Failure Blog

1.What was your biggest failure this semester?

I think my biggest failure this semester was with my map to class and video project. I don't believe the ideas I had in my head came out in these art forms the way I would have liked them to.

2.What did you learn from this failure? (This could be a technical issue or a conceptual issue)
I learned that not everything turns out the way you would like it to. Whether you have a technical issue or a conceptual issue an idea doesn't always look the same once you get it out as it did in your head.  With that being said every project I did in this class has been a learning tool for me.  The micro projects have helped teach me different way to execute ideas in different computer programs (such as Photoshop and Garage Band) and several other things.

     3.What was your biggest success this quarter?
     I think my biggest success this semester was my last micro project.  In the project I was assigned the verbs to split and to suspend.  At first this was a difficult project for me, I couldn't come up with anything. I think this was my biggest success because I worked on this project without any expectations and I ended up liking my final project.

     4.What did you learn from this success?
      This has taught me that sometimes going into things without expectations can leave you open to many possibilities.  Since things do look different on paper it is hard to make a project look exactly like it does in your head therefore there is more room for disappointment.

     5.If you could redo one project, what would you change and why?
     I would redo my map to class project or edit my video.  I would change one of these two because I was the least happy with them.  I don't think my final projects met my expectations. I would try to go into these projects open minded and see what I could do to make them better



 

Blog 10

Final Project Ideas

• Ohio State Michigan Game
• Mirror Lake- Video/Sound
• Richard Serra verb list
• Black Friday-Video/Sound
• Thanksgiving traditions

Mirco Project 5

My object was an old cord/cable. My two words were to split and to suspend.  I tried to use both of the words in my project.  I thought it wold be interesting to split open an old cord and see all the wires that it is made up of.  It is kinda of cool how complex this object is.  It was also cool to see the complexity behind an object that we don't really think much about and sometimes take advantage of.  A lot of the things we use everyday are powered by some sort of cord/cable
First I cut a piece off of the cord (surprisingly much harder than it looked).  Then I split open the cord, and continued to split what was inside until everything was spread apart.  Although I used a couple of tools to use this, a knife is what I used the most. Since a knife was my main tool, I tried to suspend a knife with the newly designed cord.