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independent project pt2

2008-11-19T09:17:00.003-05:00

For my final project I plan to retell a favorite childhood story via video montage. I will montage a variety of people ('ordinary' and celebrity) retelling a common story and see how the message's interpretation changes throughout the piece.

Final Project Ideas

2008-11-12T01:36:00.004-05:00

THE SAFETY BLANKET

This would be an interactive project. I would get several different squares of white cotton fabric (or all the same colored fabric) and using different colored fabric markers ask strangers to draw on their square what their favorite part of home is. I would then piece these together to make a big quilt and call it a safety blanket!!!

UNWANTED STUFF..

I thought it would be really cool to (another interactive project) to ask a bunch of strangers for random objects that they had on them that they didn't mind parting with. I originally was going off the last idea and the idea of making a quilt by originally thinking of cutting a patch of fabric from people's clothes.. but then i realized people don't just cut up their clothes for strangers. The idea of collecting a random assortment of things from people would be really cool and make for a neat sculptural project, but I'm worried as to what people might give me, or not give me.. I predict a lot of pennies and gum wrappers. which wouldn't be too exciting.

REMIND ME IF I FORGET

This project would involve me having a bunch of people answer a question: "what about your life right now would you like to tell yourself in twenty years that you think you may not remember?" I'm not sure exactly how i would present this information...

AUDACITY:

I had a lot more fun with the story telling project than I thought i would. I like the idea of taking something mildly concrete and creatively altering it's truth or meaning. I was trying to think of stories or messages that I could convey in this medium.. I'm thinking something stream-of-conscious related, or switching view points from reality to something subjective; simultaneity in a sense. (this could also be done via video montage...)

THE MAP

Finalllyyy, I continue my idea of interactive projects, nostalgia and encouraging people to reconnect with their own personal histories and experiences. (That sentence was a lot deeper than the project i had in mind). So this project would involve a map (flat would probably work best, but an inflatable globe would be really cool too) and I would have people make two marks on it for themselves: one to show where they were born or where their family if from, and one to show where they call home now. Then they would draw a line between these two marks (i would provide a ruler if they needed one). My main concern with this one is that too many people would have the same places as answers for those two questions (I would). But I was hoping to hit an audience with a wide variety of backgrounds to make the visual outcome more interesting. I could alter the questions (i.e. where were you born, where is your home and, and where is one place you want to travel in life..)

The Collaborative Masterpiece

2008-11-05T08:21:00.004-05:00

The

original...

dissected!

(i apologize for my crappy printer)

The masterpiece,

created by

the everyday

"non artist"

2008-10-22T09:22:00.001-04:00

2008-10-22T09:16:00.001-04:00

Magical Appendices

2008-10-22T08:43:00.000-04:00

Click to play

2008-10-01T08:21:00.001-04:00

Click To Play

2008-09-24T09:54:00.000-04:00

"Guaranteed"

2008-09-24T08:53:00.002-04:00

Click To Play

"Guaranteed"

2008-09-24T08:53:00.001-04:00

Click to Play

Time Arts 1

2008-09-17T09:05:00.003-04:00

This is what my paper would look like if you put the four stages of it all on top of one another.

(unedited version, deleted paragraphs, and the 500 words i did wrong are in red. and the final five am copy)

Time Arts 2

2008-09-17T08:48:00.002-04:00

The timeline of my day Sunday.

..all twenty hours of it.

Time Arts 3

2008-09-17T08:38:00.004-04:00

This is what it was like trying to stay awake in my design class while running on two hours of sleep..

"You can tell a lot about a person by their shoes"

2008-09-10T08:35:00.009-04:00

My project was inspired by a theory i heard from one of my friends several months ago: "you can tell a lot about a person by their shoes." I decided to track this by recording the shoe brand of men i witnessed doing specific activities. The people i paid attention to were ones that i saw smoking and ones that i noticed performing a good deed of some kind (usually holding doors). I tracked this for 36 hours but my findings didn't show me any incredible correlations, not that I really expected them to. I did notice that no one wearing running shoes was smoking, though they did hold a few doors. My data also presented me with far more smokers than good deed doers on campus.. and lots of nike-wearers. All in all, the process turned out to be more interesting than i expected; many that i talked to after inquiring what brand of shoe they happened to be wearing also found the explanation for my surveying mildly intriguing (this was a very interesting way to meet new people too). I do believe that if this was studied over a very extensive period of time it is quite possible that a slight trend could appear in certain areas of the data. It would also be interesting to see how the findings would correlate (if at all) if more variables were introduced.. I kind of check a smoker's shoes like it's second nature now, so maybe if i keep it up i'll notice some interesting results

CHIMNEYS AND DOOR HOLDERS:::

Smokers: NIKE 6, ASICS 1, ADIDAS 3, VANS 2, FLIP FLOPS 4, SUPRA 1, KEDS 1

Good Deed Doers: RUNNING SHOES 3, NIKE 2, FLIP FLOPS 1, VANS 1, NEW BALANCE 1

molly has a blog? what?

2008-09-03T08:35:00.000-04:00

brace yourselves.... molly's about to attempt to use technology