Factory Girl

I watched Factory Girl a couple of weeks ago and i really enjoyed it. I am fascinated by the art world and the people within it. The movie is based on the rise and fall of Edie Sedgwick. She moves to New York to kick start her art career in the 60's but when she meets Andy Warhol she puts her art aside for her new lavish life. She does many different movies for Warhol and becomes famous in the media. She then meets Tommy Quinn,(a folk singer at the time) who also seems to love her. Edie loves the attention but really struggles when she has no one to turn to when she finds her self in trouble with relationships or her downfall with drugs!

Starting a business, Designing a website

Over the past two months i have been creating a website as a way to kick start a career. I want to be a designer and an artist and i feel this is the way to get started. I registered the domain johncamilleri.com.au and spoke to a web designer about how to run and install all the necessary programs to maintain a website.
After making the site live I have since added many photos and have done a couple of blog posts. I haven't told many people about it because i want to have it fully complete before doing an advertisement to about 12000 people through social media sites like facebook.com and twitter.com. Also a company i work for called Love That Music have been giving me full support with access to there IT guy. They have also offered me a launch party which i would love to have.
When i first started out i wanted to have the site up and running with advertisements out within a fortnight, a week in i set myself a realistic timeline, including photo-shoots and advertising dates. I have now set the launch date for the 28th of July. Looking back now i was just so excited to be having my own website, i am glad i have waited to have everything sorted for releasing it.
In the last week i have added a new site apparel1.johncamilleri.com.au to the main website. This lets viewers have a separate site when they click on the word Apparel. The first reason i had a separate site for my apparel was so i could have a standard layout of a clothing store with a checkout and payment option. Once again being realistic. i realised how an online store was unnecessary for a new business with no where near enough traffic if any at all. Secondly i think i want to have all my apparel as custom clothes and each piece a design brief in itself.
Getting closer to the date i feel i am more prepared and i have definitely learnt a lot from this process, i can't wait to do the photo shoot and see the site finally be advertised!

Vienna Exhibition

I went to the vienna exhibition for my dad and I's birthday. I went in not knowing what to expect because i hadn't really heard much about it other than i must go and see it. When i got inside i loved it. Then again it's like most exhibitions i go to. It is always a thrill to go and see an exhibition because they are just rooms of inspiration. You get to see what other people are thinking and how in the many ways they are expressing themselves, in the past in present!

The main works that stood out for me were the orange and magenta pattern works. I had never really seen these two colours work so well together but when i saw this i immediately had ideas running through my head. There were two that had used these colours but the one that worked the best used a lot more orange than magenta.

Since seeing this exhibition i have been working on a half drop repeat pattern brief in class, i have chosen to use orange and magenta and i feel it is again quite successful!

Here i have worked this oranges to create certain shapes, after repeating them and layering them up i came up with this! The pattern was quite flat before i added in the background comprised of layered up leaves. The diagonally orientated orange segments are counter balanced by the grid placed halved oranges. I have chosen to use numerous grey tones to really bring forward these two colours i now love.

Brighton Bay Diary Jacket

My diary jacket in 2D was one of my favourite briefs because i love poster design. It was the first chance i could really use my skills on illustrator to their limits to produce a simple looking artwork. I wanted the shapes to be hexagons because i was just discovering the wonder that they produce. They are the largest number sided shape that fits perfectly together and this is why i love them. I decided to base my work around Finette Mellier. He work really inspired me at AGideas and so i chose to work it into my poster.

Letter Writing

I want you all to write a letter to someone who you are friends with; don’t make it something you have to do rather something you want to do. Tell them something that you would like to talk about via letters, something you both enjoy something that is between you and them.

I feel it is a process that I was never brought up with that I have rediscovered for myself. I’ve rarely been written a letter and since this year can’t think of when I have sent one. I have always seen English as a subject which I have to do, a subject where I already know the language fluently, why bother practising it when I can be painting or doing something I could be improving on.

There are many ways to make your letter unique and to let the person you are sending it to feel it hasn’t just been typed up and put in a generic envelope. Maybe use a typewriter and enjoy the more hands on process that goes with physically typing out a piece of writing. You may also like to make your own envelope or seal it with a wax stamp with your initials pressed in.

Just start writing to the people around you and start enjoying sending and receiving letters. You will learn about the people around you and start to express yourself in a new found way.

Good Luck:)

NGV 150th_2

When i was actually working in the truck i was told about the rhino that was walking around. I was informed of how it was a depection by an artist named Albrecht Durer In 1513 a rhinoceros named Ganda arrived in Lisbon having survived the trip from India. It was the first rhino in Europe since the Roman Empire. While the Belém Tower was being built, it was decided to make the Gargoyles around the tower that looked like rhinos. King Manuel I of Portugal decided to send the rhino on to Pope Leo X as a gift. Unfortunately, there was a sudden storm arose off the coast of Italy and the ship sank. Poor Ganda was chained and secured on deck, so he went down with the ship. The story goes that the body was recovered and stuffed with straw. However, that may have been beyond 16th century taxidermy skills. Regardless, a description of the rhino and a brief sketch made its way to Germany. Albrecht Durer used this information to make his world famous wood carving of a rhino, even though he'd actually never seen one. The next rhino didn't make it to Europe until 1579. who had never seen a rhino but wanted to create a wood carving from what he thought one looked like. He had heard limited information due to there not being any in europe. Remarkably his drawings and then wood carving resembled a rhino similarly to what one actually looks like. Durer had this idea that the rhino was covered in armour and w
Anyway the for the 150th a life size puppet of the carving was created, it was controlled by one puppeteer from the back and in my eyes it was one of the best puppets i have ever seen. Not only was the puppeteer so creative and constantly amazing the crowd but the crowd and foot traffic were so engrossed and in amazement that kids and even adults were getting scared. When the Rhino turned on them. It would be walking along and suddenly start sniffing someone, then it would start to lie down sometimes squishing people against a fence and even wiggling its tail.

NGV 150th

On sunday i worked at the NGV's 150th anniversary celebration. Even though i was working for Beatbox kitchen i arrived early so i could check out what was going on. Directly in front of the truck was a couple who were completing a sand carving. It was of a sculpture that the NGV own but i didn't know the name of. I spoke to the couple who seemed to be of foreign decent, they were such an excited pair of artists, they loved there work and were very fun to listen to while they worked. He spoke of how the sand was compacted to a certain level to let them work to a certain level of detail. He used the terms soft packed and hard packed. Hard packed was how the sand arrived on the site and what they worked from where as soft packed was what would be used when a repair was needed on mistake when he may have over carved or something fell off or cracked. He spoke of a job where by he was working on a project that included wings. These wings kept slightly breaking so he kept having to add soft packed sand to keep them a like, this stopped working so the wings each day they were repaired got smaller and smaller until the last day it was on show at this festival they were a third of the original size! The couple used many different tools to create different lines and to make it accurate in comparison to the drawing they were working from. It seemed as if they were paving and building at the same time. They used paving tools to smooth surfaces, for example a trailer and the pointy trailer. Then they were using spirit levels to make sure that the block of sand that the sculpture was carved out of was square so it didn't take away from the sculpture.
This was the first time i had seen sand sculptures in action and i can't wait to see more. It was very exciting to witness a form of art that isn't permanent. For me i feel that if i am going to produce some art and/or design i would like it to be permanent. I feel that all the effort i have put into the work i would like it to be appreciated long into the future rather than just for that day. Even though their work was phenomenal i personally couldn't work in that field not only due to the longevity of their art but also having your body constantly covered in sand. I hate sand on my body!