http://video.about.com/entertaining/How-to-Wrap-a-Boxed-Present.htm
"A beautifully wrapped gift makes all the difference, even if the wrapping paper gets torn off in a flash."
The decoration of a gift is a tool for the giver to enhance the mood of the occasion, for which the present is given.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
The Moment of Realization Along a Timeline.
Beginning - Middle - Beginning
The loop.
How do you trace your experience?
Back to the beginning?
How can you guide through the experience you've had, without letting yourself realize that you are repeating it?
When is the most effective moment for you to realize that there is a loop?
The path being followed goes back to the beginning.
A maze that starts from one spot and goes back to that spot.
When finishing that maze, you realize you are back to the same spot physically, what is left is an experience that has been guided by the structure of the maze.
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There was one TV show called "Yo Nimo Kimyo Na Monogatari" (The world's mysterious stories) in Japan - one scenario, "5 minute-late woman" portrays a woman that has a doppelganger of herself, who always is five minutes earlier than she is. To work, to her boyfriend, to stores...the main character is always five minutes late, therefore she never gets what she wants. What if she had never realized that there were someone ahead of her? Would she have hated her life as much?
---It's about the realization.
The loop.
How do you trace your experience?
Back to the beginning?
How can you guide through the experience you've had, without letting yourself realize that you are repeating it?
When is the most effective moment for you to realize that there is a loop?
The path being followed goes back to the beginning.
A maze that starts from one spot and goes back to that spot.
When finishing that maze, you realize you are back to the same spot physically, what is left is an experience that has been guided by the structure of the maze.
---
There was one TV show called "Yo Nimo Kimyo Na Monogatari" (The world's mysterious stories) in Japan - one scenario, "5 minute-late woman" portrays a woman that has a doppelganger of herself, who always is five minutes earlier than she is. To work, to her boyfriend, to stores...the main character is always five minutes late, therefore she never gets what she wants. What if she had never realized that there were someone ahead of her? Would she have hated her life as much?
---It's about the realization.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Video Sketch
The "truth" between these two photos was video-documented.
The color of the wall on the first photo and the the color of the tape surrounding me in the second photo resemble.
Without any words one can make a connection.
It's the matter of how to make the audience curious about how it really happened.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Inspirations
:School Uniform from Japan:
The constraining rules in Japanese middle and highschools have led students to be express themselves in a more settle way. I don't know if the tradition still exists, or if it is still considered to be cool to do so, but some students got embroideries on the inside of their uniforms. This is not just for the secrecy of their self-expression, but it is believed that this tradition comes from the edo period in Japan, when it was said to be very trendy to have more decorations on inside of the coats than the outside. It is about the moment of when the owner of such a coat takes it off when coming into the house of a gathering and the others notice the inside. Of course, the owner would take it off in a way that is modestly revealing the embroidery. The coat otherwise looks very normal. For the others, the person suddenly becomes a man of luxury from an average modest man only by a glimpse of the inside of the coat.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Keeping the Balance
I think the biggest challenge for my thesis is to find the best balance of what is revealed and what is hidden. If something is too hidden then the audience doesn't notice. On the other hand if the concept is too bare then the climax can be reached really easily.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Truth within a story
What is the "truth" within a story?
Is it the climax, the most memorable part, or the theme?
As a story teller is making the emphasis on certain parts of the story important?
If I were to divide a typical story into a 3 part structure,
1. Before climax
2. CLIMAX
3. After climax
This structure could fit into most experiences: before, during and after.
I would like to illustrate the relationship among these three.
But unlike books, in which form I have been working throughout this master program, I would like to create structures which cannot be reversed. I would also like to create the first stage, before climax, to be appreciated as it is, that the audience does not necessarily have to reach the climax.
By making the climax not easily accessible, the audience has a choice of viewing the work as it is or taking a step further. To reach the climax. The climax is an instant moment that only the person, or a group of audience that dare to break the first stage can experience the whole work. Otherwise the work remains at the same phase throughout the exhibition, and no one will ever experience the climax nor the after climax stage. On the other hand, if the climax of the work is reached then the aftermath of that event is the only remainder of the piece.
Is it the climax, the most memorable part, or the theme?
As a story teller is making the emphasis on certain parts of the story important?
If I were to divide a typical story into a 3 part structure,
1. Before climax
2. CLIMAX
3. After climax
This structure could fit into most experiences: before, during and after.
I would like to illustrate the relationship among these three.
But unlike books, in which form I have been working throughout this master program, I would like to create structures which cannot be reversed. I would also like to create the first stage, before climax, to be appreciated as it is, that the audience does not necessarily have to reach the climax.
By making the climax not easily accessible, the audience has a choice of viewing the work as it is or taking a step further. To reach the climax. The climax is an instant moment that only the person, or a group of audience that dare to break the first stage can experience the whole work. Otherwise the work remains at the same phase throughout the exhibition, and no one will ever experience the climax nor the after climax stage. On the other hand, if the climax of the work is reached then the aftermath of that event is the only remainder of the piece.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Specific Project Proposals:
1.“books of a shelf”
THEME:
Hidden information that can only be accessed when the structure is destroyed.
