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"Yeo Jing Yee" is my name
seventeen is my age
Nanyang Polytechic is my school
Motion Graphic & Broadcast Design is my full-time diploma course
Graphic design is my interest
Typography is my favourite design style
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
7:50 AM
God Creation, Human Destruction [ Collage ]
Monday, June 30, 2008
10:56 PM
Inner landscape [alter state of mind]
Robert Sabuda
He is a well-known pop-up book artist and also a paper engineer. He started his drawing since young and his bedroom was a constant whirlwind of pencil shavings, drippy paint brushes and mounds of paper scraps. When he graduated from Pratt Institute in New York City, he began to work with very small jobs illustrating coloring books. His jobs led to other book projects and slowly discovered that he was a children's book illustrator. He began to write his own stories and illustrate those as well. Picture books were wonderful but he always hoped that one day he could create a pop-up book, too. So he pulled out his old pop-up books and taught himself how to make even better ones as a grown up. Now his best known pop-up books are The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the recent work The Chronicles of Narnia.
Edward GoreyHe was a writer and artist well-known for his ghastly atmosphere like feel, a symbol of death illustrated books. Not only horror illustrated books, he also draw children's books. However Gorey's books were popular with children, he did not associate with children much and had no particular fondness for them.
One of his famous works wasThe Gashlycrumb Tinies: or, After the Outing Gorey tells the tale of 26 children (each representing a letter of the alphabet) and their untimely demise in rhyming dactylic couplets, such as "A is for Amy who fell down the stairs. B is for Basil assaulted by bears." The book takes the reader through the complete alphabet, accompanied by Gorey's black and white illustrations.
My concepts:
I choose fourth central message "The emperor wears his invisible clothes walking proudly in his kingdom capital full of dogs and monkeys." for this assignment. The first thing that came into my mind was the fairytale story "The Emperor's New Clothes". A vain emperor being taken advantage by two scoundrels. In the end, got embarrassed among the whole city without any clothes which is naked. I realized this story actually can be fitted in the central message with some more alterations. Dogs were always classified as loyal and monkeys were classified as mischievous. I decided to combine the story and these 2 animals together. I changed the emperor to a cunning fox. A fox always does things cunning in order to get its goal. This time it wanted to be the king of the whole animal kingdom. In order to strive for its goal, it decided to disguise itself as a special animal with a combined layer of tiger skin and lion fur which are the kings of animal kingdom so that to let all the animals thought that it is more powerful than the lion and tiger.
My own central messege for this story:
" Support authentic "
Synopsis outlining mood / Tone pace / Key moments
Fake can never real. A lie cannot be the truth as it will be revealed one day. It has a kind of royal feel to the character at the beginning of the story but in the end, it shows a sense of embarrassment and funny. The tone pace will be slow to show more sense of royalty in that character and to the end, it will be in fast pace. The key moment will be when the animals were laughing at the "emperor".
5 sets of thumbnails sketches:
Set 01
Set 02
Set 03
Set 04
Set 05
Artistic Influences:
Im influenced by Edward Gorey's drawing. His drawings are almost all in black and white style.He had used black ink pen strokes to complete every horror workpiece, watercolor, and preliminary pencil illustrations for children's books of his own creation. I could maybe drawn in a simple way using simple black ink pen strokes.
Im also influenced by Robert Sabuda's cartoon like drawing. His cute drawings give the audience a lively mood and a urge to continue reading his pop-up books. I think most of his pop-up books are all fairytale stories. I could maybe made my whole story in a fairytale like style if possible.
Sunday, June 1, 2008
3:46 AM
JUXTAPOSITION
(Juxtaposition)
Simply means things side-by-side. In art this usually is done with the intention of bringing out a specific quality or creating an effect, particularly when two contrasting or opposing elements are used.
(editing)Juxtaposition simply means two or more shots to create a meaningful relationship between them.
