Mad-Decent festivity!

Festive jizz to all. Dan

EXHIBITION SUBMISSION.

Any type dilemmas,

SOLVED.

TYP

Some designers I've been looking into who create images with typography. The hand-drawn element could be good for this project.

Fiodor Sumkin

Wieden & Kennedy, Serge Seidlitz, Si Scott

Jailhouse

Russian prison imagery. Even the smallest detail can be interpreted as a biographical verse from the person's life..

"The skins they carried."

Quite overpowering examples of the contextual side of tattooing here. Three Texan soldiers take a trip to the American Illustrators shop...

The images they put on their skin are diaries they’ll take to the grave, marking the fear and bravado of war, the faith to make it through, and the losses they carry inside. “Tattoos are a way to solidify emotions,” Fry says. “So I try to just shut up and listen to what they have to say. It’s just part of it. I think people find it comforting to talk to a stranger who is doing something as intimate as piercing your skin.”

The Texas Observer (21/3/08)
Michael May

Skin Deep

Project's coming along okay. I've found out you can get your fish tattooed..



..or try it out on your pig..



..and that this guy exists.

No Bo

Had my first gig as a New Bohemia resident on friday night - wasn't the bravado specticle I thought it would be! Not too clever when KidKanevil had spent the best part of 3 hours beforehand as a make-shift sound techy for his album launch night, had to go home and get his own decks as the others were ruined, and that the regular for Hang the DJ, the room I was in, was a full on village idiot more fussed about floggin ket. Wicked

Onwards and upwards, there's a real good night coming up in afew weeks. Best Joined Up is hosting its first 'UpSkirt' event; a strictly female collection of illustrators, painters and doodlers - I'm looking forward to Faunagraphic and Luna in particular. More info here if you're interested

dawnin treadin

time lappppsin

Whaaaa you call it???

Factually nearly wet myself

Synf Shkin

Duno whether I'll be incorporating this within my collections brief or not, but it's well nuts! Skin Bag 'anticipates the fusion between the digital and the organic'. Might be the rahh fashion next year?

BPProtest

Rolled out of bed saturday morning and had a wander with lots of others down to HMV. The anti-fascists were out in full force against the British People's Party and their views on 'black Hip Hop' so to speak. Got some nice photographs..

ONline.

Check out the final AVisuals for my self written brief. More to come this year..


Who are The Warriors? from Daniel Maddison on Vimeo.

Back in the room

So after summer break I'm back in sunny Leeds for second year, having worked my tets off at Sainsbury's for 3 months solid to fund it! Mixed feelings right now; looking forward to catching up with everyone and goin out, but also knowing that this year will have a massive affect upon the direction I find myself heading in when I leave. Really want to try and push myself to do well, build on what I've enjoyed doing previously and learn skills that are gona be useful for times ahead. I want to work with briefs that will demand a professional approach and thought process, ultimately to try and gain as much 'live' experience as I can. The next two years, in sugar coated theory, will ultimately be the necessary preparation to open doors for a mint job in the big bad world. Sugar coated indeed!! We'll see how much I want that to become a reality over the next 21 months I guess. Here's a snapshot of my 'Collectors' research over the summer:

How Manga changed the world' - Urbis Centre. Really well presented, explored the art of Manga and its influence upon popular culture, including music, fashion, art, right through to the corporate sector.






Full Circle @ Upperspace. Sister project of Sketch City collective, this is the only designated Street Art gallery outside of Landan Taan, the same ethos revolving around inclusivity and promoting art as a positive form of expression.




The Conquest of Imperfection - Very interactive installations by Maskaki Fujihata detailing how new technologies redefine reality.

SVM 1000

A demonstration of the first ever audio/visual mixer made by Pioneer, the SVM 1000, which is made for the DVJ 1000's. Sander
Kleinenberg demonstrates what a revolutionary machine this will be. Best start nagging the college to buy one soon..

EEEfect.

Here are some screen shots from the more radically edited sections of the visuals. Sharon said to experiment - so I did. It's a shame the whole thing is too large to post up as still images obviously do not have the same effect.

Look&Listen

Leeds' best (only) dedicated audio/visual club night, rocking a sideline in leftfield projections. I first went to one of their nights at the Faversham a while back in the year, and it provided a more conceptual outlook of VJing and it's possibilities. Below is video of the more recent Outdoor AV Night that i popped along to briefly.



I also came across more mobile and site specific styles of visual arts, with the onus more on creating work for the space rather than space for the work. This is something that I'd definitely like to experiment with in the future.

Decisions decisions

So after waiting for weeks and weeks to use the DVJ 1000's, it turns out they wont be available for use until May, which is a fair amount of time in terms of project capacity. I think it will be better to instead concentrate on producing visuals for a track as opposed to planning a whole set, which would probably be a slap-dash attempt with the time available. Also Jay's clubnight has had no responses in terms of a venue, so the chances of being able to perform a live set are looking slim. Fingers crossed it gets going next year though - it's definitely not a prospect to give up on.

Burley Park

Screen shots from Burley Park train station when the last train was arriving. Tom wanted to start filming a character for a narrative throughout his video, so we dragged Nik along. From my point of view, it was again a chance to utilize movement of intense light that could be manipulated within the editing process.

Starters

So me and Tom went out late last night with a camera and tripod to start collecting some footage that could be used within our respective projects. Here are some screen shots..




I for one was very keen to try and have longer batches of film with intense lighting, so to have the effect in essence doubled through the water's reflection was a bonus.