Monthly Archives: January 2014

Devil Baby

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Over the past week a video has been popping up all over my Facebook and Twitter. The video is  usually captioned ‘Devil Baby Attacks’ or something along those lines. After a few days of trying to avoid the video I decided to give it a watch.

The video consists of a remote-controlled push chair with an animatronic ‘demon’ baby inside. The push chairs creeps up along members of the public and when they remove the blanket the possessed baby inside lets out a scream and terrifies the people around.

I like most kinds of viral marketing campaigns and this particular one I love. I really enjoy horror films so to me this is a brilliant way to make audiences find out more about the ‘demon baby’.

The possessed baby is in fact campaign for the upcoming horror film Devil’s Due, in which the films protagonists are dealing with demonic pregnancy (or something like that, you know the usually haunted baby malarkey). I think I’ll be going to watch it as I enjoyed the viral sensation surrounding the movie.

 

Art Friends

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During my time at university I have made some really good friends, some of which study art. What I like the most about art is that there are so many different styles and each different persons art work within a particular style is unique and is shaped by them.

One of my friends, Amy, focuses on intimacy and vulnerability utilising photomontage, drawing and ink and water. Here is an example of her work:

(Hewitt, 2013)

 

Art

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I have always had an interest in art. I think art is an excellent medium in which a person can express themselves on an individual level. I chose Art and Design as one of my options in GCSE but I never pursued it at a higher level.

Kandinsky is an artist who I really enjoy. I can remember using some of his work as a basis for my own work at school. He was one of the pioneers of abstract art which is a genre of art that I really favour.

(Kandinsky, 1925)

The piece of art above is titled Swinging which is to convey painting’s sense of dynamic movement. Painting was said to be spiritual for Kandinsky which I think makes his work seem so much more impressive. “He sought to convey profound spirituality and the depth of human emotion through a universal visual language of abstract forms and colors that transcended cultural and physical boundaries.” (Art Story Foundation, 2014)