On the 14th October, 2010, me and 6 other students went on a road trip to Footscray to participate in a museum tour that David Trout organised.
When we first arrived, when they first opened the roller door it was quite obvious that some people were disappointed, it was as if we had driven half an hour to, what some described as a "garage sale". It was quite amusing to everyone, especially when Laury initially spoke. Didn't seem like he had much planned. Luckily, he wasn't the tour guide, Micheal, tour guide, had thorough knowledge about each item. He introduced himself as a Type Enthusiast, so had never worked with type himself unlike Laury. I thought it was good being able to look around at the stuff for 15 mins before the tour started. It allowed me to make my own conclutions of what each item did before I was told the proper meaning, it helped me remember what each thing was, maybe because I was able to relate more.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Shaun Tan
I didn't like the book expedition much, I thought it was pretty basic and amateur. Not to say there wasn't some good artwork there, just stuff that I found hard to appreciate. There were some things that David mentioned that were well worth noting but I noticed that even he found it hard to talk about the art pieces. I was annoyed about that, I was expecting him to fill me in on the parts of the art that I failed to see. Whether he didn't know much about them or there wasn't much to say about them, I was on the same page.
On a lighter note, I went to the Shaun Tan expedition on the 10th of Oct down at South Melbourne. He's a fantastic artist, unfortunately I couldn't go last week when he was personally at the expo signing and selling books.
Shaun Tan wrote and illustrated beautiful books such as 'The Rabbits', 'The Arrival' and 'The Lost Thing' which was also a film and the exhibition title. He illustrates by using real textures in his works, e.g. thickened paint and cracking paint, his imagination is astounding. My favorite book it 'The Rabbits', if you haven't read it, visit the library. It's a story about the invasion of the Europeans onto the Aboriginals using rabbits and banquettes, told in a way that children could understand it. The book 'The Arrival' is also fascinating, I find that he forces you understand how the character is feeling and witness things from his point of view. It was interesting the amount of hard work, the amount of drawings put in to produce a short, animated film. All the different media used to show different thing; as in soft pastels to show the animators how he wanted the light to look and gray led pencil to depict the characters, they had such personality. Defiantly worth going.
On a lighter note, I went to the Shaun Tan expedition on the 10th of Oct down at South Melbourne. He's a fantastic artist, unfortunately I couldn't go last week when he was personally at the expo signing and selling books.
Shaun Tan wrote and illustrated beautiful books such as 'The Rabbits', 'The Arrival' and 'The Lost Thing' which was also a film and the exhibition title. He illustrates by using real textures in his works, e.g. thickened paint and cracking paint, his imagination is astounding. My favorite book it 'The Rabbits', if you haven't read it, visit the library. It's a story about the invasion of the Europeans onto the Aboriginals using rabbits and banquettes, told in a way that children could understand it. The book 'The Arrival' is also fascinating, I find that he forces you understand how the character is feeling and witness things from his point of view. It was interesting the amount of hard work, the amount of drawings put in to produce a short, animated film. All the different media used to show different thing; as in soft pastels to show the animators how he wanted the light to look and gray led pencil to depict the characters, they had such personality. Defiantly worth going.
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