Artists who work between disciplines

For my research on artists who work between disciplines i decied to research three artists.First decidion was to reaserach on Dam on Albarn who was part of a band Gorillaz which I quite liked, then Michel Gondry which I was recomemnded to research and Morgan Freeman becouse of his beleavible acting and a voice with which he can make anything sound interesting.

Dam on Albarn

Damon Albarn is singer, songwriter, record producer and actor. He was involved in many high profile projects but he is best known as a song writer for Gorillaz and as a frontman and primary songwriter of Britpop and Blur. and has also helmed such lesser-known projects as The Good, the Bad & the Queen, Monkey: Journey to the West and Mali Music.He also was featured in Antonia Bird's 1997 film Face. Albarn was also featured in Gunar Karlsson's 2007 film Anna and the Moods.
Even though he had huge success in band blur he started his own project/band Gorillaz which became more succesfull than blur. Gorillaz was unique in some way becouse a band bembers were all animated characters which also plyed a huge role in Gorillaz succes. Afterwards similar things were done by other bands for example Daft Punk turned there album Discovery into animated movie.

Michel Gondry

Michel Gondry is a French film, commercial and music video director and a screenwriter. He is noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scene. His career as a filmmaker began with creating music videos for the French rock band Oui Oui, in which he also served as a drummer. He worked on films like "Human nature", "The Science of sleep" and "The Green Hornet" he also worked on a lot of documentary films,short films, advertisements  and music videos in my opinion his most famous music video is "Around the World" by Daft Punk.

Morgan Freeman

Morgan Porterfield Freeman, Jr. is an American actor, film director, and narrator. He is known for his acting as a wise and faterly character and for his well known and unique voice . Freeman made his acting debut at age 9, playing the lead role in a school play. His first credited film appearance was in 1971's ''Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow?'' Beginning in the mid-1980s,. Morgan Freeman is well known for his acting but he also was a director of movie ''Bopha!'' but that was his only directed movie and after that he sticked with what he knows best acting and narrating and after one year after release of his directed movie he stared in movie called The Shawshank Redemption which was voted the best movie of all time. He is usualy narrator in the movies he acts in.

sources: wikipedia and www.imdb.com

Comics research

I researched comic called "The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck" which is considered to be first comic book it was published 1837. It was forty page book each page had several pictures with accompanying text underneath.

It was created by Rudolf Topffer from Switzerland.

 This comic started a whole new way of story telling which is realy focused on visual representation of a story.
The artwork is simple (black and white). Comic shows how people were dressing at the time comic was made. I wasn't been able to find much info about this comic but from the looks of it i think that commic takes place in middle ages and its influenced by comic like caricatures in newspapers, cards and books. Here is an example of such drawing.

I think comics had a realy positive impact on people of that time becouse it had biger apeal than books and illiteracy of people of that time were high so comics surved as a good tool for teaching people to read.

sources: Wikipedia and Google images

Woody Allen

Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author. Born on December 1 1935. Started his career at the age of 15, he wrote jokes for a local news paper later on moved on to write jokes for talk shows. 
Woody's theoretical directorial debut was in "Whats up, Tiger Lilly?" but his real directorial debut was in "Take the Money and Run" After a start of his carrer as a director he started acting and would star or even play a major role in most of his films. Due to this he was placed in a list of directors who would regulary star in theirs movies. List contains directors and actors such as Charles Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock.
His list of movies are dominated by comedies and in alot of them he is playing neurotic character and he plays it well. Because of that it is thought that he is a bit neurotic but in the interwiev for Time he denied that. 
In his later movies he tried to transition from comedy into a bit more sereous genres with a bit of dark humour but he still is best known for his romantic comedies and looking at todays romantic comedies its doubtfull that Woody Allens films had any influence on them.


 sources: wikipedia and interviews

Robert Capa  

Born Endre Friedmann to Dezső and Júlia Friedmann on October 22, 1913 in Budapest, Hungary. Deciding that there was little future under the regime in Hungary, he left home at 18.

