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Artist Statement (3)
Gadget used : digital camera,computer,keychain flashlight
Application used : adobe flash, windows movie maker
Theme : insomnia
Type : Stop motion
Artist Statement : Most people living in the city have sleeping problems. Regardless their age and gender, sleeping disorder is a common thing for us today. The night is restless with all the lights and noise from outside the window. Some say when they tried to sleep, their mind will start to remember what they have done throughout the whole day or some past memories.While others claimed that the small noises and lights around them is disturbing their rest. My video will be about that disturbing feeling that most people experience to show what they feel before they sleep.
Application used : adobe flash, windows movie maker
Theme : insomnia
Type : Stop motion
Artist Statement : Most people living in the city have sleeping problems. Regardless their age and gender, sleeping disorder is a common thing for us today. The night is restless with all the lights and noise from outside the window. Some say when they tried to sleep, their mind will start to remember what they have done throughout the whole day or some past memories.While others claimed that the small noises and lights around them is disturbing their rest. My video will be about that disturbing feeling that most people experience to show what they feel before they sleep.
Chosen Idea
INSOMNIA
My thought of insomnia
Some of us have trouble to sleep at night. Be it when you're tired or just need to sleep for another daily routine. BUT,there's always that small disturbance that prevents you from sleeping... sounds..lights..or even thoughts. How do you over come it?
What is Insomnia?
Insomnia, or sleeplessness, is a sleep disorder in which there is an inability to fall asleep or to stay asleep as long as desired. While the term is sometimes used to describe a disorder demonstrated by polysomnographic evidence of disturbed sleep, insomnia is often practically defined as a positive response to either of two questions: "Do you experience difficulty sleeping?" or "Do you have difficulty falling or staying asleep?
Insomnia is most often thought of as both a sign and a symptom that can accompany several sleep, medical, and psychiatric disorders characterized by a persistent difficulty falling asleep and/or staying asleep or sleep of poor quality. Insomnia is typically followed by functional impairment while awake. Insomnia can occur at any age, but it is particularly common in the elderly. Insomnia can be short term (up to three weeks) or long term (above 3–4 weeks), which can lead to memory problems, depression, irritability and an increased risk of heart disease and automobile related accidents
(reference : Wikipedia)
INSOMNIA + Media Art Project 01
In this project, I will be using stop motions and light trails technique, combine them to make into a video. I find it interesting to use lights as they can show lots of meaning and it is suitable for the theme based on the explanation above.
Example :
My thought of insomnia
Some of us have trouble to sleep at night. Be it when you're tired or just need to sleep for another daily routine. BUT,there's always that small disturbance that prevents you from sleeping... sounds..lights..or even thoughts. How do you over come it?
What is Insomnia?
Insomnia, or sleeplessness, is a sleep disorder in which there is an inability to fall asleep or to stay asleep as long as desired. While the term is sometimes used to describe a disorder demonstrated by polysomnographic evidence of disturbed sleep, insomnia is often practically defined as a positive response to either of two questions: "Do you experience difficulty sleeping?" or "Do you have difficulty falling or staying asleep?
Insomnia is most often thought of as both a sign and a symptom that can accompany several sleep, medical, and psychiatric disorders characterized by a persistent difficulty falling asleep and/or staying asleep or sleep of poor quality. Insomnia is typically followed by functional impairment while awake. Insomnia can occur at any age, but it is particularly common in the elderly. Insomnia can be short term (up to three weeks) or long term (above 3–4 weeks), which can lead to memory problems, depression, irritability and an increased risk of heart disease and automobile related accidents
(reference : Wikipedia)
INSOMNIA + Media Art Project 01
In this project, I will be using stop motions and light trails technique, combine them to make into a video. I find it interesting to use lights as they can show lots of meaning and it is suitable for the theme based on the explanation above.
Example :
Ideas !
These are some of my ideas. Most of my ideas are targeted for teenagers ; as teenagers are facing some difficulty in their growing up or in everyday life. The concept is to feel what they feel and also we who feel it too.
Nervous/ Stutter
Insomnia
i.Calm
ii.Lost
i.Indifference
ii.Alienated
Wednesday 24 July 2013
Doubt
What is DOUBT?
- to be undecided or skeptical about
-the condition of being unsettled or unresolved
Doubt, a status between belief and disbelief, involves uncertainty or distrust or lack of sureness of an alleged fact, an action, a motive, or a decision. Doubt brings into question some notion of a perceived "reality", and may involve delaying or rejecting relevant action out of concerns for mistakes or faults or appropriateness. Some definitions of doubt emphasize the state in which the mind remains suspended between two contradictory propositions and unable to assent to either of them.