(grammar)
An absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together.
mother father instead of mother and father
mother father instead of mother and father
(mathematics)
These are some pictures of juxtaposition:
a upper body of a man and a lower part of a woman
creates a weird but special effect.
a tall building and a short building together
a tall building and a short building together
in the picture creates a nice contrast in size.
"keep your beach clean" and "beach closed-avoid water contact"
"keep your beach clean" and "beach closed-avoid water contact"
are messages often found on the beach.
they are two similar things that relate to the beach.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
9:58 PM
about andrew warhola (andy warhol) (1928-1987)Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1928. Andy Warhol exhibited artistic talent at an early age and after graduating from Schenley High School in Pittsburgh in 1945, he enrolled in the Carnegie Institute of Technology to major in Pictorial Design from 1945-1949(now Carnegie-Mellon University).
After graduation, he moved to New York City, and begun his career as a commercial illustrator for Glamour magazine for an article titled "Success is a Job in New York.". Andrew noticed that the final ‘a’ of his name was omitted in the credits and since decided to call himself Andy Warhol ( a name that he considered youthful). He also drew advertising for various magazines, including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, book jackets, and holiday greeting cards in the 1940s and 1950s. In 1952, his first solo exhibition was held at Hugo Gallery, New York, of drawings to illustrate stories by Truman Capote. It is around this time that he dyed his hair silver. Eventually he crossed from commercial work to fine art, blurring the line between the two along the way. In the early 1960s, he painted his first works based on comics and advertisements, enlarging and transferring onto his canvases.
Warhol pared his image vocabulary down to the icon itself—to brand names, celebrities, dollar signs—and removed all traces of the artist's "hand" in the production of his paintings.His huge and colorful silk-screen renderings of banal objects like Coke bottles and a Campbell's Soup can were controversial but hugely popular and established him as the leader of the Pop Art movement.Warhol wanted a distinguishing subject. His friends suggested he should paint the things he loved the most. In his signature way of taking things literally, for his first major exhibition
he painted his famous cans of Campbell's Soup which he claimed to have had for lunch for most of his life.Warhol produced both comic and serious works; his subject could be a soup can or an electric chair. Warhol used the same techniques—silkscreens, reproduced serially, and often painted with bright colors—whether he painted celebrities, everyday objects, or images of suicide, car crashes, and disasters (as part of a 1962-1963 series called "Death and Disaster"). The "Death and Disaster" paintings (such as "Red Car Crash", "Purple Jumping Man", "Orange Disaster") transform personal tragedies into public spectacles, and signal the use of images of disaster in the then evolving media
.Warhol's various Manhattan studios were nicknamed The Factory where his films and paintings were created. It was the famous silver Factory in the 1960s that attracted an assortment of people who became known as Warhol's Superstars, a crowd that included Edie Sedgwick, Baby Jane Holzer, Brigid Berlin, Ondine, Candy Darling and many others who were often featured in his films. By the end of the decade, Andy Warhol was himself a celebrity, appearing frequently in newspapers and magazines alongside Factory cohorts like Sedgwick.
In June 1968, Warhol's factory worker and author of the SCUM Manifesto, Valerie Solonas, who claimed that Warhol had 'too much control' over her life, shot Warhol in his studio. The shooting was nearly fatal and left Warhol to deeply change his art and most definitely his life forever.
In the 1960s,Warhol turned to portrait painting of celebrities - but his activities had already expanded beyond mere art making: he was in the center of a corporation that produced films, books, plays, and was involved with television. He also co-founded Interview magazine, and published The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975). In this book, he presents one of his ideas on the nature of art: "Making money is art, and working is art and good business is the best art."In the mid-1980s his television shows, Andy Warhol's Fashion, Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes and Andy Warhol's TV, aired nationally on MTV and on Madison Square Garden cable. Warhol continued producing prints, polaroid photos and audio recordings and published a book, Popism: The Warhol Sixties', right up until his unexpected death in February 21, 1987 in New York, from lung complications following a gall bladder surgery.
