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“People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It’s not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was missing”( Paola Antonelli(2005)

Both Norman Foster and Jørn Utzon have created forms, which were both missing in the world before their beautiful minds generated their buildings, which combined technology, cognitive science, human needs a beauty. Utzons Sydney Opera House screams fluidity and curvature from one side of the design to the other, in a sense it links to French Rococo as it has wave like form which links to how the designs from the 1800 loved aquatics. Rococo style can be identified as  “Free-form curves (including S- and C-curves), shell forms, asymmetry, natural forms, exotic motifs and scroll work” (Jeannie Ireland (2009, pg 314) which are all present in Utzons design. Fosters design is more simplistic as it consists of numerous straight lines creating a motif of diamonds running up the design.

Both of these designs brought this art inspiration when constructing the model. A shell form conforming each other creates the basis of the model as a straight wire creating a stand and contrasting the fluidity with linear design to create a design with more cognitive science holds it together. The intial shell idea was differentiated from Utzon design. The aesthetics of hierarchy heavily influenced the design as the way the shell gradually reduces in size. Fosters function is shown in the design as the wire forms a base for my model, which provides strength. The main influence of the model design is beauty.

Refrences:

Jeannie Ireland. (2009). History of Interior Design. New York: Fairchild Books, Inc.

Retrieved from Te Waharoa Victoria University of Wellington Library

Paola Antonelli (2005), 80+ Inspiring Quotes about Design

Retrieved from http://designwashere.com/80-inspiring-quotes-about-design/

CONFLICT RECORDS

Group Names:  Natalia Vasquez, David Kirschberg, Vaneek Bhai

Assignment: Conflict Records - Music company. 

What Conflict Records Does:  It is a music recording and production company.

Target Demographic:  Young (15-30), edgy female and male individuals who consider music an important part of their identity.  All economic class levels. 

Slogan: The War on Silence

Description:  Our team decided on a design that plays off the war theme related to conflict with references to music by featuring a pair of headphones around an atomic bomb shell. Our logo features barbed wire font with a military gear.

All images produces on Adobe Illustrator solely using the pen tool 

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Contact sheet for final images:

Selected images were used for final presentation

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Final Idea


After much thought and development I have finalized my idea for this time project. After intense research on Aristotle and his theory of time I decided to carry on down that path but take a different approach on how I would photograph this theory and express it. To go over the idea again I have copied and pasted the interoperation on Aristotle's theory from my last post,


What Aristotle is expressing in this theory is that the "before" is the past and we know very little about the "after" also known as the future and the present which is now is the same though in respect as our before and after due to the measure of time that occurs now which creates the before and after


What I propose to do to express my idea is to take images of everyday people in wellington which creates an interest for me, but to link this to my idea I am going to take a image of the person without them having any knowledge and right down the time and what I feel as if they are doing at the time and moment I capture the initial photo I will then after a set amount of time go back to the place they were and ask them if i can take a photo of them and ask them what they are doing in the present and ask them what they perceive themselves doing in the near future and then again after the same set time as the start I will come back and take a final image to see if what they said about what they would be doing in the future is true or what they said was right.


From this I establish what the subject is doing "before" in the "now" and the "after" and to see whether the measure of time really creates the now moment which is shown though what the subject says about the "after" and wether they are doing what they predicted. 


I will be doing time period interval of (between before - present and present and after):


- 5minutes
- 10minutes
- 15minutes
- 30minutes
- 30minutes


I hope after this I create an effective portfolio to express my ideas on TIME

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Precedents and Inspirations

Bruce Gilden

 I want to have this kind of essence through my portfolio to show truly express emotions 

The expressions in this photograph is truly amazing, as you can see his reacting to Gilden taking his image 

Gilden truly inspires me with his photography. His method truly amazes me how he can so easily take photos of people and subjects in present time without asking them and just does as he feels. From this photography Gilden is able to capture somethings which would never be able to be shown through normal photography. He inspires me with work as I want to portray this style through my first images I will take of my subjects when they do not know that I am taking their images to show expressions that are 
not able to be captured.


http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=ViewBox&ALID=2K7O3R148X5I&IT=ThumbImage01_VForm&CT=Album




Robert Frank 

I feel Franks work is some what lined to Guilden's photography but they seem more composed and un natural but the same essence in the work is present and the black and white come through strong. I want the same themes present through my portfolio to present a similar theme but also link and tie back to the essence of time.




