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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Project 2, Timeline (completed)
"History of Photography"
# ancient times: Camera obscuras used to form images on walls in darkened rooms; image formation via a pinhole
# 16th century: Brightness and clarity of camera obscuras improved by enlarging the hole inserting a telescope lens
# 17th century: Camera obscuras in frequent use by artists and made portable in the form of sedan chairs
# 1727: Professor J. Schulze mixes chalk, nitric acid, and silver in a flask; notices darkening on side of flask exposed to sunlight. Accidental creation of the first photo-sensitive compound.
# 1800: Thomas Wedgwood makes "sun pictures" by placing opaque objects on leather treated with silver nitrate; resulting images deteriorated rapidly, however, if displayed under light stronger than from candles.
# 1816: Nicéphore Niépce combines the camera obscura with photosensitive paper
# 1826: Niépce creates a permanent image
# 1834: Henry Fox Talbot creates permanent (negative) images using paper soaked in silver chloride and fixed with a salt solution. Talbot created positive images by contact printing onto another sheet of paper.
# 1837: Louis Daguerre creates images on silver-plated copper, coated with silver iodide and "developed" with warmed mercury; Daguerre is awarded a state pension by the French government in exchange for publication of methods and the rights by other French citizens to use the Daguerreotype process.
# 1841: Talbot patents his process under the name "calotype".
# 1851: Frederick Scott Archer, a sculptor in London, improves photographic resolution by spreading a mixture of collodion (nitrated cotton dissolved in ether and alcoohol) and chemicals on sheets of glass. Wet plate collodion photography was much cheaper than daguerreotypes, the negative/positive process permitted unlimited reproductions, and the process was published but not patented.
# 1853: Nadar (Felix Toumachon) opens his portrait studio in Paris
# 1854: Adolphe Disderi develops carte-de-visite photography in Paris, leading to worldwide boom in portrait studios for the next decade
# The ruined abbey of San Galgano, between Rome and Florence 1855: Beginning of stereoscopic era
# 1855-57: Direct positive images on glass (ambrotypes) and metal (tintypes or ferrotypes) popular in the US.
# 1861: Scottish physicist James Clerk-Maxwell demonstrates a color photography system involving three black and white photographs, each taken through a red, green, or blue filter. The photos were turned into lantern slides and projected in registration with the same color filters. This is the "color separation" method.
# 1861-65: Mathew Brady and staff (mostly staff) covers the American Civil War, exposing 7000 negatives
# 1868: Ducas de Hauron publishes a book proposing a variety of methods for color photography.
# 1870: Center of period in which the US Congress sent photographers out to the West. The most famous images were taken by William Jackson and Tim O'Sullivan.
# 1871: Richard Leach Maddox, an English doctor, proposes the use of an emulsion of gelatin and silver bromide on a glass plate, the "dry plate" process.
# 1877: Eadweard Muybridge, born in England as Edward Muggridge, settles "do a horse's four hooves ever leave the ground at once" bet among rich San Franciscans by time-sequenced photography of Leland Stanford's horse.
# 1878: Dry plates being manufactured commercially.
# 1880: George Eastman, age 24, sets up Eastman Dry Plate Company in Rochester, New York. First half-tone photograph appears in a daily newspaper, the New York Graphic.
# 1888: First Kodak camera, containing a 20-foot roll of paper, enough for 100 2.5-inch diameter circular pictures.
# 1889: Improved Kodak camera with roll of film instead of paper
# 1890: Jacob Riis publishes How the Other Half Lives, images of tenament life in New york City
# 1900: Kodak Brownie box roll-film camera introduced.
# 1902: Alfred Stieglitz organizes "Photo Secessionist" show in New York City
# 1906: Availability of panchromatic black and white film and therefore high quality color separation color photography. J.P. Morgan finances Edward Curtis to document the traditional culture of the North American Indian.
# 1907: First commercial color film, the Autochrome plates, manufactured by Lumiere brothers in France
# 1909: Lewis Hine hired by US National Child Labor Committee to photograph children working mills.
# 1914: Oscar Barnack, employed by German microscope manufacturer Leitz, develops camera using the modern 24x36mm frame and sprocketed 35mm movie film.
