LA JETEE

First walking into the curtained off room in the walker, i assumed LA JETEE was just another fartsy piece of work, before i knew it i was totally enthralled.

LA JETEE 28 minutes of pictures with a single narrator telling a story of a man in paris just after World War III. The man the story follows is a prisoner who is trapped in Dr. Frankenstein's Lab. The Lab technicians are trying to expirament with time travel on the prisoner's. They want to send a man into the future to find a way to save the present, but to send a man into the future they had to clear his memory of the past. The main Character (who was never named) goes through days of electrotherapy, in hours, he trips backwards in time a memory of a womans face from when he was a child, he is an adult now and falls in love with the woman, she is the only thing that his brain can focus on after all of the expiraments and torture. Every time he goes back he finds the woman again, in another part of Paris, and the woman comes to accept the main character a ghost who keeps popping up in her life. At the end of movie the main is able to go into the future and get a power source, and as a last request from the people in the future, he asked to be sent into the past where he would be with the woman, but when he goes back, he realizes there is no past and time is a perception that humans have created, and he dies.

LA JETEE was made in 1928 by Chris marker and is a beautiful use of photography to try and convey a message of how humans memory works.

Reflection

I thought this weeks drawing class was interesting. The lecture eat the beginning was very informative, but the gesture drawings were a little stale, i added limbs and legs to my gestures, so i could understand the pose. How her balance was shifted, why her shoulder blades were sticking out and so on. And on the whole opinion of the contour drawing it always seems like the people who have the worst contour drawings are the ones that get the highest regard... either way i learned a lot, and have a done a few drawings since on my own using what we learned.

Pleuroploca gigantea

The Horse Conch shell is a Atlantic predatory snail shell, and is technically not a conch. This little guy enjoys wallowing in mud,and eating large gastropods. If food gets scarce, they eat each other. This was the state sea shell of Florida in 1969 which was a pretty groovy year. The snail is the largest snail in American waters, and is unique for having a bright red and orange body. Each snail shell has ten whorls on it (some are very small), and is fairly uniform in shape.

Reflection

I was supposed to reflect on this weeks life drawing lessons. I am glad that we are out of contours and are now starting to build structures, personally i need to visually see the 3D structure I am drawing in order to correctly draw it. This spine this is pretty sweet because it starts to put everything in perspective (also makes me think about my posture). But i am looking forward to learning more and more as the semester goes on (and hope not too many 30 min sketches)

This is my first blind Contour drawing