Motion graphic designer

One of my friend is going freelance. He previsely graduated from SVA and worked in a TV commercial company and had some good work we've all seen before. I particularly love his graduate thesis. We talked about how he did it. He said the hardest part for him was to create the storyboard. He modified it again and again. As for the computer skils, you just need time to makae them perfectly. He worked with AE in this thesis, and it's great that he also put the process on the web. Take a look.

Website http://www.kunichang.com/

Fission

Behind the scene

Inspiration

Some ideas about fonts

Did some research about how they write letters. It gave some ideas about how my animation's going to be.

Fonts Considered

Graffiti Alphabet

Graffiti Sketch

Visiting Williamsburg

I am gonna introduce Williamsburg as my neighborhood, so I took to a trip there this afternoon. It was fantastic. I love the relaxing atmosphere around this quiet neighborhood. People just took their time walking on the street, or having brunch with friends, and no rush at all. There's one special thing about Williamsburg: there are graffitis EVERYWHERE. Some art galleries and retaurants even use them as part of their decoration. So I decided to narrow the aspect to the street art, and why they are so flourishing here.

Sound Poem

There's a Christian Marclay Festival in Whiteny Museum of American Art, and it's really interesting to see some musician performing "Manga scroll" tonight. Actually this kind of work is called "Sound Poem", that's what my friend Jonathan told me, and basicly a musician will perform with his or her own voice while reading a scroll of words. In fact, while the musician is performing, we can't see the scroll very clearly, and it looks like she's getting crazy yelling some unknown words. That's how I felt when I first stepped into the exhibition hall.

This is how it works. Christian Marclay created Manga Scroll by cutting and collaging onomatopoeias (words that imitate the sounds they describe) pulled from Manga comics originally published in Japan and translated for U.S. audiences. You can see the image above. Marclay then digitally manipulated the hundreds of sound words torn from their pop-cultural context (FWUP! CREEAK! SKRRR!) and printed them on a sixty-foot rice paper scroll in order to create the composition meant to be interpreted by voice.With the same scroll, different musicians may interprete it differently.

The origin

Having problem in finding the origin of graffiti art in Williamsburg, and excited about visiting it tomorrow. Hoping that I will get some good photos tomorrow.

New look of toilet paper

I just moved into my new apartment today, and am excited to decorate my wall with the toilet paper I got from Morrison in Museum of Art and Design last week. He was doing this work by hand screen-printing with one single color. It's pretty interesting watching him moving a squeegee across the screen stencil, forcing fluid acrylics past the threads of the mesh in the open areas. He pressed the same graphic on a roll of paper, and I can't help thinking maybe it will fun to put different graphics on each piece of toilet paper. So this roll of toilet papar can tell a story, and I am not going to use it to blow my nose anymore.

Here's Morrison's website:

http://j-morrison.com/index.php?/ongoing/toilet-paper/