MATERIALS:
Books, Boards, Strings, A room.
In many cases a book consists of covers, a spine and a content between the covers. The body of the book is hidden by the covers and sometimes the bareness of simple covers can enhance the excitement of the readers, making them more curious about what the content is. I would like to carry this idea of hidden body, or the content, to a larger scale.
I would like to construct a bookshelf made out of a row of books. They will be arranged between two bookstands, or two walls that push the books together, without any support on the bottom of the books. This row of books, suppored upright by the forces from both sides, will collapse and fall down onto the ground if one of them is taken out to be read. The choice of the books, or whether they will be self-made or found, is also also to be determined.
It’s a challenge for the audience to “destroy“ work. Once the information is revealed (when the books are taken out) the magic of the forces on two ends of the row of books is destroyed and cannot be redone. Is someone really going to take the risk? How valuable is the information inside, or how daring is it from the outside that someone would do it? How to treat the aftermath of the falling books event that it can still be considered a piece, rather than just books on the floor?
2.“At the right time”
THEME:
Information that can only be accessed once.
MATERIALS:
Various
This is a series of works that can only be seen at once. Otherwise the information is overexposed or underexposed.
1. Video that is exactly the length of the work being shown. The still image is carried through until it reaches a very short climax. The climax is the truth of the video. Once this climax is over it goes back to a still image, which portrays an aftermath of the event(climax).
This will investigate the notion of chance for the audience. Suddenly, by complete luck, those who happen to be present in front of the work, become special. It is not a selective process and done completely by chance. The ideal outcome would be that those who have been “lucky“ spread the rumor that there is something more to the work than a still image, which will attract attention from the wider audience, but there is nothing for them to expect.
3.“Wallpaper Clock”
THEME:
Hidden information that is gradually revealed overtime
MATERIALS:
Wallpaper, a room
In many old houses that I have been to, especially the ones that haven’t been taken good care of, the old wallpapers are worn out and peeling off the wall, baring the dirty walls and the moulded glue on the backside of the wallpaper. In more contemporary houses there are no wallpapers and the walls are usually painted white. You never think of, at least I never do!, what could look underneath the white paint.
I would like to create a patterned wallpaper, of which patterns are to still yet to be determined, but possibly text and images, which will be pasted image-side-down on the wall, so when it’s pasted on all the walls (4 walls, ceiling and the floor) the room looks completely white.
Overtime, because of the strength of the glue, or by inviting the audience to peel off, the backside of the wallpaper is being revealed: the “truth” comes out.
The more dysfunctionality the wallpaper turns into, the more color and patterns it brings to the room, playing with the functionality of a familiar material.
THEME:
Hidden information that can only be accessed when the structure is destroyed.
MATERIALS:
Books, Boards, Strings, A room.
In many cases a book consists of covers, a spine and a content between the covers. The body of the book is hidden by the covers and sometimes the bareness of simple covers can enhance the excitement of the readers, making them more curious about what the content is. I would like to carry this idea of hidden body, or the content, to a larger scale.
I would like to construct a bookshelf made out of a row of books. They will be arranged between two bookstands, or two walls that push the books together, without any support on the bottom of the books. This row of books, suppored upright by the forces from both sides, will collapse and fall down onto the ground if one of them is taken out to be read. The choice of the books, or whether they will be self-made or found, is also also to be determined.
It’s a challenge for the audience to “destroy“ work. Once the information is revealed (when the books are taken out) the magic of the forces on two ends of the row of books is destroyed and cannot be redone. Is someone really going to take the risk? How valuable is the information inside, or how daring is it from the outside that someone would do it? How to treat the aftermath of the falling books event that it can still be considered a piece, rather than just books on the floor?
2.“At the right time”
THEME:
Information that can only be accessed once.
MATERIALS:
Various
This is a series of works that can only be seen at once. Otherwise the information is overexposed or underexposed.
1. Video that is exactly the length of the work being shown. The still image is carried through until it reaches a very short climax. The climax is the truth of the video. Once this climax is over it goes back to a still image, which portrays an aftermath of the event(climax).
This will investigate the notion of chance for the audience. Suddenly, by complete luck, those who happen to be present in front of the work, become special. It is not a selective process and done completely by chance. The ideal outcome would be that those who have been “lucky“ spread the rumor that there is something more to the work than a still image, which will attract attention from the wider audience, but there is nothing for them to expect.
3.“Wallpaper Clock”
THEME:
Hidden information that is gradually revealed overtime
MATERIALS:
Wallpaper, a room
In many old houses that I have been to, especially the ones that haven’t been taken good care of, the old wallpapers are worn out and peeling off the wall, baring the dirty walls and the moulded glue on the backside of the wallpaper. In more contemporary houses there are no wallpapers and the walls are usually painted white. You never think of, at least I never do!, what could look underneath the white paint.
