Day 2

Posted by Lindsay , Wednesday, March 30, 2011 11:09 PM

Today began a little bit differently than Monday. I got to school at 6:30, and was the first person in class. When everyone else started showing up, including Jimmy, we switched classrooms. He pointed out that the new classroom gave a new perspective on things, and changed up the daily routine. I personally do not think that it makes too much of a difference, when we still will learn the same things no matter what the setting is. We began the class by Rudy talking about child templates. I did not know about them, and had no clue what they are. I still am a little fuzzy on the whole idea of them. I did learn more about web servers, ip addresses, templates and CMS.


After a long discussion about these different terms, and there relation to the blogs we have all started, we began discussing the process of coming up with ideas and concepts. This involves methodology (methodology being the study or description of methods). Jimmy gave an example using Fed Ex, and how they use certain methods in the way they deliver parcels. If a person knows their methodology, they can fix their problems better. On a side note, a great point that was brought up is that design is when art meets industry. I have heard it before, and I think it is a wonderful description of design.

A class activity that we did today, was organizing ourselves by our first names alphabetically. It helped to demonstrate that when given a problem, there is a process, and a solution. We organized ourselves rather slowly, but we got it done. An activity that we did after this one, was the "what if" exercise. We had to make different "what if" statements, and it was enjoyable. The point of it was to show that innovation does not occur from the same daily ideas and tasks. People should dream big, and think positively about their ideas. One point that was brought up was that the entertainment industry is all about "what ifs."

After the "what ifs," we had a long discussion about time, after time travel was brought up. It was pointed out that time is a construction we agree upon. Time does not have to be linear, but time is a solution to a problem that humans had. We ended the class after showing a few different pictures, and having Jimmy explain to us the difference between thinking and actually seeing. In the first picture, of 3 people, I thought that there were actually 4 people. In reality, it was just the weird angle I was seeing it from, and part of the persons coat appeared to be another, shorter person. The other pictures portrayed different emotions, and they showed how artists get people to think different things by what they are showing. I agree that it is a useful skill to learn. All in all, it was a pretty interesting class.




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Day 1

Posted by Lindsay 6:25 PM

This is my orange for the quarter

The end of spring break has brought the start of a new quarter. My first class of the quarter was concept development, at 8:00am. I got there on time, and our new professor, Jimmy Moss, was already there. He was very bright and energetic for it being so early. We had a discussion about being late, after a few people walked into class after it had started. We were given a notecard, and asked to write down what we thought we would learn in the class, and what concept development is all about. I thought that the class would be about further developing ideas and concepts so that they would be complete and developed final products. The class is about this, but it also goes into detail on the process and conception involved in it.

Jimmy then went on to explain that the class would use a lot of critical thinking, and experiential learning (learning by experience). I prefer experiential learning to most other kinds, because I learn more when I am actually doing something, rather than reading about it. He also talked about the development of the concept of the cell phone, and how it has progressed. It all started with the idea of communication, and was developed continually until it has become what it is today. It helped me understand the idea of concept development better.

About halfway through the class, we were given mandarin oranges to do an exercise on description and perception with. I described mine in detail, and got all of them except for the most basic detail; the size. I am not sure how I forgot that, but it seemed more important to me to get all of the other details than that one. Afterwards, we switched oranges, and I was given one to take home. I have to render five days a week. The new one I received definetly has more character than the other one, containing green instead of being all orange. I think that this class will definitely help me grow as an artist, as developing concepts for projects is one of the main parts in coming up with projects. The class will likely be a lot of work, but in the end, it will be worth it.

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