Blog Entry #6: Logo Parodies that speak the truth

This image shows the repetition of green, light green and yellow forming a curved triangle shape. This shape is assembled to create a flower-like image. This image is presented on a black turtle dripping with a strong contrast with the background and the flower logo.

The main symbol is the green and yellow BP logo (the floral shape). In addition is a turtle behind this logo. This turtle looks as if it is covered in oil, and the oil is dripping off the turtle representing the oil that was released into the sea. The B and P are given acronyms, which represent what people think about BP.

Their corporation brought exploitation to the world because of the oil spill and now they recognized as evil people. Greenpeace UK is frustrating to make responsiveness that BP is a business that is unsafe and has bad meanings. The logo's goals and alertness it is trying to show is obvious.

Blog Entry #5: Digital Actors

I think that this is both acting an animation. I think it is acting because without the actors, there will be no facial features to combine or use. Motion tracking plays a major role in animation because sensors follow the actor’s movements and corresponding to what the sensors picks up, the animation is made.

There should be awards given to the actors of this film although most of it is animation because the animation is based on the facial gestures and movements that not anybody can perform for film. It is technically like a normal film with normal characters but the only thing different is that there are a lot of tweaks (like size, color, etc.).

I do unfortunately think that actors will one day become obsolete. After the constant use of actors just for basic movements, a template could be made where these movements are easier to make digitally and all the facial gestures would be able to do with a few codes.

Blog Entry #4: From Spray Can to light: Graffiti Revisited.

This composition shows basic curved and straight lines without much detail. There is a mix of horizontal and vertical lines, which suggest calmness, which looks correspondent with the ‘light-man’, very laid back.

The amount of space the light man takes from the whole picture is maybe one third and is centered showing. This composition has smooth edges and may appear to ones eye as a serious picture because of the brownish background in contrast with the not so think light bright blue/white mix. I like this composition because it gives a realistic an intense feeling like “The Godfather” or “The Sopranos”.

This composition shows a new style of spray-paint graffiti. It gives you an illusion that there is a real human maid standing on the sidewalk cleaning. I see major contrast incorporated to show the main attention, the maid and the back ‘bricked wall’. The very dark bricked wall is in contrast also to bring to your awareness that there may be something mysterious behind the curtain. This composition is mostly in a horizontal direction. The cracks and bricks indicate a rather rough texture.

Both light graffiti and traditional graffiti has it's similarities and differences. Some similarities would be that they both emit a calm atmosphere to the viewer, both are unique compared to other graffiti’s in the same category, and both have a strong contrast. Some differences would be the fact that they are made in completely different way: one is created through light exposure, the other is created wit spray paint. The light graffiti erasable, the other is not easily erasable. These are only some of many comparable features of the two different styles of photos.