Courtney McGlynn Design

Spring Schedule 2012 - VMA

noreply@blogger.com (Courtney McGlynn) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:51:00 +0000

The statues are from outside the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. From left they are: Michelangelo Buonarroti, Niccolo Machiavelli, Dante Allighieri, Leonardo Da Vinci.

noreply@blogger.com (Courtney McGlynn) — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:44:00 +0000

The Saw Doctors - Downtown feat Petula Clark on MUZU.

How to create a Portrait - Part 1

noreply@blogger.com (Courtney McGlynn) — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:55:00 +0000

Part 2

noreply@blogger.com (Courtney McGlynn) — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:52:00 +0000

Book Making

noreply@blogger.com (Courtney McGlynn) — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:33:00 +0000

Typography Motion Video "conscious"

noreply@blogger.com (Courtney McGlynn) — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:02:00 +0000

It's A Complex World by the Young Adults - 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Courtney McGlynn) — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:25:00 +0000

Powerpoint One

noreply@blogger.com (Courtney McGlynn) — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:43:00 +0000

Powerpoint Two

noreply@blogger.com (Courtney McGlynn) — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:42:00 +0000

Powerpoint Three

noreply@blogger.com (Courtney McGlynn) — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:41:00 +0000

What are they saying?

noreply@blogger.com (Courtney McGlynn) — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:55:00 +0000

This is a straight out laugh riot. This Italian parody of a 60s/70s pop song is sung entirely in gibberish designed to sound like American English. If you've ever wondered what other people think Americans sound like, this is it (courtesy of film maven Mike McVey).

Words that make sense: Visual arts film a sensory display of typography

noreply@blogger.com (Courtney McGlynn) — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 17:12:00 +0000

Short piece serves as opening titles to Typophile Film Festival

This three-and-a-half-minute film from Brigham Young University serves as the opening titles to an international film festival on the use of type and typography.

It was created by visual arts professor Brent Barson and 11 of his graphic design students.

No computer generated images were used to make the film.
Barson and his students have made the opening titles for Typophile for all five years the film festival has run.

Adobe CS5 now available to students in the Visual+Media Arts Department

noreply@blogger.com (Courtney McGlynn) — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:30:00 +0000

As summer's end approaches and we start thinking of going back to school, it's always nice to have something to look forward to. This semester the most exciting news is that the Visual+Media Arts Department at Bunker Hill Community College has installed the latest, greatest and newest version of Adobe's Creative Suite: CS5. The three programs are essential to Graphic Designers and Illustrators and Photographers.

InDesign is now both a print and interactive publishing tool, Illustrator has added some amazing features including perspective drawing and the dazzling new tools in Photoshop are a "beautiful thing." Below I've posted some vids from Terry White who has a great enthusiasm as well as a great delivery about some of these new features.

There are 3 courses offered, and returning students can register online.
(http://onlineservices.bhcc.mass.edu)

New students will need to visit the college and follow the procedure described here:
(http://www.bhcc.mass.edu/inside/1012)

Adobe InDesign CS5 - My Top 5 Favorite Features

noreply@blogger.com (Courtney McGlynn) — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:28:00 +0000

From Terry White:
Adobe has released the NEW Creative Suite 5 and I thought I would share with you my Top 5 Favorite Features in InDesign CS5. There are certainly many more new features than you'll see here, but these are definitely among my favorites. Learn more at adobe.com/creativesuite or creativesuitepodcast.com

Adobe Illustrator CS5 - My Top 5 Favorite Features

noreply@blogger.com (Courtney McGlynn) — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:26:00 +0000

From Terry White:
Adobe has released the NEW Creative Suite 5 and I thought I would share with you my Top 5 Favorite Features in Illustrator CS5. There are certainly many more new features than you'll see here, but these are definitely among my favorites. Learn more at adobe.com/creativesuite or creativesuitepodcast.com

Adobe Photoshop CS5 - My Top 5 Favorite Features

noreply@blogger.com (Courtney McGlynn) — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:20:00 +0000

From Terry White:
Adobe has released the NEW Creative Suite 5 and I thought I would share with you my Top 5 Favorite Features in Photoshop CS5. There are certainly many more new features than you'll see here, but these are definitely among my favorites. Learn more at adobe.com/creativesuite or creativesuitepodcast.com

Happy 4th of July, Yankee Doodle Dandy with James Cagney from the 1942 film Yankee Doodle Dandy

noreply@blogger.com (Courtney McGlynn) — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:13:00 +0000

