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This week we had to use typography to make words interesting. I liked the USB (usBEE) drawing, as I think it’s a fun play on words despite it not being typography. I then decided to make the word EARTH out of countries. I cut them out on photoshop from various maps and pieced them together like a jigsaw to get the letters. I think it was successful but next time I would be sure to make sure they fit properly as some of the countries overlap a little and stick out at weird angles.

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For this week we had to design a “chindogu” (something that seems useful but is actually useless.) I made a finger toothbrush, but apparently it had already been made. I could have improved on this idea by adding toothpaste to the toothbrush that pops when you put it on your finger and comes out of the bristles.

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In Creative Risks, we tried to create 1 minute human sculptures from instructions we had given each other. This was inspired by the work of Erwin Wurm who gives people instructions in his exhibitions to follow and become part of his sculptures. We then took this to the foyer to display our “sculpture” in public. I think because we did this in a public place it was successful, as if we had of done it without an audience there would have been no point.

I gave the instruction for someone to stand with both arms out to the side, but both arms must be wrapped in paper.

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For Creative Risks we were asked to make a piece of music or sound from something that wouldn’t usually be used to make sound. I put together a piece from short 3 second video clips taken from the past year of my life. Some were from parties, most were from Japan and Disneyland.

I think this was a successful piece, I presented it without video because I wanted the sound to be out of context, which worked because the class thought it sounded “creepy” and compared it to “something out of silent hill” which is contradictory as the clips are from Disneyland. I liked this because the clips were from happy times in my life which shows a contrast to what they sound like to other people out of context. I think this also reflects the fact that my pictures and memories from my life don’t mean the same to anyone else, simultaneously, someone else’s memories not meaning anything to me. 

If I were to do it again I would polish up the sound better, but due to a positive reaction from my peers I decided to leave it as it was.

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For fashion week, I had the task of creating a piece of head wear out of packaging. I took the pieces of art we made outside the week before and cut them into shapes to create flowers and other nature-related things like leaves. I then took plastic bottles and bags and added them in spirals and in the place of netting. I really liked how this piece turned out, I loved the monochrome colour scheme that came out of it accidentally. If I were to do it again I would attach the pieces of packaging and paper to the headband better so it was less delicate and so that the sticky tape was not visible.

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This picture shows 3 pieces of work we created using only natural materials that we found in the park as tools, dipped in ink and attached to charcoal to create marks on paper. We were given a task to draw things blindfolded and this is how it turned out. The piece on the left was the one I liked the most because it began to look like a tree after I had hit it with a piece of charcoal attached to a twig for a while. I think this reflected the fact that nature played a big part in these pieces of work.

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Photography Week - We were given a smell to turn into photographs which represented it, we weren’t allowed to directly photograph what the smell was. Our group got ‘Coffee’ so we took pictures of the cafe, coffee stirrers, bins, etc. I like the salfood logo photograph because the cafe always smells like coffee and I think it instantly makes you think of the smells in the cafe. Also the coffee stirrer is technically breaking the rules but because it is so out of focus I think we could get away with it, as it’s hard to tell what it is without any context of the task we were given.