Ashley Danowski Footbag Concentration (completed!)

ashleyd · Post by **ashleyd** » 14 Sep 2006 14:01

Im doing my consentration for Art on the work of footbag.
I have a lot of ideas, but yours would be greatly appreciated too. I need 12 pieces. I like using all types of media. Thx.

Edit: I guess I should explain more. My concept is 'the work we put into footbag'. (From sewing to busting moves) That idea needs to come across in my art. What im asking if anyone has unique ideas that might tie into it. Like backgrounds or anything. So far Im going to try and make people look at footbag in a very different way. Wierd angels, collaging, different locations etc.

EDIT: Any really good shots of footbagers in mid trick would be appreciated, im going to try and hunt some down right now.

Post by **Zac Miley** » 14 Sep 2006 14:23

You mean you're doing an art project on footbag?

I didn't fully understand the post.

Charcoal on toned paper is da bomb.

Draw a bunch of 32s in a hand or something.

I'm not very creative atm.

QuantumBalance · Post by **QuantumBalance** » 15 Sep 2006 18:04

Sometimes is work just to get in the right mindset to session. Maybe you could draw someone sitting at a desk with homework and bills and laundry and what not.. but they are just lookign at their lone footbag sitting over somewhere else.

Oroza · Post by **Oroza** » 17 Sep 2006 01:35

if your doing photography, mess with slow shutter speed shots of moves,
um... a piece about dirty, ripped, modded shoes....um....maybe take some move names literally...swirls, butterflies....i think the sight of a lonely bagger practicing in an alley at night under a light post is nice.

mc · Post by mc » 17 Sep 2006 14:40

draw a montage of someone footing and dropping a ps whirl, and make the fact that it's dropped a really dramatic event in the final picture. definitely get up close to some DESTROYED footbag shoes. show a half stitched bag with the stitcher's calloused fingers. this is going to be sweet! can't wait to see it!

ashleyd · Post by **ashleyd** » 17 Sep 2006 17:35

I like the idea of taking the names literally, and the messed up lavers are a good idea too. Im going to have a lot of fun doing this. MORE PLEASE! every idea, even if you dont think its good, will help me.

mtoolan · Post by **mtoolan** » 17 Sep 2006 17:44

a far off shot of someone playing in the rain in a deserted parking lot

PegLegHolly · Post by **PegLegHolly** » 17 Sep 2006 19:11

well what you could do is get like a heavy canvas... and find some blown out laver soles... and glue one of those on the canvas... also cut out some pents and hexes and whatnot and stitch them onto the canvas... leaving the stitching where you can view it. also you could get some of that golden brand glaze and mix some steel shot into it creating an imposto type thing. and the painting around it could be abstract or you could paint footbaggers. i like the idea of using lavers and footbag panels because mixed-media art is sooo much cooler. also when you stitch the panels on... stich some stitches along the bottom of the canvas so you get some cool thready dangly things hanging from the bottom.

ps. acrilic paint is so much cooler than oil... especially if you use glaze
(im an art student too and ive been wanting to do a footbag piece)

mtoolan · Post by **mtoolan** » 17 Sep 2006 19:16

oooo oooo. new idea! ok so you paint a pick of a footbagger and where the lavers would go you put a half of a laversticking out and where the bag would be have half a bag. i dont know if i explained it right but in my little world it looks sick.

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 17 Sep 2006 20:41

someone playing under a streetlight or similar at night... dedication

Senor Grommet · Post by **Senor Grommet** » 18 Sep 2006 15:43

how about a picture of someone summiting a huge mountain of footbags?

in the video medium, how about a montage of clips of all of the times in one session that a shredder(s) picks up the bag after dropping it. That is "work!"

How about a pic of a player hitting whirr and then + "k"= work (whirrk); that is a hard move and takes hundreds/thousands of attempts to work up to.

FlexThis · Post by **FlexThis** » 20 Sep 2006 14:20

Just about every art class I took in college had a footbag or some footbag related item in it.

2D Design:
-Collage of 32's raining down the page blurring out a Net game in the background. Pen and Ink on Velum.
-A frame by frame of various tricks in motion. Pen and Ink as well.

3D Design:
-A human sized footbag made out of denim (all I had that was free). It was large enough to walk into.

