Wednesday, December 5, 2007
final_the dignity of panties
My final project is based on how society has become to accept nudity, which was once claimed as an immoral act. I connected fruit with to the context of panties. Women have took began to take advantage of events that draw attention to their physicality by making them a tribute to their appeal. The fruit is used within the comps to draw attention to the woman's private areas.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Women desiring to appeal to men in our culture relates to eve’s aim to tempt Adam with the apple. Religions are known to give limits for women. In the story of Adam and Eve, God punishes Eve for picking an apple. After breaking down my reasoning for my concept in words, the class decided to use that approach in my storyboard. In the beginning of my storyline, it starts with figures in the form of bathroom symbols. In an interrogation room, this type of female figure comes in handcuffed, wanting to tell her story for a new trial. She is not identified with an individual form because she stands for all women. She starts her explanation that her punishment is too harsh for what she did by narrating the beginning of the day her and Adam were in the garden. After tempting Adam with the apple, apples fall down knocking her down. One apple lands on her crotch embarrassing her and causing her to cover it with leaves. It breaks off from the Adam and Eve scene to a young girl-playing ball with boys, were she later falls and reveals her underwear. The movie then moves to more scenes, referring to a woman’s past experience. In each scene, she is competing with a guy or for a guy and falls revealing underwear resulting to her failure. Her panties come symbolic to the apple.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
10/31/07 critique
After discussion today I decided to choose idea 1. However, I will not be dealing with an international concept. Instead I will relate to a western ideology only. As an artist I am suppose to have my work have some personal connect and still have concern for the general public. I feel like significant art can be created without logic. At the end of the presentation I mentioned how I feel about women belonging to men and my opinion on verse 3:16 from genesis. Basically I disagree with the inequality between genders to be a balance, but religiously I fear to disagree. To me I can relate my distress to disagree directly to expectations of my upraising. Again, I am able to connect religion’s dictation of women to women’s self- objectification for men. In my storyline I will launch from eve’s aim to tempt Adam with apple to women’s attempt to lure men with their sexuality. At the end our game of temptation only makes us game pieces to throw around leaving us controlled by men.
Idea 1
I want to connect genesis 3:16 where Eve is told to belong to man after she picks the apple to how women are recognized as the dependent sex in different cultures. In the story line, it will start out with eve picking the apple and the apple will turn into a graph of the world. I will then create illustrated clippings to support my idea from different cultures. The storyline ends where even takes a bit of the apple and passes it to Adam for a kiss, referring to women as being the “reason for man’s faults.”
Idea 2
I want to concentrate on the ideal American woman. In this storyline, I will begin with a woman window-shopping where she comes along a wall of televisions. She begins watching documentation for men to coach their wives. The movie is a brainwashing technique and she walks away like a “stepford” wife.
Idea 3
In this concept, I will demonstrate a girl’s seek for happiness with love and connect her reasoning with fairy tales. She will take a journey that will duplicate many tales into one where she finds happiness with her prince charming. In this composition, like the others I want the style to be similar to Saul Bass. However, this one will be more like a fantasy
I want to connect genesis 3:16 where Eve is told to belong to man after she picks the apple to how women are recognized as the dependent sex in different cultures. In the story line, it will start out with eve picking the apple and the apple will turn into a graph of the world. I will then create illustrated clippings to support my idea from different cultures. The storyline ends where even takes a bit of the apple and passes it to Adam for a kiss, referring to women as being the “reason for man’s faults.”
Idea 2
I want to concentrate on the ideal American woman. In this storyline, I will begin with a woman window-shopping where she comes along a wall of televisions. She begins watching documentation for men to coach their wives. The movie is a brainwashing technique and she walks away like a “stepford” wife.
Idea 3
In this concept, I will demonstrate a girl’s seek for happiness with love and connect her reasoning with fairy tales. She will take a journey that will duplicate many tales into one where she finds happiness with her prince charming. In this composition, like the others I want the style to be similar to Saul Bass. However, this one will be more like a fantasy
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
“She supports the World with Sex by giving Them a taste of her big Apple.”
“She supports the World with Sex by giving Them a taste of her big Apple.”
With my sentence I blended the story of Adam and Eve with the apple to the economic value of “The Big Apple” of New York. A vast amount of foreigners enter the nation for our culture support of reproduction. The more children you have the more benefits you get. America’s mix of origins allows men to have a variety to choose from. Therefore, like the economic value of New York City, women have an impact on their nation’s economy. I used red. blue, and white as the three dominate colors throughout the composition. I wanted the colors to allow the viewer to relate to American, but at the same time instruct them to view women’s sexuality as a necessity of the world’s economy.
With my sentence I blended the story of Adam and Eve with the apple to the economic value of “The Big Apple” of New York. A vast amount of foreigners enter the nation for our culture support of reproduction. The more children you have the more benefits you get. America’s mix of origins allows men to have a variety to choose from. Therefore, like the economic value of New York City, women have an impact on their nation’s economy. I used red. blue, and white as the three dominate colors throughout the composition. I wanted the colors to allow the viewer to relate to American, but at the same time instruct them to view women’s sexuality as a necessity of the world’s economy.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
typographic animation/Power of Female Sex
For my typographic animation I chose a dialogue from the television show “Sex and the City.” The episode is titled “Power of the Female Sex” and is about the exchange of power between men and women. The show relates to the idea that men is the main factor of women’s success in life, and how women must survey themselves to achieve prosperity. I will play with different font types, size, and speed to convey four women’s voices and one man. The dialogue is taken from the scene were the four women are discussing the limits of the power of sex. I used red, which emanates sexual tension as the background. I wished to dodge a substantial vary of the font to avoid having a bold confounder within my composition.
Saul Bass/Essay
Motion Graphics
Santana Singleton
10/11/07
Saul Bass Essay
Saul Bass was a freelance graphic designer and an Academy Award-winning filmmaker. Bass did it all: films, packaging, products, architecture, corporate identification, and graphics. He suppressed the idea of titling movies with sequences that were highly symbolic and evocative. His work has been fused into our lives. His designs are everywhere from our telephones, films, to our airlines. Saul Bass was able to speak to people in a language that familiar, but new.
Bass was born in New York’s Bronx district in 1920. He studied at the Art Students League of New York and Brooklyn College under Gyorgy Kepes. Kepes introduced Bass to the Bauhaus style and Russian Constructivism. After training under Manhattan design firms, Bass moved to Los Angeles in 1946 to branch his career. It was in Los Angeles where he was invited to design the poster and title sequence of Otto Preminger’s “Carmen Jones.” Bass went on to make movie titles an integral part of the film. He was collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, and Martin Scorsese.
He created over fifty title sequences in his lifetime. His first title sequence for Alfred Hitchcock was an extreme close-up of a woman’s face and eyes before spinning in at a spiral into a bloody screen. In “North by Northwest”, he swooped the credits up and down vertical and diagonal lines, imitating passengers stepping off elevators that resembles the façade of a skyscraper. In 1968 he directed a series of shorts for “Why Man Crates” and branched off to direct a feature with 1974’s Phase IV. Phase IV failed and Bass returned to his commercial graphic designs.
Bass is best known for his design for “The Man with the Golden Arm.” The movie’s theme was about a jazz musician, played by Frank Sinatra, overcoming a heroin addiction. Saul Bass used a symbol of a black paper-cut-out, heroin addict’s arm to establish a powerful image title. I am able to see a jitter being duplicated in a still image, a jitter that is identified to an addict’s body language. The cutout arm reinvented the movie title as an art form. He became known to have a gift to grasp the one image that best symbolized a movie. He was able to aid other movies by creating visual metaphors such as: Exodus’s outstretched arms, West Side Story’s simple lines that recall the fire escape, and Vertigo’s silhouette of man that the audience was able to identify to a Alfred Hitchcock’s production.
Until Saul, cinema posters were images of famous celebrities to lure an audience. Saul Bass was the first to reduce a movie into a single image, which conveyed the atmosphere and premise of the film. He also was able to create icons that single-handedly represent companies. I find his simplification with imagery to be the strongest and most compelling method for advertisement. His use of bold, limited colors and his straight forward, conceptual images attracts me to his work. He revolutionized film titles and other works have become the criterion for designers.
Santana Singleton
10/11/07
Saul Bass Essay
Saul Bass was a freelance graphic designer and an Academy Award-winning filmmaker. Bass did it all: films, packaging, products, architecture, corporate identification, and graphics. He suppressed the idea of titling movies with sequences that were highly symbolic and evocative. His work has been fused into our lives. His designs are everywhere from our telephones, films, to our airlines. Saul Bass was able to speak to people in a language that familiar, but new.
Bass was born in New York’s Bronx district in 1920. He studied at the Art Students League of New York and Brooklyn College under Gyorgy Kepes. Kepes introduced Bass to the Bauhaus style and Russian Constructivism. After training under Manhattan design firms, Bass moved to Los Angeles in 1946 to branch his career. It was in Los Angeles where he was invited to design the poster and title sequence of Otto Preminger’s “Carmen Jones.” Bass went on to make movie titles an integral part of the film. He was collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, and Martin Scorsese.
He created over fifty title sequences in his lifetime. His first title sequence for Alfred Hitchcock was an extreme close-up of a woman’s face and eyes before spinning in at a spiral into a bloody screen. In “North by Northwest”, he swooped the credits up and down vertical and diagonal lines, imitating passengers stepping off elevators that resembles the façade of a skyscraper. In 1968 he directed a series of shorts for “Why Man Crates” and branched off to direct a feature with 1974’s Phase IV. Phase IV failed and Bass returned to his commercial graphic designs.
Bass is best known for his design for “The Man with the Golden Arm.” The movie’s theme was about a jazz musician, played by Frank Sinatra, overcoming a heroin addiction. Saul Bass used a symbol of a black paper-cut-out, heroin addict’s arm to establish a powerful image title. I am able to see a jitter being duplicated in a still image, a jitter that is identified to an addict’s body language. The cutout arm reinvented the movie title as an art form. He became known to have a gift to grasp the one image that best symbolized a movie. He was able to aid other movies by creating visual metaphors such as: Exodus’s outstretched arms, West Side Story’s simple lines that recall the fire escape, and Vertigo’s silhouette of man that the audience was able to identify to a Alfred Hitchcock’s production.
Until Saul, cinema posters were images of famous celebrities to lure an audience. Saul Bass was the first to reduce a movie into a single image, which conveyed the atmosphere and premise of the film. He also was able to create icons that single-handedly represent companies. I find his simplification with imagery to be the strongest and most compelling method for advertisement. His use of bold, limited colors and his straight forward, conceptual images attracts me to his work. He revolutionized film titles and other works have become the criterion for designers.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
revise/improve machine
With improving my machine, I went ahead and create a entire new composition. This time to better the understanding of my content, I added the screen of the slot machine while keeping the blow-up man. I planned to create movement of the dials by looping the position and opacity of the images. It didn't work, the images were all over the place when I replayed it so I went to plan b. Although the movement of the dials is not the best duplicated, the added scene helps my piece. I again had breaks appear when I parented objects within my machine. After last week, I decided to split layers to prevent the changing of key frames earlier in the scene. It still came out rough. However, i am happier with the latest composition. I feel it to be closer to success than last week.
artist essay choice/research
I decided on writing my essay on the artist Saul Bass. As an artist, he was worked as a commercial graphic designer and filmmaker. He won a academy award and is best known for "The Man with the Golden Arm" and his title sequence for Alfred Hitchcock. I decided on Bass for his distinctive style and his impressive biography. Another reason is because I remembering being fond of the graphics in Alfred Hitchcock,before I even knew what graphic design was.
brainstorming-typographic animation
I decided on taking a dialogue from the first season of "Sex and the City", the "The Power of Female Sex" episode. The episode deals with the echange of power between women and men-sex and money.
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
machine project
This last project was a nightmare for me. Everything went wrong. I had scaling problems that i could not fix and i ended up with a storyline that is nothing like my original idea.
What you don't get to see:
In the the beginning of composition, after the lady pulls down the knob. A scene showing the dials of the slot machine should of been pictured. The dials contained objects that women consume themselves with, instead of cherries, lucky 7's, etc. Depending on the combination of the images, she received ticket points. After she is done playing 2 or 3 rounds she than walked to the check-out line and received a blow-up man in exchange with her tickets.
Concept:
I wanted to experiment with the stuff women engage themselves in for men: image enhancement, sex education, and moral behavior. Using a slot machine, replacing the typical images on the dials to objects relating to my concern a woman will win points which she uses to cash out for a man valued with the points that she earned. The idea is that when a woman has a healthy balance with the three points, she gets the man she desires.
What you don't get to see:
In the the beginning of composition, after the lady pulls down the knob. A scene showing the dials of the slot machine should of been pictured. The dials contained objects that women consume themselves with, instead of cherries, lucky 7's, etc. Depending on the combination of the images, she received ticket points. After she is done playing 2 or 3 rounds she than walked to the check-out line and received a blow-up man in exchange with her tickets.
Concept:
I wanted to experiment with the stuff women engage themselves in for men: image enhancement, sex education, and moral behavior. Using a slot machine, replacing the typical images on the dials to objects relating to my concern a woman will win points which she uses to cash out for a man valued with the points that she earned. The idea is that when a woman has a healthy balance with the three points, she gets the man she desires.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Within my research for this semester I have came across many nonessential "necessaries" women obsess over . The majority of women are fixated from childhood on finding prince charming, and as a result they try to mimic the models they are exposed to who draws attention from men. With my design of a machine, i want to expose a young girl to the customs women perform in our culture. The machine will be the child's teddy bear, whom she comes to for support. The girl will be placed inside the machine, endure the practices of women, and as a result be transformed into a different depiction.
artist research
There are a variety of approaches to machinery in artworks. Artist like Alan Rath are interested in the kinetics of machines. Other artist might like to be more casual with the possibilities of machinery like Rube Goldberg. Rube Goldberg designs “inventions” that go through the maximum effort to achieve the minimal results. His comical designs include “Dodging Bill Collectors”, “Simplified Pencil Sharpener” and “How to keep shop windows clean.” Artists have worked with machine inventions throughout history. In the 70’s the feminist artist Hellen Chandwick created a machine that was worn by a female model called “In the Kitchen.” The machine was parallel with the body, meaning that women are not their own property.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
In a multi-layered composition I will merge erotic images of women with images of livestock. Combining the images together indicates that women are visually absorbed as much as farm animals are digested by humanity. The images of women demonstrates how the woman’s physical appearance is just as important as the figures of livestock, their physique determines their value to the world.
Saturday, September 15, 2007
“ The Kid Stays in the Picture”
The video “The Kid Stays in the Picture” shows Bob Evan’s life while showing Adobe After Effect techniques with photos. The designers of the film took photos of Bob Evans and brought them to life. They changed the photos by removing and replacing elements, changed background, played with focus, and created glow from light sources within the pictures. To create depth in the images, the designers added images over other images. Some of the other ways they applied photos within a motion composition included using photos for the background of moving images or 2D graphics behind photos to create casting shadows. The video reviewed many effects that motion graphic designers can manipulate in their work.
The video “The Kid Stays in the Picture” shows Bob Evan’s life while showing Adobe After Effect techniques with photos. The designers of the film took photos of Bob Evans and brought them to life. They changed the photos by removing and replacing elements, changed background, played with focus, and created glow from light sources within the pictures. To create depth in the images, the designers added images over other images. Some of the other ways they applied photos within a motion composition included using photos for the background of moving images or 2D graphics behind photos to create casting shadows. The video reviewed many effects that motion graphic designers can manipulate in their work.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
proposal
My work throughout the semester will relate to female identities shaped by sociological boundaries. I am interested in the objective representations of women in ethics and media; and how those representations contrast with our individual identities as women. The largest factor in shaping a person’s environment is the person himself. Women concern themselves with approval from others, expecting self-acceptance in return. Our sociological boundaries have been established by society. We act in accordance to public’s expectations, but when we fail, it is the criticism of other women that labels us as outcasts. As women, we must survey everything we are and everything we do because how we appears to others, ultimately men, is the main factor of our success in life. A woman’s identity is a reflection of her own self-assessment, which is preoccupied with the standards of the “ideal” woman: moral, beautiful, and fertile. Our sense of being is replaced by our will to become objects appreciated by others. We shape our identities according to obligations set by those we want to attract. The portrayal of women in society constrains the ambitious nature in women to succeed.
I would like to examine the perspectives of women that interfere with our self-image, and associate those elements with our present circumstances.
While determining my topic, I chose a subject that related to me. As a woman, I have continuously evaluated myself from the subjective criticism of others. I have focused on meeting the approval of my father and men I desire. With a religious background, I have found many gender bias in scriptures that have restrained women from equality with men. I hope to discover the factors that contain women into a subjective image and escape from those boundaries.
My work throughout the semester will relate to female identities shaped by sociological boundaries. I am interested in the objective representations of women in ethics and media; and how those representations contrast with our individual identities as women. The largest factor in shaping a person’s environment is the person himself. Women concern themselves with approval from others, expecting self-acceptance in return. Our sociological boundaries have been established by society. We act in accordance to public’s expectations, but when we fail, it is the criticism of other women that labels us as outcasts. As women, we must survey everything we are and everything we do because how we appears to others, ultimately men, is the main factor of our success in life. A woman’s identity is a reflection of her own self-assessment, which is preoccupied with the standards of the “ideal” woman: moral, beautiful, and fertile. Our sense of being is replaced by our will to become objects appreciated by others. We shape our identities according to obligations set by those we want to attract. The portrayal of women in society constrains the ambitious nature in women to succeed.
I would like to examine the perspectives of women that interfere with our self-image, and associate those elements with our present circumstances.
While determining my topic, I chose a subject that related to me. As a woman, I have continuously evaluated myself from the subjective criticism of others. I have focused on meeting the approval of my father and men I desire. With a religious background, I have found many gender bias in scriptures that have restrained women from equality with men. I hope to discover the factors that contain women into a subjective image and escape from those boundaries.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
research_resources >>>>
Bardwick, Judith. Feminine Personality and Conflict. Belmont,CA: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company., 1970.
Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. London: Penguin Group Ltd., 1977.
Grossman, Susan. Women and The Synagogus. Philiedelpia: Jewish Publication Society Inc., 1992
Kaufman, Debra K. Rachel’s Daughters. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications Inc., 1991
Lunardini, Christine. What Every American Should Know About Women’s History. Holbrock, MA: Bob Adams Inc.,1994.
Newman, Louise Michelle. White Women’s Rights. New York,NY: Oxford University Press., 1999
Nussbaum, Martha C. Sex and Social Justice. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. , 1999
The Holy Bible, King James Version. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers., 1952
...web pages_> >>
http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2000/12.14/07-stereotypes.html
http://www.amit.org.il/learning/english/stereotypesUnit10.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/money/workplace/2005-02-16-pregnancy-bias-usat_x.htm
Bardwick, Judith. Feminine Personality and Conflict. Belmont,CA: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company., 1970.
Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. London: Penguin Group Ltd., 1977.
Grossman, Susan. Women and The Synagogus. Philiedelpia: Jewish Publication Society Inc., 1992
Kaufman, Debra K. Rachel’s Daughters. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications Inc., 1991
Lunardini, Christine. What Every American Should Know About Women’s History. Holbrock, MA: Bob Adams Inc.,1994.
