CAPSULE CABARET #3

the performance of

Palomar in Society - On Biting the Tongue.

Basically it reads from top to bottom:

Palomar in society

On biting the tongue

"Any edible tongue will be mashed into a pulp by the teeth"

Part of capsule cabaret afternoon

Animation & Performance

from 2:15

(That's when ours was, I wasn't quite sure when it officially kicked off at the time of making this poster)

in the BA Illustration studio.

Basically just a lot of collected imagery, a warped photocopy, stencilled text, some edited text (that originally said: "Anything edible will be mashed into a pulp by the teeth, jaw and tongue")

I am quite comfortable working in punk style cut-n-paste, so this was pretty easy to piece together really. I think using warped photocopies as a background works quite well for black and white, as it has a textural material-like quality to it.

I also made this beast.

Mr. Palomar now resides in my kitchen/lounge in Halls.
His grey skin tone represents the greyness of his character. Always "umming and ahhing"
His eyes move in unison (not of their own accord) and his maxilla and mandible (thanks, Hunterian) are seperate so his mouth opens and he had a big foam tongue but it was rather rank so i didn't bring it home.

Originally, he was supposed to have an empty white box showing his mind and thoughts through projection. In the end he was a kind of minor part as most of the focus was on the animation, which was on a white curtain. I was behind the curtain operating the eyes, jaw and tongue.

It was a little bit shambolic on my part because I couldn't see what was going on and hadn't chance to rehearse as such! I enjoyed it though, it was a larf.

CAPSULE CABARET #1

We had to make a storyboard on the texts we had been given. My group's was Palomar in Society - On Biting the Tongue. We assigned ourselves six each images each or so.


Here are mine.

Mr. Palomar's brain.

Thoughts.

Zig zags.


Flashback in mind (circle).

Consequences.

Propaganda eyes.

The originals are on A4 paper done with biro. I sketched the first one out, then folded it to A5 size. I then scaled up that section, using a grid method and did the same from the second to the third one.

They are not the greatest drawings in the world but I think 'Thoughts' and 'Zig zags' are pretty succesful in that they benefit from the textures I used, which are diagrams of brain processes.

I am still not sure whether I should have used colour. I like the uniformity that comes from keeping it black and white (not to mention having to pay 5p rather than 70p on the photocopier!!!) but with hindsight of the last 3 projects or so (as well as line drawings from British Museum) I am starting to become sick of never using colour.

The way I replicated sections was a decent method, i reckon. I masking taped the original to a new piece of A4, put it up to the window and basically traced it.

The only one I'm really unhappy about is 'Consequences'. I feel that the bars look cack-handed and the hands look cackbarred. I should probably have put more detail into the eyebrows too, esp on 'Propaganda eyes'. Can't win 'em all!