Eldon Booth, a great film director and producer who has

made films like Five Good Reasons and his most recent Finding Honk which isnt out yet because its still being worked on.His work is more on the mocumentary drama and experimental style. He likes to explore and push the boundaries of fact and fiction for example like in his first film called Withdrawal he purposely

followed a character in the film to make it look like an amature documentary. With characters being free to look directly at the camera, long takes and quick pans creating a feeling that it is real and all unfolding in front of you. He also plays with time as were he used split screen showing the two family members dealing with there problems in separate ways with the grandfather being medicated in the hospital and the teenaged grandson medicating himself with drugs. The film was shot over a long period of time so the characters aged and the landscape changed which match the theme of the film. Some scenes were real like the hospital scene and the landscape change as farm was being turned into suburban land.

The movie Elephant also played with fact and fiction how it was based on a true story. by using long shots and the camera following the actor it makes you feel as if you were following the character through their day. By using long takes and different angles we were able to feel like we were once there on a normal day, close ups to long shots on a character and shallow depth of field creates a sense of being present. They also plays with time as if it will follow one character through their day then will cut back to another characters path for that day crrying on from another camera .

i know a t.v series on the net called ''Beyond Belief; Fact or Fiction'' and in one of the segments it talks about the series called "The Hand" - In a bar called the Bloody Hand, named after a brutal murder of a woman whose only remains found were her bloody hand, a drifter finds the hand is pointing at him. Is it a practical joke or is he the killer? thats something spooky but turns out to be true . http://www.tv.com/shows/beyond-belief-fact-or-fiction/

Tiffany singh's presentation

This young talented artist amazed me with her encounters in the art world ! she works around colour for her art pieces and are all created by all natural ingredients , i really found that cool because its a piece of the world applied to her art . Her way of colour represents sacredness and a sense of culture where she show
ed us a series of her artpieces such as ''What color is the sacred'' this was a great project i thought stood out for me , it was of a whole lot of little statues of gods coated in six different colors and placed on the ground in lines going across in a rainbow affect. Tiffany chose to let the viewers interact with her work , she wanted them to trade anything of theres like maybe an item that has meaning or even something that was just found and in return you could pick a coloured statue of a god , sometimes she would recieve items that are precious to the owner because they react to her work in a more moving and spiritual way ! she was really surprised with the colours that people valued more and that most of the dark purple and dark red statues were taken . I liked that art piece beacause i would've picked either one of those two colour because i like those colors myself and that gets me thinking why do we like this color ? maybe because the color has a more sacred spiritual connection to the mind.

after her presentations are finished she recycles her natural ingredients and sorts them in color coded proportion. i really love how she still manages to have the energy to do that.

My actual favourite colour is green because i like to match with my eyes which are green ! green to me represents green stone , land , growth which all relates to my culture which i am proud of everyday of my life . green to me is a bright happy colour which i've heard can change moods just by looking at such a colour , i think its some kind of medatation because green is clear to me as if it were apart of me now because i'v always known that its my favourite color .

Deborah Crowe's Presentation.

In this presentation we were introdouced to Deborah Crowe, she talked to us about interesting aspects as an artist that she gets herself involved with, such as her experiments, influences, processes, and how she uses the element of construction types of objects like buildings , bridges which she layers and develops it in to her relation of art for business. We also went to an art Gallery in Mangere and met two artist where they showed us there sculptures .

Crowe really interested me in our lecture because she has a

fascination for structural grid forms , large spaces and also weaving materials that would seem impossible to do which is really new to me. Scaffolding objects is what i've noticed she uses alot and i think her mum is a big influence to her and her career because of the fact she was a great sewer and loved weaving which was used to repair her children's clothes and i think it has affected her work alot . She's really incorporated it in to her work such as her sculptures , fashion designs , moving image and photography . Crowe always creates off her previous works and develops her skills by adding more advanced and new ideas to her pieces every time.

What i like about Deborah Crowe is that her work reflects on her past and significants moments of her life , it shows in he

r sculptures which they reflect on views such as cities , motorways that overlap each other like a weaving grid. I really like Deborahs ascent because its not what you here on a daily basis i think that kept me interested too . She said she was a bit different to being normal when she was a young child because she was always put in the closet by her older sister but what they didn't know is that she loved being put in the closet because she used it as time to think about anything that came to her mind and i find that unusually interesting and funny because it is slightly different and sounds a bit crosstiphobic .

