My Creative Process

Here is my final video for this class!

My Creative Process from Alyssa Moore on Vimeo.

December 1st- Last Class

So today was our last actual class meeting before we meet for finals to turn in our 50 apple renderings and our 5 minute final video about our creative processes.  During class Jimmy just asked us what design classes we were signed up to take during the Winter quarter.  He then told us what we were supposed to get out of those classes and what we should know as a result of taking them.  I found it pretty awesome that a professor is actually interested in the academic process in the graphic design major as opposed to solely focusing on the class.  It's always nice to know that some one wants you to succeed.

Anyways, time to get crackin' on those last few apple renderings and film some stuff for my final video!  I'm just not stoked to hear my own voice played to the class, but it's nothing compared to the big scheme of things.  I'll just have to deal with it.  I can't wait to see what everyone else did for their final video!

November 29th- Beautiful Losers

Beautiful Losers trailer

Monday we spent most of class watching a movie called Beautiful Losers.  After watching the film, Jimmy tried to initiate a discussion in class about what we thought the movie was about.  I gave my answer, but I don't think it was what he was looking for.  Still, it was what I got from the movie and what I thought it was about.  Different people can watch the same thing and get something totally different from it.  If I watched it again I would probably get something totally different from it as well.  Anyways, my answer "It's about doing what you love because you love doing it."  A few other student gave answers but the discussion didn't seem to go anywhere.  Mind you, it's the last week before finals and I take it everyone is either stressed out, exhausted, or hit the wall.  As a result, Jimmy asked us to post in our blogs what we thought the movie was about so here it goes.

According to IMDB this movie is a documentary that, "follows the lives and careers of a collective group of Do-it-yourself artists and designers who inadvertently affected the art world."  True, that's technically what it's about but I'm still sticking with my original answer.  It is about doing what you love (artistically) because you love it.  All of the artists in the film made their art because they loved to do it.  They originally were not looking for profit, they just enjoyed what they did, showed it off to their friends, and had a great time doing it.  Most of the film talked about a gallery one of the artists in the film opened called Alleged Gallery.  This was a gallery in a crappy part of New York city where he and his friends showed their artwork and had parties.  This gave them a real sense of community and sparked a real do-it-yourself art phenomenon in not only New York, but around the country.  At one point, Aaron Rose, the founder of Alleged Gallery talks about worrying about not being able to pay rent for the gallery but shows still went on and the artists continued creating and showing their work because they loved to create.  Alleged was a great influence on what street art is today and pretty much introduced it to the world as being art even though it it not traditional art.

Looking back on it, for the most part I think the film was about the introduction & rise of do-it-yourself art & street art and doing it strictly because the artists loved their art form(s) and creating things from nothing.