Leonardo Divinci exhibition

I have had an amazing opportunity to create a drawing or model of a machine based on the work of divinci. I was told to think in the same way as Divinci and create something that he perhaps didnt get the chance to do in his time and so I drew a picture of a device that can be strapped to someones head and it goes inside the mouth. the device is intended to be spoken into and the words come out of the other end as letters to fall onto a piece of paper. This then means that the words dont have to be wrote down, they can just be spoken onto paper!
My second design was of a machine that goes in space and when you drop seeds into it or hydrogen and 2 oxygen it creates water and these then get dropped into the earth so that countries of drought can get water and western countries can re-gain the trees that they have cut down for more oxygen.

BBC project

BBC came into our course last year and asked for volunteers to come up with ideas for the Cbeebies website. this is a website for children between the ages of 2 and 6 so it would need to be simplistic but brightly coloured, fun to do/look at.
i was thinking for a long time and then one week we were invited into the BBC studio where we spoke with 6 different members of the BBC team who each gave us information about what they are looking for, what there role is in the business and what is acceptable for the website. From this i gained loads of ideas and decided to create a colouring in game which required the children make their own colours by mixing others. from this they are learning and having fun at the same time. it also gives the child more control over what they do. once they have mixed up the colours they can paint a picture of their choice from their favourite cbeebies shows.
My second idea was for there to be an exercise game which involves a webcam. this game would be based on the child playing it by following the same movements as the little person/cbeebies charactors. the charactor will be doing airobic movements or dancing. this is a good thing for children to get into because of the uprise in childhood obesity.

collage

Over the past few weeks I have been making a collage. it is not a university project but a personal project that I have been having alot of fun with. The collage makes up a heart with different coloured hearts within it. There are 5 colours all together with different photographs of me and friends. each heart represents different things, the first one being photo of the cambridge student halls and the people within it. the second is drunken times, the third being festival times, the forth being of raves and the centre heart of me and friends from when we were younger. it looks really good but i am still waiting for this years festival photos to add to it as well as a few decorations like flowers.

John Hegley

Recently the poet John Hegley asked my course year for people willing to make an animation to go with a poem that he had wrote. The animation would then be showed at an exhibition in the background whilst it the poem is being read out.
The poem that he gave us to animate was based on the letters of the alphabet. I chose line D which was D is for dominoes, a game to give your leopard. and i decided to create an animation of a leopard walking along in the jungle and suddenly realising that his spots are shrinking and dispersing into nothing. The leopard is confused and then lets out a big roar. When the leopard roars the spots cloud out of the leopards mouth and land onto a bunch of dominoes and that is how dominoes get spots

sculpture

I have been thinking and I want to create a sculpture representing how i feel some people with obesity may feel. i have descided to make a sculpture of an obese man that is bursting out of a box. as if he had been hiding away and is feeling trapped. but his obesity causes him to feel on show and incapable of hiding, as if the situation he is in hides away his personality leaving only the traits that people feel he has due to being obese. Traits of big, bubbly, friendly, funny people

John Isaac

I have descided to use clay as a material in my next project. i love sculpting, and i find it very therapeutic and fun to work with. ive descided to concentrate still on obesity, leading on from my other project, i find this interesting and there is so much that i can do with it. i want to look into the oppositions between the eastern and western world. between how one side of the world is starving whilst the other is on a diet. i also want to look into what money has done to western society, whilst the eastern dont have any but they seem to have still stuck to their natural, instinctive routes.
this week whilst thinking about it i want to create sculptures of a person reppresenting my depiction of what these comparisons are. one sculpture is will be of an obese western man sat in a mobility scooter with a mac donalds in one hand and money in the other. showing the greediness and laziness that western society has which could be a cause of money.
Before when i was looking up obesity when doing my other project i was thinking about the way people must feel when they are obese. a feeling of being trapped and monstorous, once i had seen the John Issac piece called i can't help the way i feel, i felt that i should also do a piece demonstrating what i think also.

London Trip

4th February I went to London with my course and we looked around different art galleries. Saatchi, V&A and also a gallery that held the Identity exhibition. it was a great experience and whilst i was viewing the Identity exhibition there was a piece of work by john Isaac. it was a large sculpture of a an obese man but you the sculpture had no head. this signified how the obese person had no identity due to his condition. and the sculpture was named, "I can't help the way I feel". I loved this piece and looked into more of his work i was fascinated with how he works. he makes pieces that hold messages of how society is today and hopefully sending out a message for change. they portray strong messages and i really like that in art work. this inspired me to try out my own style of work that portray things that i want to express and argue about. problems that i feel people should think about.