Henri Cartier

http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.PhotographerDetail_VPage&l1=0&pid=2K7O3R14T1LX&nm=Henri%20Cartier%2DBresson

I feel that all three of these precedents work link together to really show that essence of time, but only in that "now" form. To create my more elaborate project to show "before, "after" and "now" I will have to combine techniques from all of these artist models such as taking photos without people knowing and more constructed images to create an effective portfolio. 


Hopefully from this inspiration I can incorporate this technique and style into my photographs for a effective final portfolio.  

F I N A L  F I L M

After many hours on flash the final animation has been created. Sounded added from http://soundbible.com/ to add personality and create a fully effective animation film.

F L A S H  D E V E L O P M E N T

After working on flash I produced a initial animation to get critique from my tutor and peers

Self Critique - I think that the tween of the letters is ineffective inside the bomb and needs development as well as the explosion scene where the bomb explodes, very basic and does not perform to meet criteria.

Critique from tutor - The explosion needs re working as well as not blowing up at the start (increasing the bomb at the start) as it is on the fence between bomb and something just expanding. Also work on in to make it more personal and add personality not just the normal bomb blowing up. Adding sound will also improve work

As we can see here i have altered the bomb explosion scene so it is only letters which are used to express the bomb exploding, letters are cent everywhere opposed to the original tween which is shown on the right. Overall the scene is now more realistic and expresses my point more effectively. 

In this scene the bomb does not expand anymore but zooms onto the wick to emphasis the burring of that opposed to trying to make the bomb expand which was ineffective. Also the tween for the letter have been altered so it comes across more clean opposed to being messy and change forms ineffectively.

Adding some final touches I added a bit of personality with moving letters at the bottom of the stage to act like panicking people screaming to add some humor and personality to overall create a truly effective animation.

S T O R Y  B O A R D S

Created three story board to further develop ideas from my brainstorms to help develop everything I need to jump onto flash to create my film

EXPLODE:

- In this story board I have the 'O' acting as a 'bomb' like figure. The wick slowly gets smaller as the bomb increases in size on the screen. letters are placed in the bomb figure. The wick reaches the point where it no longer remains which effectively causes the bomb to explode! letters contain inside of the bomb fly across the screen as they are thrown all over the screen. There is a blank screen where i wanted to emphasize the amplitude of the blast causing no remains to be found. Letters then fall down the screen acting as metal shrapnel which are the remains from the blast. Finally large letters fall and form the word 'Explode' - I find this development effective as I have taken away the initial word which was in the brainstorm to just have the bomb which I find more effective as it better expresses my word and add more personality. Further development could be made to make this extremely effective.

AMBULANCE

- In this story board I have developed from the brainstorm to only have two letters forming the vehicles which come together to collide halfway through causing the characters to require medical assistance. 'A', 'B' and 'L' create a stretcher form. The characters are taken to hospital and the word is created finally merging in a motion tween to create the medical symbol. I think this animation will be hard for people to work out what the word is and it will have to wait until the end which does not meet and brief and I don't think it will be effective personally.

ESCALATOR

- In this story board we start with the 'L' angling to create a escalator like figure. 'A', 'T' and 'O' all join to create a human like form which walks up to the escalator which then takes it up to the top level. as the forms reach the top they change and form the letters spelling escalator, so first 'E' and so on. eventually they are all at the top of the escalator and have formed all letters except for 'L', the escalator figure then retracts and sits in place spelling the word. This is an effective story board but I feel that there is no personality and it is very basic.


