Sunday, November 29, 2009
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Play of light and stroke
An analysis of the George Melly painting led to the images below.
A careful look at the use of strokes and colour.
colour has certain psychological effects on the human mind. Various colours create or stimulate a certain sense or activity in oneself.
Can this play of colour or strokes or combination of both be used to manipulate the mind?
Does this play of colours and strokes have enough strength on its own to stimulate the mind of an observer?
The third question would be, will this be a long lasting effect, or short termed?
Some of the screens which can be later used as a material or can become part of the streetscape.
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The outcome: The play of colour and strokes does have an effect, but it is not a long lasting one. Maybe the effects of the strokes and colours can be used to demonstrate pictorally a relations between two objects.
A careful look at the use of strokes and colour.
The language of strokes and colours
An attempt at the similar play of strokes on a street
colour has certain psychological effects on the human mind. Various colours create or stimulate a certain sense or activity in oneself.
Can this play of colour or strokes or combination of both be used to manipulate the mind?
Does this play of colours and strokes have enough strength on its own to stimulate the mind of an observer?
The third question would be, will this be a long lasting effect, or short termed?
Some of the screens which can be later used as a material or can become part of the streetscape.
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The outcome: The play of colour and strokes does have an effect, but it is not a long lasting one. Maybe the effects of the strokes and colours can be used to demonstrate pictorally a relations between two objects.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
george...
As I walked throught the national gallery, it was this image that grabbed my attention. It is a painting of the jazz musician George Melly, by Maggi Hambling. What attracted me most about this is the technique and the dynamic nature of the image.
Links:
http://www.maggihambling.com/Works/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Melly
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait.php?search=ss&firstRun=true&sText=george+melly&LinkID=mp06066&rNo=3&role=sit
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
masks
In african art and folklore - masks are used as a sensory means of broadcasting secrecy. An oxymoron.
The idea of broadcasting 'secrecy'.
The visible parts of a mask viz., the artworks, form etc. transmit knowledge through secrecy. These have the power to stimulate, arrest and even move the observer much before he tries to identify to enter the world withing the masks. Masks capture the perceived reality, and at the same time give form to the unobserved reality, the transcendental world.
Masks can be like a catalyst that fired the emotions of the observer. It can create an impression of a performance. One should be tempted to decipher and decode what lies underneath the visible.
The idea of broadcasting 'secrecy'.
The visible parts of a mask viz., the artworks, form etc. transmit knowledge through secrecy. These have the power to stimulate, arrest and even move the observer much before he tries to identify to enter the world withing the masks. Masks capture the perceived reality, and at the same time give form to the unobserved reality, the transcendental world.
Masks can be like a catalyst that fired the emotions of the observer. It can create an impression of a performance. One should be tempted to decipher and decode what lies underneath the visible.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Juxtaposition of sound and image
Sound and image... in motion..
the sounds behind soho
sound of buses hidden by buildings..
conversations unheard on the streets...
observations...-soho
Construction workers
Pigeons on pavement
Couple looking for vintage magazines (I later realized they were walking in the opposite direction)
Main with suitcase
Old man walking towards queens theatre
Sounds of metal cutting (I named the recording at drilling)
Yoshino is open so early
Samurai sushi + bento open
Avenue Q – lady smoking in front of the closed entrance doors
Sound of vehicular traffic
Apollo theatre doors / shaded passage – ideal spot for smoke / sandwich break
Territorial behavior
Lady in RED walked up and down Rupert street and vanished into winnet street
Cars parked
Man walking through – in no hurry
Shops seems closed from Rupert street end
Video library open
White horse pub – open
Bocca di lupo – coffee shop visible only if u walk through archer street
Archer street studios – ground floor has a hair salon – a very old man, very meticulously cutting a person’s hair – a tanning salon (receptionist looking bored in life) – and the third partition is the entrance to the upper floors
Studio’s existence is doubtful, as there are two ‘to-let’ signs
Apparently, area is subject to increased police activity tackling drugs and prostitution!!!!! How ironic???
