Topics

- apocalypse

- impossible surfing scenarios

- stop trying to be someone youre not

- stop overlooking the beauty of small moments

- stop following the path of least resistance

- stop worrying so much

- look for silver lining in tough situations:  rainy day with silver lines, cloudy with silver lines, smashed 

 locations: urban waste but then a beautiful shape, crumbling stairs

- population 

- environmental issues: inadequate resources

- nature invading urban

more brainstorming

1. Chiaroscuro : I learned about this last semester when i was studying art history in paris. It was a technique using light to bring dramatic focus to certain elements of the painting. Maybe I could use this in photography.

2. Light stencils - could make pretty or interesting shapes in unexpected places

3. Negatives

4. create mini world where i control light - like an apocalypse mini series?

5. I make the lights

6.  Lights and my passion

Flare surfing:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfeFkwdB9MA&feature=related 

Light up board:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfeFkwdB9MA&feature=related

Next step: Decide on a message or disussion topic, then figure out which technique best fits it. Possible topics:

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Weekly Exercise: Light Painting

I like how the texture of the light came out here:

My friend ben is an amazing dancer and he held a light while he danced for this photo. I like how it just barely catches his concentrated face:

P3: Studio 17 : Individual Work

BRAINSTORMING DIAGRAM:

RESEARCH ON MEDIA DESING:
It's difficult to find a succinct definition for media design, rather it seems to be a combination of many disciplines and ways of designing. It involves interaction with the viewer, technology, photography, software (Adobe creative suite, computer programming), computer science.



MY 'POSITION' BRAINSTORM:


Design, for me, is a tool to visually communicate, inform, and persuade about issues by harnessing the power of beauty and innovation beyond the constraints of reality.  It is a chameleon medium composed of many art forms and technologies. It has the unique ability to reach an unlimited number of people because of its technological and internet aspects.  It can educate and persuade like no other because it can be interactive.  It frees portrayal beyond reality to enhance and compliment meaning, beauty, and induce astonishment, inspiration, and fascination.  It has the power to make messages stick and spread.


PRECEDENTS OF VIDEOS THAT INSPIRE ME:

IDEO:
Probably one of the most multidisciplinary and innovative companies in the US. It is also "an award-winning global design firm that takes a human-centered, design-based approach to helping organizations in the public and private sectors innovate and grow." (Their website).
http://www.ideo.com/work/

Pranav Mistry: SixthSense
Interactive media design allows users to project computer technologies such as word processing, internet search, and camera, onto any surface anywhere and use fingers as mousepad.
http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html

Environmental Digital Art: This example of media design is by an artist who creates images where when you zoom in you realize theyre made of millions of objects - usually trash.

http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/rtn2/#gyre


Chris Milk + the Wilderness Downtown

Chris Milk is a famous media designer.  He does commercial work, music videos, and experimental projects. This music video for Arcade Fire is extremely innovative: it changes its meaning each time based on an address that the viewer inputs in the begining and becomes a music video about YOUR childhood based on google images, Milk footage, and virtual environment design.

http://portfolio.chrismilk.com/#mi=1&pt=0&pi=2&p=-1&a=0&at=0



Population Video:
This is a very simple and old example of media design, probably from the 90s. I saw it in 8th grade and it has never left me and in fact has influenced my studies in international relations and environment.  It conveys the message that population growth is out of control by portraying 1000s of people with small with dots on a map of the world over a time span of 10000s of years set to a heartbeat sound effect. It is an example of media design to convince and argue a point, which is WHY I want to do media design- its power to communicate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BbkQiQyaYc


Radical Media + Johnny Cash Project
This is an interesting example of collaborative media design and stopmotion. Artists worldwide each drew one frame of a 5 min music video of a Johnny Cash song (his last recording) and then Radical Media (a design firm) compiled all the images into a stop motion. The result is a beautiful swirling animation in black and white.

http://www.radicalmedia.com/Design__and__Digital/The-Johnny-Cash-Project/Digital/#/5216/


Radical Media + 19.20.21
This piece of media design is included in my precedents because it demonstrates how media design can be used to discuss current issues and influence change. Its the gritty, real kind of design.

http://www.radicalmedia.com/Design__and__Digital/19.20.21/Overview/#/3898/

Ryan O'Hara + The Bay
This was presented to us on the first day and has stuck with me because I love to surf. I admire how he combined his passion for surfing with media design

http://schoolofdesign.ac.nz/sod/portfolio/project.php?id=5

BMW + the Mechanical Beast
This is an incredible example of industrial design, which is not going to be my concentration, but this work was so interesting I wanted to include it in my blog process as inspiration. It's about crossing field lines - engineering, art, and the natural elements all at play.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WcR7U2tuNoY

P3 : Studio 17 : BrainStorming

P3 : Studio 17 : Investigate

Discipline of Choice:  Media Design

Minor/Passion:  Because I'm an International Relations major with a media design minor, I guess my minor/passion would be international relations.  I am studying this to explore the way the world works in terms of national interaction, resource sharing, and cultural comparisons, all with the ultimate purpose of creating policies, trends, businesses or innovations that improve the world as a whole.


Single Best Thing that Represents the Discipline + My Passion

Chris Jordan

Evidence to back it up:

This image best represents media design because it incorporates many of media design's tools.  

• Photography: It is made up of thousands of individually crafted digital photographic images composed, shot, and assembled by the artist. 
• Historical context:  Jordan's composition is references a famous Japanese painting of almost identical content.
• Graphic Design:  Jordan used critical thinking to make decisions about the placement of each image to communicate visually.
• Interactive: Viewers may click on the image to zoom WAY in and out, down to the finest detail. 
• Web: The image is available to viewers online.
• Virtual world: Jordan creates for us an apocalyptic virtual world.
• Purpose/cause:  The image clearly has an environmental motive and narrative, that the ocean is made up of millions of pieces of trash. By destroying an otherwise lovely painting, Jordan makes his point quite well.
• The assignment calls for an example that is an image or item. There are certainly better examples of media design that incorporate audio and video and further interaction, but such examples would not fit in the assignment requirement, so this is my best example.

Brainstorming p3

1. I love this idea of simple, clean geometric light forms in nature with a consistent and muted color palette.

2. I like how this uses light with another element - water. Maybe I could play with light and the elemnts like light and water, light and fire, light and earth, light and wind..

3. I like how this incorporates light into everyday objects to make life more magical and beautiful. It could be fun to do this to a bunch of mundane objects.

4. Glow in the dark in unexpected places.