Scott McCloud - web comic

McCloud is a proper guy when it comes to sequential artwork.....he's done a book which I need to look at at some point called Reinventing Comics ( http://scottmccloud.com/2-print/2-rc/index.html ) where he spends some time focusing on the potential of online comics/ webcomics, whatever you want to call them. Talking about how the screen becomes a 'window' to the comic strip, removing the restrictions of printed media. Here's a comic from his series of morning improv comic strips, a series where every morning he'd improvise a short story based on ideas given by readers. If you look at them on the actual website :

http://www.scottmccloud.com/1-webcomics/mi/mi-16/mi-16.html

you'll notice that it's continuous from left to right, but quite ironically to put it on my blog I have to lay it top to bottom.























The immediacy of webcomics has its obvious ups and downs.
On the one hand you do indeed get immediacy.
On the other you lose out on almost everything else; aesthetic merits and what have you. attention to detail and depth of storyline, out the window. You would never pay any money for it.

What is a Line - PES stop motion.

stop-motion by PES. This is only the first video I've seen by him/her/them. A fairly cool example of sequential art, something that can be achieved using your average household items....However it is essentially just a basic stop motion and I'd quite like to do something a little out of the ordinary. Here's another:



yeah mate.

What is a line - sequential art

A short video by this guy Danny Page. For my 'What is a line' brief I would like to capture moments of moments, as such. Like here, he has taken a particular situation of one guy booting another guy in the head, and divided it into three snapshots to summarise the action (similarly to a comic book, obviously). Anyway the 'line' in the this piece of work is the sequence of images that depict the man performing an action. I could perhaps attempt to work in a similar style to portray various moments in my own day-to-day goings on, or perhaps just thoughts or ideas I might have - instead of drawing them into one image, trying to convey a sense of time and movement by dividing across several frames.

Sequences research

A few examples of sequences....






Fibonacci sequence....I thought I would start with a fairly obvious example of a sequence (1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21 etc...) where the one number is added to the number before to get the next number. Anyway somehow you can use this sequence to make shapes like the one shown above, using some kind of equation and mathematical ability. Seems like from where the spiral starts the squares double in size, after the second one anyway. I'm sure this sequence could be used in many ways, apparently it's in nature a lot aswell, which is actually pretty crazy as numbers are a man-made creation and nature appears to be entirely random.



The fact that the randomness of nature can sometimes be linked to a logical ordered sequence of numbers is mad, almost means you can argue for the existence of God. But I don't believe in God. This one would take a lot of thinking about.


Binary code.....



Binary code is pretty interesting too as a sequence, well actually the sequence itself is actually really boring, but the fact that the every single digital thing in the world runs on two numbers is, well, fair enough really.


Time-Lapse imagery...



I also really like this style of photo manipulation, it gives you a sense of time which you would imagine would be very difficult through a still image. Not quite sure who made this but here's a link to the website: http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/archives/photos_landscape/060828_1662.shtml   - it has a lot of nice photography of downtown Toronto and a few other places.