Parts of Final Drawing

The length and width in between arrows signify the speed of the object.

Final Drawing: A Ring Falling

This is a drawing using AutoCad and working with vectors to show the movement and forces acting on a ring as it falls.

Rough sketch of final piece

The movement path of the bubble is my favourite piece out of all the drawings I did in nature.
It's movement is also what I think would be the most similar to the movement path of a ring rock falling.
I tried drawing in a straight line but this proved uninteresting so I drew my vectors facing outwards like spikes and reflecting the motion of the rock of the ring not just the direction.
Lines are lengthened for speed and also pushed closer together.
I hope to give the impression of twisting, turning and bouncing with my ring vectors.

Drawing Movement by the Creek

This is the movement of a duck: diving, eating and swimming. The second line of movement is of a piece of wood stuck between rocks and moving in a current.
These are the movements of a fly, a bubble in the waterfall current (my personal favourite) and a map of the movement of a patch in the stream.
This is a map of the movement of the waterfall.
These lines of movement show water behind a rock and the flight of leaves on a tree.
These are my beginning drawings, they show the movement of a little leaf on a soft branch, some flax and a daisy. I like the different shapes the different pieces make.

This final page shows the movement of leaves on a tree and blades of grass with vectors. We can see how big and in what direction the movement is.

One Word: Energy

WIND WAND by len lye

SWAY

Len Lye

Len Lye

Len Lye is a New Zealander, born in Christchirch. His earliest works were inspired by experimenting with movement in art but have unfortunately have been lost. Since then, Lye worked a lot with film.

His first generally broadcasted piece of film called 'A Colour Box' was an advertisement for GBO and features experimental lines and blocks of colour painted onto the film, moving in time with soundtrack by Don Baretto. He was the first to significantly pioneer this technique although experiments had been made in the past.

This technique gives the impression of constant movement on and off screen.

Shot from 'A Colour Box'

My favourite short film is 'Full Fathoms Five' which Len created by scratching the words of this shakespeare quote onto the film strip itself.

During the 50's he turned from film making to what we now call 'kinetic sculpture'. Some of these were like continuations of his film works such 'Free Radicals'. The soundtrack is partly comprised of sounds from his kinetic sculpture.

Free Radicals

Throughout all his work you can see his ideas of light, life force and movement coming through... he called this 'total artwork'.

Grass

This example of kinetic sculpture is made of stainless steel blades in wood and moving with the aid of a motor.

Lebbeus Woods

Lebbeus Woods

The information about him was considerably harder to understand... convoluted language...the stuff that I read anyway. But here goes...

His works are very political, he explores the ideas of the need to dominate and natural beauty being confronted by new technology.

He challenges the idea of some architectural as being merely useful, his works serve no purpose other than to provoke thought and appeal to the eye. He appeals to the forever changing contemporary society.

"the interplay of metrical systems establishing boundaries of materials and energetic forms is the foundation of a universal science (universcience) whose workers include all individuals".

Neomechanical Tower (Upper) Chamber

This is an example of his work.. his perception of a chair suspended. It was ripped off in a Universal Studio's film '12 Monkeys' and he got considerable reimbursion.

Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp

"A straight horizontal thread one meter long falls from a height of one meter onto a horizontal plane twisting as it pleases and creates a new image of the unit of length."

He then took the shape that the string fell in and carved draftmen's straighedges accordingly.

Through this piece of art he is thinking about chance and accident versus the meticulous and skilled paintings of his contemporaries.

This idea sprung from a budding interest in physics and maths as he drew away from 'artistic society' which did not recognise his work.

3 Standard Stoppages

Another work of his which experiments with machinery and physics is 'The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors". This is made with various materials (e.g copper) on glass and comprises of two panels. The top represents the bride and her awakening sexuality and the bottom represents the bachelors. He describes the figures as 'desire motors' and looks into the chemistry between two sexes or the 'sparks' that fly between each other. He explores the idea of sex as purely a physical action (like cogs and mechanisms) working without emotion.

The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors

Throughout his career, Duchamp challenged what society percieves as being art and as a joke entered a urinal in an exhibition in order to provoke a thoughtful response from society.

Fountain

Boolean Creations

Right View

Front View

Perspective View

Top View

Section of Auckland's Skyline

This was made using the programme Rhino and is a section of the photo... the left side...

Corrina and My Machine Part

Our first attempt at using AutoCad

Abstract Machine

The illusion of movement is what I was aiming for here. I used scale and copy tools a lot.