May 2011
2 posts
Designing the Interactive Space Part III
SMS Webpage: http://webspace.newschool.edu/~shars273/
Bridge to Next Semester…
1) What is that I am trying to investigate in my practice? What I am most passionate about?
I am really trying to investigate the impact Media has on people. I am planning to conduct a lot of research behind this aspect. The reason I even wanted to study media was because of the negative way the media had...
Designing the Interactive Space Part II
Mood collage of pictures of stereotype in the Media (business-like mood)
color pallet
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April 2011
6 posts
Interact SMS
Week 12: Designing the Interactive Space (Part 1):
Website Analysis:
Website: http://www.soliya.net/
Analysis: The soliya non-profit organization is intended to serve students form diverse backgrounds across the globe. The website introduces their new technologies that enable cross-cultural communication and collaborative action. Their projects are designed to build a global of young adults and...
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Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets, &...
1) What is Wabi-Sabi and why is it difficult to define?
Wabi-Sabi is the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. Wabi-Sabi is a beauty of things modest, humble, and unconventional. It’s simple, artless, and unsophisticated. I think Wabi-Sabi is difficult to define because it is not to everyone’s liking. It’s an extinction of a beauty. In addition, because people need the...
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WatchCreative Obstructions in film/video week. I was inspired by this piece by Matina Banks. This project Shadow of Modesty is a project I see myself doing in the near future. I want to be able to make short, sweet, informative videos similar to this and convey a message that is mentioned in the Quran about women or any simple message about ettiqutes of modesty in Islam. The audience can be relatively...
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WatchThis week for film/video post-production for media concepts, I collaborated with my classmates Samantha and Janine. We decided to incorprate our ideas about being a dictator for dummies. We all acted out a funny skit, I was the future supreme ruler, Sam was daff, and Janine was norma. Humor, even if scarcastic, is always a great way to convey message to people. Especially when it comes to serious...
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WatchThis week was a continuation of film and video production. I was inspired by a radio interview I conducted two years ago on WBAI 99. 5 FM Pacifica radio. I interviewed an Arab-American activist named Leila Khalil, who is a current e-board member of American Muslims for Palestine. She had gone on a convoy with George Galloway in July 2009 to Gaza, Palestine. I wanted incorporate this interview by...
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WatchThis week was a film/video production part of my media concepts class. My classmates Karen Fratti and Giselle Chollett and I all colloborated on this Japan Campaign with respect to the recent Tsunami that struck in 2011. We were incorporting the idea of juxtaposing the differences of lives in different places. Essentially, our theme of the project was survival and the key five factors humanity...
March 2011
2 posts
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Le Jette
La Jetee
Act 1-“Setup”
Who are the main characters (protagonist and antagonist)? How do they relate to one another? What are the time and place settings in the film? What is the dramatic premise and dramatic situation? What is the inciting incident (or precipitating event, i.e. what sets the film’s plot into motion)? What is the first plot point or reversal (i.e. when the hero takes on the...
February 2011
4 posts
Shadow of Modesty Art Work...Photography before &...
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Shadow of Modesty
Week 3: project for my Media concepts class was about Photography. Me and my partner decided to exemplify the concept of modesty by exploring some of the etiquettes by embracing it through specific poses and movements, and applied it predominately with shadows that were mentioned by the author Herbert Zettl. On a bright sunny day at the Lincoln Center was where we snapped a few shots and let...
A Symbol of Shock: During the Spanish Civil War...
Susan Sontag: Regarding the Pain of others
Here’s a brief description of the first photograph described by Susan Sontag in her book called, “Regarding the pain of others. “In an era of information overload, the photograph provides a quick way of apprehending something and a compact form for memorizing it. The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks...
Media: the Spark of a Revolution
Media has played a tremendous role within the protest movement that is currently happening in Egypt. The breaking news from major news outlets like Aljazeera coverage to the CNN coverage has dispersed to the Egyptian nation about the revolution that occurred in Tunis. The Tunisian man that set himself on fire and following the course of events shortly afterwards, of the President fleeing, had...
