PRE Final Critique

The flip books are working very well, but now I need to focous on getting the flash part assembeled, and the conatiner made.

Things to do, In no specific order:



flash component:
the .flvs are done, Now I need to piece the individual scenes together to make the whole thing.

estimated time: 3 hours



box:
I am going to use a plain, unstained wood that compliments the color of cardstock. The box will be assembeled using simple metal brackets, which will compliment the binding of the books.

estimated time: 5-7 hours


CD case:
I am going to scan the texture of the wood for my cd case and have inside also made of same wood texture. The individual symbols of the flipbooks will be printed on the discs. Hopefully, I will be able to make one for everyone in the class

estimated time: 2-3 hours

This was supposed to be so easy

So flipbooks, while being basically the same image, printed automatically by the printer still manage to take approximately seven hours to make, and I had to take out an asset against my trust fund to buy the paper. That being said, I want to have these little pieces of paper hell finished this week. After that its on to my flash disc, which shouldn't be as bad, but I now have zero faith in my time estimating capabilities. Ohh, and I need a box to hold it all in. Tupperware anyone?

SSSSSSOUND

this project is an experiment in layering audio. Im using the concept of my last project to make more traditional music.
Only the far right slider functions. It workds like a master volume control.

Audio

Im exploring the visual clutter that we are bombarded with in our society. I searched google images for basic words like "poster" "letter" and "billboard." Then I took the first image that appeared. Each image has an audio file attached to it. when one mouses over each image it begins to play. The audio files build into a texture that eventually becomes dissonant and overwhelming.

Wunder What?

Wunderkammer, or a cabinet of curiosities.
Basically, these were weird little cabinets that contained all sorts of artifacts (Many of them Fake) from around the world.

Basically, I want to make a wunderkammer in Flash, and I want to produce an analogue version of it as well.

As far as the discourse in the cabinet is concerned, Im not really sure how I want to proceed. Im really interested in Surrealism right now, and I like how they use these metaphors to represent the bourgeois society that they want to revolt against. So, I think Im going to do something along those lines. Now I need to do more specific research on the wunderkammen, and the contents that I want in it.

Cabinet of Curiosities on Wikipedia

A case of curiosities not strictly a wunderkammer, but the taxidermy work is influenced by wunderkammer work in the 18th and 19th centuery

Bureau of Bureaucracy cabinet made by Kim Schmahmann uses the form as a vehicle to subvert bureaucracy.

Contents of a cabinet

Great page with a lot more wunderkammeness

Meaty Greedy

This project is about about the idea idea of greed and how our increasing desire for consumption is becoming more sensationalized and prolific.

Hey kid, Im a computer, stop all that downloading

i think a computer program is a bunch of ones and zeros that let me check my email.