Formal presentation on Teusday
with Story Board

The matches are whats in the box.
I think brotherhood would be cool to aggrandize in how brothers act toward each other and ho they tend to express their relation in a grand way almost comical, almost like super heroes: "We're BROTHERS"
HOW COULD I RELATE THAT WITH THE RELTIONSHIP WITH MATCHES: "TOGETHER, WESTART FIRES"

Video Clips
Audio
Graphics

complimentarty, not redundant



promise of a better life
what can this do for you
approve your appearance
make you feel better about yourself
define who you are
define what your beliefs are
cooking out is manly, I MUST COOKOUT
it ha simportant task
placement-where a cross should be
height
glowing, lighting
isolation


mustang
morlboros
bank
financial institution
radio station
genetics
atoms
air
clouds
water
lake
ocean
forests
plains
the Internet
music
religion
Christianity
windows
buffet
singing
chords musically G, A, E
camaraderie
fraternity
politics

Aggrandize WITH gRAFFITI

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Banksy is the one of the most original graffiti artists out there.

The purpose of graffiti artists is aggrandize there ideas or names. Instead of being on a corporate level, they operate on the underground, street level.

Aggrandize with Propaganda

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Early propaganda inspires me because of its ability to create an attitude that only exists in the minds of a few. Aggrandizing ideas to the maximum potential using the fundamentals of design.

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen

.....................................................Why So BiG?

Each one of these grandiose sculptures is saying something about the space that it is in. The fact that it takes up so much space in the environment it becomes the metaphorical elephant in the room that you can't help but talk about.

Aggrandize

To aggrandize is to make larger in attitude and in appearance. The ideal subject for revealing the purpose and flaws of this process is an object of everyday use and of small size. In order to really understand why we aggrandize things in our stories and in our media, it would not make sense to use any sort of reference that may be viewed as larger than life already or having the potential of being larger than life.

This project will deal with the match box as a tool to discover the limits of boasting. Are there outer limits of how far you can go before boasting becomes a negative thing? Like you've gone too far and said too much for any one to ever believe you. Its one thing to be proud but it may be another to just say anything for attention. What are you saying anout the product/object/idea? What is its function? A: To make fire, on a stick. What have they done for society? Well, a match box is certainly done more than most everyday objects. How hard would it be to start a fire without a match? (lighters haven't been around for ever, maybe?) Matches are a staple for the household.

In addition to the ideal size and history of its usage is the history of its actual design, how the box is produced, and its graphics. The shape of the box and its printed design will work well with graphics within this project and its goals to maximize the visual potential of the object. Running type, off the the box, throughout the fore ground and the back ground creating space around the box, enabling for for an environment that belongs to the idea of what the box means to us and to its own existance.

Showing video is one of my wants.

Setting up a studio shot of the MB and using flash on top?

"Watercouleur Park" - Qubo Gas, Tate Museum

From the Tate site I visited the "Watercouleur Park", which I found to be peaceful and entertaining in a way that one could find doing yoga entertaining, or actually the pleasure created by actually going to a real park. But this window into the mind of the artist, by French artists group Qubo Gas, is an experience all on to itself. With its cut and paste style that is able to rotate in a 3 dimensional space, it tends to remind me of the Beatles "Sargent Peppers" movie in its style. Overall its seems a complete package, due to its simple purpose this may have not been hard to achieve but I believe that this is why it works, it does not overreach its boundaries. The use case scenario, as I see it, is to achieve a sense of traveling to and from sections of a virtual park which involves moving through white space in order to reach these small sections of park that include clusters of cut and paste drawings of plants and clouds that resemble scenes from any corner of any park that you might stumble upon. You navigate through these areas by moving the mouse around on the screen. When you are at the cluster of plant shape, the cursor in the bottom left hand of the screen makes the cluster zoom out and rotate and to zoom in and rotate you move the cursor to right upper part of the screen. After a certain amount of time the program move on to a new cluster of plant drawings. The distance between the two areas is a expanse of white space that creates movement with flowing shapes either moving up or down in order to create this important aspect of the virtual park, the idea of space and travel that reflects the actual experience of going to a park, the act of traveling and discovering unseen areas of wonder.

Tate Article

assignment 1

Aggrandize a common object

(synonyms: increase, augment, beef (up), boost, enlarge, expand,
extend, heighten, magnify, multiply, exalt, dignify, distinguish,
ennoble, erect, glorify, honor, sublime, uprear) The way something is
presented alters the way we think about it. Make an interactive media project about a common object that makes it much more special than anyone has ever imagined before. Carefully consider the use of timing,motion,lighting, and sound as ways to enhance the presentation of the object you choose.

The project development stages will be as follows:

_Due 8/30
A) Posted Brainstorming ideas.
B) Posted Automatic writing without editing of the whole idea.
C) Post 3 linked examples of Aggrandized objects in the art/media/world at large. Write a short statement of your relationship to the example and how it motivates/inspires your concept.
Due 9/4
C) Class presentation Project proposals.
D) Post your Storyboard: bring in 3 video clips / photographs / drawings/ writings that relate to your ideas.
Due 9/11
E) Library Complete
Due 9/13
F) Proof of concept.
Due 9/18
G) The final project.

Transmedia

So, this is my class with Jill and this is a post.