Hero found, Connection made 2/3

So after looking at serval hero's for my studio brief i made a descion, (i know a wee bit late in telling the world)
i decided to go for a marerick and almost an anti-hero. I was torn between Dexter Morgan and the guy i ended up with, ladys and gentlement i give you

JACK BAUER

so i am actually quiet excited about this now as i have worked out the connection in 6 steps, so i will be honest, i thought picking a hero would be hard but not so much. connecting myself is a lot harder. There is so much to think about, how strong the links are and the link i didn't want it be strong links then weak ones. I need it to be strong thought out. So i have two ideas one is a colour wheel and the other type. but that isn't the problem. The problem is i do not know what my third should be just to reinforce my connection. So i thought about linking myself to an object that i could then link to a gun. but then a friend came up with another idea which to be honest is a wee bit  hard to explain so you will have to wait to see all my idea's/scanned them and posted them up. anyway to prove to the world how amazing Jack Bauer is here is a video

p.s. watch in mute unless you like the music

Hero Inside Myself?...

So A new brief begins and this time it is just me in the studio trying to tackle this one, what the final outcome has to be is a book that shows within six steps linking myself to a hero. I was drawn to this above all else and I think it was because of the idea of self involememt. The Brief also covers that I have to show how unique I am. This presents me with two problems, the first being, who the hell is my hero? how do i approach this? The last thing i want to do is tackle this with 'my hero is my mum/dad' the clique is almost too much. But then how literal do I go, should I pick a superhero? a political hero? Scientific? Social? and then you have to think that these are then effected by wither I consider them my hero's do they have to be mine? Or could these 'Heroes' be presented as societies hero? If it is then a socal hero, it will then be one man's hero and another's enemy, and how would I approach that? a question i will try to answer in a future blog.

The other problem that brief presents me is how unique am I? I am fully aware that I am a bit odd but how does that make me any more unique compared anyone else that is a bit odd? Everyone is a bit strange in their own ways, and what does being unique give to this project, do I want to put all of myself into this and how much do I need to hold back, I would imagine that if I place to much of myself into this project it may be too easy. Do I keep a complete balance between myself and the hero? and does that mean the hero and I get equal page spaces? and does that maybe take away the point of even having a hero?

These Challenges I look foreword to tackling I don't see them as a huge problem, more as enjoyable hurdles and i have to addmit i am quiet excited about this project and I haven't even considered how I am going to tackle the idea of a book.

Moon

I watched this Film last night with my flatmates called 'Moon' Directed by Duncan Jones. My boyfriend, (who's dad works in the theatre) instructed me not to read the back of the box and just watch it. He had Already seen it and i had explain to him on the phone that the only thing i knew about it was Duncan Jones is David Bowie's son (which end of the day is irrelevant ) and that Bruno (boyfriend) liked it.

So if you want to try that i would stop reading about now.

I personally really enjoyed it although a few things i found annoying mostly silly goofs and things like that, one i found quiet annoying was the lack of use of the moons difference in gravity while on the moons surface. The Film is based around Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) who has been working on a station on the moon which is collecting a new clean source of energy , he has been in isolation for 3 years and due to satellites being broken he can only receive messages and not make a direct link to earth. His only source of company is that GERTY, a robot helper that takes care of Sam's needs. To begin with the relationship seems stained I think and sometimes sinister whether this is due to the fact i watch a lot of sci-fi and this happened a lot - for example The Matrix, I Robot or Terminator (although none of these films I can think of being as good as Moon). GERTY is actually a character that is fair and helpful at the end and you very much have not feelings but a connection to him. GERTY's voices is given to him of Kevin Spacey who as always gives a lot to the film.

!WARNING! spoiler

The second relationship I loved was that between the two Sam's, The older Sam had mature and the younger had such a tempter on him it was interesting to watch them interact, although I was getting a bit frustrated with the lack of questioning between them, and the way they expect each other so quickly, Not enough questioning and instead of a lot of anger.

It brought up some strong points in my flat that lead on the discussion of human cloning and stem cell research, all of which i am for to an extent, although one of my flatmates argued that it will be used for evil. Personal i think it might already, and if you look at stem cell I know the Catholic Church and many other campaign groups don't want it to be looked at and think it is a waste of human embryos, I believe that though all the good it can do it is worth it. And theree are always evil people that would do something horrible, like the example of the fictional Moon but why let them ruin it for all of us?

To sum up I really enjoyed Moon it was a good length and moved at the right pace I felt it was a really strong film considering it was Jones Début, and I look forward to his future work.

Which will be the Source Code according to imdb. to be realised in 2011. Another about a soldier who wakes up in the body of a commuter who witnesses a train explosion.

Valentine Commercialism

With it being Valentine today it only fair to notice how soppy everything is. It sickens me even in a relationships I don't want to listen to love songs that aren't even romantic or 'sexy', all the songs I consider romantic won't ever do on 'the greatest love songs of all time'.