I would like to create a patterned wallpaper, of which patterns are to still yet to be determined, but possibly text and images, which will be pasted image-side-down on the wall, so when it’s pasted on all the walls (4 walls, ceiling and the floor) the room looks completely white.
Overtime, because of the strength of the glue, or by inviting the audience to peel off, the backside of the wallpaper is being revealed: the “truth” comes out.
The more dysfunctionality the wallpaper turns into, the more color and patterns it brings to the room, playing with the functionality of a familiar material.
Thesis Proposals:
Original Proposal Brief:
The topic for my thesis project will be: “Inside Information” – it will focus on the exploration of how a hidden piece of information can be revealed with an appropriate dynamic that creates a greater experience for the audience. How can the audience be divided into two groups? : one that appriciates the work as it is and the one that finds out the real information by taking a step forward?
I would like to look into the concept of the term information design, which was originated by Pentagram in London.
The product will have two phases:
1.Normal phase, where the “information” is hidden, or not revealed, and yet the product will stand seeming as a
complete project. It will challenge the audience to experience more, by giving a hint of the fact there is a hidden
information;
2. A complete experience phase, where the hidden information is revealed. Once this truth becomes revealed then
the work is not the same as the normal phase before the revelation, although the post-revelation becomes the
new “Normal phase.“
I would like to relate this project to my normal work ethic, which depends in large part on the labor. By hiding the labor that is put into each piece, the audience’s appreciation towards the piece becomes greater once the secret is revealed. I am not yet sure whether I would like the hidden message to be the labor itself, of which idea is what I have been incorporating into my works in the past.
This project will most likely have more of a fine art approach to it, but my other main focus during the process of this project will be how to incorporate what I have learned about graphic design during the last year and a half, capturing what my classmates have done and what I have gained from classes and lectures. This will be carried through typography, layout, additional printed materials and techniques. (Show Postcards, signs etc.) Therefore, rather than finishing the term with one product, I would like to have an installation of different small projects for the exhibition, which seems more appropriate for showing the research process.
Aside from the main project, I am planning on working on small projects, which adds to the research of the topic, which will possibly be shown in the exhibition.
The topic for my thesis project will be: “Inside Information” – it will focus on the exploration of how a hidden piece of information can be revealed with an appropriate dynamic that creates a greater experience for the audience. How can the audience be divided into two groups? : one that appriciates the work as it is and the one that finds out the real information by taking a step forward?
I would like to look into the concept of the term information design, which was originated by Pentagram in London.
The product will have two phases:
1.Normal phase, where the “information” is hidden, or not revealed, and yet the product will stand seeming as a
complete project. It will challenge the audience to experience more, by giving a hint of the fact there is a hidden
information;
2. A complete experience phase, where the hidden information is revealed. Once this truth becomes revealed then
the work is not the same as the normal phase before the revelation, although the post-revelation becomes the
new “Normal phase.“
I would like to relate this project to my normal work ethic, which depends in large part on the labor. By hiding the labor that is put into each piece, the audience’s appreciation towards the piece becomes greater once the secret is revealed. I am not yet sure whether I would like the hidden message to be the labor itself, of which idea is what I have been incorporating into my works in the past.
This project will most likely have more of a fine art approach to it, but my other main focus during the process of this project will be how to incorporate what I have learned about graphic design during the last year and a half, capturing what my classmates have done and what I have gained from classes and lectures. This will be carried through typography, layout, additional printed materials and techniques. (Show Postcards, signs etc.) Therefore, rather than finishing the term with one product, I would like to have an installation of different small projects for the exhibition, which seems more appropriate for showing the research process.
Aside from the main project, I am planning on working on small projects, which adds to the research of the topic, which will possibly be shown in the exhibition.
Quote:
Judith Butler:
"the real is positioned both before and after its representation; and representation becomes a moment of the reproduction and consolidation of the real"
"Force of Fantasy"
"the real is positioned both before and after its representation; and representation becomes a moment of the reproduction and consolidation of the real"
"Force of Fantasy"
Monday, January 12, 2009
FIRST ENTRY
Hello.
This blog will be used mainly for inspirations and thoughts that will lead to my MA thesis project that will be a part of the Konstfack Spring Exhibition in 2008.
I also have a blog that illustrates more of my life and photos on yutsak.blogspot.com
so if you want to see what kind of life I am spending please check that out.
I have been quite lazy since the winter break. I will update this blog more regularly from now on.
This blog will be used mainly for inspirations and thoughts that will lead to my MA thesis project that will be a part of the Konstfack Spring Exhibition in 2008.
I also have a blog that illustrates more of my life and photos on yutsak.blogspot.com
so if you want to see what kind of life I am spending please check that out.
I have been quite lazy since the winter break. I will update this blog more regularly from now on.
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