Nudotron Video

Quick video of the Nudotron just to see what it was like to see it walking at you!

Drawing with the Nudotron.

This was actually quite strange, as much as I enjoy sitting down and drawing for a while now it was great just trying to open up a bit. Try new things and see what came of them. It actually went strangely successful. Nud could not see where he was, what he was doing or anything but through some decent instructons and some masterful charcoal-on-stick use by Nud we actually managed to get a pretty good outline of Tyler down on our rather large Canvas.

3D Typography.

Finian McManus

Some work by Finian Macmanus. He tends to not incorporate type into his work but I do really enjoy the way it's done when he does. It's a lot smaller then most other type, occupies a lot less space but generally has a lot more meaning because everything else there is there to represent it. I like the idea of doing something along these lines, working Type into A Rakes progress in a way that the type helps to represent/depict each one while they help to bring meaning to the text.

 Free a caged mind.

Conciousness.

Just realised I have no photos up of A Rakes Progress. Words/phrases to take from them?

A link to the Soane museum's page on A Rakes Progress.
http://www.soane.org/collections_legacy/the_soane_hogarths/rakes_progress/

1. The Heir.

Shows him just after he has acquired his wealth.  Innocent?

2. The Levee.

Really shows how he is blowing his money. Ignorance? Waste?

3. The Orgy.

Shows him having fun? But completely oblivious to everythimng around him. Blind? Oblivious?

4. The Arrest.

Shows him seeing the consequence of his actions. Oil poured on his head, not noticing his cane being stolen and being saved by a woman he constantly betrays.

5. The Marriage.

Shows Tom marrying essentially a hag, just to get more money. In the back the girl who loves him and wants him, who also saved him can't even get in to watch. Greed?

6. The Gaming house.

Shows him after he has blown all of his money. He used an old hag for money and then wasted it all by gambling, pretty much Karma. Repentance? Getting what he deserved?

7. The Prison.

Shows him right after he has landed himself and those around him in prison. I would say something like.. Reflection? But I don't think he is.

8. The Madhouse.

The final piece. He is in bedlam and he has pretty much run his course now. Surrounded by crazy, insane people and completelty out of any resource he had. I guess it's Insanity?

Good History of Typefaces/Typography PDF file.

http://papress.com/thinkingwithtype/teachers/type_lecture/Type_Lecture.pdf

Cannot properly access this at college to take some paragraphs from it that I really liked. But will do this at home.

Just something I really liked from London. From the Science Museum.

Not even too sure why. I just really liked looking at it, not so much going through it as I'm afraid of heights but still. Overall it was surprising because it was probably one of the favourite things I saw in London and it wasn't even in an Art Gallery.