# 1917: Nippon Kogaku K.K., which will eventually become Nikon, established in Tokyo.
# 1921: Man Ray begins making photograms ("rayographs") by placing objects on photographic paper and exposing the shadow cast by a distant light bulb; Eugegrave;ne Atget, aged 64, assigned to photograph the brothels of Paris
# 1924: Leitz markets a derivative of Barnack's camera commercially as the "Leica", the fi rst high quality 35mm camera.
# 1925: André Kertész moves from his native Hungary to Paris, where he begins an 11-year project photographing street life
# 1928: Albert Renger-Patzsch publishes The World is Beautiful, close-ups emphasizing the form of natural and man-made objects; Rollei introduces the Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex producing a 6x6 cm image on rollfilm.; Karl Blossfeldt publishes Art Forms in Nature
# 1931: Development of strobe photography by Harold ("Doc") Edgerton at MIT
# 1932: Inception of Technicolor for movies, where three black and white negatives were made in the same camera under different filters; Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Willard Van Dyke, Edward Weston, et al, form Group f/64 dedicated to "straight photographic thought and production".; Henri Cartier-Bresson buys a Leica and begins a 60-year career photographing people; On March 14, George Eastman, aged 77, writes suicide note--"My work is done. Why wait?"--and shoots himself.
# 1933: Brassaï publishes Paris de nuit
# 1934: Fuji Photo Film founded. By 1938, Fuji is making cameras and lenses in addition to film.
# 1935: Farm Security Administration hires Roy Stryker to run a historical section. Stryker would hire Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, et al. to photograph rural hardships over the next six years. Roman Vishniac begins his project of the soon-to-be-killed-by-their-neighbors Jews of Central and Eastern Europe.
# 1936: Development of Kodachrome, the first color multi-layered color film; development of Exakta, pioneering 35mm single-lens reflex (SLR) camera
# World War II:
* Development of multi-layer color negative films
* Margaret Bourke-White, Robert Capa, Carl Mydans, and W. Eugene Smith cover the war for LIFE magazine
# 1947: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, and David Seymour start the photographer-owned Magnum picture agency
# 1948: Hasselblad in Sweden offers its first medium-format SLR for commercial sale; Pentax in Japan introduces the automatic diaphragm; Polaroid sells instant black and white film
# 1949: East German Zeiss develops the Contax S, first SLR with an unreversed image in a pentaprism viewfinder
# 1955: Edward Steichen curates Family of Man exhibit at New York's Museum of Modern Art
# 1959: Nikon F introduced.
# 1960: Garry Winogrand begins photographing women on the streets of New York City.
# 1963: First color instant film developed by Polaroid; Instamatic released by Kodak; first purpose-built underwater introduced, the Nikonos
# 1970: William Wegman begins photographing his Weimaraner, Man Ray.
# 1972: 110-format cameras introduced by Kodak with a 13x17mm frame
# 1973: C-41 color negative process introduced, replacing C-22
# 1975: Nicholas Nixon takes his first annual photograph of his wife and her sisters: "The Brown Sisters"; Steve Sasson at Kodak builds the first working CCD-based digital still camera
# 1976: First solo show of color photographs at the Museum of Modern Art, William Eggleston's Guide
# 1977: Cindy Sherman begins work on Untitled Film Stills, completed in 1980; Jan Groover begins exploring kitchen utensils
# 1978: Hiroshi Sugimoto begins work on seascapes.
# 1980: Elsa Dorfman begins making portraits with the 20x24" Polaroid.
# 1982: Sony demonstrates Mavica "still video" camera
# 1983: Kodak introduces disk camera, using an 8x11mm frame (the same as in the Minox spy camera)
# 1985: Minolta markets the world's first autofocus SLR system (called "Maxxum" in the US); In the American West by Richard Avedon
# 1988: Sally Mann begins publishing nude photos of her children
# 1987: The popular Canon EOS system introduced, with new all-electronic lens mount
# 1990: Adobe Photoshop released.
# 1991: Kodak DCS-100, first digital SLR, a modified Nikon F3
# 1992: Kodak introduces PhotoCD
# 1993: Founding of photo.net (this Web site), an early Internet online community; Sebastiao Salgado publishes Workers; Mary Ellen Mark publishes book documenting life in an Indian circus.
