Curzon Street

Have you all found your way to the show yet ? GREAT SHOW

Seven Deadly Sins

I have finally finished my hair project. Well at least one part of it. Please have a look at my blog and let me know what you think.

HOW?

Just uploaded the first video i created on the Certificate Stage of this MA, come on in and see!!!!!... HOW?
You are very invited!!.

THE ARTS PAVILION

A POST ABOUT THE BIENNALE OF VISUAL ARTS IN VENICE, HAS BEEN ADDED ON TO MY BLOG, PLEASE COME IN AND SEE!!!

Animation Storyboards - Your Feedback Needed :)

First of all, I apologise for using this forum for my own purposes but it seemed the most convenient way of reaching you :)

As some of you might already know, apart from my texture collaging in form of still images, I moved towards animation (seemed natural after some time spent on creating still imagery, although this whole pre-production stage is slowly driving me nuts ;)).

When the idea of developing an animation occured, I was asked to build a narrative around some of the images I had created and prepare storyboards. Now, for a person that can't draw, preparing 107 drawings is a torture, so you'll have turn a blind eye on their quality. I have uploaded them at http:// www.michalflorczak.net along with 10sec test animation and a form containing 5 questions. If I could steal few minutes of your time and ask you to have a look through the storyboards and leave some feedback (which is purely for my research purposes and is not published anywhere) I would be extremely grateful, and if asking or begging doesn't do the trick, I'll try to bribe you with a cup of coffee :))

I am trying to establish what is being communicated to the audience through that sequence of images (and I have to say it is more to do with emotions rather than a story in a traditional sense) and whether what you feel or get out of this equals my intentions. Once again, your help is much appreciated. I have to visit my tutor next Monday (16/07) with some feedback and I hope to gathered that through this makeshift website of mine and with your generous help.

tOkYo 2007 photo's

Managed to upload a selection of the many photo's from japan onto my own blog page...
http://chrisshawuce.blogspot.com........feel free to check them out......

intangible/tangible cultral heritage.....

Quick snap shop of the work produced for Japan and the UNESCO convention.....
Japan was so amazing....made so many new friends and found it hard to leave...Got lots of photographs and films to share with you guys, arrived home late yesterday and just need time upload....

Design Submissions Needed

Just a reminder that the design brief for the off site show at Curzon Street is now online.

Submission deadline is 5pm 15th July and you should send your designs by email to ma.show_viscomm2007@yahoo.com.

See the brief on the show blog http://mashow-uce-visualcommunication.blogspot.com/ (Posting: Official Design Brief - Competition now open!! 28th June 2007)

Looking forward to seeing some really creative submissions ...

time to rhyme .

hi all ,

for my ma project i am doing a series of paintings based on my poems .

Wrath

when sorrow stings the heart ,

like poison it flows, will not stop .

taking over the eyes and the brain,

now the devils workshop !

the last bit of soul tries to heal .

the battle rages, who will kneal ?

endless they fight on him .

overwhelmed energy sides with the poison,

to form the new force of anger .

wrath !

xxx

i am writing a few poems based on my experiences , influences and people important to me .
kindly give me your opinion of my work .

The new issue of Newwebpick

that's the quite nice web magzine about art and design, especially to graphic designer and illustrator, advice you to see what they are~~

http://pub.newwebpick.com/ezine/10/newwebpick_10_news_cn.zip

Support from the Sidelines

Yes my presence has been felt, a profile , a few comments here and there. I will be looking in from time to time just to catch up on news/events and gossip!

My role will be hands off, its your blog and so far its working well without academics giving you their ten pennyworth.

Two Shows!

Phil is officially your academic contact regarding the external show, I will be involved in the internal assessment procedures and degree show and will ensure that it is managed to the best of our abilities. You will be using the vacated space from the Undergrad shows and clearly these spaces will need a bit of a sprucing after their departure.

