Monday, August 29, 2011

Seeing Sideways - Egg project update



Oh yeah. Almost forgot - made a new egg design just in case the former egg idea I had didn't float against the scrutiny of the audience's criticism.
That, and it was a backup plan anyway that I should've added to the blog.

Seeing Sideways - I remember this...or do I?

It's rather interesting to see that the most simplified form of the egg project is actually the one that makes the most resounding impact to the audience itself. The one I remember that made an impact on my attention was the heart-shaped egg being discussed rather fondly by the professor, followed by the act of trying to get it to work in front of the projector. Perhaps it is because of how long it took, or the unusual process of using the projector light to eclipse the heart-shaped egg that it made a rather fond impression to me during class.

Or, because it was amusing to see the professor attempt in vain to make the egg work, failing the first couple of times before it finally succeeded with one, simple use of camera-phone and some good ol' E-mail.

But that's just me.

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Seeing Sideways - Expectations? What Expectations?

All right. Course expectations, eh?

I have to admit that, after the first day of class in Seeing Sideways, it reminded me of one of the new media courses called...I believed it was called Creative concept development. Seeing as there is some remarkable similarity of that course to this one, if the two are talking about creative development, then obviously my expectations for this course, Seeing Sideways, is most likely going to be expecting this course to teach me how to be more creative, per se.

It would be awesome to know how to tackle an idea from a different perspective, how to develop something original and unique that won't be a rinse & repeat of 90 thousand other ideas...maybe even how to voice an idea and bring it to an actual possibility, instead of retaining it as an imaginary concept, if the course can teach me that.

NewM385 - Seeing Sideways - DAS EGG

So. It has come to this.

Truth be told, the assignment for the egg felt rather similar to one of the course classes I took a few years back, when I was pursuing my major in Computer Graphics during freshman year. Instead of an egg, the assignment given that time was to use squares to convey emotions, or meaning without changing the context of it. Such as, use the squares to convey the meaning of depth, teetering, an action which would personify the use of these...squares, without changing or morphing the shape of it.

Whatever it is, the squares can be enlarged, rotated, added with strokes...but nothing else.
That would be done in illustrator, a good software for design.

Recalling on the experience, and how it mind-raped my mental thoughts, I felt the egg required a more...physical pursuit this time. Perhaps to change the way it is addressed or handled, but something that would not fall in line with my major - which revolved mainly around computers. I mean, why not? Rather than doing what people would expect from my major - use the egg in a design with a touch of Adobe software (photoshop, illustrator, you name it) and be done with it - why not work on something I can actually touch and feel for once?

Shouldn't be too hard, in theory. Sadly, theories and practicality don't go hand in hand...
Which is why, while I had some ideas of applying moral, philosophical discussions into this innocent-but-soon-to-get-raped egg, I got sick instead at the most critical moment.

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Curse that cold. I'm telling you - hacking your lung out and trying to work on the egg without breaking it is like trying to perform surgery while under the influence of zero gravity and an acid trip - however that it is supposed to feel.

So.
Back to what I did to the egg.

Anyways - I don't know if I can actually get the egg done in the way I wanted - pouring in some heavy dense stuff into it and comparing it about life, the weight of decisions and how it creates burden into a person's persona, etc...
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You know what? I think I'll just draw something about the egg. Just as a contingency measure. Four years of my life in Computer Graphics, I've learned the golden rule of life - especially in a society where they expect something to be done within a time limit - is that in the event of delivering a project...

Always have a backup project, just in case.

Come to think of it, that's a good idea. That egg drawing sounds like a good idea right now.

Monday, August 22, 2011

New Media - N385, Seeing Sideways

After some time of not taking care of this blog, I think it's time to get this back up and running now. xP