Project #8 - FINAL

Linear Vs Non Linear Time

 

UPDATED DOCUMENTARY - FINAL

Liner Vs Non Linear Time - Final Project


Time Final: Linear vs. Non Linear Time


Plexiglass/Alternative processes:

For my assignment I want to create a glacier made out of translucent plexiglass and have chemical photo processes on each panel portraying a flower that gradually loses each bud as it goes around the glacier in a non-linear motion. Inside the glacier I want to add a full flower, a not full flower, and the buds form the not full flower

Alternative Processes

Apply Chemical onto surface, let it dry, then

expose under a light source, wash it

And you will get an image

Chemical I will use:

Van Dyke Brown (silver nitrate)

  OR

Cyanotype (ammonium iron(lll) citrate and

Potassium ferricyanide)

Plexiglass

For the Plexiglass, I plan on gluing somewhat

small pieces of plexiglass together with plexi glue

and forming them into a prism glacier

Flower in sculpture

I then want to place a full flower with all

of its buds, a flower with no buds

at all, and have the petals of that

flower on the inside of the glacier

as well

Sources

•http://www.alternativephotography.com/wp/processes/anthotypes/anthotypes-making-print-using-plants

•http://altphotoprocess.blogspot.com/2010_10_01_archive.html

•http://www.christopherjames-studio.com/build/ALTcyanotype.html

•http://waveavenue.com/profiles/blogs/stunning-microbolante-light-sculpture-by-vincent-buret

•http://www.wendymukluk.com/mukluk/oat.html

•http://www.diyphotography.net/make-your-own-photogram-cyanotype/

Documentary

Sound

Memento

This film is about a man named Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) who has anterograde amnesia which stops his ability to store new memories in his brain. He developed a way to recollect his memories by writing down notes, taking photos, or even getting tattoos of his memories on himself for him to solve the puzzle when he forgets. This film is portrayed through a black and white series that is in alphabetical order in time and then another series of color film where the memories are reversed in time. At the end of the story the two themes meet at the end producing one story: finding the second culprit who raped and murdered his wife. 
At the end of the movie, you find out that Lenoaerd thought his life was the life of a man named Sammy Jankins and finds out that his wife was killed from an insulin overdose.
This movie was incredibly hard to understand but was really entertaining too watching,  think that the event that were in color or reversed got Leonard confused of who was the real "John G". This movie was a great perception of time in itself and helped me as a viewer understand the concept of time.

Jorge Luis Borges. "Circular Ruins" And "The Library of Babel"

Jorge Luis Borges. "Circular Ruins" And "The Library of Babel"

Circular Ruins

"Tacitum man" manages to reach a hidden ruin that use to be an ancient temple. While he is at the temple, he falls asleep and has a dream about an imaginary man. eventually he keeps getting sleepless nights and is frustrated that he couldn't dream anymore and he was extremely restless. He then made his son through the dreams. But he finds out that his son is only a imaginative thought of someone else's dream and that he is also a thought of someone else's dream. 
This article was pretty hard to grasp but I think the purpose of the dream has to deal with the concept of the circle of life. How in the reading the man trying to protect his son finds out that he himself is apart of a dream also makes the story go around in a circle.

The Library of Babel

This story deals with a man who talks about the library that is in his neighborhood. He talks about the history of libraries and books in general and tells tales of suicidal librarians and other crazy events that involved libraries. He talks about the past events that happened in this specific library.

To me, it felt like as if the old man lived through these times, that this events were old memories he had of when he was a child and the affect this library had on him all these years.

Banksy's "Exit Through the Gift Shop"

     In Banksy's "Exit Through the Gift Shop", Thierry Guetta, a man who constantly has a video camera with him, starts recording his everyday life with his family. He progresses into filing street artist as they post there art on walls and buildings across the city. He finally ends up meeting Banksy and together they become a team.
     The elements in this film that are believable are the real footage that Thierry shot. You can see that Thierry recorded everything that he has ever done and it doesn't look fake at all. He used his camera to make his own history and eventually got together to make a documentary with all of his footage.
     Elements that are not believable would be the fact that Banksy appears in the film but you never see his actual face. With this in reason, you can never actually know if it is Banksy or not, you can only see the black hooded man in the documentary.
     The morale purpose of this documentary was to show a way of describing how street art appears out of know where, and also trying to think of who the real Banksy is and what he does.

Comic 

(PROJECT #4)

     For my comic I decided to do a story about a person who is blind. I made the face out of orange water color and eventually as time goes on little eyes start to appear, but not in the persons actual eye socket. Eventually as more eyes appear on the persons face and background, a blue watercolor starts to form which resembles the person gaining his or hers sight back. At the end of the comic, the person gains his or her sight and finally gets eyes in the eye socket.

Long vs Short

(PROJECT #2)

     For my long vs short assignment, I decided to created a mold of my hand out of plaster and then cover it with the elements of nature, such as tree bark. The short sequence is the hand, and how human life does not last forever. The long sequence is the bark, because it represents nature which always remains. The glue that I used to add the bark gave it a sappy look which made my piece look very old and dead. If I were to change anything of it I would make it look more lively 

Time Map

(PROJECT #1)

     For my Time Map, I decided to create a 3D spinning plate that has images on the inside of a person smoking. As you spin the object, you can see the figure smoking and then puffing the smoke out and the back to smoking, creating an endless map.

Sequential Movement

(PROJECT #5)

For my assignment I decided to do a drawing of a hot air balloon man waving his arm up and down while the background changes. I felt that it was simple yet interesting. If I could change anything I would want to make it a little bit cleaner and maybe more well done.

Single frame of feet

(PROJECT #3)

Timelapse video

For my assignment I decided to do a time-lapse of my friends feet moving all around. As each frame comes across it changes from the normal color, to black and white, back to the normal color, and then in sepia, and keeps repeating until the end of the video. There are 204 frames within the time-lapse. For my single photo I decided to choose the one above because the black and white image makes the photo pop more then any of the others