content Research

http://artcrime.info/facts.htm


http://staff.lib.msu.edu/harris23/crimjust/stats.htm#international


http://arttheftcentral.blogspot.com/2009/03/surveying-art-thefts-in-news.html

Content Research

Most of my research derives from art crimes. The research I have done has proven that art crime statistics are lacking in recorded data. I did find some good information and facts, but I feel I need to find more for my icons leading up to the act of committing the crime. The flashlight and lipstick need to be tied back into the set.

Works Cited
Art Crime Facts. 2009. ARCA. 20 Mar. 2010 .

Blurglary -crime in the united states 2006. 01 Sept. 2007. Federal Bureau of Investigation. 20 Mar. 2010 .

Durney, Mark. Art Theft Central. Ed. Durney Mark. 10 Mar. 2009. ARCA. 20 Mar. 2010 .

Michigan State University Library- criminal justice resources. 04 Mar. 2009. Justice research and statistics association. 20 Mar. 2010 .

Type Expressive weather Motion

The flash videos are always fun and frustrating. After uploading the video I noticed my images are way to big and are causing the video to stream choppy I'm going to try to fix it, but have to wait for vimeo to upload again.

Weather Intro from Bryan Baumgart on Vimeo.

Type Expressive weather

Here is the final product for this typography design. The biggest thing I learned from this project is the level of difficultly involved in integrating digital type with organic or analog expressive type. It seems hard to combine the two without making the digital type feel pasted on. This was a good project to explore several applications of type. I feel that my ideas were strong and my approach was working well, but the amount of time I devoted to this project was poor. In the future I will be determined to balance out the structure of the projects better.

Seven Deadly Sins Process

For the seven deadly sins I had a variety of ideas that I wanted to explore, and through sketching and brainstorming was able to narrow it down to a series of miniatures. Originally I was thinking of shooting a person committing a sin in an everyday routine ( wake up snooze, eat to much breakfast, and road rage) to make this more interesting I thought of having the person committing the act also watching in the scene. The photography would have to be altered and wouldn't have been successful otherwise. The second idea and probably my strongest was to attend a college party and catch people in the act of committing the sin. The series of sketches below were how I explored this approach ; gluttony would be a person passed out on a couch and beer cans all around, lust would have clothes placed around a room and two people covered in a bed. Unfortunately I became ill and was unable to shoot this idea, so I finally went with my third idea of using extreme proportion change to exaggerate the sins. I feel the series turned out well. The sins are communicated clearly, and have a interesting appeal. I do feel there could be a little more relationship and consideration between the pictures and the arrangement within the book.