# 1995: Material World, by Peter Menzel published.
# 1997: Rob Silvers publishes Photomosaics
# 1999: Nikon D1 SLR, 2.74 megapixel for $6000, first ground-up DSLR design by a leading manufacturer.
# 2000: Camera phone introduced in Japan by Sharp/J-Phone
# 2001: Polaroid goes bankrupt
# 2003: Four-Thirds standard for compact digital SLRs introduced with the Olympus E-1; Canon Digital Rebel introduced for less than $1000
# 2004: Kodak ceases production of film cameras
# 2005: Canon EOS 5D, first consumer-priced full-frame digital SLR, with a 24x36mm CMOS sensor for $3000;
process:
# ancient times: Camera obscuras used to form images on walls in darkened rooms; image formation via a pinhole
# 16th century: Brightness and clarity of camera obscuras improved by enlarging the hole inserting a telescope lens
# 17th century: Camera obscuras in frequent use by artists and made portable in the form of sedan chairs
# 1727: Professor J. Schulze mixes chalk, nitric acid, and silver in a flask; notices darkening on side of flask exposed to sunlight. Accidental creation of the first photo-sensitive compound.
# 1800: Thomas Wedgwood makes "sun pictures" by placing opaque objects on leather treated with silver nitrate; resulting images deteriorated rapidly, however, if displayed under light stronger than from candles.
# 1816: Nicéphore Niépce combines the camera obscura with photosensitive paper
# 1826: Niépce creates a permanent image
# 1834: Henry Fox Talbot creates permanent (negative) images using paper soaked in silver chloride and fixed with a salt solution. Talbot created positive images by contact printing onto another sheet of paper.
# 1837: Louis Daguerre creates images on silver-plated copper, coated with silver iodide and "developed" with warmed mercury; Daguerre is awarded a state pension by the French government in exchange for publication of methods and the rights by other French citizens to use the Daguerreotype process.
# 1841: Talbot patents his process under the name "calotype".
# 1851: Frederick Scott Archer, a sculptor in London, improves photographic resolution by spreading a mixture of collodion (nitrated cotton dissolved in ether and alcoohol) and chemicals on sheets of glass. Wet plate collodion photography was much cheaper than daguerreotypes, the negative/positive process permitted unlimited reproductions, and the process was published but not patented.
# 1853: Nadar (Felix Toumachon) opens his portrait studio in Paris
# 1854: Adolphe Disderi develops carte-de-visite photography in Paris, leading to worldwide boom in portrait studios for the next decade
# The ruined abbey of San Galgano, between Rome and Florence 1855: Beginning of stereoscopic era
# 1855-57: Direct positive images on glass (ambrotypes) and metal (tintypes or ferrotypes) popular in the US.
# 1861: Scottish physicist James Clerk-Maxwell demonstrates a color photography system involving three black and white photographs, each taken through a red, green, or blue filter. The photos were turned into lantern slides and projected in registration with the same color filters. This is the "color separation" method.
# 1861-65: Mathew Brady and staff (mostly staff) covers the American Civil War, exposing 7000 negatives
# 1868: Ducas de Hauron publishes a book proposing a variety of methods for color photography.
# 1870: Center of period in which the US Congress sent photographers out to the West. The most famous images were taken by William Jackson and Tim O'Sullivan.
# 1871: Richard Leach Maddox, an English doctor, proposes the use of an emulsion of gelatin and silver bromide on a glass plate, the "dry plate" process.
# 1877: Eadweard Muybridge, born in England as Edward Muggridge, settles "do a horse's four hooves ever leave the ground at once" bet among rich San Franciscans by time-sequenced photography of Leland Stanford's horse.
# 1878: Dry plates being manufactured commercially.
# 1880: George Eastman, age 24, sets up Eastman Dry Plate Company in Rochester, New York. First half-tone photograph appears in a daily newspaper, the New York Graphic.
# 1888: First Kodak camera, containing a 20-foot roll of paper, enough for 100 2.5-inch diameter circular pictures.
# 1889: Improved Kodak camera with roll of film instead of paper
# 1890: Jacob Riis publishes How the Other Half Lives, images of tenament life in New york City
# 1900: Kodak Brownie box roll-film camera introduced.
# 1902: Alfred Stieglitz organizes "Photo Secessionist" show in New York City
# 1906: Availability of panchromatic black and white film and therefore high quality color separation color photography. J.P. Morgan finances Edward Curtis to document the traditional culture of the North American Indian.
# 1907: First commercial color film, the Autochrome plates, manufactured by Lumiere brothers in France
# 1909: Lewis Hine hired by US National Child Labor Committee to photograph children working mills.
# 1914: Oscar Barnack, employed by German microscope manufacturer Leitz, develops camera using the modern 24x36mm frame and sprocketed 35mm movie film.
