Stick figure
A stick figure is a very simple drawing of a person or animal, composed of a few lines, curves, and dots. In a stick figure, the head is represented by a circle, sometimes embellished with details such as eyes, mouth or crudely scratched-out hair. The arms, legs and torso are usually represented by straight lines. Details such as hands, feet and a neck may be present or absent, and the simpler stick figures display an ambiguous emotional expression.
Graffiti of stick figures are found throughout history, often scratched with a sharp object on hard surfaces such as stone or concrete walls. Stick figures are often used in sketches for film storyboarding.
History
The stick figure's earliest roots are in prehistoric art. Tens of thousands of years later, writing systems that use images for words or morphemes—e.g. logographies such as Egyptian and Chinese—started simplifying people and other objects to be used as linguistic symbols.
There is also a modern history that traces at least in part from Rudolf Modley's extending the use of figures from Isotype for commercial use. The first international use of stick figures is in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Pictograms created by Japanese designers Masaru Katzumie and Yoshiro Yamashita formed the basis of future pictograms. In 1972, Otl Aicher developed the round ended, geometric grid based stick figures used on the signage, printed materials, and television for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Drawing on those and many other similar symbol sets in use at the time, in 1974 and 1979 AIGA (commissioned by the U.S. Department of Transportation) developed the DOT pictograms—50 public domain symbols for use at transportation hubs, large events, and other contexts in which people would know a wide variety of different languages. These, or symbols derived from them, are used widely through much of the world today.
Stick Figure
Stick Figure is an American reggae and dub band based in Southern California. The group has released five full-length albums, all of which were written and produced by frontman Scott Woodruff, a singer-songwriter who until 2009 was based in Massachusetts.
In 2012 Woodruff released the fifth Stick Figure album, Burial Ground, to critical acclaim. The album reached no. 1 on the iTunes and Billboard Reggae charts. The band began touring with a new line up after the release of Burial Ground, and has since toured throughout the United States with reggae groups such as Rebelution, The Green, Passafire, Tribal Seeds and The Expendables.
History
Founding
The band Stick Figure was originally founded as a one-man band by multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer Scott Woodruff. Woodruff, who hails from Duxbury, Massachusetts, had first started playing instruments in his youth. According to Woodruff, his early fixation was reggae, as well as producers such as Keller Williams. His interest in playing instruments eventually turned into writing, performing, and producing his own albums. Woodruff began blending upbeat roots reggae with the reggae subgenre of dub.
Stick Figure
ALBUMS
- Burial Ground released: 2012
- Smoke Stack released: 2009
- The Sound of My Addiction released:
Ring the Alarm
Ring the alarm
The sun is shining
Ring the alarm
The sound is dying
Way in my brain no cocaine
I don t wanna I don t wanna go insane
I said now way in my brain no cocaine
I don t wanna I don t wanna go insane
Cause my brain oh no
Cause in my brain I know
Cause in my brain
Cause in my brain uh oh oh
You wanna find the time when you wake up in the morning
Everything is going fine till you catch yourself your snorting
The thing that brings the most the power to your soul
You want to stay together but you can t trust him... I know
Ring the alarm
The sun is shining
Ring the alarm
The sound is dying
Ring the alarm
The music s stopping
Ring the alarm
The sound is dying
I don t need to cocaine to be messing up my brain
I don t need no, messing up my brain
I don t need to cocaine to be messing up my brain
I don t need no
Don t give me the rock, don t give me the crack,