Lithography:
-A pair of beat-up Lavers thrown into the corner of a room with the laces scattered around.
-A collage of Rippin' Rick reese and Kenny Shultz in various poses.

Print Making:
-A reduction wood cut of Peter Irish in 3 colors for an east coast Tournament. I used a dremel to make the cuts.

E-Media
-A poser animation of a string of tricks, toe stall>butterfly>blurriest>torque>barfly
-A quicktime animation using colored pencil and watercolors on velum, then scanned in to create sprites for my animation. I used photoshop to make each frame of the movie. I have a link to it somewhere(its on the web)

Illustration:
-A cartoon strip showing a group of hacky sackers kicking the bag - a pro steps in and wows the crowd (a cloud with arms and legs extending out of it), then a hippie from the crowd tries it and ties himself into a bow.
-A 3D looking shred guy with colored pencil

Crafts:
-A silk 8 panel bag filled with beads - out of which I made several sand filled fleese bags as well.

For Fun:
-Shred Session the Flash game based on hand tracing from a TV screen of Eric Wulff in frame by frame. I literally put tracing paper on my TV screen and traced his figure for like butterfly or something, which lead to making moves by tracing video frames in flash.

Good to see I'm not the only one who can't concentrate on anything but footbag while getting that Higher Education.

~peace
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ashleyd · Post by **ashleyd** » 03 Oct 2006 15:35

Thanks for all of the imput it really helps. Artists need feedback!
Ill be posting my first piece when I get it back from school, (its being graded right now). And then we will go from there.

bluntobj3ct · Post by **bluntobj3ct** » 04 Oct 2006 14:21

hey ashley (or anyone else)!!!

i think it'd be super rad to have a video of 2 or 3 (or more) shredders hitting the same trick from the same angle, with time cuts of each one at a fraction of a second intervals...

that doesnt make sense but for instance...

you see vasek about to hit PS whirl, as soon as he drops the bag you see it fall down in slow mo and all the while it flashes from honza to kenny to jorden to david to whomever... cycling through tiny clips of each person in progressing stages of the trick!!! basically it'd be a slow mo- PS whirl which each frame (or .2 second clip) as a different shredder. sooo 5 ppl or 10 ppl hitting the same trick making it look like one trick!

does that make sense??? it'd be effin sweet if done well and in proportion... which would require liek i said, a camera shot from the same angle in the same proportions of the different shredders hitting the same trick.

ok i hope that makes sense! good luck

Oroza · Post by **Oroza** » 11 Oct 2006 20:48

all white lavers: a canvas
use discarded mod canvas for something
a pent and hexes canvas (with suede liner?)
um....quantum physics/shoes, the future?

ashleyd · Post by **ashleyd** » 18 Feb 2007 19:19

UPDATE:
OK, I'm in need for pictures right now. My concentration is going well, I'm going to take pics of my peices to show you all what im doing(hopefully very soon). Most importantly, the pics from you all.... PLEASE HELP!

ashleyd · Post by **ashleyd** » 02 Mar 2007 13:40

This ones older, but today I recieved a letter from Polk Museum of Art just recently because I entered it in to be displayed there and they chose it!

The above 3 I am working on all at the same time right now. My favorite is the pastel one. I already posted it in the "post you artwork", but if any of you have ideas for future pieces that would relate to these that would be great. I have one other at school with the trail of lines coming from the bag. Anyways, here I am so far....

Moxie · Post by **Moxie** » 02 Mar 2007 13:55

Congrats on the Polk Museum letter! That's great. The first one in that post really got me, but then I saw the third one, and WOW, that really won me over as my favorite. It's amazing. So cool and so feminine. The trees in the background are really neat. Thanks for posting those pictures. Let me know if you decide to start selling.

pips · Post by **pips** » 02 Mar 2007 15:26

Those are all awesome.

ShredNJ · Post by **ShredNJ** » 02 Mar 2007 23:21

Hey Ashley, there is this artist you should look up, her name is Jennifer Pastor. The piece that you should see is called "flow chart for the perfect ride". they are part of a line drawn animation, which has a bull rider performing an impossible ride. i think what she has done would work great with a footbag player.
these are the best pics i could find on the web.
http://www.regenprojects.com/artists/je ... ork_id=324
http://www.regenprojects.com/artists/je ... ork_id=129
the work that i mentioned earlier can be found in a book called "drawing now, 8 propositions"

nice work by the way