Class Exercise E

For this class exercise, we are supposed to work in groups of 2 or more, to create an image of a word that belongs to my tutorial group. The word that I have chosen was "Order".

This is what I have created. The circles are all lined up, equally spaced with the circle in front or behind, and circle to the left or the right. For the other word that we have to do, please refer to my friend's blog @ http://samfisherisback.blogspot.com/?zx=fd43893ab2b9981a

Class Exercise D

In this Class Exercise, we are to work in groups of 2 - 3 people and take photographs to give the viewers an intended feeling.

This place will tend to turn out errie around 6pm. It is at the back of AS6, we tried to add a tilt to the picture so that it will have an errie feeling.

This picture is to place focus on the building rather than the stone tablet.

And now, the focus is on the stone tablet... kind of obvious isn't it?

Doesn't he look superior?

Ahhh... He looks insignificant now, doesn't he?

Ok, this kind of concludes the pictures that we took. There are a few more pictures that I have no idea how can I classify them.

Class Exercise C

For this class exercise, we have to find something indexic and something iconic... so for indexic we have...

A car! And for iconic... we have...

The stirring wheel! =D

Class Exercise B

   Hi guys. Below is an attempt of constructive criticism on a picture in a group of 2-3 members. The picture is a painting titled Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí.

Description

-------------
There are 4 clocks illustrated in the painting. The clocks all seem to be in a somewhat dilapidated and liquified state. Two of the clocks are hanging lifelessly on an edge of what looks like a platform and a dead tree's branch. There is also a fly on the clock draped on the platform's edge. Tiny creatures that look like ants are swarming the back of a clock. Another clock is draped over some weird object that fades into the foreground. In the distance, there is a platform petruding from an unknown place. A sea and a rocky outcrop finish the background together with a rather gloomy looking sky.


Analysis
-----------
The fly on the clock may imply that time flies.
The clock along with the dead tree can mean the death of time, or the insignificance of it.
Fading of the abstract-looking "dead mystical" creature can similarly mean the removal/death of time and life, such that its original form is unrecognizable and thus fades away.
Many of the objects look devoid of life (like an empty platform and a barren sea and cliff), depicting death or lifelessness, particular of life itself or time as signified by the dominance of clocks as representing images.


Interpretation
---------------
The persistence of memory may mean stoppage of time at a particular moment. This leads to the death of life, hence the lifeless bodies of clocks and the fading object. It is so dead that even ants are abound on the clock facing down
, and the tree has decomposed so much until only one leafless branch and a bit more trunk is remaining. Similarly, flies are attracted to the smell of death like that shown on the platform clock (represented by a single fly). The gloominess of the entire artwork adds to the feeling of death and despair. However, the death of time is not a symbol of forgetfulness, rather the picture shows that whilst time can cease to exist, images of moments in time help to keep memory going on forever - hence, the title of Persistence of Memory.


Judgement
---------
Some objects in the painting are so abstract that they leave the mind totally open to imaginations and interpretations, although this may not be a shortcoming in itself.
Otherwise, the melting away of the clocks quite successfully depicts the death of time, similar to how living organisms go limp when they are dead.
The general feeling of the painting is quite sombre, intricately done by the use of soft colours with blue and dark brown dominating the scene.
However, an empty platform is hard to signify anything, or rather a possible interpretation of its existence in the picture is hard to come up with. Nevertheless, this shortcoming may or may not be so as the atist, Salvador Dali, himself stated that many of his artworks were made from hallucinations and dreams, with no real meaning, and were created in a spur of the moment.

Class Exercise A

   Hi guys! This is the "Incredible Creative Helmet" mentioned in my last post. In this class exercise, we are to create a machine that will multiply the user's creativity by 100 times. In case the writings are too small to be seen, it is actually describing the helmet and the OO Posibilities Missile.

-A helmet that allows user to visualise objects he/she wants to create.

-Object can be broken down into sub-parts for fine-tuning of minor details.

-Eye shield projects the image.

-OO Posibilities missile will be fired off to a desired location for materialisation of object.

   The reason for adding the OO Posibilities missile is simply creativity is stifled by limits of our realistic world. Suppose one can actually create anything that he or she can imagine, creativity is actually boundless. Without the restrictions of real life, creativity will definitely be multiplied to even more than 100 times its original value.

Wei Liang