# 1917: Nippon Kogaku K.K., which will eventually become Nikon, established in Tokyo.
# 1921: Man Ray begins making photograms ("rayographs") by placing objects on photographic paper and exposing the shadow cast by a distant light bulb; Eugegrave;ne Atget, aged 64, assigned to photograph the brothels of Paris
# 1924: Leitz markets a derivative of Barnack's camera commercially as the "Leica", the fi rst high quality 35mm camera.
# 1925: André Kertész moves from his native Hungary to Paris, where he begins an 11-year project photographing street life
# 1928: Albert Renger-Patzsch publishes The World is Beautiful, close-ups emphasizing the form of natural and man-made objects; Rollei introduces the Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex producing a 6x6 cm image on rollfilm.; Karl Blossfeldt publishes Art Forms in Nature
# 1931: Development of strobe photography by Harold ("Doc") Edgerton at MIT
# 1932: Inception of Technicolor for movies, where three black and white negatives were made in the same camera under different filters; Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Willard Van Dyke, Edward Weston, et al, form Group f/64 dedicated to "straight photographic thought and production".; Henri Cartier-Bresson buys a Leica and begins a 60-year career photographing people; On March 14, George Eastman, aged 77, writes suicide note--"My work is done. Why wait?"--and shoots himself.
# 1933: Brassaï publishes Paris de nuit
# 1934: Fuji Photo Film founded. By 1938, Fuji is making cameras and lenses in addition to film.
# 1935: Farm Security Administration hires Roy Stryker to run a historical section. Stryker would hire Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, et al. to photograph rural hardships over the next six years. Roman Vishniac begins his project of the soon-to-be-killed-by-their-neighbors Jews of Central and Eastern Europe.
# 1936: Development of Kodachrome, the first color multi-layered color film; development of Exakta, pioneering 35mm single-lens reflex (SLR) camera
# World War II:
* Development of multi-layer color negative films
* Margaret Bourke-White, Robert Capa, Carl Mydans, and W. Eugene Smith cover the war for LIFE magazine
# 1947: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, and David Seymour start the photographer-owned Magnum picture agency
# 1948: Hasselblad in Sweden offers its first medium-format SLR for commercial sale; Pentax in Japan introduces the automatic diaphragm; Polaroid sells instant black and white film
# 1949: East German Zeiss develops the Contax S, first SLR with an unreversed image in a pentaprism viewfinder
# 1955: Edward Steichen curates Family of Man exhibit at New York's Museum of Modern Art
# 1959: Nikon F introduced.
# 1960: Garry Winogrand begins photographing women on the streets of New York City.
# 1963: First color instant film developed by Polaroid; Instamatic released by Kodak; first purpose-built underwater introduced, the Nikonos
# 1970: William Wegman begins photographing his Weimaraner, Man Ray.
# 1972: 110-format cameras introduced by Kodak with a 13x17mm frame
# 1973: C-41 color negative process introduced, replacing C-22
# 1975: Nicholas Nixon takes his first annual photograph of his wife and her sisters: "The Brown Sisters"; Steve Sasson at Kodak builds the first working CCD-based digital still camera
# 1976: First solo show of color photographs at the Museum of Modern Art, William Eggleston's Guide
# 1977: Cindy Sherman begins work on Untitled Film Stills, completed in 1980; Jan Groover begins exploring kitchen utensils
# 1978: Hiroshi Sugimoto begins work on seascapes.
# 1980: Elsa Dorfman begins making portraits with the 20x24" Polaroid.
# 1982: Sony demonstrates Mavica "still video" camera
# 1983: Kodak introduces disk camera, using an 8x11mm frame (the same as in the Minox spy camera)
# 1985: Minolta markets the world's first autofocus SLR system (called "Maxxum" in the US); In the American West by Richard Avedon
# 1988: Sally Mann begins publishing nude photos of her children
# 1987: The popular Canon EOS system introduced, with new all-electronic lens mount
# 1990: Adobe Photoshop released.
# 1991: Kodak DCS-100, first digital SLR, a modified Nikon F3
# 1992: Kodak introduces PhotoCD
# 1993: Founding of photo.net (this Web site), an early Internet online community; Sebastiao Salgado publishes Workers; Mary Ellen Mark publishes book documenting life in an Indian circus.
