Month: September 2015

Wheels on the Bus

The Wheels on The Bus

The wheels on the bus go round and round,
Round and round,
Round and round.
The wheels on the bus go round and round,
All day long.
The horn on the bus goes beep, beep, beep,
Beep, beep, beep.
Beep, beep, beep.
The horn on the bus goes beep, beep, beep,
All day long.
The wipers on the bus go swish, swish, swish,
Swish, swish, swish,
Swish, swish, swish.
The wipers on the bus go swish, swish, swish.
All day long.
The people on the bus go chatter, chatter, chatter,
chatter, chatter, chatter,
chatter, chatter, chatter
The people on the bus go chatter, chatter, chatter,
All day long.

“THE WHEELS ON THE BUS GO ROUND AND ROUND, ALL DAY LONG”

I have been experimenting with panoramic images, and I had come to love taking Photospheres photos. With a photosphere photo, there is a method to join them into a seemless image called Tiny Planet, which makes them look round as if it is a planet by itself. Here are examples:

#tinyplanet attempt. #photosphere #taipei #nofilter

A photo posted by Justin Cho (@zomgno1) on

Central Park Tiny Planet
Central Park Tiny Planet

Hence, I have created my draft composition using many “dingbats” to create a Tiny Planet (of sights you see when you commute on a bus) which go in full circle around the wheels of a bus.

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The wheels on the bus go round and round, all day long

I have further plans to improve this (scale, contrast, etc) to be used as 1/4 of the final output.

“THE PEOPLE IN THE BUS GO CHATTER, CHATTER, CHATTER”

For this line, I have thought about using windows as frames, as suggested by Joy at my last consultation. I can use these window frames in 2 ways – interior or exterior – the view from inside the bus, or to see into the bus.

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Seeing inside the bus

For this composition, I have used an exterior view of seeing into the bus.

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The people in the bus go chatter, chatter, chatter

For this photo-montage style image, I have made use of mouths to emphasize the noise.

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Seeing out side the bus

I will be trying an interior view next, as well as more iterations of these 2 lines in other styles.

THE DINGBATS I HAVE CREATED

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Rhymes

DADAISM

Dadaism is an art movement that was most active from 1916-1923, which denounced traditional art and culture. Dadaist followed a destructive, cheeky and liberating approach to art.

Marcel Duchamp “works” – because he used readymades – clearly shows this:

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A readymade porcelain urinal inscribed “R. Mutt 1917” as a sculpture at the 1917 the Society of Independent Artists exhibit.

This “work” meant to question what art is. Even after so many years, people are still “pissed off” at this.

 

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L.H.O.O.Q. – a rectified readymade of the Mona Lisa.

He added mustache and beard to poke at this famous painting. Also the title of this is “L.H.O.O.Q.” which when read aloud in French, make the sound of “Elle a chaud au cul,” meaning, “She has a hot ass.”

 

Hannah Hoch, “Fashion Show”

I feel that Dadaism, as an anti-art, is pretty nonsensical but it is also fairly interesting. Even though the main purpose was to mock culture and society at that point in time, it kind of “gave birth” to surrealism as well as contributed greatly in graphic design.

EL LISSITZKY

“Lazar Markovich Lissitzky (1890 – 1941), better known as El Lissitzky, was a Russian artist, designer, photographer, teacher, typographer, and architect.” He was very influential in the constructivist art movements.

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He developed a painting style he called PROUNS where abstract geometric shapes were used to define the spatial relationships of his compositions.

I feel that the works of El Lissitzky is really powerful as he only uses geometric shapes, coupled with a small range of colours in his art that speaks political messages.

RHYMES

The Wheels on The Bus

The wheels on the bus go round and round,
Round and round,
Round and round.
The wheels on the bus go round and round,
All day long.
The horn on the bus goes beep, beep, beep,
Beep, beep, beep.
Beep, beep, beep.
The horn on the bus goes beep, beep, beep,
All day long.
The wipers on the bus go swish, swish, swish,
Swish, swish, swish,
Swish, swish, swish.
The wipers on the bus go swish, swish, swish.
All day long.
The people on the bus go chatter, chatter, chatter,
chatter, chatter, chatter,
chatter, chatter, chatter
The people on the bus go chatter, chatter, chatter,
All day long.

Followed by baby, bell, etc. Generally the song is sung with reference to common objects or people that one might find on a bus.

Other variations of this rhyme are “Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush”, “Here We Go Round The Bramble Bush” or even our own version.

There Was a Crooked Man

There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile.
He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile.
He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse,
And they all lived together in a little crooked house.

CONCEPTUALISATION

For the rhyme “the wheels on the bus”, I have thought about using geometric shapes like in El Lissitzky’s work to represent these objects and people to bring across a message of people watching/observant and how they relate in this journey.

Whereas for the “crooked man”, I have thought about using like a photomontage style like in Dadaism, since it is about a story of a dishonest man who gets what he deserve – a crooked existence.

I have yet to decide on which rhyme would be better for this project and I am still open to feedback!

Assignment 2

Logline: When mother nature unexpectedly calls, a distressed teenager seeks desperately for a toilet.
Genre: Comedy

“Storytelling is about using both words and images. And the gaps between them. As effectively as possible.” – Ben Slater

Inspired by my personal experience of being trapped in a MRT breakdown in the middle of 2 stations with a strong urge to take a shit. The emotions and anguish I felt then is portrayed in this short photo slideshow.

Based loosely on the 3 act structure:

Act 1: Novel is being called by mother nature so he rushes to find toilet. He found one but its cubicles are full.
Act 2: Novel goes to find another toilet, sees hope then sneaks into the female toilet. He does his business while he flashbacks on a cup of milk that he drank that was probably spoilt. Upon finishing his business, he realises that there is no toilet paper.
Act 3: Novel seeks help but to no avail. He finds a used piece of tissue and used it, then he escapes the toilet successfully.
Twist: Novel is seen at home mugging for school. Distracted by work, he gulps down a full cup of milk only to realise after that it is the same spoilt milk that he had drank earlier that day.

Assignment 1

Me.

An introvert who loves to explore new places and a solo-traveler who loves photography as much as being behind the camera.

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Object.

An expired film that produces unique photos (unorthodox), is protected in a hard shell (well reserved) and sensitive to light (people). I speak visuals.

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My World.

National Stadium @ Sports Hub. My perspective as a SEA Games 2015 show support to performer.

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