When we showed up at the art Gallery we first noticed a beautiful rock carving that had pacific lines crossing each other like a platt . it was on our left of the entrance and thats when i knew we were going to see objects which kind o

f related to Deborahs style in a way because of the weaving and line. Mataki Moana was a sculpture that caught my eye because it has a sense of vortex and carries an abstract form to it but its carved carefully and it shows beautifully with its sharp edges and and shapes . I also like how the light from the sun creates line in its shadows which helps make the sculpture more spectacular and different. I was told that its suppose to represent a fishing net .I think he was trying to let the viewer be captured by this art piece for them to think why he calls it a net . Maybe its to give this sculpture movement an attraction because i think the sqaures give an edge to it.

These types of Sculptures were very different and i think it can influence alot of people to go further in to there art because they've proved you can push your creativeness and develop your ideas as such as weaving rock, steel and controlling movement and meaning to your work . I think there works are beatiful and can go far in the art industry.

Dion Hitchens(sculpture), Bill Riley(painter) and James Ormsby(drawer) presentation

In this Lecturer we were really fortunate to have 3 male artists come in and present there work to us as a class ,Dion Hitchens(sculpture), Bill Riley(painter) and James Ormsby(drawer) .They are a team which share there work together in some exhibitions held for exhibitors and viewers of the public to view and be captured by there projects . The first thing that captured my attention is when James showed us this code Z=Z²₊C thats suppose to relate to there work. I found the code really interesting, so i took the time to find more about it online, it ended up taking me to more codes which just got me confused and frustrated and was hard for me to understand but what James mentioned was that its got to do with caios which reflects to each of these artist and there projects. The second thing i found interesting is how they don't like to stay to just one particular style of art individually , they like to change up there ideas even if they have to share ideas. I like that because it shows team work and good potential attribute to there career . This blog really got me thinking that it would be a great adventure an idea to work as a goup with different people that have different expertise in art than me so i can learn and find more ideas to help me claim a new style to upgrade my art skills , though i know there will be down sides like having different opinions on something and viewing an aspect differently which can cause drama. Hitchens said that James work reflects to his work but in the images i've seen , they are completely different. I think maybe its more to do with Dions work and how he uses installation using copper wire and a sound track. I also found that Bily Rileys work was more fascinating beacause it was all made by hand with the help of students at schools, 1200 paper oragami's were made and surprisingly none of them got squashed at the exhibitions. I also liked his recycled cardboards he used that were stacked all up, i think over 4000 cardboard was painted to perform this art-piece and thats not including the unpainted ones. i liked how he let the viewers touch his projects and let them interact with his work so that the sculpture could be seen as it was last tampered with.

Mary Curtis Presentation .

Mary Curtis , a New Zealand practitioner jeweler and also a great tutor , what i know about Mary is that she takes great care of her work and perfects presentation and composition to a high standard. she is a very nice lady but is not scared to take risks when she believes in something , I think she made alot of us as a class realise the importance of clear and defined art pieces that come from being motivated and being continuously constructive.

Mary Curtis goes out and looks for random objects that she likes ,its usually small things and what she does is make replica versions of beautiful jewelery by using the items she finds maybe when she's walking through the park or even walking home. i like how she takes her time at placing and decorating the position of her works because it shows in her composition in each project when its been displayed.

decoration is a big part of her exhibitions she holds , i like how she got the idea of presenting her works in large glass cases for each of her very small jewelry designs . i know she spent alot of time searching for these glass cases and the amount of money she spent to get them and that's why i like her because she has a desire to create something she see's in her mind and she'll take many risks to get to what she wants . I think shes a great inspiration for me if i want to get what i want most in my life. Mary likes to position her work to give her art piece a more unique look to the setting and background to let the exhibitor or visitor observe her pieces in another complex perspective.

Leilani's Presentation

Todays blog that i'm doing is about Leilani Kake, I did not attend her presentation due to personal reasons that unfortunately stop me from coming to class that daybut i've managed to grab some notes and now able to comprehend what happened that day.

