City in flux by Shay Doyle

City In Flux By Shay Doyle

The Definition of “city”

The Definition of “flux”

A city is a large and permanent human settlement. Although there is no agreement on how a city is distinguished from a town with in general English language meanings, many cities have a particular administrative, legal, or historical status based on local law. Cities generally have complex systems for sanitation, utilities, land usage, housing, and transportation. The concentration of development greatly facilitates interaction between people and businesses, benefiting both parties in the process, but it also presents challenges managing urban growth.

Two common usages of the term flux, each with rigorous mathematical frameworks. A simple concept through out physics and applied mathematics is the flow of a physical property in space, frequently also with the time variation. It is the basis of the field concept in physics and mathematics, with two principal applications: in transport phenomena and surface integrals.

Buskers

Homeless people

Posters and adverts. Pros?tutes

Parts of the country that have changed because of migra&on.

Things that are taken for granted/ Over looked in the city

The hidden city How a city diﬀers from day life to night life

The life of a busker and how its hidden in plain site

Figh&ng for jobs because of Immigrants moving in to the country

The secret life of the homeless in a street in the city

How beau?ful the city can be, how colorful it can be, fast pace and busy

Abandoned buildings, shelter for the homeless

Migra&on More living accommoda&on being built in the city Popula&on of Bri&sh ci&es (city expansion) Are growing because of Migra&on. People in other countries move into Britain to improve -‐  There jobs -‐  There life’s -‐  There well being

Immigrants have not been allowed to migrate here

Wider range of cuisines and takeaways for Bri&sh because of the ethnici&es migra&ng here. War &me in ci&es food was ra&oned, o access to these cuisines tradi&onally from other countries

Scott Carthy Title - Director, Photographer From - Ireland Education - Kingston university Graphic design and photography, Motion Pictures and Film Film: Scott Carthy's short film championing New York’s subway performers Link to - video h"p://vimeo.com/91910763 A very professional beyond-his-years film here from Kingston University student Scott Carthy. For two days he followed some very fast-moving street performers around New York and discovered their talent and the jeopardy they have recently found themselves in. “Manhattan, since mid March, has seen an urgent reform, with arrests of performers using the cars as their stage trebling in a New York minute,” Scott told us. “Section 1050.6© of the New York city Transit Rules of Conduct states that performers are ‘free to use the subway stations, but can not operate within the cars themselves.’ Understandably this crack down has come as a result of complaints, but a bias becomes apparent as attitudes towards these dancers seem to be split right down the middle.” It’s true. Anyone who gets public transport in a city will understand the equal measures of despair and admiration you feel when a performer enters your train carriage. It’s films like these that make you sway towards the latter, giving you an understanding of the true skills of these people and the history of what they do. “In a world were viral videos desensitize the public to extraordinary talent, I felt the need to show a more considered view point and this short film became the result,” Scott says. Three cheers to him for undertaking the rather dangerous and stressful job of following these guys around to make this timely and pretty beautiful film.

Scott Carthy Paper Has Two Sides With the development of football violence comes new forms of improvised weaponry. In many stadiums across the united kingdom newspapers have been banned due to the possibility of using them as a weapon.

Can We Wrap At Your Festival? An ongoing series of structures made entirely from cling film, created at festivals throughout the UK. Continuous development and repair of the structures allows them to evolve throughout the festival in terms of form and durability in response to how the public interact with them Throughout.

Claire Rollet Born in France, Claire Rollet spent most of her life in the UK. She is based in London and the way she does her work is by going out around London and taking pictures of landmarks and cultures. She works from her studio in the back of her garden.

Approach First of all, Claire Rollet works out a composition and some ideas for the image using quick sketches to show to the client, perhaps including drawings and images from her database. She then creates a line drawing In Indian ink, scans it into Photoshop and works on the color digitally.

Style Traditional ink line drawing is the cornerstone of Claireâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s style, but with a fresh, modern touch to it thanks to the digital colors.

Training Claire trained as a multimedia fine artist making stop-motion animation but found that her childhood passion for drawing took over. She did a BA in Fine Art at Kingston University.