Sexuality
Many people think of Warhol as "
asexual" and merely a "voyeur".The question of how his sexuality influenced Warhol's work and shaped his relationship to the art world is a major subject of scholarship on the artist, and is an issue that Warhol himself addressed in interviews, in conversation with his contemporaries, and in his publications (e.g. Popism: The Warhol Sixties).Throughout his career, Warhol produced erotic photography and drawings of male nudes. Many of his most famous works (portraits of
Liza Minnelli, Judy Garland, and films like Blow Job, and Lonesome Cowboys) draw from gay underground culture and/or openly explore the complexity of sexuality and desire. Many of his films premiered in gay porn theaters. That said, some stories about Warhol's development as an artist revolved around the obstacle his sexuality initially presented as he tried to launch his career. The first works that he submitted to a gallery in the pursuit of a career as an artist were homoerotic drawings of male nudes. They were rejected for being too openly gay. In Popism, furthermore, the artist recalls a conversation with the film maker Emile de Antonio about the difficulty Warhol had being accepted socially by the then more famous (but closeted) gay artists Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. De Antonio explained that Warhol was "too swish and that upsets them." In response to this, Warhol writes, "There was nothing I could say to that. It was all too true. So I decided I just wasn't going to care, because those were all the things that I didn't want to change anyway, that I didn't think I 'should' want to change ... Other people could change their attitudes but not me".Religious beliefs
Warhol was a practicing Byzantine Rite Catholic. He regularly volunteered at homeless shelters in New York, particularly during the busier times of the year, and described himself as a religious person. Many of his later works contain almost-hidden religious themes or subjects, and a body of religious-themed works was found posthumously in his estate. Warhol also regularly attended Mass during his life, and the priest at Warhol's church, Saint Vincent's, said that the artist went there almost daily. His art is noticeably influenced by the eastern Christian iconographic tradition which was so evident in his places of worship.
Death
The Andy Warhol Museum was announced 2 years after his death in 1989, and opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1994.
Death
The Andy Warhol Museum was announced 2 years after his death in 1989, and opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1994.
His quotes...
"An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he, for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them."
"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone has got to take care of all your details."
Some of his works...
Marilyn Monroe
Coca-cola
Campbell's Soup
Mao Tsu Tung
Brillo Soap Pads Box
Saturday, May 10, 2008
7:31 AM
What is semiotics?
Semiotics is the study of signs and signifying practices, is largely the creation of the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure and the American pragmatist Charles Sanders Peirce. Independently, they worked to better understand how certain structures were able to produce meaning rather than work on the traditional matter of meaning itself.
Saussure's work on semiotics is better known, and he argued that there was no necessary relationship between which carries the meaning (the signifier, usually a word or symbol) and the actual meaning which is carried (the signified). For example, the word "dog" is not actually a dog - the meaning of dog could be carried by any random string of letters. It just so happens that, in English, that meaning is carried by the letter d-o-g.
Peirce's ideas about semiotics distinguished between three types of signs: icon, index and symbol. Whether a sign belongs in one category or another is dependent upon the nature of its relationship between the sign itself (which he called the referent) and the actual meaning. 
An icon is a meaning which is based upon similarity or appearance (for example, similarity in shape).
This photograph of the dog, the icon, most closly resembles the actual dog.
According to Pierce, icons are "the only means of directly communicating an idea."An index is a meaning based upon some cause and effect relationship :"Because the indexical sign is understood to be connected to the real object, it is capable of making that object conceptually present."
A wagging tail is an index of a dog.
Finally, a symbol carries meaning is a purely arbitrary way - this is the way natural language carries meaning. Dog bone is a symbol of the dog.
Saussure's system is appropriate to language and texts, for the most part, but Pierce's has a wider application, including not just language but also the visual arts.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
7:47 AM
jus created a blog for my course...
sooner or ltr i will show some works frm MGBD...
dun get bored after a while...
sooner or ltr i will show some works frm MGBD...
dun get bored after a while...
