In class today we watched two video's that had pretty strong meaning. One was made by IBM in 1968 named "Powers Of Ten". It was written and directed by influential artists Ray and Charles Eames. The film displays how the earth size can be scaled by zooming out further and further away by the power of ten. It is very unique because of the way they actually visually explain this concept. Normally people are use too zooming in on things rather than zooming out. The movie was kind of trippy and cool at the same time because it gives you a completely different aspect or perspective on how things can be, or how things are when you relate them in size. We also talked about how influencing this movie was, as we discussed about the world famous Simpsons. The intro to the cartoon show is a perfect example. If you haven't seen the show I would suggest you YouTube the "Powers Of Ten" and then quickly after YouTube a Simpson episode (any episode would work). After you would know exactly what we were discussing about today in class and you can see how influential that movie was even in today's generation.
Adjectives:
precious
shiny
crowded
Friday, October 23, 2009
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Adjectives Oct. 19 2009
economic - pertaining to the production, distribution, and the use of income, wealth, and commodities
ablaze - burning; on fire
halting - faltering or hesitating
ablaze - burning; on fire
halting - faltering or hesitating
Oct 19 2009
The first thing we did today was split the class into halves to form two large groups. The purpose of this was to present our homework assignment to one another and talk about what we observed from them. Our group got down relatively quick, so we began talking about the GAUGE organization. We also got to see a hard copy of a GAUGE poster Freddy designed for the organization. I personally thought it was a great design and quite appealing. Once the other group was finished critiquing the ten images we began our next class exercise and new lesson plan.
Story Telling
We were broken into groups of four and told to empty out our pockets. The idea was that each classmate had to provide four items each and combine them as a group. Our group managed to gather the following items:
checkbook
skateboard flash drive
stapler
whiteout
cigarettes
matches
i pod touch
fake bullet
cell phone
flash drive
Out of the ten objects we had to tell a story that included all of them and we had to do it within fifteen minutes. The whole idea was to be creative as possible and use your imagination. At the same time was critical and we had a deadline. Time management really showed us how important it was when we had to work as a team and played a key factor to the assignment. Unfortunately our group didn't meet this deadline. I truly believe we were off to a good start and had some good ideas. Our only problem was we didn't execute our story. We were trying to be too creative and had to many suggestions, we really didn't focus as a team to put all the pieces of the story together. I didn't take it as a failure, but rather as a learning experience. I observed a lot of what the other groups accomplished I started brainstorming on what needed to be done better if we had to do a similar exercise. Next time, we will execute and put together a compelling story.
Story Telling
We were broken into groups of four and told to empty out our pockets. The idea was that each classmate had to provide four items each and combine them as a group. Our group managed to gather the following items:
checkbook
skateboard flash drive
stapler
whiteout
cigarettes
matches
i pod touch
fake bullet
cell phone
flash drive
Out of the ten objects we had to tell a story that included all of them and we had to do it within fifteen minutes. The whole idea was to be creative as possible and use your imagination. At the same time was critical and we had a deadline. Time management really showed us how important it was when we had to work as a team and played a key factor to the assignment. Unfortunately our group didn't meet this deadline. I truly believe we were off to a good start and had some good ideas. Our only problem was we didn't execute our story. We were trying to be too creative and had to many suggestions, we really didn't focus as a team to put all the pieces of the story together. I didn't take it as a failure, but rather as a learning experience. I observed a lot of what the other groups accomplished I started brainstorming on what needed to be done better if we had to do a similar exercise. Next time, we will execute and put together a compelling story.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Oct 14 09
For today's blog I wanted to talk about what I did the following day after class. On Thursday at around two o'clock I attended the GAUGE meeting in FA 226. I'm actually a new member to the GAUGE group and I like it becomes of the friendly atmosphere it holds. The vibe is chill and the members are very welcoming. During that meeting we talked about two upcoming AIGA events that were going to be hosted later that night, Milton Glaser and StimuLatte. Once we decided we were going to attend Milton Glaser. Pauleen, Eisen, Freddy and I planned to meet up with each other at the CSU LA campus at six thirty. So we could follow each to the movie presentation. Kind of skeptical of following Pauleen, because of the stories I heard about her driving lol, I decided to follow up with our plans.
Finally we were on are way to my first AIGA event and of course we caught all kinds of traffic and crazy drivers along the way. It pretty much took us a good hour to reach our destination and a few bucks of gas, but we made it. Shocking to our surprise and knowing my luck the event was cancelled. Apparently, the people who were hosting this event couldn't find the actual DVD to the movie. Now to me that represented horrible organization and looked very unprofessional. Staying positive even though we were all bummed and disappointed. The idea of going to StimuLatte was brought up and our new journey began, but this time an angry and annoyed Jessica followed along with us (they didn't refund her parking!!). Not cool.
Finally we were on are way to my first AIGA event and of course we caught all kinds of traffic and crazy drivers along the way. It pretty much took us a good hour to reach our destination and a few bucks of gas, but we made it. Shocking to our surprise and knowing my luck the event was cancelled. Apparently, the people who were hosting this event couldn't find the actual DVD to the movie. Now to me that represented horrible organization and looked very unprofessional. Staying positive even though we were all bummed and disappointed. The idea of going to StimuLatte was brought up and our new journey began, but this time an angry and annoyed Jessica followed along with us (they didn't refund her parking!!). Not cool.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
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