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- Assignment 1:In class, we have seen how an abstract object-oriented structure could be visualized in a tree-stucture diagram. Each diagram holds limitations as it can only represent limited aspects of the real programmatic environment. It is up to us to decide which aspects of the structure we choose to depict, as we visualize an abstract environment. For this assignment, create your own visual interpretation to the concept of Symbol-Instances (Class-Instances).
- Assignment 2: Create a Flash program that depicts a particular one-many relationship.
- Assignment 3: Either continue Assignment 2 or begin a new one. For this purpose, learn and use five new functions in Flash. Do so by using the Actionscript Dictionary. The goal of this assignment is to encourage and develop your ability to learn new aspects of a programming language through a general language reference guide.
- Assignment 4a: In PROCE55ING, use the various values that a Clock provides (h:m:s:ms) towards an animated visual composition.
- Assignment 4b: In FLASH, create an animated visual composition that is affected by at least one slider.
- Assignment 5: Using Flash or Proce55ing, create work that is meant to be censored by third party.
- Assignment 6: Using Flash, create an system in which a square-object reacts to the mouse x/y. Use this interaction to convey a ‘relationship’ between the square and the mouse cursor. For example, you may try to convey the concept of ‘fear’, ‘love’, or perhaps a behavior of a dog (square) to its owner (mouse).
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Projects and exercise division. Clearly about learning to use a medium more effectively for beginner to advanced intermediate?
Realism
Color
- Exercise: Palette Layout
- Exercise: Combine Colors
- Project: Still life w/ pure Primaries
- Project: Still life w/ alternate Primaries
- Exercise: Tertiary mixes from complimentary pairs (3 pigment colors)
- Project: Still life using blue and orange (painters work to color schemes)
- Exercise: Color recognition (can you tell what is primary or secondary)
- Exercise: Mix and Match strips from master works (can you make the colors, then apply them to a drawing or BW photo)
Drawing
- Project: Drawing a still life on mirror tiles (benchmark)
- Exercise: Drawing a silhouette
- Project: Drawing a silhouette of buildings (skyline)
- Exercise: Measuring with pencil and thumb
- Exercise: Drawing a bottle using the box-ing up method
- Exercise: Assessing angles
- Exercise: Working with silhouettes/proportions and angles together
- Plumb lines/ Spirit levels
- Project: Painting a still life
- Gadgets and gizmos – Grid behind object, grid in front of object, view finders, angle measures
- Exercise: Drawing on Clingfilm (compare drawing to trace on window)
Negative Shapes
- Exercise: Stack of chairs
- Exercise: Potted Plant
- Exercise: Face in mirror
- Project: Still life – draw the negative spaces, use view finder to complete them
- Exercise: Checking compositions (with L shaped cut outs, are you using whole space)
- Exercise: Drawing and painting the negative space of leaves (arrange and trace)
- Project: Painting a landscape using the layer on method (thinking in terms of color washes)
3-D Form
- Exercise: Drawing the basic forms
- Project: Painting a white still life in monochrome washes
- Project: Using color tone to create form (edges are not a line)
- Project: Using brush marks to create form in landscape (lines, dots, circular, flat washes, dots of paint, curved brush marks)
Illusion of Space
- Exercise: making a tonal study (higher contrast in foreground)
- Project: Painting a monochromatic landscape
- Project: Creating the illusion of space using color alone (temperature: blue distance/warm-pure foreground, more variety in foreground… START W/COLOR STRIP)
- Exercise: Use degree of detail and definition to enhance spatial illusion
- Project: Painting a landscape that includes water
- Project: Painting a landscape demonstrating the illusion of form and space (how to pick what rule to use – i.e. color or detail or both depending on desired mood)
Beauty
Composition
- Exercise: Composing abstract shapes (Use rectilinear, curvilinear, mixed)
- Project: Producing a painting from a paper collage (use paper in 3-4 tones to create scene and then paint it)
- Exercise: Copy a master-work (you can trace it first…)
- Project: ‘Nother still life. Make tonal sketch, pick theme unity arrangement… etc)
- Project: Landscape (do tonal study, line study, detail sketch,, think about Golden Section)
- Project: Paint landscape with Artistic License (adding clouds, changing angles)
Creative Color
- Project: Using color creatively in backgrounds (picking the best foil)
- Project: Using color to create mood (or season.. or time of day)
- Project: Painting a still life using the cool family of colors
- Project: Painting a still life using the warm family of colors
- Project: Painting a landscape using the cool family of colors
- Project: Painting a landscape using the warm family of colors
- Project: Intensifying realistic Color
- Project: Reversing Intensifying realistic Color (inverting color field)
Celebrate Medium
- Exercise: Exploring the qualities of paint. () dribble big brushes, wet/dry… explore
- Examples of Experimental Techniques: Wet on wet washes, Lifting off, back runs (blotchy), Salt, spattering, wax resist, textures paper, plastic wrap presses, indents on the paper,.