# 1995: Material World, by Peter Menzel published.
# 1997: Rob Silvers publishes Photomosaics
# 1999: Nikon D1 SLR, 2.74 megapixel for $6000, first ground-up DSLR design by a leading manufacturer.
# 2000: Camera phone introduced in Japan by Sharp/J-Phone
# 2001: Polaroid goes bankrupt
# 2003: Four-Thirds standard for compact digital SLRs introduced with the Olympus E-1; Canon Digital Rebel introduced for less than $1000
# 2004: Kodak ceases production of film cameras
# 2005: Canon EOS 5D, first consumer-priced full-frame digital SLR, with a 24x36mm CMOS sensor for $3000;
process:
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Journals
Journal Entry No. 1
Journal Entry No.2
Chip Kidd
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John Gall
Journal Entry No.3
First of all, I think they're all pretty important. But the first 3 is the one that stands out the most to me.
If I don't have a single concept, my poster would probably look more like a piece of sketchbook paper with random doodles.
Ever since I took typography, I'm more aware of what I'm doing than I was before. I remember making posters for an organization that I'm in, and it looked like a somewhat nice poster but it relates nothing to the actual event. So communication is very important to me.
I think this last rule is quite important because having repetitive objects with a little twist would definitely (personally) catches other people's attention.
These are basically the things I need to improve and get it into my system ^_^Journal Entry No.4
"Bruce Mau is a visionary and world-leading innovator. As Chief Creative Officer of Bruce Mau Design, he proves that the power of design is boundless, and has the capacity to bring positive change on a global scale."Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.
I chose this because I do look back at all the experiments that I've done and I may or may not like what I did, but whatever it is, it makes me want to go even further. And this is what I would like to keep for ever.
Journal Entry No.5
Journal Entry No.6
Journal Entry No.7
Journal Entry No.8
Journal Entry No.9
Journal Entry No.10
What is animated typography?
– http://www.heinmaas.com/25-fantastic-typographic-animations/
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First of all, I am very much thankful that I have the ability to hear.
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– 30-unforgettable-movie-title-sequence.
I think they're all pretty memorable. The three that I pick are:
– Lord of War
– Catch me if you can
– Casino Royale Opening
I really like how different they all are, and although some of them might be crazy with the graphics, they manage to pull out a nice, simple typeface, and still balances with the whole composition. Lord of War is more graphical, yet the typeface is simple and plain, which is really nice to see. I think if the typeface was 'decorated' it would've been too much. Catch me if you can uses the combination of silhouette and typeface. The typeface of this movie is also used as an image, which is really useful. Casino Royale is basically the mixture of the Lord of War, and catch me if you can, and it is still has balance to it.
Journal Entry No.11
Journal Entry No.12
Journal Entry No.13
Journal Entry No.14
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Project 1
5 successful book jackets:
I think these book covers are successful because they actually capture the image of the story on the cover page, it doesn't just tell you the title, but it also gives you a glimpse of the story. I usually, sadly, judge a book by its cover, so in order for me to read a book, the cover has to be catchy, most of the times.. --
series: "a group or a number of related or similar things, events, etc., arranged or occurring in temporal, spatial, or other order or succession; sequence."
sequence: "a continuous or connected series."
sign:
index:
symbol:
I'm planning to design three nonfictional books that are all about abused children, and they are:
-- Associated word list:
1. Morbid: suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.: a morbid interest in death.
-- To Suggest list:
(more info online)
-- Find 10 quotes, phrases, part of a poem, song, etc that sets the mood/tone/feeling of your series. Quotes, phases,
sequence: "a continuous or connected series."
sign:
index:
symbol:
I'm planning to design three nonfictional books that are all about abused children, and they are:
1. The step child: A true story of a broken childhood. (Donna Ford)
2. They cage the animals at night. (Jennings Michael Burch)
3. Sickened: The true story of a lost childhood. (Julie Gregory)
(Background info of the author / summary of the book)
Donna Ford
"This work tells the true story of Donna Ford, who between the ages of five and eleven was abused by her step mother Helen. Labelled 'the bastard', the 'little witch' and 'the evil one'; beaten , isolated and afraid to even look at her own reflection, this beautiful little child was told she was lucky to be the victim of abuse - abuse which began as physical and mental, but progressed to the most appalling sexual attacks. Despite an horrendous early life, Donna is now a successful artist and mother of three with an enormous enthusiasm and an optimism which completely belies her experiences. In 2003, Donna watched as her step mother was found guilty of 'procuring a minor' for sexual abuse and sentenced to two years in prison. Beautifully written and savagely honest, The Step Child is a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit."