With so much pink and red everywhere it does make you wonder how much commercialism you can take. And do you really want a box of chocolates to say 'I love you' for you. But then again even in the current environment commercialism is all over the place. It's in each and every holiday, Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Mother and Fathers Day and there just the main ones. Does it mean we enjoy it any lease, it might be tainted by overbearing environment in supermarkets. But if you have a partner why not celebrate it. You only live once so why not celebrate it, and if you hate giving your money to the chains, then don't it can still be a special day. Buy from the underdogs, go out for a meal in a local family run place or just send the time together but don't just decide not to live.

Spain

During the Christmas break, me and my partner went to visit my grandparents that live in Spain.
We both enjoyed ourselves and since it was during the winter months apart from being boll-tick at times, although neither of us minded, we got to see a side of Spain that was not so tourist driven, although we still managed to look like tourist. On one of those days we went to visit Valencia, the third largest city in Spain. It has the most beautiful buildings which are so grand and exaggerated size. My Grandma informed the style of architecture was broxe or something like that. It was breath taking anyway although the amount of i walked into someone just because i was looking up, it is something my dad tell's me to do in Edinburgh, looking up because there is so much to see, and he is soooo right.

Anyway In Valencia they have an Institute of Modern Art, which My Grandparents wanted me to see. Before we left their house my Grandma had said to me that i shouldn't get worried if she looks bored, and that she has seen so may exhibition that it has all just merged into one for her. I immediately started saying we didn't have to go but she incised so when we got there we went though two exhibitions that where alright, but i was getting bored by them and my partner was so very bored. But we then went to an exhibition called 'My Mother's Suitcase'. It was about the relationship between mother and daughters and how they develop over time. IT was really quiet fun in the first room, there where plays on classic stories like the princess and the pea, that was a wall of shelfs with towels on them, and a big black metallic shiny ball shape sitting on one of the shelfs. I think it was showing the playful side and imagination of children compared to the harsh reality of being a housewife, which in spain is still very common compared to the british working mother.

There was also rapunzel, It was a giant bed a good four times the size of of a double with hair coming from

underneath and trailing all the way down the bed until it is just hanging off the end and touching

the floor, i thought it was a clear representation of virginity and puberty as well as sex. An over

done topic but in the environment of involving your mother within those decision and all the

feeling's involved. In the same room where these metal statues on a girls lower half with a skirt

on and pants on display and in each situation is is exploring, one is outside the exhibition going

thought the wall, another was climbing into a giant purse and a third was on a ladder climbing

into the celling.

Natividad Navalon en el IVAM from luca on Vimeo.

The room that got me was a room full of pairs of chairs, each chair clearly had a partner and it was also clear as to which chair was the mother and which was the child due to the height of the of the head rests. There was then a pieces of white material to link the chair's, i think i saw this as a how there relationship works, who relies on who and who, if there were any mother and daughters that where not communicating. However there was one singular chair that clearly had no partner and it was a mothers chair, with the white sheet rolled up and sitting on the chair. To be this represented the loses of a child, i struggle with the idea of a mother losing her child, i can't think of any form of grief being any more horrendous, i did start to cry, selfishly i wasn't think of my mother or what it would be like for her to lose me. Instead i was thinking about what it would be like if i had children and what it would be like to lose them. I don't know why i thought about it like that, i wish i could make it into some form of logic, maybe it is due to not quiet understanding how my own mother see's me, and not really wanting too.

The Last room was the image at the top of this blog, i don't really want to try and describe it due to it being so moving, i know it doesn't look like much from the image. But the feeling in that room was one of morning, silents and respect. This room was called 'passing on the legacy'

and was there to represent the passing of your mother, now mines in still very much alive but my thoughts did go to my mum. The bond between a mother a daughter for me is a mixture of friendship and authority. My thoughts carried on think while all i wanted to was take it all i, my head went tin to this mad rush. Then i saw my Grandma, she was standing there looking at the exhibition and crying. She was thinking abut her mother and how she missed her. But it is strange isn't that for a start i tend to forget my mother and defiantly my grandma Have had a mum themselves, this women that i never meet but is a part of me because she is part of them and so on.

I know this sounds a bit overly sappy, maybe a bit over emotional for a design blog but then again it was what happen next that i consider relevant. I felt happy at my Grandma's tears, don't get me wrong I don't like seeing anyone i care about cry, it will always get me crying too. No this women had her eyes opened, my grandma was so sure she would be bored b hat she saw that she told me not to worry is she looked bored and instead she experiences something with me that i didn't think would happen. I am glad she got something out of it, because to me that shows me that no matter what, you can get something out of art and design. There is always a chance to change someone's mind, you just need to find the right way for them.