James Cagney - "Yankee Doodle Dandy"

Roger | MySpace Video

Happy 4th of July, Bob Hope & James Cagney

noreply@blogger.com (Courtney McGlynn) — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:04:00 +0000

Happy 4th of July, Yankee Doodle Dandy with Spike Jones and Billy Barty

noreply@blogger.com (Courtney McGlynn) — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:02:00 +0000

Happy 4th of July, Yankee Doodle Dandy with JImmy Durante

noreply@blogger.com (Courtney McGlynn) — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:57:00 +0000

Miles Davis - So What

noreply@blogger.com (Courtney McGlynn) — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:45:00 +0000

Freshman Seminar - ICA Visit

noreply@blogger.com (Courtney McGlynn) — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:25:00 +0000

ICA Home | Krzysztof Wodiczko, ...OUT OF HERE: The Veterans Project

On February 24 the Freshman Seminar class visited the Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston to see OUT OF HERE: The Veterans Project.

The Museum website describes show: "For three decades, Polish artist Krzysztof Wodiczko has addressed timely political, social, and psychological issues in his artwork, creating over 80 large-scale public projections around the world. In these works, he transforms the stories, voices, and gestures of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances by projecting them onto public monuments and landmarks.

In a new, projection-based work for the ICA, Wodiczko focuses on veterans engaged in active combat in Iraq, as well as Iraqi civilians. In ...OUT OF HERE: The Veterans Project, the routine sounds of life are interrupted by the noise of destruction and chaos as Wodiczko’s narrative unfolds across three walls of the gallery.

This immersive chronicle is based on the artist’s contact with medics, soldiers and refugees affected by the current conflict in Iraq, who described their experiences and shared with the artist video and audio of life during wartime. Created from their stories and accounts, the projected scenario reflects physical and psychological environment of combat, as well as the fragmented way experiences are perceived in distressing or uncertain situations.

February 17th Speaker - David Kleiler

noreply@blogger.com (Courtney McGlynn) — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:49:00 +0000

Mr. Kleiler did graduate work in film, both at Boston University and at New York University. He taught film communication from 1968-1980 at Babson College. Since leaving Babson he has become a community arts activist, and co-founded the Brookline Arts Council, started the Rear Window, a portable film society featuring cult and local independent films; in 1988 he led the battle to save the Coolidge Corner theatre in Brookline, and once, having saved it, ran the Coolidge until 1996.

He started Local Sightings, which started as a show-case for locally produced, independent film. Local Sightings still works as an advisor to film-makers on the development of their projects, and onto the marketing of their projects, and is an advisor to film festivals in New England, and throughout North America.

Below is the vid he has brought to see the "style" of filmakers and how their view can impact our perception of the film.

Watteau to Degas: French Drawings from the Frits Lugt Collection

noreply@blogger.com (Courtney McGlynn) — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:25:00 +0000

Antoine Watteau 1684–1721
Seated Young Woman
Black, red, and white chalk on buff paper

I visited NY, NY and the beautiful Frick Collection on 71st Street and 5th Avenue. The current exhibition is Watteau to Degas: French Drawings from the Frits Lugt Collection. And although there is really only 1 Degas, there are many, many beautiful drawings from the era. "Included are drawings and watercolors by well-known masters of the French School such as Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard, David, Ingres, and Degas, as well as by important figures who are less familiar to the general public. This is the first time that a group of French master drawings from the Fondation Custodia has traveled to New York."

Above is a lovely Watteau from the show.

From the website:

Watteau is best known for his rapidly executed figure studies in trois crayons, using red, black, and white chalks. This sheet is an exceptional example of his mastery of the technique and embodies such immediacy and energy that one does not notice at first that the artist did not include the lower half of the woman's right leg and foot and failed to indicate the base on which she is seated. Trimmed from a larger sheet, the original may have included multiple studies.

Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection

noreply@blogger.com (Courtney McGlynn) — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:20:00 +0000

Also while in New York, New York (aka New York City) I visited the museum exhibition of jewelry from the personal collection of Madeleine Albright at the Museum of Arts and Design will remain on view through January 31, 2010.

Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection features more than 200 pins, many of which Secretary Albright wore to communicate a message or a mood during her diplomatic tenure. The exhibition examines the collection for its historic significance as well as the expressive power of jewelry and its ability to communicate through a style and language of its own. The exhibition will be presented in the Museum's Tiffany & Co. Gallery, dedicated to the study and presentation of contemporary jewelry from around the world.