--
Jennings Michael Burch
"He was born in the South Bronx, New York. Due to struggling with being a single mother, Burch's mother placed her sons in foster care in 1949, when Jennings was eight, but she vowed that she would be back. Between 1949 and 1954, he had stayed in 32 foster homes, moved with his family three times, and stayed with at least three sets of foster parents."
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Julie Gregory
"According to Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood, Gregory's mother frequently took her to various doctors, coaching her to act sicker than she was and exaggerating her symptoms, and demanding increasingly invasive procedures to diagnose the girl's imaginary illnesses. At home, her mother fed Gregory a nutritionally inadequate diet (based on foods a doctor had said Gregory shouldn't have), administered prescription medicine erratically, sometimes in double doses, and filled her days with strenuous physical labor. According to Gregory, her mother even became upset when one doctor wouldn't perform open heart surgery on her daughter. Also, in the book Gregory mentions being told that matches were suckers to eat.
When Julie finally realized what her mom was doing to her, she tried telling some people about what her mom did,but no one listened. They thought Julie was making up stories for attention, and had her go to "imagination counseling" to try and tame the crazy stories of her parents."
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Fonts? (from dafont.com)
nilland, old style, goudy bookletter, imperator, jellyka, jane austen organic elements, sell your soul, gara.
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color pallet: (from kuler.adobe.com)
Fonts? (from dafont.com)
nilland, old style, goudy bookletter, imperator, jellyka, jane austen organic elements, sell your soul, gara.
--
color pallet: (from kuler.adobe.com)
-- Associated word list:
- Dreary
- Drab
- Sorry
- Grim
- Gloomy
- Drear
- Dismal
- Disconsolate
- Dingy
- Dark
- Blue
- Morbid
- Ghoulish
- Diseased
- Pathologic
- Pathological
- Abusive
- Harmful
- Abuse
- Opprobrious
- Scurrilous
- Strange
- Foreign
- Unknown
- Unusual
- Horrifying
- Torturous
- Torturing
- Excruciating
- Agonizing
- Horrendoes
- Awful
- Dive
- Diveful
- Dreadful
- Dread
- Gruesome
- Fearful
- Fearsome
- Frightening
- Horrific
- Terrible
- Agonising
- Harrowing
- Bitter
- Irritating
- Sore
- Sensitive
- abominable
- Inhumane
2. Scurrilous: grossly or obscenely abusive: a scurrilous attack on the mayor.
3. Agonizing: to suffer extreme pain or anguish; be in agony.
4. Bitter: hard to bear; grievous; distressful: a bitter sorrow.
5. Dreaded: terror or apprehension as to something in the future; great fear.
6. Inhumane: not humane; lacking humanity, kindness, compassion, etc.
7. Excruciating: extremely painful; causing intense suffering; unbearably distressing; torturing: an excruciating noise; excruciating pain.
8. Foreign: strange or unfamiliar.
9. Dreary: causing sadness or gloom.
10. Gruesome: causing great horror; horribly repugnant; grisly: the site of a gruesome murder.
-- Tone: Are your books serious, humorous, informative, how-to, journal, fiction, non-fiction?
Write down 3 – 5 words that define the tone of your series.
east _ _ + _ _ west (eastern/western or east coast west coast)
organic + _ _ _ _ high–tech
minimal _ _ + _ _ ornamental
retro _ _ _ + _ contemporary / vintage _ _ + _ _ futuristic / nostagic _ _ + _ _ contemporary
unrefined/rough _ _ __ + clean/sophisticated
machine made _ _ + _ _handmade
traditional _ _ _ + _ non-traditional
complex _ _ _ _ + easy
organic + _ _ _ _ high–tech
minimal _ _ + _ _ ornamental
retro _ _ _ + _ contemporary / vintage _ _ + _ _ futuristic / nostagic _ _ + _ _ contemporary
unrefined/rough _ _ __ + clean/sophisticated
machine made _ _ + _ _handmade
traditional _ _ _ + _ non-traditional
complex _ _ _ _ + easy
-- To Suggest list:
- To suggest abandoning
- To suggest a hardship life
- To suggest the lack of love
- To suggest loneliness
- To suggest a broken family
-To suggest hope in difficult times
(more info online)
-- Find 10 quotes, phrases, part of a poem, song, etc that sets the mood/tone/feeling of your series. Quotes, phases,
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." -Marie Curie
"All that I am my mother made me." John Quincy Adams
"Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime" Herbert Ward
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“Look, I'm trying to help you with this, sacrificing my life to find out what the hell is wrong with you. So stop fucking it up when we get in here by acting all normal. Show them how sick you are and let's get to the bottom of this, okay?”