Psychoanalysts attribute doubt (which they may interpret as a symptom of a phobia emanating from the ego) to childhood, when the ego develops.
Cognitive mental as well as more spiritual approaches abound in response to the wide variety of potential causes for doubt. Behavioral therapy — in which a person systematically asks his own mind if the doubt has any real basis — uses rational, Socratic methods. This method contrasts to those of say, the Buddhist faith, which involve a more esoteric approach to doubt and inaction. Buddhism sees doubt as a negative attachment to one's perceived past and future. To let go of the personal history of one's life (affirming this release every day in meditation) plays a central role in releasing the doubts — developed in and attached to — that history.
Emotions
What is EMOTIONS?
In psychology and philosophy, emotion is a subjective, conscious experience that is characterized primarily by psychophysiological expressions, biological reactions, and mental states. Emotion is often associated and considered reciprocally influential with mood, temperament, personality, disposition, and motivation,[citation needed] as well as influenced by hormones and neurotransmitters. Emotion is often the driving force behind motivation, positive or negative. An alternative definition of emotion is a "positive or negative experience that is associated with a particular pattern of physiological activity."
The physiology of emotion is closely linked to arousal of the nervous system with various states and strengths of arousal relating, apparently, to particular emotions. Although those acting primarily on emotion may seem as if they are not thinking, cognition is an important aspect of emotion, particularly the interpretation of events. For example, the experience of fear usually occurs in response to a threat. The cognition of danger and subsequent arousal of the nervous system (e.g. rapid heartbeat and breathing, sweating, muscle tension) is an integral component to the subsequent interpretation and labeling of that arousal as an emotional state. Emotion is also linked to behavioral tendency.
Research on emotion has increased significantly over the past two decades with many fields contributing including psychology, neuroscience, medicine, history, sociology, and even computer science. The numerous theories that attempt to explain the origin, neurobiology, experience, and function of emotions have only fostered more intense research on this topic. The current research that is being conducted about the concept of emotion involves the development of materials that stimulate and elicit emotion. In addition PET scans and fMRI scans help study the affective processes in the brain.
- Cognitive appraisal: provides an evaluation of events and objects
- Bodily symptoms: the physiological component of emotional experience
- Action tendencies: a motivational component for the preparation and direction of motor responses,
- Expression: facial and vocal expression almost always accompanies an emotional state to communicate reaction and intention of actions
- Feelings: the subjective experience of emotional state once it has occurred
Two Dimension of Emotions
Example of Basic Emotions
Wednesday 10 July 2013
Artist Statement (Assignment 1)
Sound pollution is one of the pollution that can damage our sense of hearing. Unlike water pollution, we cant control and see the wave form to avoid sound pollution. We can avoid it by using methods to reduce and absorb sound wave.
The theme : black and white
Materials : papers
Some research and opinion says that black and white are not colors but tone. Sound are also known as tone. Loud sound could also represent rough papers while soft,light paper for soft sound. Hence, paper materials are used in the artwork
Artist Statement (Assignment 2)
This is how the final artwork would look like.
Material used : papers, black markers.
Theme : black and white
Artist Statement : There's two type of typography mixed in this media. This is to show the split personality or the difference between one another. Each and every one of us do have split personality,however not as crucial as Dissociative Identity Disorder(DID). We would control how we behave and our personality when we are around friends or family. However,when we are alone, our other persona take in charge of us. Example, we would be smiling and cheerful around people we knew but when we are walking alone or being alone,we tend to get all depressed and build a wall. Another example would be we are nice when we are socializing but no one knew,when we are alone, we would try to commit suicide.
Artist Treatment : Paper mount on a board.
My Ideas
THE SPLIT
50/50
THE BLACK SHEEP
A NATION
THE NOISE
My artwork for Assignment 2 is about ' THE SPLIT'
THE SPLIT or known as the double personality, lies in everyone. Most of the time, our personality will shown when we are out socializing(when we are behaving,making contact with people),while the other half is when we are alone.
Crucial double personality is a state of dissociation in which the individual presents personas to others at different times as two different person, each with a different name and different personality traits. The two personalities are generally independent, contrasting , and unaware of the existence of the other.
In older media, it will often be called "schizophrenia" even by psychologist characters.As it is understood to modern psychology, the condition is thought to sometimes result when a child/teen copes with abuse by convincing themselves that it's happening to someone else; as such, the trigger is generally some experience the child/teen is trying to dissociate themselves from, by means of creating an "alter" who gets put in charge. Note that without recieving psychological counseling the symptoms will carry over into adulthood. The individual has no control (at least initially) over when the personalities "switch," and may not initially remember what happens to them while they are switched.
