Influencing Artist #2

Welcome back to the second segment of influencing artist number 2! Today I will be discussing the second inspirational artist for another art assessment. The artist that I have decided to take my inspiration from is called Cesar Kuriyama. He as an individual decided to film his life, 1 second everyday. He isn't referred to as an artist because he doesn't put his works in exhibitions, but he did a spectacular piece of filming called "I'm here" in which he filmed for 1 second every single day in 2013 from January 1st to December 31st. He is a true inspiration to me in my video as I integrate the 1 second clips but not for every single day. They vary from up to 5 clips a day to no clips every 2 days. In one of his videos, he talks about this app that he is releasing to the public which records 1 second of video and creates video that mirror his ones. He decides that this will give inspiration to people that the small things in life can be inspiration. Again, I did not copy this concept however it was what my video was about originally. I agree that everything and anything can be counted as inspiration.

Cesar Kuriyama is a Director, Producer, TED speaker, 3D VFX Artist, Animator and educator as stated on his website. He is currently pursuing personal creative endeavors such as 1 second everyday and recently did a TED talk about it. He used to teach courses in computer animation at NYU, Harvard University and his personal works have been featured on publications such as Fast Company, Wired, Mashable, CNN and BBC.

To me as an individual, this person is an inspiration to me and my works as his style suits my way of creating videos and his source of inspiration is the same as my source of inspiration if not even more then my source. We differ for the fact that my inspiration is put in my drawings whereas he doesn't play around with his inspiration, he leaves it as it is.

Art Assessment Progress

Recently I have been given an assessment (as stated in a previous blog) to create a 4-D artwork about the artist and their world and so far it has gone spectacularly! I've been finding lots of footage for the work and I believe the finished product will turn out to be crazy and inventive if I do say so myself. I have over 1 minute of footage so far which might not seem a lot but here is why. I have gathered a lot video footage from anything and everything, from me going to church to me walking in a classroom. All this footage will then be shortened to 1 second each which is why the video sounds to be short when in fact I have over 30 minutes of actual footage that has been cut out!

The music has also been a major problem as previously I was not able to find the correct piece, but now I have found the perfect piece that will set the mood of the film. If you want to listen to the piece copy this link (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv-j20_ZN48) and paste it in the search bar, trust me when I say this,  it is beautiful. The reason I chose this piece is because first of all I like this type of music, and second I feel it suits the mood that I want to set for the video. The video is about me and my world, where i get my inspiration from essentially and this really helps convey what I feel about the subject. Kingdom Hearts is where the piece is from and it is a great game with great soundtracks so I wanted to share that.

The video will contain footage of me drawing as well as all the different things that go on around me. Daily life things such as walking home from school, getting on a bus, going to class, watching, drawing, reading, everything. I believe that all my inspiration is everything that goes on around me and nothing is useless in the world for me. I want to capture everything in my drawings.
Thanks for reading guys and leave a comment on what your inspirations are for art!! Byeeee