I echo Chiu's comments, take a good look around all the BIAD shows, textiles is great, Fine Art will inspire and if you get a chance go further afield...

So well done and please support the ring leaders.

Andrew

New Designer's Show

I just thought I'd let you know about the New Designers Show @ Business Design Centre, Islington, London N1

It's being advertised as 'the foremost event in graduate design' and seems to cover everything : animation, fashion, glass, architecture and much more. Its worth looking at the site, there's a show reel which makes it look pretty exciting.
www.newdesigners.com

I'm going on Sat 14th of July because there's a talk about Illustration, my ticket cost £9.50

Trying to find the link

I want to use my research into pareidolia and visions and link this into an illustrated book of my own poetry. I'm faffing around a bit to be honest and I could do with some input on how to link the two areas. Or maybe I'm over-complicating things ... I don't know. I've started to post some of my poetry which I normally keep well hidden.

I would appreciate some input on my blog if any of you have a minute to spare with everything that's going on at the moment ...

My blog can be found at http://annerleyjohnson.blogspot.com/

Cheers

AJ

Alive!

At last the old boy managed it (I need to lie down)

LICHFIELD ARTS FESTIVAL COMING UP!

Lichfield Arts Festival will start in 5th July for 10 days. Theatre, music, art, drama, dance ... indoor and outdoor events.

Lichfield itself has the most spectacular gothic cathedral covered in statues. Lots of history. Beautiful place (I'm there every day, my son goes to the Cathedral School).

Ten minutes from my house ... less than 40 minutes by train from New Street and trains run every 15 minutes.

Lots of nice coffee shops too ...

Anyone interested in going? More info on festival at: http://www.lichfieldfestival.org/site2007/

More info on Lichfield at:
http://www.visitlichfield.com/

Get in touch if you want to go for a day and we'll organise it.

Who knows Tade Modern?

Shall we go there someday?!
;0

Edinburgh Blog Now Live

Hi

We have set up a blog for the recent Edinburgh trip so students can post their photos and videos. If you have not received an invite to contribute to this blog, but you would like to, email me on annerley.johnson@googlemail.com

Visit:

http://edinburgh0607maviscom.blogspot.com/

See what you missed if you didn't make it!

Hey guys and Girls..
Looking for some images of what Intangible English culture means to you...
Could do with a really big favour...

Take a photo on your mobile phone and email or bluetooth it over to me at chrisshaw773@btinternet.com or picture message it on 07894545972....

These images will be used in the Japan convention for safegarding intangible cultral heritage

many thanks
Chris.......

show proposal now on line

You can see my show proposal online
at my homepage
and I would welcome any comments,
ideas etc........ cheers

Badges.......

Hey
Need you thoughts and ideas.....
For Japan designing a poster constructed out of 500 metal badges. Each badge is the size of a 2 pound coin...
I've bought the machine and would like some ideas for images . The images need to be linked to British Intangible Culture....silly things like ice screams ect.....
any ideas would be great..
Many thanks
Chris

New Images, any comments?

Check out my blog to see some recent additions. I am toying with interiors. A little new to me, don't know how I feel about them. Can they fit in with my series?

Specs for MA Show(s)

Check out the MA Show Blog to see the request for specs needed to organize the show. Just sent out as an email. If you are not on our email list, please contact me at: cfrediani_04@yahoo.com

Inspired By Chris's Methods

Inspired by Chris's 'smashing things with hammers' methods, James decides to crush the ice manually for the cocktails ...

Technical Support

Hi Gang,
I'm Tony Davis (for anyone who doesn't know who I am, picture in profile).
I am just (re)announcing myself as a resource for you (as a group) to use for any technical / computer issues.
Sadly there's not really a practical design bone in my body but I am extremely useful on the computer side of things so chuck any hardware / software problems / queries in my direction.
May not have the answer (that's the way with experimenting) but may have ideas on directions to go in.

