Thursday, April 30, 2020
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Assignment 5 - Leah Gingerich
I am enjoying my afternoon while eating a delicious apple on some uncomfortable furniture. I personally wasn't too comfortable sitting in my chair. I was also very nervous that I would ruin the structure of the chair while I was sitting on it. I didn't mind my food rest all though I was also scared I would break it.
Assignment 05 Jingnan Cheng
I put the trash can upside down, the trash can only be put on the surface.
I put the table on its side, the surface doesn't put things. I try to put food on the foot of the table. It's hard to put because the table has a slope.
Assignment 05 Guangyu Zhang
The table cannot hold anything.
I cannot eat on this table
Plus,
I cannot move the couch.
Assignment 6 - April 29th - Color Collections
Assignment 6 - Color Collections
Glazing time! Greenware time is done! Lets move from the considerations of form toward surface and color for your final assignment.
Over the past few weeks you have become re-familiar with all your possessions. I have asked you to recognize your objects by their initial craft intentions, their main functions. Through reinterpretation, you have broadened your notions of the objects you own by attempting to deconstruct the functional intentions of pottery, fibers, and furniture. Through mis-use your functional objects have taken on the roles of the found object, considering new possibilities in purpose or aesthetic beyond their standardized forms. Hopefully through these acts you have gained a new appreciation for the design considerations that go into Craft Thinking at the onset of making.
Your last assignment is simple. You are to group all your possessions by color. (See the image example below.) There's more than you think! I want you to really look for color! I want you to look at your surroundings with color being your highest value of categorization. Organize your color collections in a manner you find most pleasing and document them in three or more images, post to the blog and write about the experience. How does grouping like color items together change the values of the objects in your collection. Does color homogenize form? If you play with the color settings of your image, do your color collections become more formless? Which aesthetic values are lost? Which are gained? Does an abundance of the same color suggest a mood or feeling? Are certain colors perceived with political or social connotations? How so? Ask yourself these questions and consider your opinions.
You have deconstructed your objects through mis-use, now I want you to deconstruct them in a different way. By rearranging the hierarchal values that each object possesses, we can change how we perceive them. For instance, design concerns itself with function. It places function on the top of the value list. But if we disrupt that value by placing color on the top of the list instead, that same object loses and gains other perspectives. We see it differently. We appreciate it for more than what it was designed for initially. What values can you disrupt in your work?
Also: Reply to at least two of your peer's Topsy-turvy posts from last week's assignment in the class blog comments. What stood out to you? Why?
This assignment is Due Wednesday, May 6th by 6:59pm EST. Please post to the class blog by this date and time to account for your class attendance.
Title your blog post Assignment 6 - Your Full Name - Color Collections.
Example: Assignment 6 - Caleb Widogast - Color Collections.
Glazing time! Greenware time is done! Lets move from the considerations of form toward surface and color for your final assignment.
Over the past few weeks you have become re-familiar with all your possessions. I have asked you to recognize your objects by their initial craft intentions, their main functions. Through reinterpretation, you have broadened your notions of the objects you own by attempting to deconstruct the functional intentions of pottery, fibers, and furniture. Through mis-use your functional objects have taken on the roles of the found object, considering new possibilities in purpose or aesthetic beyond their standardized forms. Hopefully through these acts you have gained a new appreciation for the design considerations that go into Craft Thinking at the onset of making.
Your last assignment is simple. You are to group all your possessions by color. (See the image example below.) There's more than you think! I want you to really look for color! I want you to look at your surroundings with color being your highest value of categorization. Organize your color collections in a manner you find most pleasing and document them in three or more images, post to the blog and write about the experience. How does grouping like color items together change the values of the objects in your collection. Does color homogenize form? If you play with the color settings of your image, do your color collections become more formless? Which aesthetic values are lost? Which are gained? Does an abundance of the same color suggest a mood or feeling? Are certain colors perceived with political or social connotations? How so? Ask yourself these questions and consider your opinions.
You have deconstructed your objects through mis-use, now I want you to deconstruct them in a different way. By rearranging the hierarchal values that each object possesses, we can change how we perceive them. For instance, design concerns itself with function. It places function on the top of the value list. But if we disrupt that value by placing color on the top of the list instead, that same object loses and gains other perspectives. We see it differently. We appreciate it for more than what it was designed for initially. What values can you disrupt in your work?
Also: Reply to at least two of your peer's Topsy-turvy posts from last week's assignment in the class blog comments. What stood out to you? Why?
This assignment is Due Wednesday, May 6th by 6:59pm EST. Please post to the class blog by this date and time to account for your class attendance.
Title your blog post Assignment 6 - Your Full Name - Color Collections.
Example: Assignment 6 - Caleb Widogast - Color Collections.
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| Portia Munson. "Pink Project; Table," PPOW Frieze London, pink plastic and table, 30in high x 8ft wide x 14ft long, 2016. |
Monday, April 27, 2020
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Assignment 4 - Guangyu Zhang
Welcome to my yard!
I put 4 shirts, 3 hoodies, 1 sweater, one-piece jeans, and one long dress.
I have my cute hat on :)
My neighbor's dog was barking at me like I am going to break in their house.
Leah Gingerich- Assignment 4
I am wearing 6 layers of shorts and pants,
6 layers of T-shirts and sweaters, 5 layers of beanies/hats,
and 7 layers of socks on each foot. I decided to play the piano with my multiple
layers of clothing and found that to be restricting for my arm movement.
