1st post

There are two things I am terrible at doing regularly: keeping blogs and keeping journals. How do I expect to pass art school again? It seems like every class has one or the other and you are expected to show the progression of all your ideas for artwork like a mathematician shows all his workings out for sums. I think its BS but hey, I'm pretty cynical by nature and there could be some merit in it, maybe.

So let's get on with it shall we. First project, show identity in a 10 second film recorded in the art school studio. Okay well first of all how do we approach identity? Is it what we look like, what stereotypes we fill, what we do, how other people see us or how we see ourselves. As far as I can see it is all those things however what I think is most important is not what we get up to but how we approach things.
So what am I like? Here is a list:

• Playful
• eccentric
• crazy
• cynical
• energetic
• enthusiastic

It already being the 4th week of school I've been through a few ideas for what to film. My first idea was to use my hair in the piece which is crazy and curly and I feel expresses parts of my character quite well. I wanted to use the curls as waves and show a shot of a small toy boat traveling along it but discovered that such a scene would be nigh on impossible to track.
So I went through my room looking for objects that expressed me.
I found:

• A giant bubble blower that is blue and looks like a light saber
• Some fairy bread that I made(and proceeded to eat)
• A silly jester hat that I bought at circu de solei
• a miniature orc that went with some sort of game
• a toy dinosaur.

The dinosaur made me remember the school project that I had always wanted to do but never got to; the paper mache volcano. Hmmm, not only is this project an excellent excuse to make one but it fits my nature pretty well, it's energetic, playful, eccentric. I spent hours combing youtube for suitable ways to create the volcano and the explosion, the funnest way appears to be hydrogen peroxide, potassium iodide and soap creating a reaction thats called "Elephants toothpaste". You can see one of the videos here. This is also extremely cool using diet coke and mentos and is very ammusing. I even played around in my back yard with potasium maganete and glycerin. However all of these ideas had to be discarded due to the fact that I can't really blow anything up or set anything on fire in the studio so i'll have to keep to the traditional bicarb and vinegar explosion.

anyway more up dates later. I'm tired