Claire Rollet

Peter Saville

Peter Saville designed many record sleevess for factory records artists, most notably for joy division and new order. Influenced by fellow student Malcolm Garret, who had begun designing for the manchester punk group, the buzzcocks, and by Herbert Spencers pioneers of Modern Typography, saville was inspired by Jan Tschichold, cheif propagandist for the new Typography. According to Saville; “Malcom had a copy of Herbert Spencers pioneers of modern Typography. The one chapter that he hadnt reinterpretted in his own work was the cool, disciplined “New Typography” of tschichold and its subetly appealed to me. “i found a parallel in it for the new wave that was evolving out of punk”.

Storm Thorgerson

In 1968 he founded a graphic art group called Hipgnosis. The group designed many famous single and album covers, With peter Christopherson joining them for their late commission.

ART

Muse – Absolution cover

Pink Floyd – The dark side of the moon cover

Paul Politis Paul Politis is a self taught photographer from Quebec Canada. He has been making photographs since 1988, first in the traditional darkroom, and since 2005, digitally.

He is a black and white photographer, his work has appeared and been reviewed in magazines internationally. Magazines such as shutterbug magazine, black and white photography (UK) and the American muse.

Abandoned buildings

Paul Politis Graffiti

People

Street Photography by Paul Politis

Art movement - Modernism Modernism Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with trends and changes, arose from a wide range scale of transformations in the western society. Modernism changed and was shaped with the changes going on at that time and was influenced by the modern industrial societies and rapid growth of the cities at that time. Followed by the horror of the first world war. Modernists also rejected religious beliefs and modernism also rejected the certainty of enlightenment.

Art movement - Postmodernism Postmodernism Postmodernism is a late 20th century movement in the arts, architecture, and criticism that was a departure form the art movement modernism. Postmodernism includes skeptical interpretations of culture, literature, Art, history, and literary criticism. Postmodernism is associated with post-structuralism and deconstruction because its usage as a term gained significant popularity at the same time as 20th century and post-structural thought.

Art movement â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Art Deco Art Deco, or Deco, is an influential visual arts design style. Art deco had first appeared in France after World War I and began to grow internationally from the 1920s, all the way through till the 1940s before its popularity was lost after World War II. Art deco is an eclectic style that combines traditional craft motifs. It is done with machine age imagery and materials. The style is often characterized by rich and strong colors, bold geometric sharp shapes.

Art movement - Cubism

Art movement – Abstract expressionism

Cubism is an early-20th-century art movement pioneered by a famous artist Pablo Picasso, joined by Jean Metzinger, Henri Le Fauconnier, Fernand Léger and Juan Gris that changed European painting and sculptures, and inspired related movements in music and literature and architecture. Cubism has been considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century. The term is broadly used in association with a wide variety and range of art produced in Paris during the 1910s all the way through till the 1920s.

Abstract expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, it was developed in New York in the 1940s. Abstract expressionism was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris.

Baroque architecture

Modern Architecture

Baroque architecture is the building style of the Baroque era, It started in the late 16th century in Italy. It the roman vocabulary of renaissance architecture and used It in a new theatrical fashion. It often expressed the triumph of the catholic church and the absolutist state. It was characterized by new explorations of form, light and shadow, and dramatic intensity.

Modern architecture or modernist architecture is a term applied to an overarching movement, with its exact definition and scope varying widely. The term is often applied to modernist movements at the turn of the 20th century, with efforts to reconcile the principles underlying architectural design with rapid technological advancement and the modernization of society. It would take the form of numerous movements, schools of design, and architectural styles, some in tension with one another, and often equally defying such classification. The term Modern architecture may be used to differentiate from Classical architecture following Vitruvian ideals, while it is also applied to various contemporary architecture styles such as Postmodern, High-tech or even New Classical, depending on the context. In art history, the revolutionary and neoclassical styles that evolved around 1800 are also called modern.

A video in the eyes of someone traveling around town all day.

Cinema 4D map

The busy life of transport, people and signs

Video of the city showing its everyday busy life.

Map of Manchester On a collage of materials.

Typography map of Manchester

Black and white with color type to do with city in ﬂux.

Ideas!

poster Flip book

What is busking?

