Final Thoughts

Working with Flash these past couple of weeks has reinforced my love of print media.  I have found that time based movies have very little interest for me.  Even though animations don't interest me I tried to conceptually link my haiku and the meaning I found in it to the marks, motifs, music, type, and the transitions that I used.  From my haiku I got the story of a personal journey.  Since the concept of isolation occurs in the haiku I chose to keep my motifs simple and isolated with a good amount of negative space.  I chose to use Coltrane's Monk's Blues for the music track because of its hollow simplicity and cool toning.


With the taxonomy books we decided to create field guides like those used by bird enthusiasts.  Atheistically the books were kept somber and natural.  The inside pages are filled out with notes like they were written on out in the field. Some pages are missing the images and notes. This makes it appears as if they are in the process of being completed. After the books were completed with careful craft they were aged.  This process of aging became very entertaining as it allowed us to get out our last week of finals stress through abusing our books.  The books were bent and thrown to loosen the stiffness, they were hit on the edges of desks to create slight indentions, the covers were also smudged.  To create a difference between our books the natural marks book was crushed by a large rock to create speckling indentions, while the man-made marks book had a tire dropped on it to create the track marks of a dusty tire.