Hardware: PC's, Macs, networking, upgrades and repairs
Programming: PHP, C, JavaScript, HTML
Image Editing, 3D, Video Editing.
(I avoid Flash like the plague)

Not the fastest responder so come find me in my room first 133 (goldfish bowl).

Tony D

Edinburgh Plans

A group of us have decided to meet at New Street Station at 10am on Monday 11th June in order to gather and get a train to the airport on time. Trains go very frequently. Show up at that time, in the main lobby in front of the gates, if you wish to go with the group. Also, don't forget to book your ghost tour! A few of us have had thoughts that it might be a one-on-one with Phil!!

EDINBURGH GHOST WALK

Just booked ticket for this - there's a few tours on there but its the Ghosts & Ghouls tour at 8pm on 11th consession £7. They also do a Writers Tour during the day which I'm interested in going on - have a look and if anyone interested in going with me let me know ... www.mercattours.com

pointless post - but interesting

taken from http://www.birminghamuk.com/curzon.htm:

The Commerative Plaque on the wall (see photo) reads:'CURZON STREET STATION This plaque commemorates the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the first London to Birmingham train at this station on Monday 17th September 1838'


17 september?????!!!!!coincidence!!!!
mara

heeeey "RAZA" (mates in spanish)
i updated some B&W photographs, i need your comments... and in a few days time, you will be able to see my videos in my blog as well... i just need to really understad how that thingy works... but it wont take long.
I will be updating more of my photos, so don't miss up my blog, this week!!!

have fun.
adios
Karen.
"I LITTLE BIT TOO MUCH IS ENOUGH FOR ME".

MA SHOW design brief

The design brief for the our MA SHOW 2007 is out now for everyone to have a go. The brief is posted on the MA Show 2007 UCE blog. come on in and have a read! who knows it might spark you a few ideas. There are also PRIZES TO BE WON!!!

SO COME ON! Get your CREATIVE JUICE FLOWING!

Festival Xtreme building

Hi all,

As some of you may already know, Claire Farrell, part-time student with us , is organising the Xtreme building festival in Birmingham and the launch night is planned for Friday 8th June.

She will be needing help from all of us in order to make this event as big and as fun as possible...I will be helping at the private launch night on the 8th June and want to make sure that other people from the MA class will be involved.
It's important for us as viscom students to be an active part of the Birmingham art scene as well as to show our support to one of our classmate's project.

We will require your presence from 4.30pm until about 8/9pm on Friday 8th June.

A rehearsal will also take place on Sunday 3rd June at 4.30pm.

I hope some of you will be free to come around and help, don't forget it'll be fun and the private launch night will be followed by a wicked afterparty.

Get in touch with Claire for more informations or have a look at the website:

claire@festival-xtremebuilding.org.uk

www.festival-xtremebuilding.org.uk

Mob: 07804 507172

Cheers for your attention

Guillaume

Intangible Cultural Heritage.?????

Intangible Cultural Heritage.?????


A non phyiscal characteristic...

* oral traditions and expressions, including language as a vehicle of the intangible cultural heritage;
* music, dance, drama and other performing arts
* social practices, rituals and festive events;
* knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe;
* foods and clothing
* and traditional craftsmanship

The intangible cultural heritage is transmitted from generation to generation, and is constantly recreated by communities and groups, in response to their environment, their interaction with nature, and their historical conditions of existence. It provides people with a sense of identity and continuity. Its safeguarding promotes, sustains, and develops cultural diversity and human creativity.

Story Telling....Appearance.... Mannerisms......Any other good ideas ????

MA SHOW BLOG

Hello everyone
The blog for the MA Show is now active. Please check it out. There are a few items that we would like to have your input on. Please do that as soon as you have time. Thanks!

hello MA freaks!

Good day everyone.

SUMMERTIME AT UNI

Hey people,

i think is good that we started to talk about the final show etc...but we need to remember summer and what we still need to do. As I know from the last year the uni is in july and august at some point in the holiday state of mind. So we should take care of all resources we can get which means printers, computers, labs, darkrooms etc.

