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Assignment 2: Rhymes Final

THE WHEELS ON THE BUS GO ROUND AND ROUND

a tragic bus crash story

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loosely based on an actual public bus accident that my grandfather encountered

CONCEPT

(FROM TOP LEFT IN A CLOCKWISE DIRECTION)

THE WHEELS ON THE BUS GO ROUND AND ROUND
In this composition, my interpretation of the “wheels” are the steering wheels instead. From a first-person perspective, you see an impending bus crash from the inside of the bus driver’s perspective. I have made use of the many grabbing hands to show movement in the steering wheel.

ROUND AND ROUND
In this composition, it shows the external events that are happening in the bus, as it literally go round and round like clockwork. (hence the gears)The bus is spinning round and round; the old man is crying; the lady is screaming; the man is spinning around screaming; the sound of heartbeats; and objects, represented by the fish out of the water, is flying around.

ROUND AND ROUND
In this next composition, it shows the internal events that is going on in someone’s head, as represented by the dissected head and brain background. Family, food, religion, money, best experiences and memories goes round and round, represented by the ring.

THE WHEELS ON THE BUS GO ROUND AND ROUND ALL DAY LONG
Now in this composition, the bus is already overturned and stopped. It is a third-person perspective now. Everything has rolled out of the bus, round and round. I have used the “teeth” of the wheels, layered with a spiral dingbat, to show the wheels going round and round, all day long. I have made use of everyone’s dingbat that are either round in shape, or if it contains a face.

When pieced together, the final composition of all 4 images form a full circle, keeping a flow and linking them together. (I wanted to incorporate my photosphere in my previous post) This might have also helped enhanced the effect of the tragedy. I have chosen to use black as the primary background colour as I wanted it to feel dark and tragic.

ORIGINAL DINGBATS

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I have originally came up with 50/50 dingbats for each rhyme.

SKETCHES

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CHALLENGES FACED

The biggest challenge I had, I think, was the choosing of the concept of my rhyme. As seen from my previous posts, I was actually trying to push for a social commentary style concept of the issues that I see in my commute. However, I took a step back to see my original rhymes I have shortlisted: the wheels on the bus and the crooked old man. The crooked old man reminded me of my grandfather who was affected by the accident, who had problems walking/unstability for a period of time after the accident. It really pushed me away from my original concept and made me conclude with the concept of a twisted and dark reinterpretation of the wheels on the bus rhyme.

Another challenge was the lines: “round and round” as they were very vague – it could mean anything! After coming up with a mindmap of what could go round and round, I have finally classified them into external and internal, using the dingbats that my classmates have created.

I am fairly familiar with all the technical jargon – so nope, no problems there.

REFLECTIONS

PERSONAL THOUGHTS
I thought that this project was very interesting as I have never thought about using Photoshop to do mono-toned photomontage style compositions before. As a digital person, it was definitely much easier than the traditional assignments that we have to do. I really liked the idea of sharing dingbats!

TUTOR THOUGHTS
Joy liked how my last composition juxtaposed the chaos with orderly circular objects that was arranged neatly. She also liked how I made use of a personal experience to incorporate into a concept, as well as how went back to my original shortlisted rhymes to come up with my final concept.

CLASSMATES THOUGHTS

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A picture speaks a thousand words

Rhymes: Progress

The wheels on the bus go round and round.. round and round.. round and round.. round and round… (I have probably repeated that line a thousand times already.)

Since my chosen rhyme was inspired by the idea of commuting, I was led into the direction to conceptualize what I felt and observed during my commuting process.

I have came up with a few issues that I could maybe address in this assignment:

  • Stomp-style on ARMY personnel
  • Old/Elderly people
  • People and their chatter (noisy)
  • Smartphones/social
  • Kids

Some thoughts on layouts:

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Layouts to best show round and round

Anyway, here are some work-in-progress.

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Animal on wheels going round and round

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“The wheels of the bus go round and round.”

For this sample, I experimented on just the literal meaning of the wheels on the bus going round and round in circles, going around the wheel.

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“The people in the bus go ignore, ignore, ignore.”

For this, I have tried changing the rhyme lyrics a little to address the issue of the elderly while commuting.

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“The people in the train go stare, stare, stare.”

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“The people in the train go scroll, scroll, scroll.”

After much considerations, I have also came up with a dark narrative story too. This is inspired by an actual incident that happened to my grandfather a few years back when a tour bus ran straight into a public bus my grandfather was in.

Start from top left and go in a clockwise direction:

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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.

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!