After developing the brainstorms further to create story boards, i feel that explode is the more effective animation ideas as it has more character and personality opposed to the other two. I will develop this further through flash to create an effective animation finished off with sounds to create a effective film.

B R A I N S T O R M I N G

Brain storming words and thinking of how they could be animated in four scenes to develop initial ideas.

Brainstorm ideas:
1.) Strobe - flashes between black and white and eventually displays the word strobe. Could be effective but plain as it will just be a flashing screen which may not be effective
2.) Bounce - letters bounce around the page in a un layered format finally bouncing into place in the final scene to reveal the word. Effective but quite simple and repeating
3.) Crash - letters 'RC' and 'SH' are acting as vehicles and crash into each other causing the letters to crack and break. I don't think this will be effective as its simple and does not display any excitement or personality eventually

4.) Explode - 'O' acts as a bomb in the word 'explode' as the word gets larger and eventually explodes. potential with this word as I can think of more ways to animate this text to create a effective film
5.) Burn - 'B' opens up like a lighter and flames reveal themselves, but this is not effective as we can not use external images which does not consist of the letters which was later revealed to me after looking into the brief
6.) Melt - Letters in melt are made from ice and slowly melt and form the word melt in letters on the stage, will be very hard ti deconstruct the letters and make them from a solid to fluid form eventually

 7.) Ambulance - Letters 'B and C' and 'A and E' act as road vehicles travailing around the page, they crash into each other causing a accident. letters 'A and E' create a stretcher like form and come to pick up the other letters providing medical attention to carry them away to the hospital. I think this animation could be more effective with more skill and thought as it has a lot of personality present
8.) Lifeline - heart beat running along the screen, the word is formed by the heart beat. Late in scene three the heart beat stops and word is revealed. Effective but not much to develop.

I am going to use the word explode, ambulance and escalator (not on my brainstorm but have effective ideas in my head) to create a story board of 12 scene to develop into my short animation/film

E X E R C I S E

Exercise completed in class to help us with letter spacings and layout

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New idea shoot for initial ideas, silhouette taken of subject in any pose they want using the photography studio using lighting, once photo was taken i asked the subject to write down a "before", "after" and "now" memory or thought to establish Aristotle's theory on time

*I defiantly need to use some more skill to take the image as it was very poorly done*

"Before - Competing in world champs for tae condo fighting"

" After - Become a designer and design and craft furniture"

" Now - Studying at Victoria University of Wellington studying design currenty studying 101,111 and 171 every day of the week as full time student"

T I M E - IDEA

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After numerous ideas, thinking 24/7 and research I have come to the conclusion to change my initial idea to a more complex representation of time through humans thought and interaction as well as theory of time.


I did some research on theories of time and the theory that stood out to me the most was Aristotle theory of time using physics. His theory stood out to me as i felt that it was exactly the truth and its is very complexly layered out on paper but when considered through though it feels quite simple and I feel that I have a way that I could express his ideas through photography.


Here are some quotes from his theories which I feel best describe his definition of time:

When, therefore, we perceive the ‘now’ as one, and neither as before and after in a motion nor

as the same element but in relation to a ‘before’ and an ‘after’, no time is thought to have

elapsed, because there has been no motion either. On the other hand, when we do perceive a

‘before’ and an ‘after’, then we say that there is time. For time is just this—number of motion

in respect of ‘before’ and ‘after’. Hence time is not movement, but only movement in so far as

it admits of enumeration. (Phy . 219a 30-219b1)

 

Just as the change is always other and other, so the time is too, though the whole time in sum is the same.  For the now is the same X, whatever X it may be which makes it what it is; but its being is not the same.  It is the now that measures time, considered as before and after.  The now is in a way the same, and in a way not the same: considered as being at different stages, it is different—that is what it is for it to be a now—but whatever it is that makes it a now is the same.” (219 b9-14)

What Aristotle is expressing in this theory is that the "before" is the past and we know very little about the "after" also known as the future and the present which is now is the same though in respect as our before and after due to the measure of time that occurs now which creates the before and after.

