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Bayeux Tapestry Research + Artist Refrence – Michael Crompton

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Bayeux Tapestry

The Bayeux Tapestry is an embroidered cloth nearly 70 metres long and 50 centimetres tall that depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England concerning William, Duke of Normandy, and Harold, Earl of Wessex, later King of England, and culminating in the Battle of Hastings.

It tells the story of the events surrounding the conquest of England in 1066 by the Duke of Normandy. Crossing the sea in longships, long cavalcades on horseback, shields and coats of mail, fantastic creatures and battlefields.

It is a masterpiece of 11th century Romanesque art, which was probably commissioned by Bishop Odo, William the Conqueror’s half-brother, to embellish his newly-built cathedral in Bayeux in 1077.

Diplomacy and Propaganda: The Enduring Power of the Bayeux Tapestry - Fine Art Connoisseur

This picture really shows how long the tapestry is, as it spans the entire room.

Michael Compton

Michael Crompton has been weaving since the early 1960’s. he had twenty six solo exhibitions throughout the UK and abroad, and his first tapestry studio was in the Weardale, Co Durham village of Ireshopeburn in 1977 until he moved to the area of Morecambe bay in 2004.

His work has developed continually from these early years but has always been inspired by nature, its cycles and seasons with associated colour and textual changes. He uses curved lines to emphasise movement and the passing of time.

In recent years he’s spent more and more time in researching, reading, writing, drawing and painting before moving to high warp frame looms.

As you can see, Compton really makes use of the seasonal colours. For example, the orange correlates to autumn. The impressive factor is how the lines are curved and have a flow like attribute to them. Even thought Compton’s work is more abstract it still embraces the story telling aspect through the use of colours.

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NFT

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What Is An NFT? How Do NFTs Work? – Forbes Advisor

what is an NFT?

An NFT is a digital asset that represents real-world objects like art, music, in-game items and videos. They are bought and sold online, frequently with cryptocurrency, and they are generally encoded with the same underlying software as many cryptos. They have been around since 2014 and are becoming increasingly popular. NFTs are also generally one of a kind, or at least one of a very limited run, and have unique identifying codes. NFT’s can be attached to anything from an MP3 to a single JPEG image, a tweet, or a video clip.

what are NFT’s used for

Artists no longer have to rely on galleries or auctions to sell their art. Instead, the artist can sell it directly to the consumer as an NFT, which also lets them keep more of the profits. Artists can program in royalties so they’ll receive a percentage of sales whenever their art is sold to a new owner. This is an attractive feature as artists generally do not receive future proceeds after their art is first sold.

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NFT Storyboard

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What is a storyboard?

A storyboard is a collection of images that tell a story. Basically, it is a sketch of the ideas a person is trying to portray. It is another way of showing a game plan to an individual with interest on what is going on. The visual elements along with the captions allow for the story to be seen by the person reading it. Disney is to be credited with the creation of storyboards since 1920. Ever since then, it has been a great way to share information.

OUR STORYBOARD

We printed a template out, and then drew on paper what we wanted our 30-second film to be. We drew the key scenes in each box.

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NFT Community – Statement of Intent

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3 Words

Interlaced

Divergent

Immersive

Sentence

The future of community in Jersey as a metaverse will be an extremely diverse and flourishing digital environment.

Paragraph

The future of community in Jersey as a metaverse will embrace physical elements of community and embrace them on an active and divergent digital platform. The community will flourish and connect many islanders no matter where in the world they might be. I see this being in a highly technologically advanced and immersive fashion. The metaverse will be a mostly amiable platform however I pre-empt some of Jerseys overly, patriotic, protective and xenophobic idiosyncrasies unfortunately lingering into the future.

Content

Our film will feature a seamless combination of real digital images combined with a more metaphysical and fictional animation side. We will use a split screen method to combine the two elements of film. We want to use futuristic props and a consistent, futuristic colour scheme. We want to use a futuristic, fast-paced soundtrack with an emphasise on synthesised instruments. We will also used strategically placed text to further convey our message.

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NFT Community – Ideas

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What is Community

A group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.

