Monday, November 5, 2007

Finally the Final Project

I have finally finished my final project.
It toom a while to get everything together and I found myself adding more stuff everytime I edited the webpages. I think it's because I really enjoyed the concept behind my project. True, it is a little vague and my articulation skills are minimal, Postmodernism is a subject I do enjoy critiquing.
I attempted to put my half-failed preloader into the splashpage but that did not work out too well. At least I tried it...
I think there is a very cynical perspective of my artwork in this case. Although it is very unlike me, I did enjoy it immensely. It was inspired by the film Reality Bites (Ethan Hawke's caharcter Troy's cynicality) and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World which is the way this world is moving towards, I believe.
Because human mannerism and psychological behaviour is something which fascinates me I could not resist putting in my observations into the project (see Observation). Humans truly are fascinating...

My friends answered the questionnaires and found that a little part of themselves was in fact revealed throughout the process. Also, they realised that half of the things they do is for fun and for no real in depth purpose because, let's face it, life without fun is....pointless.

Preloader

Ok, so I thought I'd try and make my own preloader using one of the many web tutorials there are. Unfortunately, it did not work as well as I had expected. I thought these things were supposed to make life easy for us! Well, guess I was wrong on that one too!
When I tried to play it as a Movie Clip it didn't work. However, while in the TestMovie section and I selected "Simulate Download" and it worked! What the hell??!?!?!?!?!
I truly despise technology!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is unbelievably frustrating!!!!!

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Pointless Postmodernism

I have drawn a blank on the idea frontier. I have been sucked dry of all creative blood in my body and find myself to be a rotting corpse with flies buzzing around me whilst I sit at my computer writing this.
I have decided to stick with my box/questionnaire idea because it is simple, to-the-point, and low-budget.
It will be a critique about postmodernistic values: how we do everything to entertain ourselves, to stop ourselves from thinking and being bored. I guess you can say it was partly inspired by Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.
The idea behind this is the pointlessness of 30% of our acts. It will consist of the viewer/participant to fill out a questionnaire which they will then place into a box. I think that the questions will consist of silly things like: how tall are you? if you won a Panasonic LSD Plasma TV would you donate it to charity? Do you have a pet? Really 'blah' questions.

However, I'm not sure if anyone would actually do the project, so would there need to be an ulterior motive behind it, such as the possibility to win an X-Box or something? Would that grant the appeal? Would that attract more people? Would it add meaning to the project??

The setting would be simple also. A plastic box ideally in a professional space to add a 'win the draw' effect or a shoe box in a low-class/private space (because I don't have the money to buy a plastic box). The installation would be kept on display for a about a week, or until the box is full.
It is easy to move around and can be universal. The only true item which needs to remain the same are the questions.