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Sunday, February 1, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
WRAPPING A PRESENT
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.
"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.
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.
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