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Bench Space Again!

MORE RESEARCH IN A NUTSHELL!



This time I had a few pictures taken while we were videotaping the project. SOme people get really into the idea while others try and ignore me and the bench.

Bench Space

Research for my final project





I took a camera and took pictures of the bench, above it, and underneath it.
It is in a dog's point of view due to the height being used.
The floor is cold while the air is hot.
It is very dirty underneath.
Many people look away and don't even look at you underneath the bench.
It is very shady.
It's extremely smelly due to the cigarette smoke because of the square pot next to the bench.
Everyone avoids sitting on that bench and the other benches near it. One of the only benches that you are able to lay underneath on St. George street.
Mostly shoes, legs, dogs, birds, bike tires, and so are are available to see until you point the camera pout of the space.
It is as if the space underneath the bench has its own sight.

A New Beginning

One Step at a Time

One Step at a Time was inspired by the seemingly endless journey's up Kenan Hall. I noticed how I never grew up around stairs because my house, being a one story house, did not contain any stairs along with most of my schools. Here at Flagler, especially living in Ponce, I am somewhat forced to constantly climb stairs since I am too stubborn to be lazy and go into the elevator. In order to share this, I wanted to show myself in a different environment from the obvious Kenan Hall. Instead I chose to walk all over the stairs in Ponce, Wiley Art Building, and the Library. This gives different locations that have fewer stairs receive the same greif as Kenan's. It emphasizes my hate towards the 4th floor of Kenan along with emphasizing the use of those stairs everyday by myself as well as others. In each video that I took separate times of the day, I wore the same shoes to also show how they also are forced to make the journey throughout the day. In other words, the stairs were the focal point along with the journey they provide. If you notice, when the song begins to kick in, you see my whole body start to go up the Library stairs then it shifts in to a closer scene that shows my back. Here I used unity in order to make it like the viewer was just watching my journey and then joined it without even knowing it, following my every footstep. I also did this in many other cases by just showing my feet while dragging the viewer out again by setting the camera down, and then adding them back in again. I had also used balance which can also tie into scale by setting the camera down on the Art Buildings stairs while walking up them giving the viewer another perspective of the situation. Along with this, I had also used the principle of rhythm by providing some segments of repetition along with the music going to the beat of my walking in certain cases. Each setting was thought out with a particular variation that show a contrast throughout the design.

Make Up

Throughout a woman's life, she tends to go through a phase where she thinks that she has to wear makeup in order to be considered beautiful. In order to do so, a part of that population believe they have to paste makeup or plaster it onto their faces in order to obtain the ultimate goal of beauty. Well I'm here to tell you, you don't have to do that. This portion of my project uses a sense of rhythm in order to emphasize this quality. Here in this video you see me in super speed first looking into the camera as if it were a mirror. There I begin to rapidly plaster makeup onto my face starting out with small details that gain momentum into bigger details such as the blackening of my eyes. After it is completely covering my face and my hair is done , the video starts to recede backwards showing the makeup basically floating off of my face. This is to emphasize the quality of women constantly painting on makeup each morning, afternoon, or night for whatever reason and ending up taking it off after they are satisfied, repeating this process day in and day out like a never ending cycle. I had also emphasized this by the contrasting colors and amount of makeup that I applied to my face as if I was a professional mime, which is how I view some women's makeup at times. At times, the proportion of the space around me grow weaker because I'm constantly moving close to the camera and then receding again to give the viewers a closer look of the chaos sprouting on my face. I only show this process once because it is effective enough to give my point. I do love makeup but not enough to apply it like this.