{"id":1774,"date":"2017-01-24T20:46:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T20:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobbyciraldo.com\/uwm-vfx\/?page_id=1774"},"modified":"2018-03-06T21:51:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T21:51:42","slug":"project-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ciraldo.stream\/uwm-vfx1\/projects\/project-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Project 1 (Still Project)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>PROJECT 1 (still project)<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Due<\/strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong> February 13th<\/strong><\/span><strong> at the beginning of class<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Create <strong>two (2) distinct\u00a0still images<\/strong> that attempt to capture one or more of the following:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A subtle political directive, but without any text.<\/li>\n<li>A profound, personally transformative, moment, the feeling\u00a0of this moment, the context of this moment, the space of this moment.<\/li>\n<li>A history, any history, anything that points to a momentous non-fictional moment\u00a0of time not linked to your personal experience.<\/li>\n<li>The effect of something, anything (and not\u00a0the thing itself.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>This is a technical <em>and<\/em> creative project. Handle your subject with maturity, insight, and subtlety.<\/p>\n<p>Concentrate on a particular compositional\u00a0strategy. Design the architecture of your two images with purpose. Create the kind of space that your ideas require. Place objects and choose colors with intent, not simply because &#8220;it feels right.&#8221; The more interesting projects, the <strong>best<\/strong> projects, will be those that take deliberation\u00a0to be fully comprehended.\u00a0(Look at paintings, drawings, photos that compel you. What&#8217;s happening compositionally, spatially, with color, line, weight?)<\/p>\n<p>For inspiration on compositional architecture (and how one might use it to embed meaning) watch some of\u00a0the animated &#8220;Art History&#8221; GIFs on this tumblr:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/arthistorygifs.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arthistorygifs.tumblr.com<\/a><br \/>\nYou can look at them non-animated, too. For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/gif-explode.com\/?explode=https:\/\/www.filepicker.io\/api\/file\/D6tPANWLQRWmteaNjD6n\">like this one here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Some Important\u00a0Rules<\/h3>\n<p>For this project, <strong>no human faces are\u00a0allowed.<\/strong> Bodies are fine, including heads, but\u00a0one should not be able to make out the features of\u00a0the face.<\/p>\n<p>Also,<strong> let&#8217;s forego text for now.<\/strong> For this project I want you to stay clear of text.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>NO Copyrighted material unless it has been mostly modified beyond recognition.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.75;\">The final result will be <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>two (2) separate image files<\/strong> <\/span>(either .jpg or .png) each being around <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>1280&#215;720<\/strong><\/span> in size.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROJECT 1 (still project) Due February 13th at the beginning of class &nbsp; Create two (2) distinct\u00a0still images that attempt to capture one or more of the following: A subtle political directive, but without any text. A profound, personally transformative, moment, the feeling\u00a0of this moment, the context of this moment, the space of this moment. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ciraldo.stream\/uwm-vfx1\/projects\/project-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Project 1 (Still Project)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1745,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1774","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciraldo.stream\/uwm-vfx1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciraldo.stream\/uwm-vfx1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciraldo.stream\/uwm-vfx1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciraldo.stream\/uwm-vfx1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciraldo.stream\/uwm-vfx1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ciraldo.stream\/uwm-vfx1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2345,"href":"https:\/\/ciraldo.stream\/uwm-vfx1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1774\/revisions\/2345"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciraldo.stream\/uwm-vfx1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciraldo.stream\/uwm-vfx1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}