- Project: Using Special Effects
- Exercise: Abstract beginnings using the imagination (start with abstract color washes, pick on and then sketch on it, then roughly finish painting)
- Project: Developing images from abstract beginnings same as before, bigger.
- Project: Producing a preconceived image from abstract beginning
- Project: Adding defination to an abstract or semi-abstract beginning (pencil, richer paint. pen etc)
Personal Vision
Change Subject
- Exercise: Build up a visual resource collection (she uses a loose leaf photo album)
- Following an interest or theme
- Project: Painting a close up view (a series of close up view studies, macro- lens)
- Project: Painting a view through a window/door (including the frame)
- Project: Working in parks, garden and other special places (take studies do paintings)
- Project: Working from your imagination (using non-visual inspiration – like illustrating a story book. Can find visual resources after find idea)
- Project: Painting a special occasion (from memory sketches, etc.)
Change Approach
- Picking a format that is suitable is fun or changes conceptions
- Project: Try an elongated format (panorama,)
- Project: try a square
- Project: try a vertical landscape
- Project: make a small painting (miniature)
- Project: make a large painting (larger than life)
- Project: Go fast
- Project: Go slow
- Project: Paint a landscape in situ
- Project: Paint landscape in studio
- Project: Make a drawing first
- Project: Experimenting with different surface
- Project: Combining water color w/ colored pencils
- Project: Rescue Operation (crayons/pastels)
- Project: Rescue Operation (crayons/acrylics)
- Project: Painting assessing changing or keeping (how to cull)
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Could be titled as problem-solving with drawing techniques. Kept going back to using the “analog drawings” and interpreting them like teas leaves.
Benchmark Drawings (pg 15)
INSIGHT
Drawing Upsidedown (pg 25)
Chrysanthemum (pg 44)
Signature (telling lines)
- Signature
- Signature with other hand
- Signature with usual hand but backwards
- Other hand without looking
Draw Lines
- First fast
- Second more slowly
- 3rd very slowly
Can tell which is fastest “time becomes and embedded quality”
- Draw a second set of lines very fast
- Try to duplicate them (you can’t)
Drawing out insight
- Fold paper in 6
- Anger, Joy, Peacefulness, Depression, Human Energy, Femininity, Illness, Your choice
- NO PICTURES
Drawing on Intuition
- Pick a person
- Draw a frame
- Draw them (nothing figurative as before)
Drawing on Insight (pg 103)
- Pick something in current situation, don’t name it
- Draw boundary
- No figures again
FCB Grid (pg 110)
Take these analog drawing and turn them around
SATURATION – (learning how to see in your own media)
Basic Strategies (pg 127)
- Percieve the edges
- Percieve the negative space
- The relation ships
- Lights and shadows
- The Gestalt
Gesutre Drawings (pg 139)
- 15 sheets of paper/magazine/ pen magazine
- 15 drawing in 15 minutes
- in 1 minute draw what you see. (the first picture you lay you eyes on, start with border…)
Gesture Drawings… return to Insight exercise (pg 143)
Drawing at a snails pace (pg 146)
- Draw one wrinkle, then the next… then the next… then the next
- Paper is taped down and you aren’t looking
- For 10 minutes
Drawing analogies from perceptual thought
10 minute slow draw… in what way is the problem I’m dealing with like this object
Negative space
Draw the outside of your hand
Negative space 2
Put hand down on piece of paper that is the same as the one you are going to draw on… if get to spot that is too difficult, draw the space around it.
