On a cold and windy day a few weeks ago, i made the wise decision to sit outside for an hour and listen to all the surrounding sounds. It was interesting and ingratiating  trying to keep up with all the noise. Mostly it was construction and birds as I was sitting in the museum courtyard. Sometimes I heard snippets of conversation but not much. All my findings are documented below in full detail.

To translate this I thought of the way sound looks on a computer and drew the noises that applied, some happened often and they appear more than once and the height represents how loud the noise was. the result just below.

The map project. This was so much fun. After being instructed to find a map and destroy it in anyway we want I was excited. So I went to print out a map of a place called Block Island; a place where my grandparents have a house and we visit sometimes.So in order to destroy it I scrubbed it with a sponge, poured tea on it, set it on fire, stomped it out and put it under my door matt for a day. It held up well surprisingly. Then we were asked to take what we had done to it and use it as inspiration to make something new. The fire made me remember celebrating New Years Eve 1999 on Block Island. I have a specific memory of running around with sparklers at night and people were wearing masks. So I crossed the border, bought fireworks, came back here lit them, ran around and filmed it. The result’s are below.

During the critique the main complaint was the varying speeds in the film. Which I used for one, effect and two, to try to get the memory more across. Also if I had the entire film in slow mo and most of it was, it would have been a far longer. Which I can understand. Another issue take was brought up was the fact that my map was not present in the film. I didn’t want to put it into the film just for the sake of it being there. Admittedly i could have thought of some creative way to get it in, but I guess it just slipped my mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9U7MNW1I4s&feature=youtu.be

video above, enjoy

So, for this next design class adventure we were tasked with the horror of leaving the safety of our dorm rooms and go out into the sunlight and find the letters of the alphabet and the letters 1 to 9. So I went and ambled around downtown and found when you see below. The 5 and the 9 were hard to find as 6 and p had already been used so I was running out of ideas at that point.

During the critique, I didn’t get that much feed back, besides the fact there was an obvious dent in the piece that happened on the bus on the way to class not 15 minutes prior, there wasn’t anything really wrong with it. People did think my G looked  more like a Q than anything. This project wasn’t anything to special or terrible. I thought it was boring and was exactly like something I did in high school.

So one of my favorite in design is the interpretation of the classic story of “Jack and Jill.” Our task was to take a several shapes and figures. So my group made a rendition of Jack and Jill where they are teddy bears: Jack is an old fart but doesn’t want to admit it to himself, Jill is the young hot thing that likes older men. In our story he must climb the ladder or “the hill” to get the grapes or “pail of water.” He then fall off the ladder and “broke his crown” by this we met he lost all of his coolness so all his tattoos fell off. His crown was his ego in our version. Jill however did not come after him, as she found  new man, well teddy bear.

In the critique, we got a lot of positive feedback. Most like the story line, one person thought it sexist, which when explained made sense in way. We should’ve had a disclaimer that it wasn’t meant to be sexist. On a second look, it realized that is does look like Jill is pushing off Jack in the forth panel. Also the class didn’t really like the first panel because of the line we put under the two teddy bears, which i can understand doesn’t really fit. We didn’t know what do there, filling it black wouldn’t have worked and looked a little distracting. Oever all I was very happy with it.