Typography
Typography (from the Greek words τύπος (typos) = form and γραφή (graphe) = writing) is the art and technique of arranging type in order to make language visible. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading (line spacing), adjusting the spaces between groups of letters (tracking) and adjusting the space between pairs of letters (kerning). Type design is a closely related craft, which some consider distinct and others a part of typography; most typographers do not design typefaces, and some type designers do not consider themselves typographers. In modern times, typography has been put into motion—in film, television and online broadcasts—to add emotion to mass communication.
SERIF OR SANS SERIF
Serif fonts have that little detail at the end of the letter strokes. They are traditional and can be found as text in books and copy in newspapers.
Sans means "without," so sans serif fonts are those without that extra detail on the ends. Sans serif fonts are more casual and contemporary.
1. Serif faces are the norm for most books and newspapers making them familiar and comfortable to readers.
2. The serifs on some faces aid readability by moving the eye from one letter to the next — connnecting individual shapes to form whole words.
3. Serif faces often have a subdued, formal, or serious look.
4. Sans Serif faces are often crisper, bolder, or more informal.
5. Sans Serif faces are often more readable than serif faces when set in very small type (such as for footnotes, captions, and "fine print")
6. Serif faces printed from 300dpi or lower quality desktop printers or printed on textured paper may lose detail in the thin strokes and delicate serifs.
A unit of measure in typography which measures the vertical height of type from highest ascender to lowest descender and includes a small shoulder of extra space. There are approximately 72 points to the inchand 12 points is equal to one pica.So how do you choose a specific typeface for body copy, and why?
Body copy is generally set at 12 point or less, with 9-11 point being a good starting point size. Size will depend on the font, width of the column and the line spacing.
1. In the US at least, SERIF faces are the norm for most books and newspapers making them familiar and comfortable as a body text font.
2. A good body face blends in and doesn't distract the reader with oddly shaped letters, or extremes in x-height, descenders, or ascenders.
3. In general (with many exceptions) consider SERIF faces for a subdued, formal, or serious look.
4. In general (with exceptions) consider a SAN SERIF body text font for a crisper, bolder, or more informal tone.
5. Avoid SCRIPT or handwriting typefaces as a body text font. Some exceptions: cards and invitations where the text is set in short lines with extra line spacing.
6. Save your fancy or unusual typefaces for use in headlines, logos, and graphics. As a body text font they are almost impossible to read comfortably, if at all.
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A unit of measure that is approximately 1/6th of an inch and measures the length of a line of type or a column of type. One pica is equal to 12 points or one inch.
1. Use picas for measuring column width and depth, margins, and other larger distances.
SERIF OR SANS SERIF
Serif fonts have that little detail at the end of the letter strokes. They are traditional and can be found as text in books and copy in newspapers.
Sans means "without," so sans serif fonts are those without that extra detail on the ends. Sans serif fonts are more casual and contemporary.
1. Serif faces are the norm for most books and newspapers making them familiar and comfortable to readers.
2. The serifs on some faces aid readability by moving the eye from one letter to the next — connnecting individual shapes to form whole words.
3. Serif faces often have a subdued, formal, or serious look.
4. Sans Serif faces are often crisper, bolder, or more informal.
5. Sans Serif faces are often more readable than serif faces when set in very small type (such as for footnotes, captions, and "fine print")
6. Serif faces printed from 300dpi or lower quality desktop printers or printed on textured paper may lose detail in the thin strokes and delicate serifs.
POINT SIZE
A unit of measure in typography which measures the vertical height of type from highest ascender to lowest descender and includes a small shoulder of extra space. There are approximately 72 points to the inchand 12 points is equal to one pica.So how do you choose a specific typeface for body copy, and why?
Body copy is generally set at 12 point or less, with 9-11 point being a good starting point size. Size will depend on the font, width of the column and the line spacing.
1. In the US at least, SERIF faces are the norm for most books and newspapers making them familiar and comfortable as a body text font.
2. A good body face blends in and doesn't distract the reader with oddly shaped letters, or extremes in x-height, descenders, or ascenders.
3. In general (with many exceptions) consider SERIF faces for a subdued, formal, or serious look.
4. In general (with exceptions) consider a SAN SERIF body text font for a crisper, bolder, or more informal tone.
5. Avoid SCRIPT or handwriting typefaces as a body text font. Some exceptions: cards and invitations where the text is set in short lines with extra line spacing.
6. Save your fancy or unusual typefaces for use in headlines, logos, and graphics. As a body text font they are almost impossible to read comfortably, if at all.
