Crystal Rainbow Land!

I'm really into cheesy over-the-top imagery associated with the religious experience. In particular, the New Age movement, which is also tied in with the Seven Rays and of course, Psychedelia. Far Out Crystal and Charkra Land!!!

Nouveau Occult

I am fascinated by the aesthetic iconography and philosophical themes surrounding a number of Western-invented occult religions that became popularized around the late 1800s/ early 1900s when Art Nouveau was popular. Examples are the Free Masons, Theosophical Society, and Scientology. In particular, we could focus on Theosophy, which was founded around 1875.




Their concept of the Seven Rays is pretty trippy and could be a unifying theme (7 different rays/bands, themes of repeating colors or types of mood). Its themes were also appropriated by the New Age Movement.

Scary Catness

No way!

Visual Music

I responded to the Quayola "visual music" piece that Mike showed us in class tonight. I think this project could be a chance to work with a composer, using experiments and art nouveau design elements to explore rhythm, timing, and editing. Could be a fun way to hone our skills and develop a nice, stylized piece, without being too tied down to narrative concept.

I think this is a nice example of free play, the latest from Andy Huang:



Simple and doable!

more cats

Possessed Cat

This cat actually reminds me of Qing's:



Cat Designs by Hyun for an interactive video game. Click on the picture to see a video clip:

Color Fields

Krazy Kats

Aubrey Beardsley

I'll tell you what I love about each of these...

the negative space, carving

just about everything
very flat and dimensional, textured, depth, line work, composition, font, theme***

pattern describes space and has more character than the hidden, strangely small human, like deciphering a puzzle

Love the simple wood-block look and font, contrast, would be cool with stain glass light shining through it, maybe a 3D layer with colored lights pouring through from
behind
***reminds me of this (sorry I can't find a full version on-line)

Josh Raskin

Tommy's Hallucination

KCAL 9 Video


We've been talking about black cats. What if the cat was Tommy, based upon my true life experience of getting him on the news last year??? Maybe Tommy is on the top of the pole and dreams of flying or hallucinates? He'd love to have his (2nd) big day in front of the camera on our green screen day. He can fly!

pyschedelic anime - Chiho Aoshima

Chiho Aoshima!
Installation artist, painter, animator



I'd post animation but I don't see anything of good quality on-line. She had a great piece at the Ecstacy Show at MOCA a couple of years ago.

Zune - Dogfight

I really like the 3D/2D, graphic/organic, textural, spacial quality of the explosions and backgrounds here. And the overall color scheme. The main character animation, less so.

and a couple of awesome screenshots

ffffound.com

While all these images are fairly new, they reminded me of the old nouveau posters. They are very strong graphically, and each uses design elements to create the figure.









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