Bandsaw box

After spending 15 of the last 24 hours in the wood shop I'm very happy to say that I've completed my first woodworking assignment. Creating a bandsaw box uses a different process then I am accustomed to. With a bandsaw box its is an almost entirely subtractive process. This meant that any messups would be very hard to fix and turned out to be really stressful. It also allows for allot more freedom in creating curves and unique shapes. I decided to create a sort of 50's fridge style box. I wanted something clean, functional and simple. The idea also works with the way I approach photography, which is taking something real and bending it a little and somehow making it surreal. With my box I made it appear as though the doors would swing open but really they slide out and have a strange curved wall. I also was attracted to the idea of a static fridge that will last forever like the ones of the 50's but juxtaposed  in creating it with a very organic and perishable substance like wood. I took the concept of the fridge and twisted it a little and used more of the characteristics that I found interesting and successful aspects of the design. One being making three doors instead of two. This created another round spaced along the side between the doors create a nice repeating bubble form. 

This past week I went on springbreak and had the opportunity to do a bunch of traveling. One place I went was Montreal for my old roommate Jeremy Elkin's  skate video premier. It was awesome to stay with him at his house and experience first hand the behind the scenes work that goes into an event like that. Things like getting their earlier, setting up, picking up and distributing merchandise for the sponsors and mingling with the crowd. In the end it seemed like everyone had a great time and a definite success for the movie.

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

This past tuesday I got the chance to go visit my painting teachers open studio. Its aways fascinating to see a professors work and I'm almost always surprised. Drumheller's works were all very well done as I expected but what I hadn't seen coming was his choice of subject. His paintings of miniature animal figures were awesome and very different from the landscapes and lighthouses with crashing waves that I had expected. Also his works of his wife in the empty museum were interesting. His study examined someone whom he had known for 30 years but asking him self who this woman really was? and taking an unbias approach at painting her. It really gives an almost stocker feel to the paintings but upon second glace they were carefully mapped out with her composition between these amazing historic sculptures. If I could buy any piece it would have to be one of his smaller painting. I really enjoyed the smaller ones cause he would work allot more with color and apply layer upon layer of paint until it looked like rice cripys had been put underneath.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ_z0rDmvmc&feature=player_embedded#

Film is something that has aways been around in my life. I try and make some sort of movie every year normally about snowboarding or surfing. I recently have been really into music videos something that people put allot of time and money into but dont get enough attention because of shows that show people on the jursey shore. I did rent out a camera for the past weekend and went up to a friends house on the Maine coast to surf and am going to try and make something out of that. Until then here is one that Im really psyched on and makes me wish we had a film class.

I first came across Cezanne's works while on a term abroad in France. It was during my jr year of high school and at a point in my life that I was making major decisions as to the direction of my life and my art. I decided to study in a college town Aix en Provence which just so happened to be the birthplace and primary home of Cezanne. I soon found out they had a small museum dedicated to his works and even had his house open for tours. I went out and visited both of these and was blown away at his work and just how ahead of his time he was. It was clear that his paintings paved the way for the art of the early 20^th century and cubism. He explored with depth perception and spatial relations, even flattening the image to the surface that it was on. He would use spheres, cubes, and cones as his primary tools of abstracting the natural forms in his work. His studies of the mountain in Aix really stood out to me. I realized that I had everything around me in this awesome area of the world to work with and I went out and bough a sketch book. Everyday I would work on a study either using colored pencils, collages or photographs to not only remember the place but to try and capture what was all around me. Cezannes greatest influence on me was to let go of perfection.