Tuesday 25 March 2008

Perspective

I have been working on my perspective drawings for vis.language recently and had a gander at Dick Termes work, he paints complicated scenes on spheres using 6 point perspective...

Dick Termes: from his website:

"Imagine that you are standing inside a transparent ball suspended fifty feet above the Grand Canyon floor. You are higher than some canyon walls and lower than others. You have paints and a brush, and you begin to paint what you see on the inside surface of the ball. You paint the north face, then the east, south, and west. Finally, you paint everything visible above and below you. You move your globe to safe ground and step out to observe your paintings. Walking around the sphere, you see that you have captured the entire three dimensional landscape. In fact, you've discovered the structure of your visual experience."





view Termes website

Thursday 20 March 2008

Alex Glenn

Relating to my work using x rays i found it interesting to look at these pieces:



Tennis ball by Linda Newbown - what is a book?

I came across this unusual format for a book, i think it is very inventive and i think its interesting how a book can look like a book on the inside, with pages etc. but the way you bind it can disguise it.

Nebown talks about the book and what a book is in this statememt: (i think it raises some interesting questions for me to think about while i design my books)

The Tennis ball book was made in response to the dichotomy of book as object and book as information. A book is a difficult thing to define because half of it is object and half is an abstract concept. Is a book the sum of certain requisite characteristics? If a book has no pages is it still a book? If it cannot be opened is it still a book? These are the things I like to ask as I make my books. My artists’ books are a way of questioning bookishness.

(Artist statement sourced from State Library of Queensland, Artists’ books online, 2005)



Monday 10 March 2008

Sarah Mitchell



Did some book binding the other day and after Sarah showed some of her other book bindings. Her work is also showing in Leeds Art Gallery which i saw on friday.

Friday 7 March 2008

100 things people swallow

Changed the content of my book to something i could get my teeth into.
Research on formats so far have been mostly relating to circles. The research i have been looking at for 100 things people have swallowed include x rays and the eating disorder Pica

Hans Peter Kuhn

SAS - BT - Charting the virtual world

what is a book? Office Orchestra - Andrea Chappell and Cherry Goddard




Oliver Munday

Looking for images relating to 100 things people swallow i came across - Oliver Munday - Fire in the Hole created from plastic soldiers...

what is a book?



What is a book?

I looked at these formats when i was using circles fro the content of my book, since then i have changed the content for my book but i still thing these are nice examples of experimenting with format of a book









what is book?

Here is a book i have been looking at that contains lots of different book formats:

Sunday 2 March 2008

donna seager gallery


Vince Koloski

Crop Circle Book , 1996, Neon, Carved acrylic sheet, straw, wood, and fence materials

Edition of 3

The individual crop circles in the Crop Circle Book are labelled as to name, if any, location and date. It would be wonderful if the crop circles were still unexplained and possibly extra terrestrial, but that has been well debunked. The fact that they are made by humans does not in any way diminish the accomplishment or the beauty of the circles themselves.

This book was completed with the financial assistance of the Ruth Chenven Foundation






Vince Koloski

A Maze Book , 2000, Neon, Carved acrylic sheet, Wood, Circuit board, and toy mazes

Edition of 4

The labyrinth cut through the front cover may very well be the primal labyrinth. It is found throughout the world, from 5000 years ago to the present. The inside front cover is a pavement labyrinth from St. Quentin Cathedral in France. The first page is a turf maze from Pimperne in England that was destroyed in 1730. The second page is a turf maze in Saffron Walden in England which still survives. Inside the back cover is the pavement labyrinth from Chartres Cathedral in France. And finally, the back cover is a printed circuit board, surely the modern labyrinth.



Vince Koloski

Haiku Journeys, 2004, LED, Laser-etched acrylic shee, wood and raffia

Edition of 8

The covers of this unusual book are made with Raffia over wood. When open, the eight pages fan out into a half-circle, the cover latching together to hold the shape. The haiku are all from the classic era of Japanese haiku and all eight deal with travel or journeying in one form or another.

Minsky






These are a few of Minsky's book bindings, relating binding to content is really strong in the designs.

what is a book?




By georgia russell

What is a book?



Nanotechnology lab produces world's smallest book
(Nanowerk News) Using nanotechnology to make a book you can't read - this definitely qualifies as an entry in our "slow news Friday" section.
The world’s first, nanoscale book was published as a work of fine art, April 9, 2007 by Robert Chaplin at the Nano Imaging Facility of Simon Fraser University. This book, complete with an International Standard Book Number (ISBN-978-1-894897-17-4), is entitled ‘Teeny Ted From Turnip Town’. It was written by Malcolm Douglas Chaplin and is a fable concerning the success of Teeny Ted from Turnip town and his victory in the Turnip contest at the annual county fair. It is at present the world’s smallest published book.The only catch — you’ll need a scanning electron microscope to read it.
At 0.07 mm X 0.10 mm, Teeny Ted from Turnip Town is a tinier read than the two smallest books currently cited by the Guinness Book of World Records: the New Testament of the King James Bible (5 X 5 mm, produced by MIT in 2001) and Chekhov’s Chameleon (0.9 X 0.9 mm, Palkovic, 2002).
The production of the nanoscale book was carried out at SFU by publisher Robert Chaplin, with the help of SFU scientists Li Yang and Karen Kavanagh. The work involved using a focused-gallium-ion beam and one of a number of electron microscopes available in SFU’s nano imaging facility.
With a minimum diameter of seven nanometers (a nanometer is about 10 atoms in size) the beam was programmed to carve the space surrounding each letter of the book.
The book was typeset in block letters with a resolution of 40 nanometers, and is made up of 30 microtablets, each carved on a polished piece of single crystalline silicon. The entire collection of microtablets is contained within an area of 69 x 97 microns square with an average size of tablet being 11 x 15 microns square.
The book is made up of 30 microtablets, each carved on a polished piece of single crystalline silicon.
The story, written by Chaplin’s brother Malcolm Douglas Chaplin, is a fable about Teeny Ted’s victory in the turnip contest at the annual county fair.
Considered an intricate work of contemporary art, the book is available in a signature edition (100 copies) from the publisher, through the SFU lab.
Source: Simon Fraser University; Robin Chaplin