Tulliz Bakar

COFA1001 Process Diary

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Check this sculpture out by @matt_small_7575!

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Love this collaboration of material!

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Assessment 1 Final Product

Title: “#Collaborate”

Material/Form: collage on foamboard + magnetic puzzle

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COFA1002 Assessment 1 - learn more about concept and process on tulliz-cofa1002

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Week 2: Convergent & Divergent Thinking - “RUGgid”

Group collaboration where we focused on the assessment 1 question that centred around ‘glitch’.

We weaved 3 strips of this black mesh together with some twine to mimic the size of an A2 poster and randomly weaved an assortment of discarded material through.

We cut up and tore apart materials, thereby rending their purposes useless (e.g. we cut up a plastic bag, therefore its purpose of carrying things was eliminated) feeding into the ‘failure’ aspect of glitch where objects no longer serve their purpose.

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New COFA1002 Blog

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REFLECTION STATEMENT

Edit Count: 2

We automatically associate the word 'editing' with digital manipulation - editing photos and videos. Through my first experiment/brainstorm where I collated different synonyms for 'editing', I realised that to edit to change or alter pretty much anything and not just digitally.

 My experiments explored why we edit, how we edit, the result of editing too much but also how subconscious an act it is.

I do however feel as if my projects do not sufficiently reflect this. Originally, my “4th Experiment” was my first final project and my “Final Project #1” was my 4th experiment. Upon writing this reflection, I switched them because I felt that the over edited photo was a stronger project than the makeup/Photoshop post which fit the criteria of an experiment rather than a result.

I am most happy with my 2nd project. I feel as if this project perfectly fits the criteria of an editing result. I do however believe that I could’ve gone further with this project and made it even better. 

With my 3rd project, I am somewhat dissatisfied. I feel as if it was rushed and not thought out as well as some of my experiments were and I was simply doing it to meet the assessment requirements.

All in all, I do believe I neglected this assignment and didn’t prioritise it as high as I should have. I would have done a lot better if I gave myself more time.

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FINAL PROJECT #3

Edit Count: 3

My third project is a video that displays the editing process of my first project fourth experiment. The video signifies that showing the process of how something is edited helps gain an insight to how something is made, and reiterates how everything is edited.

The purpose of editing as I explained earlier it to perfect. This exemplifies the road to 'perfection'

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FINAL PROJECT #2

Edit Count: 2

Continuing the concept of editing in the everyday, I took photos of objects that can be used as tools of editing in everyday life. I limited myself to using objects found in my room to reinforce the idea that almost everything relate to editing. 

Once I took the photos, I loaded them all up on Photoshop, eliminated their individual backgrounds and t

My Editing Process For This Project:

Took photos of editing objects

Loaded each photo onto PhotoShop

Individually eliminated backgrounds

Opened new file

Loaded the newly edited individual photos onto the the new file one by one, arranging them to spell the word ‘EDITING’

After the word was composed, I made several different versions of the composition by changing the filters.

The first image is the original composition with no filters applied.

The second image has a different filter applied to each individual object.

The rest of the images have filters applied to the flattened image.

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EXPERIMENT #4

Edit Count: 3

Here, I looked again at editing in our everyday lives. As a simple example, I edit my face most days with makeup. Rather than editing I took this process of editing my face with makeup and edited a piece of paper with makeup instead. I used all the same cosmetic tools and products as I would use on my face to exemplify the same editing process on a different ‘canvas’.

I then took to Photoshop and played around with different filters and tools to further the concept of editing.

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EXPERIMENT #6 - Damn You, Autocorrect! 

Edit Count: 2

Autocorrect is a form of editing that can be just as infuriatingly wrong as it can be a time saving tool. I recently updated my iPhone and thought I should play the iPhone Autocorrect game where you keep clicking the middle word to get a sentence (I did this for 50 words). The results are amusing because they are either fathomless or completely unexpected.

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EXPERIMENT #5 - Is It Possible Not To Edit? 

Edit Count: 3

When you take a photo of something, as easy as it is to point and click, that is not how we take pictures. People assume that the editing of photos comes after the photo is taken but it starts before you even take your camera out. When you want to take a photo of something - you edit the composition in your mind. You decide which angle you'll take it from, how close up or far back, landscape or portrait. And then you take out the camera and point it to the object. Again, you edit the position of the camera or maybe the position of the object to capture what you want people to see and you most likely take multiple shots. Editing in your mind what you want the outcome to be like helps with the intended portrayal. 

