Crossmedia Design AKI

It's been a while since I updated my blog, so today I have searched all my stuff and today I am going to upload as much stuff as I can to keep you guys up to date on my progress within the AKI. So for Photography we had to make photos in the old fashioned way, analogue. But not with just a analogue camera, but with an improvised shoe box which functioned as a dark room with a small hole as big as a needle, and on the other side inside the box we had to place light sensitive photography paper. This was time consuming but fun way to create some cool/oldskool looking pictures. As you needed to change the paper every time you wanted to make a new picture inside a darkroom. When you're done with taking a picture you had to develop it using different kinds of chemical mixtures in order for the picture to show on the paper. We had 5 subjects to capture on paper: - Self portrait - The meeting - The change (Something you did what changed the scene) - Far away & Close-up

For the second assignment of Martin Draax, we had to create an artwork around the subject called 'Guilty Pleasure'. This mean you have to use something in your work which you like/enjoy but which you don't want others to know because of for example: It's really embaressing. In my case it wasn't that difficult. At my High School I regularly played 'The Sims'. I really could play this game for hours. But as you already might think, The Sims is not really a cool game to be playing as a boy. This was the reason I never talked about it. After you found your 'Guilty Pleasure' you had to combine it with something else. (Associations) This was also not too hard for me, since all of my friends played 'Call Of Duty' a lot. It seemed really cool to combine these two totally different games into one artwork. The guilty pleasure is supposed to be really subtle. But in my case, if you know 'The Sims' series, then you'd instantly recog

For my very first assignment for Martin Draax his lessons, we had to interview a classmate who we did not like at all. But since there's no one I don't like, I instantly looked for someone who I did not know very well. It didn't take very long before I interviewed Alicia. She's one of the German students who follow their education here in Holland. We started our interview with some general questions, but as soon as we talked about our family I immediately found out we had something in common. It turned out that Alicia lost her father when she was 9 year's old. Her father suffered from cancer and didn't make it. I myself have experienced almost the same thing. When I was 6 year's old I lost my brother who also died from cancer just before his 7th birthday. Because of this we really understand each other how it is to experience such awful events. Although it's never really possible to achieve, I really wanted to give the viewer an idea of how so

This afternoon I had a very interesting and inspiring workshop, where we were introduced to the printing process called silk-screen.

Today we have three workshops, the first workshop we just had was 'etching'. A very old discipline of printing. You draw(scratch) the surface of for example a sheet of plastic. After that you have to cover the surface with ink in such a way it sticks into the scratched areas. When done you have to remove most of the ink so you can use it for printing by laying it on a big pressure table with a moist sheet of paper on the printing plate.

This picture was made last week when we had an introduction to the wood crafting facilities at the AKI academy. The assignment was to craft a canvas frame. At the moment the picture was taken I was sawing the wooden pieces.

Just started my new education 'Crossmedia Design' on the AKI ArtEZ (Art Academy) in Enschede. Before the year even started, we already received an assignment. We had to make a costume based on a real life piece of art which you then had to wear on the very first school day. For my costume I chose Mondriaan as my inspiration combined with the Museum theft which was on tv a few months ago. The costume has two parts, the outfit with an upper body in a backpack which I wear, and the painting after which I hide while camouflaging myself with the white fabric. And in order for me to see I had made a small wide opening in the painting.