WHAT DO WE NEED?
colour laser printer
ink jet printers
darkroom for B&W
scanners
macs and pcs
equipment to hire
what time is the uni open...

I think there should not be any problems at all but we have to take care of all these issues.....
Is there anything new from the meeting on Thursday about the show. Please keep us informed and i think this blog is a great platform for it.

Have a good weekend
Krystof

Will you be my date for the prom?

Hi, just wondering if anyone (you locals) know of any "high school" proms/end of year school dances going on in/around birmingham in the next month or so? I don't really want to call up schools asking for the dates and locations because I think I might come off as a little bit of a perv. You know? I have found one at the botanical gardens at the end of june. Anyone know of others? Please pass on dates and locations to me if you do! Thanks

Hey all

Just made my blog and i dropped by to say hi

HELLO I need help

Hello all

I recently finished my MA, directing a film/animation. Ive been taking my work around to a lot of studios in london and got some people very interested. Im currently pitching for a music video and short film both of which will be low budget. But at the same time I potentially have another short film and commercial big budget advert to direct in the coming months.

I need a producer to help me out. Basically youl need to be organised, well spoken ( good english only ), enthusiastic, hard working and have an understanding of animation and film. Also to be able to get on with me of course, quite an easy task.

Some work will be paid some wont, but all will be interesting fot your portfolio.

My work can be seen here www.myspace.com/retrovideo

If any one is interested get in touch
Steven

Good Idea

Hi to everyone !
This blog site seems a very good idea for sharing our work and
helping each other.
I'm still getting to grips with the mechanics of using all the features available.
Looking forward to your comments on the steveb (spacechange) blog.

CINEMA

sO i wENT tO tHE cINEMA
i hAVE wATCHED gOYA's gHOSTS,
rEALLY gOOD mOVIE...

hOWEVER mOSTLY dOING pHOTOGRAPHY,
aND lIKE tO dRAW 2.......

tHIS iMAGE rEFLECTS cINEMA hALL
aND mOST oF tHE mOVIES tHERE,

tHE aTMOSPHERE, tHE iNDUSTRY,

mainstream........................

im just in!

Sorry, I'm late...and also...story not yet start, in progress...

Hello audience's visual

I'm just wondering if you can be the first of audience who get into the concert hall, at which position will you be happy to stand and watch the concert?

I took this photo yesterday at Carling Academy Birmingham and I prefered standing a bit away from stage to the place at first row. At first, I didn't like the guy who often blocked my view from stage.After that, I realized that tousands of people's heads moving in front of me(also waving their arms,hands)made me feel more enjoyable(although I knew only one MIKA 's song)

Only half frame is the visual proportion in my eyes that I can see the band, another half frame was audience. But I didn't feel that audience's half was my obstacle any more.I still felt good.

In previous concerts,I used to pay more for the very first seating row.Now I pay less....but I got more.

WHO ARE WE?

Can you all comment on this posting with a brief introduction to yourself, your field of practice and the URL for your blog.

This would create a one page directory of who we all are, which would come in useful when looking for advice from other students.

Keep it to five lines max.

Puzzling Crossword Puzzlers

It all started with Poems, Sausages and a trip down to the pub. This is what 8 of us have come up with for Phills Assignment.

SHO-SHAY-GESH..

Hair is the reflection of the personality

I have been researching on hair and how it communicates as a visual element. At the moment i am trying to find ways to put this out there so that the public can participate in this exercise; or at least learn from it. I have tried wigs, salon hair dressing and even produced beauty product packaging. I am now toying the idea of hair as a mask.

Hair is a reflection of the personality. So what if I hide the primary features of an individual with a mask. What if the mask is the hair. Will the hair still reflects on the personality or does it need the face features to work as a package?

Yet this does not contribute to the society. How can i bring this to the next level?

