Please join us for the reception for the 2012 LBCC Art Student Exhibit on Tuesday, May 1, 7-8:30 pm.
There will be some great fake movie posters there along with other terrific student work. Definitely go to the opening!
LBCC Student Show
The Internet Studio class web projects are up!
The Internet Studio projects are live on the web here: http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~jlrobiso/
I am so pleased with the terrific work done by Spring 2012 group. Check it out!
Photofest is next week!
A message from Ann Mitchell about Photofest. You should check it out!
Please join us next week for our 5th annual PhotoFest@LBCC on Wednesday, April 25th and Thursday, April 26th. The festival, which features two days of free photography-related workshops, seminars and celebrations provides an opportunity for photographers to socialize and share their enthusiasm for photography. Our Thursday evening Keynote speaker this year will be renowned photographer, Harry Benson, who’s photographed everyone from the Beatles to Brad Pitt.
The main emphasis of the festival are the workshops, demonstrations and exhibitions which are free, open to all, and are suitable for all levels of expertise. To register for the events, please visit our website: http://www.lbcc.edu/photofest/
If you are a LBCC student, make sure to enter our multiple photography contests and attend the closing exhibition Saturday, April 28th which will showcase the work and reveal the contest winners. Information on the contests can be found at: http://www.lbcc.edu/PhotoFest/Contest.cfm
• Festival Workshops and Lectures will be held at Long Beach City College, 4901 E. Carson Street, LB - please see each event registration page for specific rooms.
• Portfolio Walk, prior to Harry Benson’s talk we will be hosting a portfolio walk. Bring your own work to share, or just come to give feedback.
• Closing Photography Exhibition will be held at 635 Pine Avenue, Long Beach, in conjunction with the Historic Old Pine Avenue Business District Association.
Noëllie Roussel, “Mike Kelley Lecture” April 5, 7-8 pm
You should go to the lecture by Noëlle Roussel this Thursday at LBCC in conjunction with the exhibit Candor: In honor of Mike Kelley. It is in Room F110. Write about the lecture on your tumblr for extra credit.
Movie posters with Indesign
Promote a movie about yourself, someone you know or a particular moment from your life with a dynamic and eye catching 11 x 17 inch movie poster. Use Indesign to layout your original artwork, titles, logos and credits.
Here are a few useful links to follow up on my lecture today: a video tutorial on laying out a poster and using text effects in ID from Layers Magazine and a forum from Dafont.com discussing movie credits. Be resourceful and creative with finding and/or inventing typefaces and artwork for your film.
A few classic movie poster examples:
This last example shows work by design students at USC.
INDESIGN!
art show announcement example
In class exercise. Make a post card for your own amazing art show. Follow these instructions from eHow.
Create interesting text effects with InDesign. Layers Magazine tutorial.
General help with InDesign from Adobe.
Candor: In Honor of Mike Kelley exhibition at LBCC Art Gallery CRITIQUE
On Monday March 19th, 11-12:30 a critique of the current show in the LBCC Art Gallery will be led by artists (and Cal Arts faculty) Jessica Bronson and Shirley Tse. What an amazing opportunity to listen to these former students of Kelley discuss the show in depth. It’s also a great chance to experience a Cal Arts style critique. Since the artists in the show are former students of Kelley’s, this is a lovely and fitting way to commemorate his contributions as a teacher as well as a pivotal member of the art world.
Did I mention the extra credit you can earn for attending the critique and posting a response on your class tumblr? It’s a win-win situation.
Jessica Bronson
Shirley Tse
Mike Kelley
Mike Kelley on Art 21
Watch Memory on PBS. See more from ART:21.
PLUS this excellent show is coming to our art department. The opening is tomorrow!
Please check out the Long Beach City College exhibit, Candor: In honor of Mike Kelley. The opening reception is on Wednesday, March 7, 7-8:30 pm in the LBCC Art Gallery.
http://www.facebook.com/LBCCArtGallery <- Like this!
Comics, comics, comics…
Art 41 Collaborative comics
By now, everyone in the class has swapped Illustrator-made characters and is creating a unique comic book layout. Each project tells a different story using common characters. Your decisions regarding panels, text (or no text), colors, scale, reading directions (top > bottom, left > right, right > left, center > out) will set your particular story apart from others. Use the work made by your classmates along with your own vector characters. Really consider how a story can be told using graphic clues like unusually shaped story panels, moving elements off of the page and zooming in/out.
Here is an example of a web piece made by Adrian Miles in which the artist rethought the video frame, Bergen Clouds.
The artist explains the motives behind the cloud shaped quicktime player,
twilight lingers in bergen. + speeds it up - loads degraded skies.
this is a project that wanted to begin an investigation into the aesthetics and possibilities of skinned movies. but skinned movies that didn’t replace the standard qt interface with something groovy but removed it all together. it comes out of the canberra trilogy series where i started to think about the frame of the video not just as a container for video but as itself an authored space.
A couple more examples of interesting and useful, styles of framing (in comics this time):
From Scott McCloud’s amazing book, Understanding Comics, above.
More examples of comics techniques below.
The last two examples are images of a graphic novel by Laylah Ali. We watched the Art 21 video about Ali in class last week: http://www.pbs.org/art21/watch-now/segment-laylah-ali-in-power
Continue working on your characters
I can’t make it to class today due to illness. Continue working on your characters in Illustrator. We would have swapped characters today and begun building our comics. We will trade characters on Tuesday. However, you can begin to work on your 11 x 17 inch comic page. Use illustrator to make frames on your 11 x 17 document for your story to unfold within. Remember there are a few examples on my teaching website here:
http://jeanrobison.com/teaching/index.php?/computergraphic/illustrator/
We’ll talk more about the project on Tuesday. Project 2 is due on March 15. You can email me if you have questions.
Be well!
