Class Outing

stephenclusker — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:05:49 +0000

Bodies Exhibition
This whole exhibition was a display of real bodies, some were cut open to show internal organs and other such pieces while others were in poses… but all were skinned! We saw displays of the arteries and veins of the whole body. There was a display showing healthy persons lungs compared to smokers lungs… quite disturbing… There was a bodies preserved in the position of people doing sports, this was interesting as it showed the muscles of the body in use
The most disturbing part of this exhibition was the section which showed the stages of a foetus from 1 week on… not the nicest thing ever… overall I didn’t enjoy this exhibition, yes it was something I wanted to see but I wouldn’t go see it again. I felt the need for a tour guide as we just glanced at everything but most of it made no sense. Bit of an anticlimax but at least I can say I saw it…

Hugh Lane Gallery
This gallery holds a collection of modern and contemporary Irish and International art. And that’s pretty much it… I could call it an interesting trip but I think shocking would better portray this place. Most of the paintings were plain boring canvases with single colours which were ridiculously priced… a small violet canvas was on sale for €15,000 and a large canvas with a few rectangular colours was on sale for €1.6 million… a bit crazy… And even if you bought the works of “art” you couldn’t have them for another 5 years. We had a bit of fun with one of the security guards and that was the best of it, wouldn’t be number 1 on my list of places to visit but we all have our opinions…

Trinity College Dublin
Our third and last trip was to the science exhibition at Trinity College Dublin. The exhibition was called “Lightwave: Defy The Darkness”. We had a tour guide to show us around and he explained what everything was and how it worked, nobody was left behind pondering about what anything did… we moved on when everyone saw and understood the work. The first thing we saw was “The Orb”. It was a flat disc standing vertically on a powerful motor; the edges of the disc were lined with L.E.D’s. When the device starts up it begins spinning at great speed, it begins to form an orb shape. The lights activate using precise maths and timing and the image of the earth appears. This was brilliant…my sorta thing.., the image ran for a few seconds and then began displaying news articles and weather conditions from around the world, although it looks cool, eventually it just wrecks your eyes!!! We then moved on to other things like a torch which made shapes on a large screen depending on where the user directed it. We were taken to a room which had 5 rows of orange siren lights, which reacted to movement in the room and shone in the direction of it. There was another device which monitored and informed you about the size and location of all seismic activity happening in the world. Next we saw how electricity can be generated from soil. A bacterium is put into the soil and a reaction causes electricity! We were also brought into a big silver dome where LED’s were in bundles on the roof and a number of bean-bags were placed in the dome. The walls of the dome were lined with a silver foil…when the lights were switched on it created a spectacular light show. Overall I loved this exhibition. It was great to see other people’s innovative skills in creating these works. It linked in to Creative Digital Media because it showed how people were thinking “outside the box” in showing us science….

Week 10

stephenclusker — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:14:18 +0000

Week 9

stephenclusker — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:46:54 +0000

In this week we learned some different techniques using photoshop to edit photos.

Week 8

stephenclusker — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:18:35 +0000

In this week we spent our day making sculptures from bamboo, we did this with the help of Breda Marron. Our sculptures are still standing outside Block A

Week 5

stephenclusker — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:05:53 +0000

In week 5 we recieved a brief introduction to Photoshop, we learned to use a variety of tools to edit and manipulate photo colour,properties and texture

Week 4 cont.

stephenclusker — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:43:53 +0000

Week 4

stephenclusker — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:48:31 +0000

In week 4 we visited the Botanic Gardens. We drew a number of drawings around the area. We also brought cameras and took a number of photos.

stephenclusker — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:31:20 +0000

Visual Language Week 2

stephenclusker — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:30:29 +0000

In the first part of todays lesson we looked at the theory behind visual language. in the second part of the days lesson we drew pictures and practiced different shadding techiniques…….

Visual Language Week 1

stephenclusker — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:37:22 +0000

This week we were introduced to to the visual language module. We learned about some of the items we will learn about, we were asked to write a little about ourselves and drew three pictures associated with ourselves. We then had to draw one of the pictures on a larger scale.

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