What do you really see???
The flag thing
Spyglass
Look at things through a tube to see actually shape size and references
Then try to see that w/o the tube (how to build THAT into tool??)
The picture Plane
Grid in fron of your face… pg 185
Establishing A SINGLE POINT OF VIEW (drawing vs. object)
Draw a grid on window glass, then draw on grid
Use a plastic grid to draw a corner
Now just you (imagine grid)
Now use viewfinder
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http://www.flylady.net/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FlyLadyMentors/
What - Marla Cilley founded a yahoogroup in 1999 as a way helping herself and others follow the “Side-tracked Home Executive” System. Several reminders are sent out daily to check in and remind people to do certain task. There are weekly reminders and monthly reminders, too. It is not a open list in that Cilley is basically the only one who can post to it, although she frequently share testimonials. It is however quite a community… 256,809 subscribers listed March 13. She has written a book, has an online store and makes regular radio guest appearances.
Why - I wanted to look at this system for several reasons. Firstly, because it started as a small personal endeavor and people simply started responded very strongly. It had natural resonance. Secondly because the community it addresses isn’t a techie one. Third, and most importantly, because its whole function is to create habits.
Differences - This system isn’t specifically educational, in fact Cilley specifically declines to give specific cleaning how-to’s because she doesn’t want to encourage perfectionism. The demographic is clearly married-stay-at-home-mothers… which is not what I’m going for.
Ideas - I like that most of the engagement is via e-mail, push. You don’t have to remember to go check the website for the “message of the day.” I like that the voices from the community are there, but the list doesn’t sink into off-topic banter… the peer-to-peer communication is off the list and home grown. Also, I kind of like that she didn’t build it (the news groups software) herself… she appropraited what existed. It is all about spending time on the core idea… not on the admin…
Excerpts & Notes
” Pam Young and Peggy Jones are the founders of the Sidetracked Home Executives (SHEs). They began this journey in 1977 with the book, “Sidetracked Home Executives from Pigpen to Paradise”. In this book, they tell the story of how they searched for organization in their homes and found it in the form of a 3x5 card system… ”
- http://www.flylady.net/pages/About_PamPeggy.asp
Daily Reminders:
7:00 AM EST GRAB YOUR CONTROL JOURNAL: CHECK YOUR MORNING ROUTINE
8:00AM EST WHERE IS YOUR LAUNDRY?
8:15AM EST IT IS TIME TO MOVE: BLESS YOUR HEART!
9:00AM SPEND 15 MINUTES IN YOUR ZONE (see zone section)
9:00AM EST 5 MINUTE ROOM RESCUE
9:00AM EST HOT SPOT FIRE PREVENTION (2 minutes)
10:00AM EST WHERE ARE YOUR SHOES?
10:15AM EST 27 FLING BOOGIE: READY SET GO!
11:00AM EST INCOME TAX PROCRASTINATION CHALLENGE
2:30PM EST AFTERNOON CONTROL JOURNAL CHECK
7:15PM EST START YOUR EVENING ROUTINE NOW
9:00PM EST HOT SPOT FIRE PREVENTION
10:00PM EST GO SHINE YOUR SINK!
11:45PM EST PLEASE GO TO BED:YOU NEED YOUR REST!
Weekly Reminders:
Monday - Weekly Home Blessing
Tuesday - 9:00PM EST TOMORROW IS ANTI-PROCRASTINATION DAY
Wednesday - 8:00AM EST REFRIGERATOR BOOGIE
Wednesday - Zone Clean and Partial Desk Time
Thursday - 10:00AM EST THE MOM SHOW: Please Call In!
Thursday - Grocery and Errand Day
Friday - Paperwork and Misc.
