Xerox Critiques

Megan: Trippy, creative, unique, above and beyond the call of duty.
COdy: Maybe too few variations of pieces of the body
Sabrina: under done? Could use more work/variation but really visually attractive and interestingly thought out.
Brian: Way too simple  COuld have challenged himself more.
Nakota: Amazing idea and production, attention grabbing, creative, a bit unoriginal but highly well executed.
Airel: INteresting work on the contrast, but lacking in contnet. COuld ahv ebeen more eleborative on the subject.
Michele: Texturized, creative, time consuming, personal, but might have strayed a bit from the objective.
Lauren: Relaly well done, insightful self-though provoking.
James: Too much negative space, intersting idea.
Kim: Really well done and executed, drawn excellently from the examples in class. Horroresque.
Erin: Really well done and beautiful
Maria: Chaotic, failed to understand.

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Grid Art Critique:

Lauren: Creative use of materials, effective portryal of idea.
Kim: Amazing, not much else to say.
Catherine: Good execution, maybe could be a bit more varied.
Sabrina: Interesting idea, solid grid.
Megan: Good way of creating the grid and creative usage of the flowers and colors.
James: Good use of the idea of the project
Chris: Amazing use of the material, nice way to work around limitations.
Cody: Solid idea and execution, flawless.
Maria: Failed to understand the project.
Nakota: Really good use of the source material

Adventures in Flipbooking and Failure

So, the idea that kind of gave birth to it was

And that evolved into

I'll post more details when I'm not exhausted and about to pass out from sleep deprivation and hunger. Again.

Flipbook Critiques

Maria: Humorous but nonsensical, confusing, simple. SHort by like 70 Pages.
Sabrina: Simple, chaotic idea, no cohesiveness. Interesting start but highly boring mid and end.
Lauren: Funny, cool, pretty, solid idea and execution, pretty short.
James: Smart, concise, cohesive, at first glance seems chaos yet flows really well
Christopher: Funny, well thought out, simple but gets to the point and cohesive.
Michele: Creative, entertaining, keeps the reader attention with a solid story.
Nakota: Amusing, appealing and narrative.
Erin: Simple but artistic with a real good flow.

The Great Train Robbery

The Great Train Robbery - 1903 


Speaking from a current point of view, the movie is quite normal, if not a bit boring (ignoring time)

However, the fact of the matter was that this movie was the first long piece that was painstakingly put together with a view that made people believe events that were happening in the movie were also happening to them! The effortful coloring of specific scenes and people serves to show importance and draw the viewer'sattention, with an albeit humorous (though I'd imagine it'd be viewed as somewhat macabre in it's heyday) storyline.

MUTO - BLU

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

This piece is if nothing else astonishing. The detail, preservearance, effort, and planning that went into is just mind-blowing. The inter-connected scenes across different areas of the city alongside the thought-provoking imagery was amazing. Although, at least, personally, the meaning of it is kind of, lost, if there is one, on me. Perhaps it's because of cultural differences but the most I can take out of it on a level beyond the art is the inter-connectedness of mankind, how silly we are, and how dangerous we are to non but ourselves. But truthfully I think you don't need to understand the meaning to understand the beauty of this work. The detailed and beautiful art on such an unconvenient medium (Stop-motion graffiti) is amazing. Truly blown-away.