Car Design and Digital Art

Every time a car manufacturer decides to put a new car into production, they make a mock-up of the vehicle in a 3d modeling program or have a digital artist render a model in 2d space. This is a perfect way to get the look right, as it can be easily changed. Even the first prototypes are not that close to the model which is released. I remember Subaru had a very aggressive looking 2d render, and instead they went with the more sedate 2008-2009 model out now. We still don't know why.

Digital Art Discovery

After looking at the gun-book picture, i looked for similar pieces and stumbled on this piece. This is similar to the book piece i talked about before because it has contrasting themes. When you first look at this piece you may see a candle with a blue flame, yet studying it closer reveals it has a water flame... unique.

This one is for Joe

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BMW ArtCars

Next on the Car/art spree are these BMW Artcars, which are able to make their own exhibition wherever they go. These cars have been painted by some of the most famous artists of all time. The first car was painted by andy Warhol, the famous print artist. Every now and then you see a car driving on the highway with a custom paint job, but nothing quite like these rare European vehicle canvases.

Dirty Car Art

More stumble-upons...
Using the same keyword, art, i have discovered dirty car art. This canvas is the grime left on a vehicle after miles of driving, the artist creates a picture using the negative space created by moving aside the dust left on his car. Many people like to draw small pictures or leave little messages on the back of dirty cars but this takes the concept to a whole new level. This is a interesting combination of some of my favorite things, cars and art.

Linerider Art

Linerider, the online flash game sensation, has been around for a very long time, and people have been publishing epic tracks for the game's character to travel. The idea of the game is to create a course for the sledder to rider, not necessarily create a piece of art. Regardless, many people have made incredibly complex art through this vector-based flash game. I have used this program, and it is not easy to make all those lines...

Following the success of the upper-level digital class, I decided to discover new and creative tags on the net which could be inspiration for my projects. This one was very funny, as it combines two well known figures of American culture and puts a twist on them. This one was very well done, most likely done through photoshop.

The Art Crisis

What is the Art Crisis? I haven't the faintest, but this picture which i found on the web is quite interesting. Perhaps this picture was photoshopped, but it is hard to tell. It just looks too precise to be cut from a think book. It would be an interesting piece to turn books into what they personify, like war and peace into a gun shape? or perhaps a piece sign. A band saw would actually do a pretty good job of cutting a percise line through a book. I can just picture it now.. a series of diet books cut into steaks and desserts.

"cat art"

While searching the internet under the keyword "art I stumbled upon some pretty funny pictures which i would have never guessed would come up. This website, Icanhascheezburger is pretty funny once you find the pictures which do not have the childish speech inserts. It is a fairly clever use of funny cat pictures, however.

Kid Cudi Music Video

I was surfing the YouTube, when I came across this very cool music video. It could very well have been done using photoshop with the same skills we have learned this semester. It is smooth, but could be stop-motion. The overlay techniques are rather simple, but executed very well. The imbed feature on this video was diabled, so i have a link to it instead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tln5gGCs1cU

Subaru Transmission inspiration

Okay, call me a fanatic, but the Subaru thing just never seems to get dull for me. Today i was reading an article about the new 2010 Subaru Legacy and they had a diagram of the transmission for this car. I literally took a good 20 minutes to stare at this diagram and wonder how the hell these people design something like this. It's a real piece of art. Just the image itself is art, with it's metallic colors and clustered industrial pieces. Even if you know nothing of cars, looking at this image can bring about inspiration.

Senior Art Show

The Foreman Gallery opened the senior art show the week of May 11th to display the final pieces of all the senior art students here at Hartwick College. Spending almost every day down in Anderson, i had to go check out all the pieces for myself. The entries were very thoughtful, ranging from sculptures to photos to digital art pieces, and each had the artist's own touch to them.
The first thing which i saw when entering the gallery were the two digital art pieces being projected onto walls. The first used a projected facing a set of mirrors and the reflection off those mirrors is what appeared on the walls. This was a very creative way to present this piece. There were even several mirror plates to use, so there could be multiple ways to show the designs. This was one of my favorite pieces because it was innovative and interactive.
Together with this piece was the other projection, which featured a two-level projection on a car in a street. It was innovative but only kept my attention for a minute. Next to the digital pieces was a set of very interesting close-up photographs which i enjoyed. The pictures were digital prints of winter scenes where you could really see the intricate patterns of ice on various objects. Very cool.
On the floor beneath these pieces was an interesting mirror piece and a set of paper-related items. The mirror piece used mirrors to view a painting located directly between them. The mirrors had things painted on them which you could align with the painting to dress a woman. This was incredibly innovative but i couldn't get the pieces to match up. The newspaper sculpture and paired photographs were rather drab. I found these to be the most ill-inspired pieces at the show. Perhaps it is my opinion, but compared to the other pieces, this appeared to have the least thought.
All and all the pieces in this Senior Art show were very interesting and rather inspiring. Although i will never take part in a show like this, it makes me think how hard these artists think about their pieces before bringing them to their final stages. It was refreshing how all the pieces were so different, as artists hailed from all concentrations of the field.

My Homepage

As my previous post stated, i have successfully finished my homepage project and all the links work, everything is good. Here is a link to it, its rather random and requires a bit of searching to navigate, especially the mineself project, click everything...

Finishing up the year

Finished my homepage and mineself project this afternoon, thus ending the workload for this semester. For the homepage, i took the design i was looking into for my skateboard design and translated it to the internet as kind of a tester. The design came out well, all in all i liked the scattered tree pattern and random variations with the pine pattern and text. The overall appearance is alternative, yet refined, and still give people interaction as they search for the hidden links. I decided to keep everything simple so it is easy to navigate.