Leilani Kake , M.I.T lecturer who specializes in video installation . Leilani enjoys capturing processes such as when she showedus as a class a documentation of her papa getting a moko to his face and the stages of how that day was planned trough culture and kaupapa such as doing a karakia and managing all that has to be done before getting everything in proportion to respect our maori tanga . i think by seeing the videos and research about her really brings me to the conclusion that she feels really strong about her beliefs and is proud to be part Maori . Unfortunately Leilani's papa had a intense stroke and was sent to hospital with immense care from doctors and nurses ,I think as soon as Leilani found out she would be filled with freight and sadness , she grabbedher camera and started filming him at the hospital, and soon after that you notice the film shows the next stage of movement to the sequence and sadly it was a scene of her papas tangi, the closure of her film ended with pictures of him and then seeing him play a guitar and ending the sequence with a waiata called Tangi a te ruru meaning the owl is crying, in other words bringing someone back . I think its so interesting that he would sing a song like that because the sequence ended up with him passing away which made me feel sorrow for Leilani to hear that waiata being sung by her own father.

Leilani has many influences such as Merata Mita, Ron Crocombe, Epeli Hau'ofa, Sir Peter Buck-te Rangi Hiroa . I think these artist really helped who she is today because each of these relate to some of her projects and ideas such as her film on her papa that she showed us as a class .

after the session with Leilani we all took a trip to Te Tuhi art gallerywhere DVA got to see many projects being displayed , i know i did not attend class that day, so i took the time to find some projects that was there and found a video of a house in Detroit covered in ice displayed at the gallery , when i first saw the house i was completely surprised, i couldn't believe the state it was in and how the owner would let it get like that. Gregory Holmes is the man who directed and produced this project called Ice House Detroit along with collabrator and architect Mathew Redune. I believe that the owner hoses his house down with water nearly everyday and with amazing repetition of rain and the pure coldness that Detroit gets in winter season .

Frances Hansen's Presentation.

Frances Hansen introduced us as a class, a seminar on what she does now and on her past work . As she progressed in her presentation we found that she had a range of talent through art such as painting mixed media and also installation works which brought us to the attention that she enjoys collecting . She collects things and uses them in such a form that creates interesting and fascinating projects such as jewellery . Frances mentioned that she uses collections in many different ways , one of her projects introduced weeds where she started a calibration of MSVA students and New Castle Art school to form artwork that introduces weeds and then Frances would gather all of them and display them as a collection of linked artwork frames.

I don't use much collection in my work but i do file my research and projects in groups , I think the only things i collected was bus tickets because I knew i spent alot of money a day just taking bus rides and its been like that since i was a young child , i thought if i start collecting them that as a year goes past that i could surprise myself with the amount of tickets i would end up with and it slowly became an addiction .

Lisa Congdon ,another collecting artist who has a small obsession for school supplies such as old erasers etc. She loves them forthe typography that it has . Lisa likes to notice the shades of pink that they each have, caused by there age , she feels that she is saving these erasers because they no longer can be used because their to old and they probably would of been thrown away anyway. This interested me how collectors can start getting addicted to what they do and start making objects such as an eraser to have so much potential in the art world.

Steve Rood's Presentation

Through out Steve's journey in the art world , I found out how a photo he had taken at the age of 10 was a compost heat. This compost heat changed his life from there , He was only 10 when he realized his joy for art was to tell stories through pictures . Steve would take photo's of looking at interactive moments . I was really interested because of the fact that he doesn't paint ,sketch or draw but to choose digital photography over anything else as his dominant skill is something that crossed my mind as soon as he told us as a class , i think digital has affected art through a whole new perspective and i think being different is sometimes the best way to success. My first thought on Steve Rood's website was that it got me interested straight away as i first played one of his mini games where you get to play with this body and torture it by using your mouse and pulling it away from the body , the sureal movement that it shows really interested me why Steve would have such a game on his website . I think maybe frustration brought him towards the idea or maybe he wanted to advertise something significant in such form that people might want to figure out for themselves in which he would have wanted . To me how the body is held occurs to me that it has to do with da vinci or war ? maybe that is how he finds advertisement by using this as a way to find something that someone thinks . The second thing I found interesting was his influences and how he progressed through his life time of research . what I know is that Steve Rood majors in both photography and design. His influences around the world made him who he is today,Which we saw evidence of names that scrolled through very fast with probably 1000's of artist He quoted in his lecture that "Everyone is an influence".