Studio Task 6 - Post Christmas Feedback

Plan:

1. Draw somethings 50 times
2. Collage telephone image
3. Trace something 10 times
4. Monoprint
5. Linocut
6. Photocopy over and over

The History of Type 1 - Production and Distribution lecture

The History of Type Part 1 - Production and Distribution


The beginning of mass production, mechanical reproduction through the use of moveable type, getting language out to a wide audience. Benjamin said "mechanical reproduction (...) changes the reaction of the masses" 

Post Modernism Lecture

Study Task 2 - Modernity and Modernism

Trace a line Experiment

Traced line experiment

Whilst in my COP presentation discussion this video was discussed in relation to my project.
https://vimeo.com/18998570

A Sequence of Lines Consecutively Traced by Five Hundred Individuals is an online drawing tool that lets users do just one thing - trace a line. 
Each new user only sees the latest line drawn, and can therefore only trace this latest imperfect copy. As the line is reproduced over and over, it changes and evolves - kinks, trembling motions and errors are exaggerated through the process.
A Sequence of Lines Consecutively Traced by Five Hundred Individuals was first created as a tool to be used in conjunction with Amazon’s Mechanical Turk - an online labor market. Mechanical Turk workers were paid 2 cents to trace a line.

I think that this relates really well to repetition and the fact that hand drawn things cannot be repeated exactly the same, each time the line is drawn it is an original. It is really interesting how different the initial line is to the last line- a bit like Chinese whispers visually!

From this I plan to do something similar by repeating an image over and over.

Study Task 3 -Wish

The Cure- Wish

surge of happiness

One of the most commercially successful Cure records

present a vision of the day breaking after the gloomy depths of midnight have passed.

colors on the cover present a happier Cure, with optimistic blue skies and white fluffy clouds surrounded by bright reds and oranges.

iconic artwork by Parched Art draws us into an exploration of the meaning and imagery of the album cover and promises an optimistic view of love and life.

the cover of Wish seems to have inspired more Cure tattoos than any other album artwork.

http://chainofroberts.blogspot.co.uk/2008/10/primary-colors-of-cure-part-2.html

Label:

Fiction Records ‎– fixcd 20, Fiction Records ‎– 513 261-2

Format:

CD, Album

Country:

Europe

Released:

17 Apr 1992

Genre:

Electronic, Rock, Pop

Style:

Alternative Rock, New Wave, Pop Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Pop

Made in Germany

Recorded at The Manor (Oxfordshire, UK). Mixed at Olympic (London, UK).

℗ © 1992 Fiction Records Limited

Red & blue picture cd, black print.

Released in jewel case with 12 page booklet and back tray.

/notes

https://www.discogs.com/Cure-Wish/release/182895

Artwork by Parched Art (Porl Thompson & Andy Vella)

http://cover-arts.tumblr.com/post/75416046749/the-cure-wish-artwork-by-parched-art-porl

burst out laughing because we realized that we didn't have a band anymore.

after the Wish tour the band would fall apart.

During the three years since Disintegration's release, "alternative" music had become mainstream, and the Cure returned to an ever-expanding new audience.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-cure-album-by-album-20040618

The band remains one of the most influential and successful to arise from the post-punk movement of the late ’70s

decadent sound to the sometimes-sterile ’80s, morphing from morbid goth to quirky pop to epic psychedelia.

he group spent many years struggling to find its sound.

Late bloomer- superstardom that came with Disintegration and Wish

http://www.avclub.com/article/a-beginners-guide-to-the-music-of-the-cure-96648

Wish" was also the band's overall highest charting album, and most commercially successful in the band's career, given its debut at number one in the UK and number two in the United States, where it sold more than 1.2 million copies. "Wish" was also nominated for the Grammy Award for best Alternative Music Album in 1993.

http://www.timetravelrecords.co.uk/The-Cure-Wish

however they are without the surrounding heart full of clouds. Many people consider Wish to be one of the Cure's most immediately accessible albums, and the preponderance of tattoos from this album artwork may bear that theory out.

Another factor likely contributing to the high incidence of Wish-era symbolism in tattoos is the high availability of recognizable iconography from that album. Some album artwork is more difficult to distill into tattoo form, most notably, the photo of the smeared lips from front cover of Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me - however some fans use the font style from that cover to embellish their bodies with words, instead of trying to reproduce the picture. Other album covers which are relatively rare in tattoo form include the soft, out of focus photographs from the covers of Faith and Seventeen Seconds (although there are tattoos inspired by both of these albums).

http://chainofroberts.blogspot.co.uk/2008/07/secret-language-of-cure-tattoos.html

Analogue on the rise

The Private Press

There is a contemporary screen printing studio in Brighton that makes high quality screen prints for illustrators, fine artists and graphic designers.
They are unusual in the fact that they make hand printed tour posters for bands and film posters (usual for independent films) alongside wedding invitations and business cards.
These are all 'hand-pulled prints'.


I think that this is really interesting and links in well with my quote and themes because it is showing that there is still a desire for hand printed images which is in oposition to digital reproduction. Although its is repeating the same image, every print will be unique and portray the printers hand. This argues that in this digital age people still find the aesthetic of hand printed posters and imagery desirable.

Record Sales

Furthermore, the guardian has released that vinyl record sales has hit a 25 year high.(highest since 1991) LP sales were up by 53% (probably greatly correlated to the many deaths of many great musicians in 2016). For example for than 3.2 million LPs were sold last year with 5 of David Bowies albums in the top 30. This was also the first year that spending on vinyl was greater than that spend on digital downloads!

“People think millennials just stream and are just digital but actually I think we are going to see increasingly over this coming year that young people still want something tangible and real and that’s where vinyl is taking on the role that the CD used to have.” quotes Vanessa Higgins
“I think what we are going to see this year is more smaller artists and independent labels start to benefit from vinyl as well because so many different types of music fans are now willing to go out and buy it.” further quotes Vanessa Higgins