Wednesday 14 January 2009

Exquisite Mayhem

this is a book lee had in the studio that i did some drawings which will hopefully transcribe well into the bundy drawings, the book is about the spectical and inherent eroticism in wresling, full of photos of people in mid - grapple and sporting many different violent posses, really interesting to draw and is very much tunge and cheek.
However, its this "erotic violence" that was one of the main motives that drove bundy to commit these brutal acts of savagery.

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this image made me laugh alot and has happend by coincedence, i do feel that it wasent completely nessesry to write bum fist above the image.

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Hopefully these quick studies of the grappling hands will help me with the illustration of the Bundy murders.

Bundy Bloody Bundy

For the final part of the chairs project i decided to focus in on the profile of notorious serial killer ted bundy, executed in the chair, the most prolific, macabre killer in american crime history. thse are just rough ideas of how it might look and are not yet in sequence.
For the the final images i will create a strip detailing the the Bundy murders.

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Tuesday 6 January 2009

Lo - fi, Hi - fi and Sci - Fi





Here are some videos that caught my attention over christmas, this is an extraodinary example of how two very similar ideas, the idea of artificial intelligence, can be taken in two completly different directions. both out comes are in essence they are one and the same and are both in a similar stage of prodution. but have taken on a completly different form, function and enviroment, the hyper realistc robot that is more akin to somting like blade runner or the animatrix, is still confined to his room, were as the kinetic sculpturs of theo jansen are free to walk the beaches but still need a small helping hand.



Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. The film depicts a dystopian Los Angeles in November 2019 in which genetically manufactured beings called replicants – visually indistinguishable from adult humans – are used for dangerous and degrading work on Earth's "off-world colonies". Following a small replicant uprising, replicants become illegal on Earth and specialist police called "blade runners" are trained to hunt down and "retire" (kill) escaped replicants on Earth. The plot focuses on a brutal and cunning group of recently-escaped replicants hiding in Los Angeles and the semi-retired blade runner, Rick Deckard (Ford), who reluctantly agrees to take on one more assignment.



this could be a comical analogy of jansens sculptures but none the less still follows the same basic pyhisics of kinetic energy.



another installment of dystopian fantasy, but will it happen? who knows!