A few discussed ideas regarding the continuation of the concept of community into the future of humans every day lives:

I emphasise the word lives and draw attention to the fact that in these modern times, and continuing with a great deal into the future, we are living two lives. This refers to our physical, tangible life where we interact with people face to face and engage in careers, passions, hobbies and all aspects life offers in a physical way and then also our online lives. Both are thriving with different communities of people. These two lives merge in many ways but they also can juxtapose massively where we see people escaping one life to interact with contrasting communities in the other. A few of these communities are brainstormed below:

Below is a mood-board which is going to act as the foundations for the visual aesthetic of the project. The idea behind the images is how humans will react in a community in the future. We want to base our aesthetic off of an exaggerated sense of the future, e.g., flying cars, heightened technological advances. We also focussed on the word metaverse when brainstorming these ideas.

What is the metaverse

The word “Metaverse” is made up of the prefix “meta” and the stem “verse”; the term is typically used to describe the concept of a future iteration of the internet, made up of persistent, shared, 3D virtual spaces linked into a perceived virtual universe.

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NFT Community Project

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This project will be based off of a central question, (below) and we will have to create a 30 second video and a still image in a group of 4. After, one of our creations will be minted as an NFT (non-fungible token) on the public Ethereum blockchain as part of the 2lives NFT exhibition based in Jersey.

What will the future of Jersey look like as a community in the metaverse?

The word “Metaverse” is made up of the prefix “meta” (meaning beyond) and the stem “verse” (a back-formation from “universe”); the term is typically used to describe the concept of a future iteration of the internet, made up of persistent, shared, 3D virtual spaces linked into a perceived virtual universe.

Mind Map

First, we got into groups of 4, to create a mind map about the different communities we related to/know of in Jersey.

The communities we thought of were mainly the hobbies we did out of school and subjects in school, such as, Online Community, sports communities, friend groups and the photography community.
Where as, other communities such as race, religion and gender we still wrote down as they are some of the biggest and most known communities in the world.

Mood Board

After we we made a mind map, we discussed what communities we thought we wanted to move forwards with for our project. So we chose the communities we were most involved with, they were the online world and the how its a different identity compared to in real life.

This ties in nicely with the 2lives exhibition and how we have an online presence which is different to our real life.

Since, the metaverse is virtual there is no limits. So we all thought it would look highly advanced and futuristic. There is a film called Ready Player One, which is what we think it will look like.

It is a dystopian world and people use a utopian metaverse to escape poverty and corruption. The concept of living two life’s; online and offline, is an idea which we liked, and relates to the exhibition name, 2lives.

STATEMENT OF INTENT

Together we are interpreting the theme of community as online and offline. And how we have bonded with people in person, but online they can be a totally different person. Also, online you can basically do whatever you want in a virtual world with anyone you want, where as in person you are limited to what’s around you. We plan to make a short film which visualises friends in real life and what changes when they go into the virtual world online.

CONCEPT: What will the future of Jersey look like as a community in the metaverse?

Describe in:

3 words – futuristic, modern, advanced

A sentence – St Helier will be a futuristic, modern, advanced world where people are living the perfect utopia life.

A paragraph – The community of St Helier would be idealised as a perfect utopian life in the metaverse. It would have futuristic, modern, and advanced qualities, as there is no limit to a virtual world. It would most likely to be sunny all the time, with flying cars and trains, with holograms everywhere. To people living in St Helier, and their community would mostly communicate online using screens, rather than in person as quality of life would be increased and the way of living would have changed.

CONTENT: How will you make your film?

Our 30-second film will be very visual, so we will be using mostly photo and video responses, video recordings, animation, analogue/ digital montages to create a story about the online and offline community of St Helier. The use of audio and sound effects would be impactful to exaggerate actions in the video, and possibly some loyalty free music. We plan to animate some parts of the video to represent the online world, where as the other half we plan to meet up and record some scenes based off the storyboard.

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NFT – Artisit Refrences

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Pierce “Blizzy” Williams

Blizzy is a digital artist from the USA, he got into the digital art movement by creating game art for the popular video game Fortnite. His designs stared to gain interest on social media getting him 80,000 followers across all social media platforms. Now he works with huge content creators such as Faze Clan, Tfue, Mongraal, etc, his clients have an accumulate social network of 15+ million.

Blizzy has created many pieces of digital art, which he posted mainly on Behance and his Instagram account. However, Blizzy does have a wallet on Foundation (an NFT market place), although he has only brought NFT’s from other users, and not minted any, as of 13/09/2021.

