A Random Day in Intro to Design

Unedited environmental project, joke edition.

This is our wedding in an elevator that we shot for our environmental project. Instead of a beautiful setting like most weddings, our wedding was shot in a cold elevator. The video below is unedited and it just for for fun until I figure out imovie * do you think I'd really use that music???? 

Table Top Design Photos

These are the three sets explained on Tuesday for our table top design.  Posted by Isabelle. 

The Inanimate Female Form

This inanimate female form was spotted by Jessica on her way to Intro to Design Class. As you can observe, the object was subject to negligence and possible torture. Coincidence or act of some divine plan that such a victim resembled a woman? Such a sight still holds its mystery, but one can find multiple meaning since perspectives vary. This image also resembled that of the statue of David, in the scene from the film “Children of Men”. The scene shows the David statue with a prosthetic metal piece connecting the missing leg piece of the statue. Likewise, the female statue’s leg was detached yet not important enough to be pieced together. She also had a missing head which further devalues her existence.

-Jessica Leon

The Metaphor of Scenography

Reading Notes for “Metaphor” by Borges and “Richard Foreman as Scenographer” Arson
By States from Group “P.E.T.I.O”
Due November 04, 2008


“Every word is a dead metaphor”-Borges
The thought that a word, every word, is a “dead metaphor” is in itself a metaphorical thought. Metaphors are a scarce combination of words that can result in infinity of meanings. The importance in the metaphor is what the reader feels when it’s read or heard. Likewise, theatre encompasses similar characteristics. Like the metaphor, theatre can have several combinations of the same elements, and project infinity of meaning to its audience.
Having a familiarity of objects or comparisons can have a momentary comfort on the audience. For example, many metaphors are comparisons of familiar associations, like a woman to a flower or life to a dream. The same in theater, if the audience sees a comfy couch set by an artificial fire place in an imitation living room, they feel a sense of comfort and familiarity to such aesthetic replica. The thought of associating unlike elements can be a bit shocking, but far more effective on the audience. The unfamiliarity of unlike elements leaves the observer stunned, that they look twice or read twice in order to depict the relation of the rare metaphor or extraordinary setting.
Both metaphors and a stage consist of patterns that can be moved around and convoluted to create a new meaning when presented. A poem and a play or simple metaphors are placed in such ways that give its audience the will to see what they want to see. All the elements that need to be presented are presented, but it is up to the observer to find meaning behind such placement of words or props.

Childhood: The Everlasting Dream

Don't allow your world be taken over by the Gray Cloud.

Collage by Josh Hungerford

Now try figuring out how to do the stage settings for something like this. Doesn't really work so well.