Pass 4- Ideas

23Jul07

 
    To take my project to the next step of interactivity, I want to use place and objects to add to the story. I used a box that is shaped like a book and hollow inside. I used that object to put my project in. I sectioned up the story into the vignettes and burned [...]

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Skin

07Jun07

I am currently doing research on surfaces- specifically skin, and all the symbolic, imaginary, and real relationships with skin. I will eventually be writing something, but for now, reading a lot. I just came across this and found it very exciting: “In the development of the embryo in vertebrates, the ectoderm gives rise to [...]

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The Internet

12May07

Read this amazing rhetorical analysis of language and Internet pictures/comics. I was thinking last night about how jokes and comics are essentially miniature narrative–complete, compact. Jokes have every component of narrative packed into as few words or images as possible. I find that I am always fascinated by how language gets used and how language [...]

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Define:

11May07

Caput Mortuum is a Latin term meaning ‘death’s head’. In alchemy, it signified a useless substance left over from a chemical operation such as sublimation. Alchemists represented this residue with a stylized human skull, a literal death’s head. In its current limited usage, the caput mortuum represents decline and entropy.
Caput mortuum (also spelled caput mortum [...]

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