Instagram: @frblizzy

Behance: https://www.behance.net/piercewilliams

Foundation: https://foundation.app/@blizzy_

These are some of his most recent digital art pieces, which include some Fortnite art, and some of his own original creations.

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This is piece is called “RETRO GARDEN” https://www.behance.net/gallery/118487279/RETRO-GARDEN

The characters in this are called Glee and Gloom, the main focus in the image is on Glee, which is the happy character. This is why the scene is full of vibrant colours, as it helps portrays the happy, joyful atmosphere. The colour combination of white and purple suggests royalty, nobility, luxury, power, and ambition, contrasts to the colour palette black and orange which is commonly associated with a gloomy, eerie, spooky atmosphere. The use of depth of field draws attention to the foreground character and the smaller details such as the grass and flowers.

BORED APE YACHT CLUB NFTS

The Bored Ape Yacht Club is a collection of 10,000 unique Bored Ape NFTs— unique digital collectibles living on the Ethereum blockchain. Your Bored Ape doubles as your Yacht Club membership card, and grants access to members-only benefits, the first of which is access to THE BATHROOM, a collaborative graffiti board. Future areas and perks can be unlocked by the community through roadmap activation. Visit www.BoredApeYachtClub.com for more details.

The NFT market place Yuga Labs (the artist) sold their NFT’s on is Opensea, here. The main reason they are very popular, is not because of there design but their utility. Everyone that buys a Bored Ape NFT, gets access to future events and are then able to meet important people.

The Bored Ape NFT collection consists of 10,000 apes generated at random. That means trait assignment, including eyes, fur, and clothes, varies wildly from ape to ape.

Other artists that I think are interesting and good:

https://foundation.app/@mattey

https://foundation.app/@Octane

https://foundation.app/@HEXA

https://foundation.app/@Spancs

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LOST – My NFT

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Before we started the NFT project, I already have experience with NFT’s as I created and minted one on the Ethereum blockchain through Foundation.

I chose to mint it on Foundation as at the the time it was the best place to buy and sell NFT’s. You had to get an invite to the platform in order to start selling, which I did after speaking with a few different artist and showing them my work. Foundation is probably still the best platform to sell single pieces, however opens is the best place to sell collections.

I chose to mint one on my pieces that I’ve already created using Blender (a free 3D modelling software) and Photoshop.

This is the piece I decided to mint:

https://foundation.app/@Malaxies/foundation/30501

It cost me approximately £80 to mint it on the ETH blockchain, and users can bid on it, or make an offer.

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NFT – Research and Analysis

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WHAT IS AN NFT?

A non-fungible token (NFT) is a unit of data stored on the decentralized public Ethereum (ETH) blockchain, that certifies ownership of a digital asset, which is unique and therefore is not interchangeable.

NFTs can be used to represent items such as photos, videos, audio, and other types of digital files.

The artist creates a piece of digital art, then mints it on the blockchain and lists it on a website for a fee, then users can buy the NFT for an exchange of ETH, sometime the NFT is sold with an utility which can be a real life print out or other items as well as the NFT.

HOW I WOULD DESCRIBE AN NFT?

Lets say you buy the Mona Lisa (NFT) with your money (Ethereum, ETH), now you own it, but when you go to collect it from the museum (blockchain, where all the NFT’s are on) the museum staff stop you and instead, they give you a recipe saying you own it. Basically, the recipe is a certificate of ownership.

DIGITAL ART

Digital art is the new way forward in the modern world. Anyone can create it at home on a computer using software such as, Photoshop, C4D, Adobe Animate, Blender, etc. Essentially, digital art is starting the replace physical art, as there is a lot of new ways to experiment with new ideas.

Here are some examples of digital art:

Year in Review: Best of Blender Artists, 2019 - BlenderNation

EVALUATION

I think digital art is more powerful than physical art as it is more modern and up to date with new technology, this means that there is more potential with digital art, as there are no limits. However, physical art has elements that digital art cannot possess, such as, emotion in the brush’s strokes and the texture, this is because digital art is mostly displayed on a screen, until holograms get better.

MY OWN NFT

I made some digital art, in a 3D software called Blender then used Photoshop to adjust the colours and other elements. After I minted and listed it on to a NFT market place called Foundation.

This the link to it: LOST