Welcome to my fanatastical blog about fanaticism.
This blog will wholly be used for the current project we're working on in Foundation Graphics land, so if you want to find my general blog hop over to conglats.blogspot.com.
So indeed, fanaticism. Basically our brief is to 'convince others of [our obsession's] unequivocal worth'. We must then launch a campaign to convince others our obsessions are worthy causes. The way we do this is up to us provided it's legal and we create a small-run publication using reproduced images and text. Oh and we need to make at least 20 observational drawings of our obsession.
Eep!
So I initially created a short list of obsessions (another list can be found on conglats.blogspot.com too!) This list included:
- Automated announcements on trains, buses, etc. I remember every single automated announcement - seriously! Although recording observational drawings would be a challenge...
- Argos catalogue. They are just too fun to look through
- Ikea. FUNFUNFUN!!
- Lady Gaga's Paparazzi music video. I could watch it all day. I find it so interesting.
- Lady Gaga's Opening Video to her concert. <I chose this one.
Despite it only lasting about 2 and a half minutes I could watch this clip all day. I remember going to the gig in Sheffield and at how excited the video made me feel. I can still feel that anticipation and excitement every time I youtube that video. Never has a video been so powerful to me I think.
Therefore I think the world should know how - wow - this video is some way or another.
This is my obsession.
One thing I would really like is to find a copy of the video which hasn't been uploaded by a member of the crowd (although to some extent the cheering of the crowd does add to dramatic effect), so today I have been scouring the web for some address/number/contact info in order to get in contact with somebody who might give me access to a 'clean' copy. Initially for reference and private use, but maybe for broadcast...who knows!
So I've now got hold of a number and London address for Universal Studios which is the parent company of Lady Gaga's record company, so I'll get in contact with them tomorrow.
It's ambitious I know, but I don't fucking give up that easily.
Additionally I started some observational drawings of the video:
From making these two observational drawings I noticed that boldness of the images would really suit monoprinting or stencilling. The dramatic curves and lines I find very important features of the images, as well as the way the human form is modified into abstract silhouettes.
I think I need to explore further by creating additional (...well I have to make 20 drawings after all!) drawings, experimenting with stencils, and booking myself into a printing session to see how it works and see whether the process would be suitable for this imagery.
Wish me luck!
Oh and staying on the stencil lines I did coincidentally create a piece of Lady Gaga using paper stencils and pastels:
Unfortunately due to the fact it's been scanned in, the colours aren't as strong as I would've liked but you can see how I stencilled anyway.
And on a not so dissimilar tangent, here are two further drawings of a different video from Lady Gaga's gig:
