Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Brainstorm for Visual Design

Brainstorm Visual Material Maps:

Fear:
Black
Blue
Cold
Shaky
Death
Endanger
Anxiety
Trauma
Anger
Nightmare
Tragedy
Sadness
Intimidation
Darkness
Voices
Tears
Tension Rising
Screams
End!
Falling
Dark Area
Dark Skies
“Death”

Knowledge:
Brain
Computer
Pencil
Pens
Paper
Notebooks
Textbooks
Information
School
Skills
Learning
Power
Artificial Intelligence
Representation
Desk

Peace:
Bright
Peaceful Fields
Trees
Fruit
Doves
Peace Signs
Hand Shakes
People getting along
Sun
Blue Sky

Fatigue:
Lack of sleep
Person having insomnia
Bed
Blankets
Pillows
Sheets
Twisting/Turning
Television
Face looked tired
TV shows
Nighttime
Bedroom
Walls
Ceilings
Windows
Nighttime settings
Floor
Sickness
Coughs
Trouble eating and drinking

Destiny:
Outside suburban area
Inside home from bedroom window
The sun slowly setting
The slowly rising
Sky going to black
Sky going to blue
Sun shining fully

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Treatment revised

Treatment for poetry writings:

Tiredness:

This will surround poetry involving tiredness. The themes of this piece will include the following:

Troubling sleeping.
Going outside to stay at the nighttime scenery.
Involving when should I be able to get some rest.
The TV could not even put me to sleep.
Walking up the neighborhood in the dark.
Staring up at the bedroom ceiling.
Twisting and turning in with the blankets and sheets.

Inner peace of the self:
This section of poetry will involve inner peace. The themes of this piece will include the following:

A brand new day involving the sun shining real bright.
The sky pitch perfect blue.
Looking at a tree representing life.
The fruit can be a symbol of peace; a symbol of rebirth
Walking through a field give a chance to embrace peace
The wind blowing through the grass mentioning that nature has fused with my intentions.
Sitting under a tree realizing that peace has finally arrived.

Wisdom:
This section of poetry will involve wisdom. The themes of this piece will include the following:

Going inside a library
Involving a catalog
Walking through a library section of books
Looking at shelves; picked out different books involving Philosophy
Flipping through a different pair of pages of the books.
Go to a table and feeling ready to embrace the knowledge
Studying different books from time after time
The books brings a sense of evolution to a person’s education
Going through a notebook

Anger:
This section of poetry will involve anger. The themes of this piece will include the following:

In a alley in the city
Pacing around in anger
A person doesn’t know how to deal with it
Things get thrown around
A glass cup or bottle gets shattered
Representing how much anger can do
Realizing that anger can be haunting
Self-regulation must come into play
Or else a downfall will happen

Fear:
This section of poetry will involve fear. The themes of this piece will include the following:

Inside the woods on a dark night
Walking around all alone
Wondering why “this” has consumed me
Legs shakes over and over constantly
Even the hands began to shake
The dark had consumed judgment
Began to run from “it’
Kept running and running
The whole body began to shake
Suddenly realization came to mind.
I need to go back in there and embrace “it”

Destiny:
This section of poetry will involve fear. The themes of this piece will include the following:

Sun setting from home
Transition from end
Walking out of a home on a day when the sun starts to rise.
Staring at it makes me think
About to seeing opportunities
As it rise, new ideas of beginnings flowing
Sun rise

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Batman documentary used for study for one of the themes.

For the record, I am using 6 themes:
Fear
Anger
Inner Peace
Destiny
Tiredness
Knowledge.

As I was taking pictures and writing outlines, I needed to do a bit more research on the themes that I want to use in poem form. Over the summer, I watched a documentary on the History Channel called "Batman Unmasked: The Psychology of The Dark Knight" and it involves psychologists discussing the Batman comics and the new Batman movies "Batman Begins" and "The Dark Knight". I thought I got better knowledge on the subject of fear and anger from the psychologists. One psychologist mention that with fear anyone can go on with their regular lives despite having it. For instance, in "Batman Begins", Bruce Wayne witness his parents murder and becomes paralyze with fear and doubt despite moving form the experience. Another fear Wayne develops was the fear of bats. Wayne wants to use his fear of bats as a symbol to fight crime. But first, he has to embrace it. One psychologist suggest that in order to overcome a certain fear, that person has to embrace it and not be afraid of it. That whole piece is what I am using for my poem on fear.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Writings Update

So...
There is good news. The writer I am collaborating with has written three poems based off the outline. The bad news, he feels that his writings are a bit difficult and out there, along with his difficulty of not following a deadline. But I told him that I need to see them and make a decision about them . However, I'm keeping him and have myself co write and shooting the pictures because it's bad enough I had difficulty getting someone from the Creative Writing Minor to help me with this.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

More research links

http://raysweb.net/haiga
http://www.digitalsalon.com/revich-vispo.html
http://www.helensword.ac.nz/index.htm
http://www.art.net/~stowe/Pomegraphics.htm
http://www.poetryvisualized.com

Updates

I finally met with my collaborator writer and we went over the project and he seems cool with it. I wrote a treatment for him to start writing. Also, I began taking pictures for the themes that I have chosen. It's coming, but I may have to do some reshoots. Maybe with a different photographer.

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Tentative Timeline

9/10/08: Present Idea to class
9/12/08: Do more research to project by viewing multiple digital poetry websites
9/14/08: Get in touch with writer to talk about the writings
9/15/08: Begin taking pictures for site around certain areas; Start storyboarding/mapping web layout & sites
9/16/08: Show Jeremy or TA progress so far
9/18/08: Schematics
9/19/08: Meet with writer about progress
9/20/08-9/22/08: Revising Schematics/Mappings continue taking pictures/ begin outline for writer
9/23/08: Show Jeremy or TA progress so far
9/26/08: Communicate with writer about progress and revisions
9/26/08-9/29/08: Revising Schematics/Mappings
9/30/08: Show Jeremy or TA progress so far
10/3/08: Meet with writer about progress
10/4/08-10/6/08: Begin designing comps
10/7/08: Show Jeremy or TA progress so far
10/10/08: Communicate with writer about progress and revisions
10/10/08-10/13/08: Revising Comps
10/14/08: Show Jeremy or TA progress so far
10/15/08: Presentation
10/17/08: Communicate with writer about progress and revisions
10/16/08-10/20/08: Revamping
10/21/08: Show Jeremy or TA progress so far
10/24/08: Communicate with writer about progress and revisions
10/24/08-10/27/08: Continue to Revamp
10/28/08: Show Jeremy or TA progress so far
10/31/08: Communicate with writer about progress and revisions
10/31/08-11/3/08: Begin building prototype
11/04/08: Show Jeremy or TA progress so far
11/07/08: Meet with writer yet again
11/06/08- 11/10/08: Continue building prototype
11/11/08: Show Jeremy or TA progress so far
11/13/08- 11/17/08: Continue building prototype
11/13/08- 11/17/08: Continue building prototype/revamping
11/25/08: Show Jeremy or TA progress so far
11/26/08: Presentation II
11/29/08-12/09/08; Revamp everything
12/12/08: Binder due.

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Monday, September 15, 2008

More Research for the project

http://www.electronicbookreview.com/- Critical writing mainly on USA digital poetry and electronic literature more broadly.

http://www.vispo.com/ - Langu(im)age: experimental visual poetry, literary programming, and essays on new media by the poet Jim Andrews.

http://collection.eliterature.org/1/- collection of poetry and writings in a multimedia formats

http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/digital/flaherty/index.asp

http://www.toddpitt.com

Project Outline

Working Title: poeticjourney.com


I. What is my idea for the senior studio project?
A. An exploratory hypermedia website focusing on several original personal poetry writings reflecting an emotional journey surrounding multiple themes such as fear, inner peace of the self, destiny, wisdom, anger, fearfulness and hate. The inclusion of photography, audio and scanned images will express the emotions of the piece through different types of photography and scanned compositions to make the settings and the theme appropriate.

B. The poetry and photography will focus on multiple poetic forms of a dramatic monologue, ballad, aphorism, and repetitive form as examples of the styles that will be included in the site.

II. Who is my targeted audience?
A. The primary audience will be those who have a strong interest in creative writing.

III. How is it going to be made?
A. Research on different poetic forms.
1.) Will research the poetic forms by taking the class of Advance Poetry Writing Workshop in order to refine the craft for the production phase.
2.) Independent research on the poetic forms by going through a number of books on the poetic forms at the UARTS library.(TBD)
3.) This website will incorporate the use of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The website will incorporate photography, audio and scanned images.
4.) I will be working in a collaborate setting with a student writer in order to successfully creating strong poetry.
5.) A digital camera will be used for the photographical settings, along with Photoshop for the manipulation.

B. Research on Websites.
1.) The website, noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com, by Miranda July is a prime example of how web can involve storytelling. This proposal will include July’s style of incorporating text into different photographical settings by having each stanza of a poem in that setting.
2.) Epimore.net is a website that focuses on poems from writers from around the world. For this project, I will include a web interface that includes photos of the poetic pieces all lined up. The photographical pieces contain images and audio that deals with the poem. This potential project will include this format.

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Tuesday, September 9, 2008

so...

Senior year has started. Welcome to the challenge, eh!