These are the scratches that I made from the pictures that I took outside. They are both inspired by the leafs picture. I wasn’t hard to draw it because it kind of looks like a mouth to me.
Project #3 10/17
- “Thousands of people pass that storefront every day, each one haunting the streets of his or her own New York, not one of them seeing the same thing.” From the reading“The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found” by Colson Whitehead.
- “Upon arriving in New York, he walked from Kennedy Airport to the nearby Crowne Plaza Hotel, a journey more perilous than he expected, because it involved a nightmare traverse of expressways with no curbs.” From the reading “A Literary Visitor Strolls in From the Airport” by Charles Mcgrath.
- “If you had known, perhaps you would have stepped behind the counter and shaken everyone’s hand, pulled out the disposable camera and issued posing instructions. But you had no idea. There are unheralded tipping points, a certain number of times that we will unlock the front door of an apartment. At some point you were closer to the last time than you were to the first time, and you didn’t even know it. You didn’t know that each time you passed the threshold you were saying goodbye.” “The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found” by Colson Whitehead.
- “To an area along the beach in Brooklyn where West End Avenue appears to be a stark line of demarcation between the serene old-immigrant opulence of Manhattan Beach and the teeming new-immigrant enclave of Brighton Beach” Here, Poverty And Privilege Are Neighbors; Income Gaps Are a Source Of Resentment and Guilt” by
These quotes address the different New York experiences because the article Lost and Found by Colson Whitehead focuses on how New Yorkers tend to take everything for granted in “their New York” which is what they experience on a day to day business. But because we have different experiences like that and the city changes every day no one’s New York is the same as another person’s because someone will always encounter a store and remember it for it selling that product, or functioning for this purpose. Then when the store goes away new tenants or people who live in the neighborhood won’t see it like that but the newly renovated cafe, restaurant etc. This relates to my juxtaposition because the new highrise may have been something else such as a store or an abandoned lot at some point. The quote from A Literary Visitor Strolls in From the Airport” by Charles Mcgrath talks about how people may not be used to walking around New York for the first time or underestimating the time it takes to walk. This could connect to my juxtaposition because people have different experiences walking in New York. If you live farther away from Manhattan I would like to believe that the streets are normally less crowded which may be apart of your New York if you chose to live away from commercial areas. The final quote by Here, Poverty And Privilege Are Neighbors; Income Gaps Are a Source Of Resentment and Guilt” by
Urban Artifacts: Phase 2
These are the sketches that I had for my final two photographs that I wanted to use for the compositions. I had trouble finding out what were the ambiguous and stable figure/ground compositions. I spent about an hour on these sketches.
Juxtaposition
Juxtaposition
To take that picture I left the school on jay st and turn to my right and walk to Johnson st, I walk pass the big intersection( Adams st) I took a while because there were a lot of car, most of them are going on the Brooklyn bridge and i past the post office and go to cadman plz w after Adams street, Johnson st become more relax there isn’t a lot of car and it feel like a big park, there environment is calm and there are birds flying, I enter the Korean War veterans park, from the park I took the picture, the park wasn’t to big, it is just some benches , trees and birds.
Sound Visualization Mashup: Phase 2
Sound of Visualization: Phase 1
For this project, I chose a piano song called Nuvole Bianche by a Italian Pianist called Ludovico Einaudi. This song is a very good piano song and can have many meaning behind it depending on your point of view. There are many emotions in this one song. At the beginning of the song, you feel lonely, and as you keep fighting on you find your purpose.
For this song, i drew squiggly lines going down as in losing hope and feeling lonely. On the bottom of the lines i drew stars that shows finding something that enlightens you with the sun shining at the stars.
Sound Visualization phase 1
I chose the song “the skin of my yellow country teeth”, because i love the vocals, and the strain and cracks of the singers voice and i wanted to recreate it using line art and direction. The song is almost 6 minutes long, and to properly illustrate it i had to listen to it over 15 times. The thick dark lines boxing in the symbols are the vocals, the four lines followed by arches are repeated phrases, and the shapes within the box are keywords that stood out to me.
Field trip to Cooper Hewitt Design Museum
The New exhibit at the Cooper Hewitt-The senses, features many works incorporating our five senses into design elements of everyday objects, such as clocks for the visually impaired, and food bowls for those with Alzheimer’s.
While trying to fully admire each work and making sure to keep a slow pace, i came upon one work entitled “Taste of Music (1002)“designed by Bruno Mesz, made in 2011. The work featured a set of black speakers, each tucked into a corner of the window sill it rested on, with a description before it, reading “Four buttons play short musical compositions inspired by the sense of taste”. After i pressed the first small white button labeled sour, what came was a series of notes that i thought maybe could represent sour to the artist. This work compelled me because of how subjective it was. In other pieces i saw, they mostly relied on touch, sight, or audio, but what this piece does is different, it tries to take something we taste and translate that into audio, which in my mind, doesn’t work. When you’re first introduced to it, you are immediately given a name to the sound, in a way its almost saying “this is sour, and that’s a fact” or “this is what sweet sounds like” and the audience is expected to go “that’s right!” but that isn’t how it works. It would have been better to have the viewer decide for themselves what sound goes to what taste, or even make it a surprise. But yes, i did enjoy this particular work, to create something we taste into a piece of audio is hard, and i’m sure to some the artist really captured the taste.
Another work i noticed at the gallery was a large textured canvas, maybe 4ft by 2 ft “Organoid Organic Rose Blossoms Wallcovering, 2016″, by Martin Jehart, made up of flower petals, and Alpine hay mixed with herbs (not specified which herbs). From afar it just looks like a textile pattern, but when getting up close, you can smell the aroma of said flowers and herbs and alpine. I thought this piece was, to put it simply, really pretty. I thought the idea of introducing a natural aroma into a room, which source was more organic than a tin can spraying chemicals was very eco-friendly. However i noticed some of class mates weren’t really observing this piece as much as i was, not that that’s a bad thing. Maybe to them, it was plain. Or it wasn’t really breaking new ground, which might be true. But i found the use of flowers and other natural smells, especially in a large frame, was very welcoming and beautiful.
Sound Visualization: Phase 1
For this project, I decided to choose one of my favorite J-pop (Japanese) songs called “Ninelie” (with Chelly), by Aimer, her breathy vocal that stands out among J-pop. This song start with a very calm atmosphere, then the piano playing along following with a guitar and Aimer voices. It keeps this very kind sad melody that makes you feel lonely but as it continues, the bass guitar follows the flow and little by little it starts building up like there’s hope and makes you want to get back on your feet and rise. It’s like see light of hope rising to the sky to its stars. Another way that I can describe is like seeing the sky finally cracking into a triangular geometric shape and see the True Tone of light lurking out of the cracks and at last the triangular shape rising into the sky starts fading into sparking lights and see the beauty beyond the sky .
Song: “Ninelie”
Artist: Aimer (feat. Chelly)
Duration (time): (4:20 mins)
Gerne: J-pop (Japanese)
