Welcome to my final DMS Project Introduction,
Become Original
I was inspired by Benjamin’s essay (I only remember his name. I don’t remember the name of the essay, sorry). I wanted to take the photos of the original place and change them to make them my own. So, kind of like the Mona Lisa concept, there are so many changed/recreations of the Mona Lisa that if you haven’t seen the original painting you wouldn’t know which one is the real Mona Lisa. I interpreted his essay as him explaining that anyone can make art and no art is original anymore. Therefore, by changing the original I am making it in to my own art. Also, it goes along with the of real verses virtual space. The real space is the original landscape in the photos. The virtual space is the figure inserted in to the photos. Also, the stop-animation created from the photos gives it a more realistic yet completely unreal (as in it didn’t really happen but looks like it did) concept. Another thing that is part of the concept is that the geometry of the space influences how people interact with it (from another reading). I purposely took the pictures in a pattern in which you would walk around the Erie Basin, since the shape [and the railing/pathway that follows the edge of the Basin] of the Basin forces you to walk the path all the way around it. I decided to make a stop-animation rather than editing video, one because I am better at using Photoshop than IMovie, and two because it fits better with my concept than a straight video would. I believe that this uses the things we have learned in class well. I hope my video is enjoyable, and I am disappointed that I could not fix the animation the way I had planned. I guess I still have some learning to do (I only put this in because the project itself took so long I had to write this paragraph after making it).
Thanks and Enjoy,
Yours Truly
