Forced perspective as an advertising technique

Forced Perspective is a technique used in film and advertising that plays with scale. It often uses sets and simulations to make objects appear a different scale than they are, or to create an illusion of space. Here's a link in Wikipedia about forced perspective.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_perspective

some examples in animation techniques:
http://www.abc.net.au/arts/strange/workshop/atmosphere.htm




Here's an image from Lorey B. , a teacher in Georgia. She sends me creative advertising images. This is another example, except the reality is actually smaller than the simulation.

-sam smiley

what about my body?

I saw this advertisement in an airport in Columbia, South Carolina. I took a snapshot of it with my camera to post on this blog.

What's it saying? All women who have kids should have plastic surgery? and what is this "precious cargo" business anyway? eeeuuuhhh!

-sam smiley

Cameron Jamie Exhibit Gallery Talk!

Studies for the film 'Spook House,' Detroit Michigan, 2002, super 8 film (bw/color, silent) transferred to DVD, 43 minutes. Courtesy of the artist.

Here's some information about a current exhibit at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. I went to this show last week. First I went through by myself, then I did the gallery talk. It was amazing to view the work with someone that knew all about the process. My before and after impressions were totally different! If you aren't busy Sunday afternoon - I highly recommend it!

The MIT List Visual Arts Center Presents
A Gallery Talk
With Mark Linga, LVAC Educator
Sunday, June 10, 2 PM

Please join Mark Linga, LVAC Educator for a Sunday afternoon gallery talk in conjunction with the List Center's current exhibition Cameron Jamie. Cameron Jamie, organized by Philippe Vergne for the Walker Art Center, is the artist's first solo museum show in the United States. It presents drawings, sculptural objects, and films that Jamie has created over the past 20 years. If you haven't seen the show yet this will be a great opportunity to tour the exhibit.
This program is free and open to the general public.

The talk will take place at the List Visual Arts Center's Galleries, Wiesner Building,
E-15, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge.

Information:
617.253.4680 or

http://web.mit.edu/lvac/www/exhibitions/index.html

-Carol
PS- One week of school to go! Hope you're all enjoying summer.

Post Secret

From Kate, who works here in Creative Arts in Learning..a really amazing and interesting blog in which people mail images with their secrets on them.

Post Secret.com

http://www.postsecret.com



-sam smiley

Dr. Temple Grandin and thinking in pictures

Dr. Temple Grandin is a scholar and writer whose expertise is working with animals. She is also autistic, and she says that her own ability to "think in pictures" gives her an insight into the animal mind.

her personal web site is at
http://www.grandin.com/

her web site for books and publications is at
http://www.templegrandin.com

and the BBC has done a documentary about her work:


-sam smiley