The going ons in my life has been pretty exciting what with hollywood being right next door to my house. WHOOTTT...

to start off with the mundane, I now wake up in the morning to seeing the police on horses in my square :S thank goodness they don't poop there so it's fine. which makes me wonder...maybe you can train horses not to poop anywhere. c

os unlike the horses that drag the tourist carriages around, these horses do not wear diapers :S hmmm...

and fall also appears to be wedding season. there's been like 3-4 weddings held either in the square and/or at the nice little ceremony hall/centre next to my house. being a typical kaypoh singaporean...we look see la! and then we go congratulate people in wedding dresses if we see any while walking on the streets. hahaa. i like how people in america just randomly greet you or stop you if you're wearing something nice. (except this of course doesnt happen to me but rather..my friends)

and with weddings come the usual wedding carriage....

on a more exciting note, hollywood is down here filming a movie called "The Conspirator" Set to open in cinemas next year (to think they are still filming it now!!! CRAZY!!!). Robert Redford's the director and stars include James McAvoy (acted as Mr Tumness in Chronicles of Narnia), Justin Long (Voice of Alvin in Alvin and the Chipmunks and actor in those shows like the Break-Up and other shows consisting of the same group of actors), Evan Rachel Wood (Lucy in Across the Universe), Robin Wright Penn (was in Savannah previously for Forrest Gump), Alexis Bledel (daughter in Gilmore Girls), Kevin Kline (The Pink Panther), Tom Wilkinson (Batman Begins) etc etc etc. not too much of a big shot, but still. Savannah being one of the older surviving towns in the US is often used in movies. YAY! and because we are in art school, we have access to them to "learn the ropes and gain exposure". YAY ART SCHOOL :D

so we've been having hollywood vans and several trailers around for the actors and crew and they've transformed the already historic savannah to appear more historic by pouring mulch all over the roads and sidewalks to make it more...olden day. as seen below...

Mind you..these photos are taken at NIGHT. at like 9pm and it's fall so it's DARK out. the lights are so bright they actually transformed the night scene into a day scene. that is sooo insane.

old days costumes, more horsies. just wonderful. and we had fireworks too cos they used it. FUN.

so there you go. abit of excitement in my life :) upcoming next month will be even more exciting with the film festival going on and big stars and directors will be down again. and the tiny savannah will once again be somewhat transformed into a red carpet thingamajig event :D

on a more boring note...work in class! haven;t posted these for so longggggg..these are mainly in class drawings so yeah. being short and constantly blocked by people on the drawing horses (no..not real life horses. you kinda sit on these wooden structures like how you would on a horse and you have this huge board in front of you and you draw. it's so uncomfortable but lazy people who rather sit than stand drawing use it..i rather stand for 2.5 hours then to bend over for 2.5 hours instead) HENCE....my first few drawings were always cut off at the shins.

in life drawing. we are trained with skeletons first. (look ma. NO LEGS!)

then we move on to blocking forms with the use or straight architectural lines keeping in mind the landmarks of the body and skeleton. (once again..NO LEGS..or feet at least). yes. the model was quite buff. his face not so nice though. hahaha.

then we move in to chiaroscuro. but we learn basic shadow blocking in. YAY.

as for drawing for design, i dun have a picture of my chairs because my prof still has them and after finishing it at 3.30 am in the morning i just went to bed without taking a picture of it.

here's the second project. learning how to draw through forms and subtracting from a cube. all those horrible construction lines and no ruler. all free hand babies! this was done in a very disgusting medium called carbon pencil. it's really hard so it's not smooth to use for drawing and it is so hard to erase. meh.

the third project was an analysis of images such as an architecture building, a free mason designed dollar bill, a painting and a graphic design poster. We looked at each and on acetate analyzed them for the use of rebated squares, root rectangles and the cool sounding part comes in...the golden section! yes. it's basically a rectangle with a height to length ratio of 1:1.618. it's kinda cool because it's the ideal beauty and this ratio can be found pretty much in ANYWHERE in nature. like the nice pretty shells, the growth pattern of flowers etc etc. it is of course never perfectly 1.618. that's really rare. and cos it's such a natural thing, it is an innate inclination to create works in that same ratio and compositional design. so even when designers and artist did not intentionally use the proportional system to design their works, analysis often reveals that it exists! for example, in my analysis of Caravaggio's The Sacrifice of Isaac, the golden section actually reveals how the focus areas are bounded by golden section rectangles AND the focal points follow a rotated golden spiral that cuts across the angel's pointing finger to Abraham's eyes to Isaac's face to the knife in Abraham's hand. cool right?!?!

so yes. drawing for design has been a pain in the butt yet pretty cool class to learn.