Street performance or busking is the practice of performing in public places, for gratuities. In many countries the REWARDSare generally in the form of money but other gratuities such as food, drink or gifts may be given. Street performance is practiced all over the world by men, women and children and dates back to antiquity. In English-speaking countries people engaging in this practice are called street performers or buskers. Performances can be just about anything that people find entertaining. Performers may do acrobatics, animal tricks, balloon twisting, caricatures, clowning, comedy, contortions, escapology, dance, singing, fire skills, flea circus, fortune-telling, juggling, magic, mime, living statue, musical performance, puppeteering, snake charming, storytelling or reciting poetry or prose, street art such as sketching and painting, street theatre, sword swallowing, and ventriloquism.

Etymology The term "busking" was first noted in the English language around the middle 1860s in Great Britain. The verb "to busk", from the word "busker", comes from the Spanish root word "buscar", meaning "to seek" The Spanish word "buscar" in turn evolved from the Indo-European word *"bhudh-skō" (to win, conquer).

Buskers in Manchester S>ll image movie

Idea 1 - Buskers

Mini movie

Idea 2 - traffic and its controllement.

Idea 3 - timelapse video of the city.

The idea of this is to show signs with in a city in photos and posiibly in a video of what person would see on there every day adventure. the photos would be edited so they was black and white and only street digns be in colour. id use the traditional colour of what the signs are olready and just emphersize andthe colour and make them more vibrent. The photos would be a contempary and simple sort of photograph collection, by collection i will use probably around 4 or 5 photos and have them done in this style. the video if i do make a video to go withthe photos will be done in the very same stle where its black and white and only the signs will be in colour. the idea of this is to show how signs do control us as we live everyday life being controlled.

This idea is a timelapse of the city showing the constant flux throughout a city. this wouldnt be just a normal same old timelapse seen like previous onse id want to show the city from all angles and also different topics though out the city. such as people, id show the city from a persons perspective in every day life in first person and then follow someone around on there everyday life which would be 3rd person. then id do the same with cars and then id show traffic of all types of vechiles and finally a roof top veiw of the city from dawn till tusk.

Idea 4 - typography map What is it exactly? This idea is showing to try and show people the we rely on streets and there names to do every day things, for example have you ever got lost, well why is that? is it becasue you have taken a wrong turn somewhere or is it that you need to rely on street names instead of in a sense breaking the rules and following your own instinct. well this idea would be to show you what would the perfect most ideal city or town be for you, if you was to have created the city you live in, work in or any other relation to you. This idea follows something simuilar to Gary breslin’s video series in his “ODD NY” short video series. he calls the project mapping, well thats the first chapter that i would follow rather closely. “mapping” shows us the familiar and iconic map of lower Manhattan as it expands, splits, re-groups and forms an entirely new topography. It’s the downtown that Breslin knows, where his stomping grounds all fit together seamlessly while other less inviting hoods like Times Sq and Wall St are pushed to the margins. The story follows ODD executive creative director Gary Breslin as he guides us through the surreal and dream-like visions of the city he lives in.

Idea development for final. These photos where pulled from google images and i have edited them in photoshop as a trial for the process of my own photos taken for my final. i have taken insperation from the artist paul polits and also from the music video “dont think they know” by the music artist chris brown.

Photos taken by my self These are photos i have taken whil walking around in manchester and i have decided to take these photoswith a camera phone as i would like to give it more of a personal feel to my work as in a simular way to a holiday or tourist video. so the images seen seem more fromthere eyes instead or through a camera lense.

Section by section development on 1st image 1

This is a step by step, stage by stage of how i came to get this iomage to be a part of my final project for city in flux. i first started with my origional image and slowly started to change it and edit it by making it black and white to start with tbut kepping the sign origional and making the colour a bit stronger. Then from there i placed a blue tint ovger that and then enhanced any lighting and also made the darker parts of the image to make the contrast strong and stand out but then used another late to make it mor nutral and from there placed another blue tint over the image over it to give it the finished look.

Section by section on 2nd image 1

Section by section on 3rd image 1

Section by section on 4th image 1

My City in flux final images.

City In Flux