I borrowed a hammer......

I borrowed a hammer from the neighbour and squared up to the screen of this giant glass beast. The best approach to destroying this glass funnel object was to stand backwards facing away, not meaning that I was in effect turning my back on the enemy but to protect myself from any harm. This would prevent any glass from damaging my eyes and hopefully protect me from any dangerous flying fragments. In the corner of my eye I could see the point at which I wanted the hammer to connect, I took one step forward and swung my arm up and forwards, when my arm had swung half way up a then stepped back and began to swing backwards… BANG… A strange silence then followed. To my amazement when a turned around to inspect the damage a was stunned to find that the hammer had not even chipped the surface of the screen. The glass like substance appeared to be indestructible. I prepared myself for a second assault on the glass monster. Another backwards but even harder swing…BANG…silence again and when I turned to inspect the damage I could see that the beast was hurt. A very tiny but insinicatant splinter, the kind a thing you seen on a car windows screen when a small stone has been flung up from the road. If it could be damaged then it can be destroyed I thought to myself.

Again I squared up to stand against the beast, Hammer in hand and confidence in my head and heart a swung at the monster with all my might…BA…BANGGGGG.The screen exploded into a million tiny particles, showering me from head to foot.
The room was filled with a dirty black cloud of smoke and room had become black hole full of glass splinters reflecting light through this toxic and foul stinking mixture of dust, glass and gas. For a brief second I was captivated by the silence and light rays shinning and flicking from the suns rays amongst this toxic cloud of smoke, from destruction a strange beauty had been created, filling the room. After about ten seconds I thought it best to escape this room in case the strange gas substance leaking out of this now smashed glass funnel was dangerous to my health.

As I opened the window and dashed through the door I turned to see what damage had been done, the room was a complete mess.As I began to try and bring order back to this room I couldn’t help but notice how each individual glass splinter had it’s own totally unique and individual beauty, The lines and shape, the colour and feel, the way in which light reflected of the surface. It would be impossible to produce or design just one mark on this totally unique form. As the light shown into this dark and dusty room the effect of the reflecting sun rays filled the room with a sparkling and breath taking light, It was like floating in space, seeing the sunrise and having a million stars shine around you at once. I could help but feel that for a split second I was in fact transported to another time and place.

What's next?.....How can I link my trip to Japan in with my MA work???any ideas.....

Help me find america

I am going to continue working on my "Finding America" photo project for the MA. Basically that entails me finding things in the U.K environment (interior or exterior spaces) that remind me of things I would find in the states. Up until now this project has been based on my own personal reflections - meaning that the photographs were based on my own history, personal experience, or based on (or relating to) images I have seen from other photo projects, tv, movies, etc. But I want to make the project a little more obvious and want to target a more specific "americanism" visibile in the U.K (think stereotypical american culture).

This is where I could use some help. I am probably a little blind to some of the greatest examples of americanism, but perhaps they are very vivid to you. With so many nationalities on this course everyone is going to have a different idea about what america looks like because of what the media in our home countries projects about america will be filtered, skewed, limited, etc. So please contribute if there is a theme, a custom, a tradition, an act, a place, a thing, a style ... whatever ... that makes you think of america or that you blame (or praise) america for saturating the world with.

Some ideas:
the prom
big supermarkets/grocery stores
24 hour EVERYTHING
drive-in cinema
jumbo-sized products
road-trip
american diners - think pie, coffee, waitresses, big booths to sit at
wild west
circus
open, vast spaces

No idea is silly. Please give me anything you've got!!

1 way ticket

Just traveling arroung, i'm a passenger.

Is it a vision?

What do you see in my photographs?

I'm looking at the phenomena of seeing shapes in natural things. I've posted some photographs I took in Sutton Park last week up on my blog in which I see other shapes.

What do you see in them?

This will form part of my research so your comments are much needed

Thanks

Welcome to UCE MA Visual Communications

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