And Moving on.....

Well, hopefully moving on. Here's what I've been doing!

 Firstly I made an attempt at creating my own perspective shape in a corner. A simple square. Not terribly interesting but just wanted to give it a shot. It was an awful lot more difficult than I had anticipated. I started out with these 3 surface being blank and then went back and drew a grid on them to give myself a better reference. Then I drew a simple square straight onto the photo. This would be what I referenced back to to draw onto the 3D piece.  The results were alright, I guess. The photo does it better jutice than actually seeing it in person. For now I'm going to leave this idea, just for a little while. But when I come back to it I want to focus on just 2 surfaces and see where that gets me.

Again, i jumped back an idea and started looking at the juggling balls again (i think I mentioned that  in the last blog). But this time, I made an attempt at a 3D piece. With results that I was quite proud of. Even if it is a little crude looking. But sure, can't hurt to have a go. Obviously, I need to differentiate between the different colours of the ball and that was easily achieved with the thin, malleable and dull wire.

One day then, when I was away from college, I got my new favorite idea! I passed the Ennis Court House where I saw a grossly overwight lawyer type guy. And I thought to myself "All you think about is cake all day isn't it?" And I imagined a cartoon thought bubble appearing above his head. #then scrambling for any piece of paper I could find I wrote my new idea down!
Clearly, I judge people very fast.. And it's even been pointed out to me that I do so. So I figured I could run with that. I decided I'd go out into O'Connel street in Limerick (a short walk from the college) and take a picture of a crowd and just write above them in Sharpie what I thought of the people present. Or what they might be thinking. The idea is, that these people are present in my space and these are my perceptions of these people. It could be an interesting study of people and of me as well. This, of course, brings up privacy issues. But I'll worry about that later. Soon I remembered a music video from a few years ago from All Time Low. While they aren't very good, the video for Weightless really does reflect what I want to do.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpG3BxRctQ4

It was then suggested to me that I try something like this. In a video of a crowd, with signs and thought bubbles shadowing the people. EXCITED!!