Visual Nararararararative: More

Alright, here's the high-quality images of what my storyboard looks like. There's basically two characters, which I may get two of my roommates to play. The crowd can be just a bunch of my housemates. I'm sure one can pose as a guy.

Maybe I can get my other housemate in photography to actually shoot the pictures, since I doubt she'd let me borrow her camera. Or I can use my cheap little Kodak.  This could all take a couple days to shoot, especially if I want to get the right lighting for each scene. And I'll have to actually wait for the train to pass for that one short scene, with only that section of time available.

I'm probably making this far more complicated than necessary. Go big or go home, I suppose.

I decided to largely draw inspiration from one of my favorite videos on this very planet:

I may or may not use the song featured in this as well. Shhhhh.

Visual Narararararative

Visual Narrative:

A visual narrative is a story told primarily through the use of visual media. The story may be told using still photography, illustration, or video, and can be enhanced with graphics, music, voice and other audio.

Thank you Wikipedia.

So would this be classified as a visual narrative?

Or even it's epic sequel?

I'm sorry you had to see that.

Would it be bad if I drew inspiration from this for my visual narrative assignment?

I think yes.

Artist Research pt 2 - the third artist, Amy Casher

Since she isn't actually a world-renowned jeweler, Amy Casher doesn't seem to have her own page on Wikipedia. Dang.

But what I did manage to discover is that her studio is based in the South End of Boston.

She's been to the Boston Arts Festival.

She had attended the book launch of "Size Matters: Hard Facts About Male Sexuality" (I haven't stopped giggling like a 12-year-old). This was back in 2008, and she was 34 then, so she should've been born around 1974.

She was at a thing called CRAFTOPIA in April, 2011.

She does have a Facebook page for her shop, which gives updates of where she'll be selling jewelry.

Her Bio on her website states the following:

I created Amy Casher Designs after making jewelry as a hobby for over 15 years. It all started one year at an arts-focused summer camp (Buck's Rock), where I wielded my first saw, hammer, and jeweler's torch and officially - in my mind, anyway - became a silversmith. I can still remember feeling so proud to be able to wear and gift my handmade treasures.
I've since taken jewelry classes and workshops in just about every town I've lived in, while pursuing academic degrees, living and traveling on several continents, and working at different organizations in the corporate and non-profit worlds. With all the twists and turns in my life, there has always been one constant: making jewelry.

Much of the information I can find about her is vague and fleeting. If need be, I could send her an email and be all super-professional art student-interviewer-like and ask her a whole bunch of questions. I suppose that depends on how deep we're supposed to go with this assignment.

As far as I can tell, she's just a regular person who loves to make jewelry, and decided that she could make half of a living off of it. (The other half is being a management consultant.) She's a very current artist, going to different craft fairs and open markets in Boston to sell her work.

But seriously. Her work is gorgeous.

https://useaboston.com/amy-casher/

http://amycasher.com

http://oopstuffblog.typepad.com/festivalfete/science/

https://www.facebook.com/AmyCasherDesigns

http://fireopalgallery.wordpress.com/category/posts-about-jewelers/

Hats off to you, Amy Casher.

Artist Research pt 1 - actually doing the research

I started off with Pat Falco, that one artist from the beginning of the semester. I liked his work from the start and thought it was both interesting and amusing to look at.

like so.

I noticed that he had been in this one show with a plethora of other artists, called Winter Salad.

I plucked a name out of the list in that black box there, and that's how I found Percy Fortini Wright.

 There, too, I found another show that he had participated in with various artists.

I picked out a new name, Amy Casher, and found a great number of different jewelry pieces by her, as well as her website with a bit of information on her.

The artist I will be researching is Amy Casher, an artist that specializes in making jewelry.

WHAT DOES THE FOX SAY

I really don't know why we watched that video. I had completely managed to avoid watching it up until that moment, and now it's been stuck in my head for two days straight. I have been listening to Ylvis on repeat. Things are looking grave. The end is not in sight.

Oh, and this is what the fox says.

Data: Finale Ratings

Hannibal: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/21/bright-spots-amid-the-low-ratings-for-hannibal/ - 1.9 mil

Mad Men: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/mad-men-season-5-finale-ratings-335871 - 2.7 mil

Legend of Korra: http://dongbufeng.net/site1/content/view/1323/188/ - 3.7 mil

Game of Thrones: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/tv-ratings-game-thrones-grows-562072 - 5.2 mil

Breaking Bad: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/tv-ratings-breaking-bad-hits-634745 - 6.3 mil

CSI: http://www.csifiles.com/content/2013/05/csi-finale-dips-in-ratings/ - 9.6 mil

The Walking Dead: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/walking-dead-season-3-finale-ratings-431948 - 12.4 mil (oh my god)


hm


((M*A*S*H: http://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/feb/08/super-bowl-most-watched-show - 105.97 mil, Superbowl XLIV: 106.5 mil)) - outliers, may not count them

American Idol: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/american-idol-finale-ratings-plummet-article-1.1347150 - numbers dropping rapidly (no surprise there, really).

TV finales yaaaay!

Idioms and Ads

"Apple of my Eye" - After the last class where it was pointed out that the image could be made to imply stalker/prey or an abusive relation, I decided to go with it. Searching "angry man" and "scared woman" produced interesting results.

On a whim, I compared the results between "scared man" and "scared woman." A lot of the male results showed a stockphoto of a guy holding up his hands in a defensive position with a surprised look on his face. In contrast, many of the female results were of women holding their hands to their faces or in their hair in a helpless fashion and screaming. I also noticed quite a few that depicted a woman's terrified face with a man's hand clamped over her mouth.

I continued with my little experiment. "Angry man" resulted in a lot of men with steam photoshopped spouting out of their ears, and a lot of yelling faces. (Plus Twitter user Angryman_UK, who managed to get a lady to pose naked with his username written on a whiteboard in front of her.) Most of the "angry woman" results featured a woman who looked impatient, accusing, or nagging. Or any combination of the three.

My quick conclusion is that these results emphasize the power that men wield and the helplessness that women feel. Being Google search results, this depicts how many people view what each gender would seem like in these two opposing states of emotion.

Yes. Quite interesting results, indeed.

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As far as spoof ads go, I really just wanted to do some anti-smoking thing. Then I found an appealing picture of a girl in a gas mask and a few cigarette and smoke stock images. I used the Marlboro typeface to write "Smoke Safely" which is just absolutely hilarious because the girl in the image is wearing a gas mask! Haha! How can she smoke if she has a gas mask on? Oh, that's right, she can't. So then how can she smoke safely if she ca- OOOH I GET IT, THE ONLY WAY TO SMOKE SAFELY IS NOT TO SMOKE! HAHAHAHA OH HOW IRONIC AND WITTY SUCH AN IMAGE IS OH JOLLY GOOD, CHAP.

It's like 2:30 AM. I should probably sleep.