I also tried reading a magazine which wasn't so bad but super uncomfortable.
while I was getting the layers on and walking around the house I was sweating bullets.
In the end, I could not wait to take it all off.
Assignment 4 - John Teesdale
Assignment 4 - Jingnan Cheng - Clothing Loaf
I looked very heavy on seven clothes. It's very inconvenient to do things. It's very hot. I got dressed and made a TikTok. Wearing so many clothes makes my movements inconvenient, but it's also fun. This is probably the Maximum amount of exercise I've had in isolation at home all this time.
Assignment 4–Natalie Strickland–Clothing Loaf
Hello–in the above pictures I have on about 10 layers of shirts/sweaters and 4 layers of pants/shorts, plus 5 layers of socks. Honestly this outfit is very similar to something I would wear during the winter for my 20 minute walk to campus in below freezing weather. It was very warm! I attempted to skateboard in this fit, and while it made movement much more restricted, it provided a pretty good amount of padding when I inevitably fell off the board.
Assignment 4 - Brian Trifaro - Clothing Loaf
I threw on about 7 t-shirts and a sweater then decided to make my bed. If I'm being honest with myself I felt a little silly doing this assignment. I stayed in my room so my family wouldn't make fun of me, but regardless I did the assignment. Just from standing still I was trapping in heat, and after 10 minutes I was feeling toasty!
As a drummer I value efficient body movement and this exercise surely made my movement inefficient. I did feel a sense of comfort, but only when I was sitting still on my bed.
Assignment 5 - April 22nd - Topsy-turvy!
Assignment 5 - Topsy-turvy! In your space, rearrange all your furniture so that it no longer serves its intended function. You may have to flip over, tilt, or lay items on their side to achieve these results. Go about the rest of your day in this space. Eat, read, do homework for other classes, take a nap. Document your new installation and your experience and share it to the class blog in three or more pictures or one video. In three or more sentences, describe your experience reacting to your furniture rearrangement. Describing moments of feeling uncomfortable, consider the value of furniture and how it helps you. What would it be like to have no furniture at all? When your furniture became repositioned, did it take on new uses it previously did not? Did you interact with it in new ways? How so?
Also: Reply to at least two of your peer's Clothing Loaf posts from last week's assignment in the class blog comments. What stood out to you? Why?
This assignment is Due Wednesday, April 29th by 6:59pm EST. Please post to the class blog by this date and time to account for your class attendance.
Title your blog post Assignment 5 - Your Full Name - Topsy-turvy.
Example: Assignment 5 - Veth Brenatto - Topsy-turvy.
top·sy-tur·vy
/ˌtäpsēˈtərvē/
adverb
upside down.
"the fairground ride turned riders topsy-turvy"
Similar:
upside down, wrong side up, head over heels, inverted, reversed, upset, backwards, vice versa
Opposite:
right way up
One of the most important art works and myths in modern art, the inspiration for many installation artists, and still one of the most well known and published works by Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948), the Merzbau, in fact, no longer exists. It was destroyed in a British air raid in October 1943 in Hannover. By 1937, when Schwitters left his hometown to follow his son into exile in Oslo, the Merzbau comprised a total of eight rooms in his house at 5 Waldhausenstraße in Hannover. Most of the surviving photographs seem to have been taken in the space of the ‘Merzbau proper’ (‘eigentlicher Merzbau’), in which Schwitters is known to have begun working at the beginning of 1927. Three photographs taken by Wilhelm Redemann in 1933 show the most detailed and complete overview of this main room.
... a state of utter confusion.
Also: Reply to at least two of your peer's Clothing Loaf posts from last week's assignment in the class blog comments. What stood out to you? Why?
This assignment is Due Wednesday, April 29th by 6:59pm EST. Please post to the class blog by this date and time to account for your class attendance.
Title your blog post Assignment 5 - Your Full Name - Topsy-turvy.
Example: Assignment 5 - Veth Brenatto - Topsy-turvy.
top·sy-tur·vy
/ˌtäpsēˈtərvē/
adverb
upside down.
"the fairground ride turned riders topsy-turvy"
Similar:
upside down, wrong side up, head over heels, inverted, reversed, upset, backwards, vice versa
Opposite:
right way up
Doctor Strange, 2016 (film)
One of the most important art works and myths in modern art, the inspiration for many installation artists, and still one of the most well known and published works by Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948), the Merzbau, in fact, no longer exists. It was destroyed in a British air raid in October 1943 in Hannover. By 1937, when Schwitters left his hometown to follow his son into exile in Oslo, the Merzbau comprised a total of eight rooms in his house at 5 Waldhausenstraße in Hannover. Most of the surviving photographs seem to have been taken in the space of the ‘Merzbau proper’ (‘eigentlicher Merzbau’), in which Schwitters is known to have begun working at the beginning of 1927. Three photographs taken by Wilhelm Redemann in 1933 show the most detailed and complete overview of this main room.
... a state of utter confusion.
Monday, April 20, 2020
Assignment 3 - Jiashun Zhou
This is like my memory of the outbreak. This period of time every day to drink a lot of water in the home constantly shopping . And every day use masks, planners      when back home. And the toilet paper that everyone is buying. And sleep is to eat of melatonin    
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