The Three Greatest Things in The World

Woohoo! This seems to be working! This is the second animation of the year, in which we had to demonstrate what we believe to be the three greatest things in the world. I picked family, passing down stories and curiosity. I was going to pick science but one of our tutors used that as an example in the brief, so I thought curiosity was a creative way of getting around this. Family mean everything to me, seeing as I sprang from a (mostly) Irish Catholic family, so there are about a billion of us. And old stories are just awesome, I love that you can pick up something written 400 years ago and laugh at the same fart joke that people would have giggled at then. That people chuckle and cry and cringe at the same things makes me indescribably happy.

Let Me Die A Youngman's Death

Right, I've been keeping my vimeo pretty up to date, but I thought I'd try again to upload my animations here, so this is the first of them, an animation I made over the summer for a Roger McGough poem. Enjoy :)

An Animation Double Feature

Annoyingly, blogspot has decided that it wont let me put my videos straight into this post, so I'm going to have to point you lovely people in the direction of my newly created vimeo for this one. The animations are from my summer project, in which a made a B movie style interpretation of the poem "Let Me Die A Youngman's Death" by Roger McGough, and my latest project, which is about what I think the three greatest things on earth are.

Sorry for the hassle of this one, but I'd really love for you guys to check it all out

http://vimeo.com/user8845176

It's behind you!

Or under your bed, to be precise. This project was called "The Art of the Accident", which I was initially not impressed with, because it demanded that you were spontaneous, which by it's nature is quite difficult. But then I saw one of the topics we could work with was "When Animals Attack". It was love at first site. The creature at the top is a soft toy visualisation of the result of a game of consequences I made my family play, in order to create a monster that I would have no control over. Turns out the little fella has a mind of it's own, I left the camera on over night and he went all Toy Story on me.

Not content with making a little monster, I decided to make myself into one, after a mask making workshop with the very awesome Riitta Ikonen. I felt that the next natural step from a mask, was to make a giant tentacle and get under my lovely friend Ed's bed and pretend to be a monster. It was pretty awesome, not gonna lie. The video came out a bit sketchy, so I'll try and sort that out and post it up, so for now, you'll have to be content with these in no way terrifying photos :D

Ding Ding Round 2

These are images produced in a one day collage workshop with the one and only Paul Burgess, http://www.mrpaulburgess.com/
We had three topics - something that makes you angry, your hero and a self-portrait.
The top image is something that makes me angry - when people assume I can't play games cos I'm a lady. The second is a hero of mine, my little brother (he views me as a brother, hence the girl with the tash), and the bottom is a self portrait. I think the whole gender ambiguity thing in that is fairly self explanatory :D

Right, let's do some catching up.

Okay, I haven't posted in far too long, so here is the beginning of a massive catch up of some work, seeing as this is the point of this shebang. These are from our "let there be light" abstract photography project we did a while back. Which we were all initially a bit iffy about, seeing as we're a Graphic Design and Illustration class, but actually these turned out to be pretty badass, so all's well that ends well.

Fun With Puns

Here's some maths jokes for all you art people looking at this, enjoy!

Finishing the Series

These are the other two images that belong with The Naming of Cats. They are binary representations of Education for Leisure by Carol Ann Duffy and Tulips by Sylvia Plath respectively.

Well, I'm jumping on the bandwagon a bit late but..

....Here goes anyway. You guys are now going to get a torrent of stuff because I've finally decided that this is a good idea. This badboy says "The Naming of Cats by T.S. Eliot" in ASCII, if you replace the orange cats for 1s and the grey ones for 0s. Get your thinking caps round that.