First Workshop

Hey, finally our first workshop!
It was very good, I did not knew how to work with foundry but some concepts are the same of molding with plaster, so it was not so like walking in the dark. Although it do uses a lot of gas to heat the bronze, this technique looks very economic, because the sand, the wood boxes and the bronze can be reused. It was the main advantage that I could see, in addition with the advantages of working with metal witch allows to polish.

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Research Methods Lectures

After been in some Research Methods Lectures, I decided to do a parallel between this two postmodern directors: Gondry and Tarantino.
I have chosen them because I really like the creative line that they do, sometimes naive and really personal. Not only that but I consider them two icons of creativeness and also good examples of postmodern artists.
This video is how they get inspired and how they get in to a concept and it is very curious how similar is this process to them.





The video below shows how inspiration can come from anywhere and different fields can communicate with each other because the concept may be the same.
Talking about Gondry, there is a Brazilian journalist who says a line that illustrates his kind of mind :

" Some people gonna see the prism and some gonna see just a triangle."

To this post not look like so out of the "artistical world" I am gonna cite Yayoi kusama, she is an artist who I do like and also see some similar points with both of directors above. Yayoi is inspired by something very unusual and personal : her illnesss. She has experienced hallucinations and severe obsessive thoughts since childhood and though that she did paintings, collages, soft sculptures, performance art and environmental installations. She as Tarantino and Gondry also created her own world and it also reminds me childhood.

Werner Herzog inspiration help

Ok ok, I confess I am writing this post because I am ordinary like anyone else and want to say that I saw Herzog in person this weekend in a lecture at Royal Festival Hall.

Well, besides it, I think this part of the lecture is a good example to show that we get inspired by anything even if it is something really really stupid.

It is good to see someone so respected like him saying something like that.





Of course I do not want to compare myself with him, but there are some images that I capture and I though it may be a good inspiration.

The below one is the image which first called my attention. I saw it and it was so colorful, so great, so very well done and so delicious, that I had to take a picture of it.



And as Leonard Cohen says:

“Everybody wants a box of chocolate”.

So, why not be inspired by candy?



The next one is a pattern that I really liked. Therefore, It may be something that I will work on my project as a graphic reference. This picture was taken at the Lacoste Store as you can check.

Quick view of the project proposal:

I check Jessica’s Blog and I thought her idea to do a diagram about the Project Proposal clever and clear. So, I did one too. Sorry if I was not so original, but I thought it was very easy way to understand. This is a diagram about how I believe my Project Proposal is going to work.