In 1939 Capa emigrated to the United States and in 1942 he was recruited by Collier's Weekly as a photojournalist. He went to Britain and covered the Home Front before moving to North Africa. The following year Capa joined Life Magazine as a war photographer and accompanied Allied troops to Sicily in July 1943.

Capa also recorded dramatic photographs of the D-Day landing.What made Capa so exeptional from other war photographers was that he would take pictures of not just aftermath but of the action itself. That requared him to go side by side with soldiers risking his life. In all, Capa took 108 pictures in the first couple of hours of the invasion of France. Unfortunately, a member of the staff of Life Magazine made a mistake in the darkroom and only eleven were publishable.

Subsequently he reported on the early days of the state of Israel and then the attempt by France to hold onto Vietnam. Robert Capa was killed by a land mine in Vietnam in 1954.

Some of his photos: 

This photo of a man geting shot in  Spanish Civil War astablished capa as a modern war photographer but there is alot of arguing and evidence that a photo is a fake. Some of the arguments that points to photograph being fake is that soldier's arm would flex if he got shot and also it was said that that the picture does not correspond to any actual event.

Websites used : http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAPcapa.htm  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Capa
http://www.slightly-out-of-focus.com/robert_capa_index.html

Carlos Tarrats

Carlos Tarrats is a still life fine art photographer. His images are not digital manipulations but are constructed on a set and then printed digitally onto Kodak photographic paper. Much of his focus is on the versatility of plant life and serves as his main subject. When he holds his camera, he is considering life, death, hope and conflict. The protagonist is his photos, plants, may end up visually distorted, however he is shooting to give his viewer’s imagination a big dose of hope. “Hope is the possibility for something else, not necessarily something better and yet not necessarily something worse. Whether one is better than the other depends on one’s perception. 

Here are a few of his works:

looking through his works you notice a lot of them has damaged plants and blood like looking splatter which creates quite a chaotic atmosphere like the photos where taken near explosion.

http://weburbanist.com/2009/09/23/fine-art-photography-work-of-24-famous-photographers/

Inseption-short rewiev

I am reviewing movie called "Inception" which is written and directed by Christopher Nolan which stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a main character Don Cobb and in my opinion Leonardo DiCaprio is one of the best actors alive becouse in every movie he gets into his character wery well.

Don Cobb which is really good at extraction and that is stealing information from people minds in their sleep but he gets a job and the reward for completing it is that he could get his old life back whitch he lost but its not his usual job of extracting information this job's goal is not of extracting information but plating an idea in persons mind. I am not going to explain any more of the plot because i think the best way to see this film is without knowing much of a plot.


There wasn't allot of special effects in the movie and I think that's is good because special effects that was in the movie were really good and it made movie look more realistic.

All in all the movie left me really impressed and after movie ended I still was thinking about it for quite a while because it left quite a few questions.

Photography

Photography is an art of creating still images.The photography's name itself comes from Greek word phos, photos-light and graphos-writing. The word photography means writing with light.  First photography was made in 1826 by french inventor his photograph were produced on a polished pewter plate covered with a petroleum.Although iam not sure if thats the fist photography becouse i managed to find two more photos claiming to be first.

Before photography the only ways to  graphically capture surroundings was by drawing and painting witch required a lot of time to produce compared to photography.As time passed quality of photography increased and slowly photography became accessible to more and more people not just rich people. After invention of digital cameras people started taking huge amounts of photos and at present times you probably wouldn't be able to find a person who hadn't taken a photograph.

• 5TH-4TH Centuries B.C Chinese and Greek philosophers describe the basic principles of optics and the camera.
• 1664-1666 Isaac Newton discovers that white light is composed of different colors .
• 1727 Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure to light.
• 1837 Louis Daquerre's first daguerreotype- the first image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under thirty minutes of light exposure.
• 1861 First colour photography 
• 1884 flexible, paper-based photographic film invented.
• 1926 First underwater colour photo 
• 1946 First photo taken from space
• 1988 The arrival of true digital cameras (Fuji  DS-1P)

Websites used: en.wikipedia.org , photo.net/history/timeline