“Okay.”
--
Concept Statement:
Excruciating love.
Excruciating: extremely painful; causing intense suffering; unbearably distressing; torturing.
Love: a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend.
Excruciating~ abusing, fear, torture, darkness, violent, broken.
Love ~ family, friends, acceptance.
To overcome your fear you must defeat it. And if living your life is excruciating, then you must face it, for "nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
Audience Persona:
Julie Gregory is a 41 year old lady, was once a victim of Munchausen by proxy. As a child pain and agony was what she lived for. She was constantly being medicated heavily even if she only had a common cold. And when she was healthy, she was sick in her mother's eyes. Skinny and frail was the image her mother portrayed upon her, and that's what she thought she always was. Not until adulthood that she discovered the sickness that laid in her mother. But even all those times she knew she was healthy, she would still listen and do as her mother says just for love, and her mother's happiness. Julie is now an expert writer an spokesman on Munchausen by proxy and an advocate in MBP cases.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Q & A
_ What are the advantages of a multiple column grid?
So things can be align to each other, it's flexible,
_ How many characters is optimal for a line length? words per line?
45 min-75 max. 66~
_ Why is the baseline grid used in design?
because
_ What is a typographic river?
Gaps of space
"Visually unattractive gaps appearing to run down a paragraph of text. They can occur with any spacing, though they are most noticeable with wide inter-word spaces caused by either full text justification or mono spaced fonts."
_ From the readings what does clothes lining or flow line mean?
things that aligns across the spread
_ How can you incorporate white space into your designs?
by leaving marginal space
_ What is type color/texture mean?
increase the tracking
_ What is x-height, how does it effect type color?
if a font has a taller x-height it's going to look darker, and if it was smaller, it would look lighter.
_ In justification or H&J terms what do the numbers: minimum, optimum, maximum mean?
_ What are some ways to indicate a new paragraph. Are there any rules?
_ What are some things to look out for when hyphenating text.
_ What is a literature?
_ What does CMYK and RGB mean?
CMYK "refers to the four inks used in most color printing: cyan, magenta, yellow, and key black"
RGB " an additive color model in which red, green, and blue light are added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors. The name of the model comes from the initials of the three additive primary colors, red, green, and blue."
_ What does hanging punctuation mean?
_ What is the difference between a foot mark and an apostrophe?
_ What is the difference between
an inch mark and a quote mark (smart quote)?
_ What is a hyphen, en dash and em dashes, what are the differences and when are they used.
So things can be align to each other, it's flexible,
_ How many characters is optimal for a line length? words per line?
45 min-75 max. 66~
_ Why is the baseline grid used in design?
because
_ What is a typographic river?
Gaps of space
"Visually unattractive gaps appearing to run down a paragraph of text. They can occur with any spacing, though they are most noticeable with wide inter-word spaces caused by either full text justification or mono spaced fonts."
_ From the readings what does clothes lining or flow line mean?
things that aligns across the spread
_ How can you incorporate white space into your designs?
by leaving marginal space
_ What is type color/texture mean?
increase the tracking
_ What is x-height, how does it effect type color?
if a font has a taller x-height it's going to look darker, and if it was smaller, it would look lighter.
_ In justification or H&J terms what do the numbers: minimum, optimum, maximum mean?
_ What are some ways to indicate a new paragraph. Are there any rules?
_ What are some things to look out for when hyphenating text.
_ What is a literature?
_ What does CMYK and RGB mean?
CMYK "refers to the four inks used in most color printing: cyan, magenta, yellow, and key black"
RGB " an additive color model in which red, green, and blue light are added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors. The name of the model comes from the initials of the three additive primary colors, red, green, and blue."
_ What does hanging punctuation mean?
_ What is the difference between a foot mark and an apostrophe?
_ What is the difference between
an inch mark and a quote mark (smart quote)?
_ What is a hyphen, en dash and em dashes, what are the differences and when are they used.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Animators vs. Animation
you can never get sick of watching this.
This one too! http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/animator2
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