old photos and I found loads of images I took for my photography night classes, taken about two years ago. I actually think a lot of my old photography is good, I went to Bristol zoo and normally I hate going to zoos because the animals looks so sad but I came across these sleeping tigers and they looked so peaceful. I've loved my tiger photos for ages, in fact this photo is my background on my Mac.



I think this image only came out so good because the glass was dirty, I really like how retro it looks. You actually have to get apps on your phone to get effects like this now.

I also set up a little photo shoot with my sisters as the models, I dressed them up (as best I can) as punks and set up a little tea party. My littlest sister, Betsy loved dressing up and posing but Jetta wasn't to happy. I don't blame her I would hate to be a model too. I love little Betsy holding her tea pot up like a soldier.

I love this image of Betsy with the huge heels and looking so sweet with her crazy hair and probably my own knee length socks. The lighting in this shoot is beautiful and I love this angle. I need to start doing photography like this again, I think over the years I've lost the nack and need to get it back.


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All images taken by me, Please ask to use them. My Flickr

Patchwork jacket and Print dress.

I'm very please with my final outcome, and I finished very early. The project has to be given in tomorrow and all I have to do know is get my boards and these photos printed out. I'm feeling very confident about this project.

A few things went wrong on the day of the photoshoot, I wanted to take some images out side but thanks to the unpredictable British weather, it started to rain. But I had a plane, we went to The Arts Institute. And my model was amazing, she came to the rescue when my friend canceled and she just looks amazing in my outfit. 

I will be posting up my boards as soon as I know they are perfect. 

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all clothing made by me, model Kelsey Brown 

layering images

With my photography I wanted to do something fun with them so I decided to layer them just because I hadn't done it before.

The first two images are very old photos which were saved after my old computer went mental and deleted all my images. I did a photo shoot with my baby sister and I dressed her up as a punk (as she put it), I loved the outcome the lighting in the shoot was beautiful, but a lot of the photos are now gone. the last two photos are very recent.
 

I really like this effect, especially the first image. I love the detail and greenness of my sisters eye and the pink and simpleness of the follow.  I also love the last image, to me it looks like the flower is very unstable and it's about to fall over. ha.

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