Other streets look like there’s more probability of the above said activities
be@1 bar + windmill international + the lyric – two bars sandwiched in between a gentleman’s club
Street light maintenance
People walking towards Shaftesbury and towards Brewer Street – nobody is in a hurry – Monday morning blues??
Stage door open
Awfully quiet
The lyric bringing in plants from the outside
Freebird burrito shop set up.. 5quid for a burrito!!!
Prowler – visitors more during the day
2 indians looking around sex shops
Less crowded times
People walking leisurely
Two guys in suits looking around for strip clubs trying to be inconspicuous but unsuccessful I guess
View of ‘mamma mia’ from the end of Rupert
Food joints attracting crowd as lunch time approaches
Outside snog – corner with bollards – man taking smoke break from shopping / walk
Market – flowers
Fruits
Vegetables
Colourful bags + leather
Shops behind hidden by the mid street stalls
Leather + junk accessory shop
Everybody facing the wider sidewalk – retro shops – vinyl shop – hair salon
All coexist
I’m making people around me curious – they probably think I’m either a cop or a nosy journalist or nosy activist
Most likely, a suicide bomber – from the looks of the corner sex toy shop
People using walkers court as a link passage
2 people discussing the ongoing construction and their opinion on what is happening
Pitch No. 1229
Pitch No. 1228
Dirt is black in London – why?
Why not brown? Red? Green?
Snog is always lit. that space remains constant at all times of the day
Tisbury court
Strip clubs
Live girls
Straight into old Compton street
6 pound haircut
Such bliss – SOHO in the morning
Rupert street – man collecting change from telephone booths
Painters in the corner – white overalls and red tshirt – one of them with a very serious expression. What was he thinking?
2pm – police patrol – walkers court empty for the moment – after they left – life’s back to normal there
More and more tourists taking picture below the soho revue bar
St. annes churchyard garden – perfect spot for lunch break – serene, green and right in the middle of soho
food kiosks on Rupert street vanished
Bag man still present
Crowd changing attitude and colours
More relaxed environment
More joyful….
Party on….
Pigeons on pavement
Couple looking for vintage magazines (I later realized they were walking in the opposite direction)
Main with suitcase
Old man walking towards queens theatre
Sounds of metal cutting (I named the recording at drilling)
Yoshino is open so early
Samurai sushi + bento open
Avenue Q – lady smoking in front of the closed entrance doors
Sound of vehicular traffic
Apollo theatre doors / shaded passage – ideal spot for smoke / sandwich break
Territorial behavior
Lady in RED walked up and down Rupert street and vanished into winnet street
Cars parked
Man walking through – in no hurry
Shops seems closed from Rupert street end
Video library open
White horse pub – open
Bocca di lupo – coffee shop visible only if u walk through archer street
Archer street studios – ground floor has a hair salon – a very old man, very meticulously cutting a person’s hair – a tanning salon (receptionist looking bored in life) – and the third partition is the entrance to the upper floors
Studio’s existence is doubtful, as there are two ‘to-let’ signs
Apparently, area is subject to increased police activity tackling drugs and prostitution!!!!! How ironic???
Other streets look like there’s more probability of the above said activities
be@1 bar + windmill international + the lyric – two bars sandwiched in between a gentleman’s club
Street light maintenance
People walking towards Shaftesbury and towards Brewer Street – nobody is in a hurry – Monday morning blues??
Stage door open
Awfully quiet
The lyric bringing in plants from the outside
Freebird burrito shop set up.. 5quid for a burrito!!!