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PICA
1. Use picas for measuring column width and depth, margins, and other larger distances.
2. Picas and points have a direct relationship to each other. There are 12 points in a pica.
3. There are 6 picas to an inch. A standard US letter size page is 8.5 by 11 inches or 51 by 66 picas. (6 picas are approximately 25 mm)
4. The letter p is used to designate picas as in 22p or 6p. With 12 points to the pica, half a pica would be 6 points written as 0p6. 17 points would be 1p5 (1 pica = 12 pts, plus the leftover 5 pts).
Is the space between lines of text. Also called Leading, pronounced ledd-ing, its name comes from the practice of using metal strips (usually lead) of varying widths to separate lines of text in the days of metal type.
Line spacing is measured from baseline to baseline and is measured in points, just like type.
How much line spacing/leading?
One rule of thumb suggests adding about 20% or around 2 points to the point size of your text as a starting point for adjusting line spacing. Less is generally too crowded.
Changing the leading of text affects its appearance and readability.
When starting a new project, experiment with the amount of line spacing/leading to find what works best. Increased line spacing is also another way to combat gray pages and introduce more white space into a page layout.
GENERAL TYPE TERMINOLOGY
Ascender: The part of lowercase letters (such as k, b, and d) that rise above the x-height of the other lowercase letters.
Baseline: The imaginary line on which the majority of the characters in a typeface rest.Descender The part of lowercase letters (such as y, p, and q) that descends below the baseline of the other lowercase letters in a font face. In some typefaces, the uppercase 3 and Q also descend below the baseline.
3. There are 6 picas to an inch. A standard US letter size page is 8.5 by 11 inches or 51 by 66 picas. (6 picas are approximately 25 mm)
4. The letter p is used to designate picas as in 22p or 6p. With 12 points to the pica, half a pica would be 6 points written as 0p6. 17 points would be 1p5 (1 pica = 12 pts, plus the leftover 5 pts).
LINE SPACING/LEADING
Line spacing is measured from baseline to baseline and is measured in points, just like type.
How much line spacing/leading?
One rule of thumb suggests adding about 20% or around 2 points to the point size of your text as a starting point for adjusting line spacing. Less is generally too crowded.
Changing the leading of text affects its appearance and readability.
When starting a new project, experiment with the amount of line spacing/leading to find what works best. Increased line spacing is also another way to combat gray pages and introduce more white space into a page layout.
GENERAL TYPE TERMINOLOGY
Ascender: The part of lowercase letters (such as k, b, and d) that rise above the x-height of the other lowercase letters.
Baseline: The imaginary line on which the majority of the characters in a typeface rest.Descender The part of lowercase letters (such as y, p, and q) that descends below the baseline of the other lowercase letters in a font face. In some typefaces, the uppercase 3 and Q also descend below the baseline.
Counter: The white space enclosed by a letterform, whether wholly enclosed (as in "d" or "o") or partially (as in "c" or "m").
Descender: The part of lowercase letters (such as y, p, and q) that descends below the baseline of the other lowercase letters in a font face. In some typefaces, the uppercase 3 and Q also descend below the baseline.
Sans serif: A type face that is without serifs. The ends of the strokes are usually square as in Helvetica.
Serif: Small decorative strokes that are added to the end of a letter's main strokes.
Stress: in a typeface, the axis around which the strokes are drawn: oblique (negative or positive) or vertical. Not to be confused with the angle of the strokes themselves (for instance, italics are made with slanted strokes, but may not have oblique stress).
X-height: Traditionally, x-height is the height of the lowercase letter x. It is also the height of the body of lowercase letters in a font, excluding the ascenders and descenders. Some lower-case letters that do not have ascenders or descenders still extend a little bit above or below the x-height as part of their design. The x-height can vary greatly from typeface to typeface at the same point size.
Descender: The part of lowercase letters (such as y, p, and q) that descends below the baseline of the other lowercase letters in a font face. In some typefaces, the uppercase 3 and Q also descend below the baseline.
Sans serif: A type face that is without serifs. The ends of the strokes are usually square as in Helvetica.
Serif: Small decorative strokes that are added to the end of a letter's main strokes.
Stress: in a typeface, the axis around which the strokes are drawn: oblique (negative or positive) or vertical. Not to be confused with the angle of the strokes themselves (for instance, italics are made with slanted strokes, but may not have oblique stress).
X-height: Traditionally, x-height is the height of the lowercase letter x. It is also the height of the body of lowercase letters in a font, excluding the ascenders and descenders. Some lower-case letters that do not have ascenders or descenders still extend a little bit above or below the x-height as part of their design. The x-height can vary greatly from typeface to typeface at the same point size.
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