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Joining Forces: Solomon Vaughan vs Recom Farmhouse
Posted by Gavin Lucas, 22 June 2010, 17:33 Permalink Comments (6)
Inspired by his brother who designs and models furniture, graffiti artist Solomon Vaughan taught himself to use 3D software Rhino in order to turn a paper model of the work shown below into a virtual one. Then he teamed up with Christoph Bolten of CGI studio Recom Farmhouse to create the image above, one of six collaborative works featured in our June issue's Joining Forces feature...
"When I saw the model, the first thing I thought was that it has to be taken back to the streets," says Bolten of Recom Farmhouse, who took photos and ‘HDR-spheres' on the road outside Farmhouse's Hackney studio and rendered Vaughan's 3D model into the images to create the result seen at the very top of this post. "Now we plan to continue and refine this concept and turn it into a series with other graffiti artists," adds Bolten. "Any potential collaborators - please feel free to get in touch with me," he urges.
Joining Forces features the work of artists James Joyce, Emily Forgot, Seb Lester, Von, Andy Gilmore, and Solomon Vaughan – and also the CGI studios Taylor James, TIGERX, Happy Finish, The 3D Agency, Saddington & Baynes andRecom Farmhouse. An exhibition of the six images created for the project runs until June 30 at Concrete Hermit, 5a Club Row, London E1 6JX.
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6 Comments
Oh my gosh! Not this again. Please CR - ENOUGH. Its only graphiti for goodness sake.
2010-06-24 10:24:51
@Peter
I think the point here is that it's more than just graffiti that's featured here. I for one like the execution and would be interested in seeing more.
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2010-06-24 13:37:00
I seen something similar but with flat cut out tags. I do like the 3d though, reminds me of the http://graffitianalysis.com/ project.
2010-06-25 12:11:36
Daim of Germany actually paints this kind of thing and never used software.
If it is not on a wall or a train it's no longer graffiti, just something else that has little meaning
2010-06-25 15:45:58
@Gene, tags have no meaning anyway, pretty much the artistic equivalent of a jizz stain
2010-06-28 12:02:51
I have painted 3D pieces with cans on walls, making this model was harder for me, I have also made charcters manually using poly foam. Whatever way it is done is as hard or as difficult as the next way. I heard Daim did actual 3D sculptures too. He is the King of these 3D styles whether you like them or not.
As for meaning we all find our own.
It is true it is no longer graffiti when not on a wall, thats true, but that is where the style comes from. Would you prefer it if Jazz was never recorded, in some ways that would be better. Hip hop and graffiti had styles that only came from the local area, now it has gone global and there are styles from all over the globe.
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