Newman, Louise Michelle. White Women’s Rights. New York,NY: Oxford University Press., 1999
Nussbaum, Martha C. Sex and Social Justice. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. , 1999
The Holy Bible, King James Version. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers., 1952
...web pages_> >>
http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2000/12.14/07-stereotypes.html
http://www.amit.org.il/learning/english/stereotypesUnit10.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/money/workplace/2005-02-16-pregnancy-bias-usat_x.htm
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
>>> the female identity
>visual metaphors ________________ >contrasting visual metaphors
'1 classical dining chair_________ '1 comfortable couch
'2 african-american woman_________ '2 caucasian men
'3 barbie_________________________ '3 action hero/superman
'4 vagina_________________________ '4 penis
'5 pregnant teenager______________ '5 teenaged father
'6 denoir's "new look"____________ '6 jeans
'7 pear___________________________ '7 apple
'8 kitchen________________________ '8 living room
'9 birded feet____________________ '9 flat feet
'10 hight heels____________________ '10 tennis shoes
'11 color pink_____________________ '11 color blue
'12 victims________________________ '12 criminals
'13 attenuation of neck rings______ '13 massage
'14 saint virgin mary______________ '14 woman's sexuality
'15 prostitute_____________________ '15 the male college graduate
'16 Marylin Monroe_________________ '16 rosie o'donnell
'17 prision bars___________________ '17 open fields
'18 veils__________________________ '18 sundress
'19 robots_________________________ '19 humanity
'20 cinderella_____________________ '20 daria
>visual metaphors ________________ >contrasting visual metaphors
'1 classical dining chair_________ '1 comfortable couch
'2 african-american woman_________ '2 caucasian men
'3 barbie_________________________ '3 action hero/superman
'4 vagina_________________________ '4 penis
'5 pregnant teenager______________ '5 teenaged father
'6 denoir's "new look"____________ '6 jeans
'7 pear___________________________ '7 apple
'8 kitchen________________________ '8 living room
'9 birded feet____________________ '9 flat feet
'10 hight heels____________________ '10 tennis shoes
'11 color pink_____________________ '11 color blue
'12 victims________________________ '12 criminals
'13 attenuation of neck rings______ '13 massage
'14 saint virgin mary______________ '14 woman's sexuality
'15 prostitute_____________________ '15 the male college graduate
'16 Marylin Monroe_________________ '16 rosie o'donnell
'17 prision bars___________________ '17 open fields
'18 veils__________________________ '18 sundress
'19 robots_________________________ '19 humanity
'20 cinderella_____________________ '20 daria
female identities,shaped by sociological boundaries:
>related words and ideas_____ >contrasting words and ideas
=1 superficial_____________________=1 unique
=2 role play_______________________=2 dynamic
=3 disruption______________________=3 justice
=4 stereotype______________________=4 identity
=5 rejection ______________________=5 acceptance
=6 righteousness___________________=6 abortion
=7 "slut/whore_____________________=7 "your name"
=8 Disney/fairy tales______________=8 "man-eater"
=9 house wife______________________=9 independence
=10 gender awareness________________=10 brainwash
=11 racism__________________________=11 equality
=12 morality________________________=12 demonic
=13 virtue__________________________=13 liberty
=14 sexuality_______________________=14 cross-dress
=15 feminine________________________=15 homosexuals
=16 menstruation____________________=16 penetration
=17 beauty__________________________=17 education
=18 graceful________________________=18 outcast
=19 adjustments_____________________=19 projection of males reality
=20 "...I will greatly multiply_____=20 feminist
thy sorrow and conception;
in sorrow thou shalt bring
forth child; and thy desire
shall be to thy husband, he
shall rule thee".Genesis 3:16
>related words and ideas_____ >contrasting words and ideas
=1 superficial_____________________=1 unique
=2 role play_______________________=2 dynamic
=3 disruption______________________=3 justice
=4 stereotype______________________=4 identity
=5 rejection ______________________=5 acceptance
=6 righteousness___________________=6 abortion
=7 "slut/whore_____________________=7 "your name"
=8 Disney/fairy tales______________=8 "man-eater"
=9 house wife______________________=9 independence
=10 gender awareness________________=10 brainwash
=11 racism__________________________=11 equality
=12 morality________________________=12 demonic
=13 virtue__________________________=13 liberty
=14 sexuality_______________________=14 cross-dress
=15 feminine________________________=15 homosexuals
=16 menstruation____________________=16 penetration
=17 beauty__________________________=17 education
=18 graceful________________________=18 outcast
=19 adjustments_____________________=19 projection of males reality
=20 "...I will greatly multiply_____=20 feminist
thy sorrow and conception;
in sorrow thou shalt bring
forth child; and thy desire
shall be to thy husband, he
shall rule thee".Genesis 3:16
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