Tuesday Toolbox: Leather Cut-Offs

Scissors: "Ack, I need to be resharpened."

Needle: " You think you had it bad! I'm not even a leather needle, just look at the state of me! She used pliers! Pliers!"

Tuesday Toolbox: The Gingerbread Construction Site

Royal Icing Piping Bag: "Pins, Secure the Tower!!"
chocolate pipettes: "Heave, Ho"
pins: "on three men, PULL!!"
wooden spoon: "Where do these go again?" (string lights)

Tuesday Toolbox- all in good fun

The Compass and the Protractor toss the Level:

Level "come on guys, this isn't funny! I feel so unbalanced!!"

Tuesday Toolbox: Stereoscope Lesson

Compass: " Ugh! It just makes me dizzy. How does it pop out at you like that?"

Pencil: "Well, I just don't believe that perspective!"

A stereoscope was an early medium for 3D technology. Whe the two seperate left and right eye images overlap with our binocular vision they form one image that seems to have depth as the horizontal position of the image seems to shift. This was an early form of home entertainment in the 1850s to the 1920s, especially for those who went on holiday around historical sites. Later this developed into the View-Master. Now we can go for the ultra-modern, the My3D app or 3D films. We are always trying to make every image hyper-real. For more information on the stereoscope go here.

The image in the stereoscope is "Farm in the Lades (House in the Garde)" by Etienne Theodore Rousseau at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.

- have you ever held out your pencil to figure out perspective?


drawing by: Chloe Cornell

Tuesday Toolbox: Sketchbook Huddle

Camera: "So, everyone clear on the game plan?"

Reflector, Light, and Boom: "Yes Boss!"

storyboard from "Question Mark"

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Paintbrush: " But where is the Aura? 

Camera: " What do you mean, Aura? My gaze is not indifferent!"

photograph sketch based on above sculpture

Aura: "the authenticity of a thing is the essence of all that is transmissible from its beginning, ranging from its substantive duration to its testimony to the history which it has experienced” (221).

 “we define the aura of the later as the unique phenomenon of a distance, however close it may be. If, while resting on a summer afternoon, you follow with your eyes a mountain range on the horizon or a branch which casts its shadow over you, you experience the aura of those mountains, of that branch” (222-3) from The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Walter Benjamin: Illuminations: Essays and Reflections. Ed. Hannah Arendt. Trans. Harry Zohn. New York: Schocken Books, 1968.

Photo:http://www.pinterest.com/pin/31243791136764638/

source:http://modernism.research.yale.edu/wiki/index.php/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_Mechanical_Reproduction

Tuesday Toolbox

Pliers: "Do you think this is glam enough?"

Gold Wire: "What do you think?! I'm gold wire and I'm Fabulous!!"

Tuesday Toolbox

Phil: " Oh my God, Frank! What happened to you?"

Frank: "I had a makeover, too much?"

Tuesday in the Toolbox

Blue Paintbrush: " So, what do you think about this painting on film business?"

Red Paintbrush: " Eh, it's a change but you should see how the easel has taken it...

It's really knocked him down a peg or two, he's always thought he's such an institution..."

still from STKINT film, site-specific work at Stoke Newington International Airport 2009

for full film go to www.chloecornell.com, and select STKINT project.

Tuesday in the Toolbox

illustration: spool-"I can't take much more of this, I'm getting seasick!"

cape: designed/made; set and costume designer: Chloe Cornell from 

" Baby Blue" '12

Dir: Lisamaria Laxholm, actress: Sydnie Haines 

illustration by Chloe Cornell

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Tuesday in the Toolbox

fight: scissors " Back you fiend, back!"
         scalpel: " En garde. Tu est un imbecile!"

T square: thoughts " Just because one of you can cut metal and the other can't doesn't mean there should be a duel..."

" Don't make me call the stapler over to break you two up!"

.. apparently the stapler is a bit of a bully but he's better at breaking them up then the hammer who would just make it worse..

Tuesday in the Toolbox

"I hate it when she works with feathers, I just can't get them off! 

And who hid my cap?"

raven puppet made by Chloe Cornell from "Into the Waters and Wild" 2011
styrofoam, latex, cloth, glue, feathers, clay, paint and wire

©Chloe Cornell2013

illustration and photography

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