Friday - 11:00AM EST BOOGIE YOUR PURSES, BACK PACKS, BRIEF CASES AND DIAPER BAGS
Friday - 1:00PM EST CLEAN CAR BOOGIE
Friday - 5:00PM EST FRIDAY DATE NIGHT: PLAN SOMETHING SPECIAL
Saturday - 8:00AM EST FAMILY FUN DAY
Sunday - Renew Your Spirit Day
Monthly:
2nd Friday? - TIME TO CHECK THE GIRLS: Monthly Breast Exam
Zones Reminders:
http://www.flylady.net/pages/FlightPlan.asp
Zone work: first declutter, then do “Zone Assignments”, then detailed cleaning (beginer/intermed./advanced)
Zone 1: The Entrance, Front Porch and Dining Room
Zone 2: The Kitchen
Zone 3: The Bathroom and One Extra Room
Zone 4: The Master Bedroom
Zone 5: The Living Room
Routines
- http://www.flylady.net/pages/FLYingLessons_Routines.asp
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http://www.designboom.com/aerobics/transformer.html
http://www.designboom.com/aerobics/
Italian eZine on design with online classes. They have articles and competitions and these classes…
Why: Ethos here is that design is process that must be kept up. Must keep your hand in the game or it wears out. I can but that… my drawing these days SUCKS ASS…. I’m sorry, was I shouting?
Differences: Series of classes. Charging for it … 59.00 for 2 month course. In the context of bigger publication. Theme is “keeping your hand in” Instructors
Ideas: How much history/context/back up are you really going to do? Is each week a mini site? 35 excercises of 2 months… wonder how they decided that? SO the past 2 have had interaction with people in either a public posting/moderated kind of way, or with instructors. Books don’t have that…. the importance of the final format once again rears its ugly head.
Excerpts & Notes
Transformer Chair Lesson Plan (40 Lessons)
http://www.designboom.com/aerobics/transformer.html
- history part (10 lessons)
context
- basic design exercises (10 lessons)
training practise
- points of view (10 lessons)
*design theory / comments by well known designers
selected on the basis of their professional credentials and practical experience.
- final design / individual project (10 lessons)
the fun of designing a transformer chair !
Urban Lighting Plan(Newer format, 35 Lessons)
http://www.designboom.com/aerobics/easy.html
basic lessons
(15 lessons)
please read and practise at your own pace !
- context (7 lessons)
- design + society (4 lessons)
- creativity skills / general training practise (4 lessons)
specific lessons
(20 lessons)
work on progress, please respect deadlines of homework !
- aerobics exercises (6 lessons)
- words of… (3 lessons)
*design theory / comments by well known designers
selected on the basis of their professional credentials and practical experience.
- case histories (7 lessons)
*design products by well known designers and newcomers
- results / participants work (4 lessons)
*** final design / the fun of designing an urban lamp !
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http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com
Why: They create assignments for others to do “for their own good”… or is it part of a piece.
Differences: No real concrete “to what end”, the assignements just come, the path isn’t clear to the user. There is a moderated public display… how does that affect the path, the participants experience of the path? The work was/is considered a piece in and of itself. I don’t know that I feel that way about what I am doing. Goodness was right, it is a curriculum.
Ideas: Create exhibits fromt he work, public forum for participants…
Excerpts & Notes
“Learning to Love You More is both a web site and series of non-web presentations comprised of work made by the general public in response to assignments given by artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher and various guests. Yuri Ono designs and manages the web site.” - http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/hello/index.php
“Creative Capital Foundation is a national nonprofit organization that supports artists pursuing innovative approaches to form and content in the media, performing, and visual arts, and in emerging fields…Learning To Love You More is a recipient of a 2002 grant in the Emerging Fields category and is very grateful to Creative Capital for their support. ” - http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/hello/creative_capital.php
=> http://www.creative-capital.org/
- They are up to 46 assignments. They appear to be pick and choose.
- Each assignment has a collection of links called “Reports” of results people have submitted. You can also see just a list of ALL the “reports” by date or the name of the submitor.
- Another link is the one to the places the work has been shown in the real world.