Prowler – visitors more during the day
2 indians looking around sex shops
Less crowded times
People walking leisurely
Two guys in suits looking around for strip clubs trying to be inconspicuous but unsuccessful I guess
View of ‘mamma mia’ from the end of Rupert
Food joints attracting crowd as lunch time approaches
Outside snog – corner with bollards – man taking smoke break from shopping / walk
Market – flowers
Fruits
Vegetables
Colourful bags + leather
Shops behind hidden by the mid street stalls
Leather + junk accessory shop
Everybody facing the wider sidewalk – retro shops – vinyl shop – hair salon
All coexist
I’m making people around me curious – they probably think I’m either a cop or a nosy journalist or nosy activist
Most likely, a suicide bomber – from the looks of the corner sex toy shop
People using walkers court as a link passage
2 people discussing the ongoing construction and their opinion on what is happening
Pitch No. 1229
Pitch No. 1228
Dirt is black in London – why?
Why not brown? Red? Green?
Snog is always lit. that space remains constant at all times of the day
Tisbury court
Strip clubs
Live girls
Straight into old Compton street
6 pound haircut
Such bliss – SOHO in the morning
Rupert street – man collecting change from telephone booths
Painters in the corner – white overalls and red tshirt – one of them with a very serious expression. What was he thinking?
2pm – police patrol – walkers court empty for the moment – after they left – life’s back to normal there
More and more tourists taking picture below the soho revue bar
St. annes churchyard garden – perfect spot for lunch break – serene, green and right in the middle of soho
food kiosks on Rupert street vanished
Bag man still present
Crowd changing attitude and colours
More relaxed environment
More joyful….
Party on….
Monday, November 9, 2009
moving images
patrick keiller
-London (1994)
-Robinson in Space (1997)
Darren Aronofsky
-π (pi) (1998)
Christopher Petit
- Unrequited Love (2006)
-London (1994)
-Robinson in Space (1997)
Darren Aronofsky
-π (pi) (1998)
Christopher Petit
- Unrequited Love (2006)
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Light - what it does NOT show
After some reading, the following questions arose -
Maybe what I need to explore about light is - What does it NOT show?
What is the little bit of light in the darkness concealing?
Is there anything that daylight conceals?
Does daylight hide anything from our field of vision?
What is it that we fail to notice at the Revue Bar?
Does the narrow streets have a story to tell? or do they have a story that you are not supposed to know?
the mystery behind the darkness - WHAT IS IT?
Maybe what I need to explore about light is - What does it NOT show?
What is the little bit of light in the darkness concealing?
Is there anything that daylight conceals?
Does daylight hide anything from our field of vision?
What is it that we fail to notice at the Revue Bar?
Does the narrow streets have a story to tell? or do they have a story that you are not supposed to know?
the mystery behind the darkness - WHAT IS IT?
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Light - forced visibility??
Once daylight vanishes, a large number of artificial lighting appears - street lights, room lights, directional signage, commercial signage, ambient lighting, focussed lighting, flood lighting etc etc.
All these forms of light in some way or the other lead you to a realm of forced visibility. During the day, when there is sunlight, you view what is vibile in your field of vision. You move around, you are free to view what your mind wants to view. Your vision is probably restricted to the extent of your ability to see.
Once night falls, darkness arises. The mysterious darkness. Light is the energy that makes all forms visible - living/non living/solid/liquid/dense gases. In the darkness, the artificial light - it restricts your visibility - more like CONTROL your visibility. You are forced to see only that reflects the light.
There is a sense of ambiguity in the darkness / semi darkness.
The acitivity patterns are around the lit portions.
Light creates stronger focus points around a region.
All these forms of light in some way or the other lead you to a realm of forced visibility. During the day, when there is sunlight, you view what is vibile in your field of vision. You move around, you are free to view what your mind wants to view. Your vision is probably restricted to the extent of your ability to see.
Once night falls, darkness arises. The mysterious darkness. Light is the energy that makes all forms visible - living/non living/solid/liquid/dense gases. In the darkness, the artificial light - it restricts your visibility - more like CONTROL your visibility. You are forced to see only that reflects the light.
There is a sense of ambiguity in the darkness / semi darkness.
The acitivity patterns are around the lit portions.
Light creates stronger focus points around a region.
What you see and what you don't see.. two views of the same locale with different lighting..
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