I want to perceive Aristotle's theory of time by taking 8 images of 8 different people but only with their silhouette in the studio room using different lighting effects, as well as that I will get the subjects to write done one thing that they remember from the "before" that they will always remember, one thing they would like to see in the "after" perceiving their future as well as one thought about the present about their status or where they stand at present or "now" because through time and due to Aristotle's theory they will only know as much about their future as their past and present which creates their future.

Antiques Hunter

A N T I Q U E S  H U N T E R

“The French king, Louis XIV, called for more youthful art to be produced by the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture and other artists commissioned for works in Versailles”[1], The royal academy of painting and sculpture artist achieved this by deforming linear lines to create abstract forms which were based around the forms of “rock and shell” which ironically enough is the definition for "French Rococo" (also known as French Rocaille). We can identify French Rococo art from certain disticative features such as “Free-form curves (including S- and C-curves), shell forms, asymmetry, natural forms, exotic motifs, scroll work”[2], which are all distinctive features we can clearly see used to create this beautiful piece of art work advertised on trade me.

At first glance the a-symmetry expressed in this piece of history is substantial as whichever way you look at nothing is symmetrical which is what created the essence of the art being “youthful” as king Louis requested. The curvinear shape of this mirror is inspired by the love for aquatics as we see wave like designs flowing all the way around the mirror connecting at ends. Mirrors were not only used for their aesthetics in house holds through the Rococo era in the eighteenth century but the mirrors also had function as citizens would place the mirror paralelle to a window to reflect light as well as the same concept with candles to create more natural light. The style overall is effect finished in a gold surrounding which looks effective, I could defiantly see this in my household as a piece of French Rococo history.

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[1] Unknown author. (2005). Introduction to the Artistic Style of Rococo.

Retrieved from http://www.arthistory.net/artstyles/rococo/rococo1.html

[2] Jeannie Ireland. (2009). History of Interior Design. New York: Fairchild Books, Inc.

Retrieved from Te Waharoa Victoria University of Wellington Library

http://www.trademe.co.nz/antiques-collectables/art-deco-retro/furniture/auction-468893697.htm

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For my first shoot I went out to the train stop on the Nguranga Gorge to view the environment i will be working with for my project for going from station to station as we can see there is a lot of light so I will use lower apputure and I also played with the shutter speed as we can see in some images with the cars to see the effects given which the trains will also be giving. I will be taking photos at the Wellington Central photo once  I am more confident with people and have a tripod so i can open the shutter for longer so i can get nice trails along the screen to express the essence and nature of time.

After the first shoot I drove around Wellington to experiment with my DSLR to achieve different effects with objects and lights and as we can see through these techniques you can feel the essence of time effectively as you can feel the object move from one space to another but still feel the time it would take to move there, as shown through the car images. 

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Weekly Task One

Using the camera technique to adjust shutter speed fast and slow to see the different effect applied, especially effective with light in the dark. For this exercise I used my car and applied different exposure and shutter speed to apply different effects.

Heres what I achieved..

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Proposal/Photography Plan

In project two I aim to produce 4-8 images or a stop motion picture to express the essence of time and the nature of time. I will do this by exploring through the techniques applied to the camera such as exposure and shutter speed also through various Abode products to produce an effective collection of images.

Ideas 

My initial idea that ran through my mind was to express time through the essence of travel (inspired by the film "Back to the Future") specifically looking at trains as they're accessible and a lot of people will be present through arrival and departure. I want to go through each station from wellington central and take an image in identical angles to the railway road and keep the shutter open from the time people leave the train and it departed to the next station. I would do this through the peek hour so there are a lot of people to create trials through shutter speed. After collecting all the images i would collaborate these images and on photoshop layer them all together to express the essence of time through the images.

Other ideas consisted of taking a long shot image of Wellington central station to capture the busy movement of people to create nice trails and express the time people spend through the train station and express the nature of time through the shutter speed.

Scanned is a few sketches to express what I am imaging in my head and what i intend to do through the process of this project.