Thoughts on Face Hunter

FaceHunter is a fashion blog started by Yvan Rodic in Paris in February 2006. He was a natural born fashion photographer with his eye for trends and his habitual talent of photography. Today he is considered to one of the most influential men involved with the fashion industry. When he first started people loved his democratic views on fashion, and pretty soon he was traveling world-wide to such places as London, New York, Berlin, Stockholm, Geneva, Zurich, Copenhagen, Reykjavik, Oslo, Gdansk, and many others.
While he may be a street style connoisseur, he is much more than that. He is a traveling artist on the prowl to find global trends, current cultural happenings and fashion. With his blog, he blends together world cultures with his fashion tuned eye and seems to knock down global differences; after all, everyone can relate to fashion.
Photo by: Yvan Rodic
Photo by: Yvan Rodic
Yvan's goal is to create a unified world through his pictures. By taking pictures of all different kinds of people dressed the way they want to be perceived, he can create a new world online. A world that speaks to everyone about everything. Fashion is a representation of each society; its poverty levels, the racial majority, and most importantly, the uniqueness of each society.  

Fourth Piece-There is Hope Yet

Nope, this does not mean I figured anything out for my fourth piece. I know there's hope though because at least now I have a theme (actually two potential ideas). First is being in touch with life’s mysteries. One of the biggest mysteries of life is "what is the meaning of life". With this i have an idea of the tree of life with a keyhole in the middle and a deer standing by with the key around it's neck. Am I grasping at straws with this idea...potentially, but that's okay because at least I like it. If the artist doesn't like her own work, then what's the point.
The second potential idea, is being in touch with inner child. With this I had the idea of a young deer and a young boy standing face to face in a floral meadow. Why a floral meadow? In my head there is nothing more innocent than a floral meadow. They're peaceful and beautiful so what could be more perfect. I want to give the two subjects the idea of understanding. The young deer can connect to the young child, and the child can relate to the deer because both are in touch with their inner (actual) child.
I'm still debating between the two. I'm leaning more towards the inner child one however, because my idea is "the Deer as a Spirit Animal." This means I should connect it to a human. I can also try to balance out the four pieces. Two with human representations, and two without humans.
The main question for me here is whether I want perfectly balanced aspects, or mostly human aspects.

Time + Hard Work = Success

With this most recent deer project...I am quite behind. Am I slacking? Not anymore, but I was. "It's okay. I got time," I would tell myself. Now with four pieces to complete and only one of those being 100 percent done, the stress has set in.
 The nurturing piece features antlers gently cradling a sleeping baby. This one is nearly finished but the baby's face escapes my artistic capabilities and poses to be a rather cumbersome road block. Seeing as I need to take a break from the nurturing piece for a bit, I have moved on to the piece that demonstrates power. This one is a blue deer (the color representation of power) standing, full of pride, on top a hill. This one is nearly finished and just need the background to be painted.
The finished piece demonstrates grace, and this one shows a deer/ballerina majestically leaping through the air. It's done in gouache on wood and turned out better than I expected . It shows my artistic flare and also the concept I was trying to achieve.
With success...must always come failure. The fourth piece is not even mentally created. Will I settle or give up? Of course not. Granted I'm running out of time, I will add more time to my schedule and work harder. This way I'm bound to come up with something I like and also something that shows the idea.

What is a Deer?

Deer as a Spiritual Being

Yes, a deer is an animal that exists in most wooded areas; this is true. There is so much more to it though than that, and this is why it will be the focus of my subject concentration project. As a spirit animal, the deer represents gentleness, ability to move through life and obstacles with grace, being in touch with inner child, innocence, sensitivity, intuition, vigilance, ability to regenerate, and the ability to be in touch with life's mysteries. With some of these essences, ideas come very quickly to me, but others I have to ponder more.By focusing on such particular parts of its spirituality it helps me to create new ideas that otherwise wouldn't  have come to me. Such as the ability to regenerate. With this idea I can go in two direction: a metaphorical one or a physical one. I don't yet have an idea for either, but through consideration and progress on the other essences I'm sure ideas will come to me.
The idea of moving through life and obstacles with grace is much simpler to create an idea for. What better to represent grace than a ballerina. All I have to do for this essence is combine a deer and ballerina together and voila.
For the most basic essence, spirituality, a project is already underway: A wispy deer with golden antlers and done in majestic colors all painted on velvet. This project is almost done but it still needs more "magesticness" to be added. This may be done by painting in sparkles to the surrounding or maybe if there's room I can fit in little fairies (this may very well be over-kill though).
As a concentration subject, the deer as a spiritual being was a very good choice because it allows me to go beyond the deer and move into other realms of intrigue.

The other world

The artistic value of keys

How did a utilitarian object like the key become an object of art? I dont know about all people, but when I look at a key, I see something very pretty. I know that part of these is because of the pretty curls and ornate edges (and the fact that each one is individual), but I think that the real reason I find keys so pretty, is because of the possibilities it holds. In Alice in Wonderland, for example, the key gets Alice through the little door and into a magical new adventure. For me keys hold this kind of mystery. I never know what each new door opens to,so for each new key I see all I can do is imagine the world of possibilities; maybe it leads to another world, maybe an old book store, or maybe just a pretty rooming. No matter what it may lead to, each key lead to somewhere else that otherwise would not have been reached.

It's Raining

As I write this it's pouring outside. While dazing absently at each raindrop hitting the earth, I realized how beautiful each one is. They sparkle and fall with such grace. Each little tear that falls gives me the impression of individual little worlds. This idea of mine makes this gloomy day more enjoyable, because now i can think of all the little varieties of worlds falling. Nature as a whole can be a very beautiful thing as long as we take the time to appreciate it. Even natural disasters can be turned into art with the careful mind of an artist. I'm not referring to scenes taken directly from nature but rather nature that the artist took and made his own; when the woods become home to fairies, and when dandelion puffs turn to birds.


These images don't exist in nature, but the artist sees them with his mind. he took nature to inspire him and created something on his own. The whale for example is not real or even organic, but it was inspired by something that was. This is the beauty of nature, it has the power to influence everything from art to the minds of philosophers like Emerson and Thoreau...I'm sure there are even movies influenced by nature. 

Transparency

Truth
When I hear transparency what instantly comes to mind it truth. Truth should be easily understood and seen,  however it isn't always the case. For my next project the idea of transparency was presented to me. I played around with many ideas such ad fish in a fishbowl taken from a quote in the Elegance of the Hedgehog,and also the nature of both the heart and the brain (one as mechancical and one as sentiments). I liked these ideas but I didn't feel them too strongly, finally I decided upon the idea of society's affect on a girl's state. There will be a profile view of a girl all dolled up and seemingly calm and happy, however this is all a mask. The back of her head where one may find the brain instead there will be chaos: what is excpected of her, what she actually wants,and how it makes her feel. Her hand will be visable and applying makeup of some kind. This hand will be transparent and the inner workings will be doll like, also this hand will be controlled by visable strings. I hope to accomplish this price with the use of gauche, magazine clips, and water color.

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