For this experiment I chose an object in my room and without moving it or deciding what angle I wanted to take it from, I got up, pointed the camera at it and clicked without thinking. I wanted to portray the adorable design as well as the function. As you can see the unedited version is out of focus, surrounding objects distract from the fact that the mug is the subject and the design isn't done justice. In the edited version (edited through thoughts not photo manipulation) I held up the mug against a plain background. The image was concentrated on the subject, it was in focus and you can see the design of the mug quite clearly. This experiment exemplified how subconscious an act editing is becoming in this day and age

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FINAL PROJECT #1 

Edit Count: 3

Inspired by an example we were shown in class where someone applied every Instagram filter to a photo, I decided to edit a photo with the app Aviary and apply every single feature I could to its maximum level. This exemplifies (to an extreme) how editing something can ultimately result in a lie (i.e. not a true representation)

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EXPERIMENT #3 - Edit Your Lives 

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We edit our lives through social media to portray a certain image of ourselves to the rest of the world, but why do we need so many different platforms to do so? After reflecting on what I usually see posted to these social media outlets and a few opinions from different people, I constructed statements that define exactly what kind of edited reality we want to portray with particular outlets vs. what we're actually trying to saying: 

Facebook: successful life achievements and an active social life || Look, I did this amazing thing that you didn't do and I had loads of fun at this party that you weren't invited to 

Twitter: slightly funny thoughts mundane subjects to give you a bit of a chuckle in your everyday life || #iwantthiscelebritytonoticeme 

Tumblr: sharing different stories and interests with strangers who have something in common || I'm a socially awkward binge watching introvert who likes cats and can relate to pretty much anything on a "spiritual level" 

Snapchat: sharing your day to day life with friends through pictures and brief videos || Oh my god, my life is so much more interesting than yours, so here, watch 300 seconds of me being drunk 

Instagram: sharing photos of your life with family and friends || I ate at an expensive cafe, here's my organic vegan gluten-free quinoa salad and my kale smoothie #imhealthierthanyou

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EXPERIMENT #2 - Why Do We Edit?

Edit Count: 3

For my experiment, I wanted to I briefly explored the purpose of editing and why we edit in my group assessment but wanted to reiterate it here. We came to conclusion that we edit things from from photos we post on Instagram to essays we have spent hours on, to portray what we want people to think of us rather than the raw truth. I looked up the definition/synonyms for editing and came to realise, we don't just edit to portray another reality, but we edit to portray what we see/what we think others see as perfection. The example of spending twice as many hours editing an essay than actually writing it came to mind. We write and refine essays to what we think our markers will grade us higher on - we edit to their perfection.

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Amazing Artwork Created Using 24km of Thread Wrapped Around 13,000 Nails! See more here: http://www.artfido.com/blog/amazing-artwork-created-using-24km-of-thread-wrapped-around-13000-nails/

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Lace Patterns Delicately Cut from Industrial Steel Objects by Cal Lane! See more here: http://www.artfido.com/blog/lace-patterns-delicately-cut-from-industrial-steel-objects-by-cal-lane/

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Artist Turns Discarded Keys and Coins Into Works of Art! See the images here: http://www.artfido.com/blog/artist-turns-discarded-keys-and-coins-into-works-of-art/

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Rose-Lynn Fisher, Typography of Tears, 2013 

The Topography of Tears is a study of 100 tears photographed through a standard light microscope. The project began in a period of personal change, loss, and copious tears. One day I wondered if my tears of grief would look any different from my tears of happiness - and I set out to explore them up close, using tools of science to make art and to ponder personal and aesthetic questions.

Years later, this series comprises a wide range of my own and others’ tears, from elation to onions, as well as sorrow, frustration, rejection, resolution, laughing, yawning, birth and rebirth, and many more, each a tiny history.

The random compositions I find in magnified tears often evoke a sense of place, like aerial views of emotional terrain. Although the empirical nature of tears is a chemistry of water, proteins, minerals, hormones, antibodies and enzymes, the topography of tears is a momentary landscape, transient as the fingerprint of someone in a dream. This series is like an ephemeral atlas.

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