changes in the final project

Hello, today is the final exhibition and I realized I completely changed the layout of my work as I started doing it.....It is now a piece with 5 eyes, eah eye has a symbol in the middle to explain a particularity of my interface....
The multiplication sign signifies its ability to be used by many users at the same time.
The health sign is because the glasses actually care about your eye sight and adapts the image distance according to your position from the screen.
The recycle sign is to indicate that the glasses can be used on any tv, at any random location; and since your own vision glasses can be adapted to the tv, you dont have to create a new pair.
The hammer and wrench means that the glasses are customizable, you can make them your own by changing the color and the look.
The sharp sign (#) is a play on words, it symbolizes the sharpeness of the image of my new tv.
I actually hate TVs....I dont understant how I got carried away in this project. I never watch TV and therefore wanted to give this gory look on my final piece by adding a lot of red....Since I focused on the eyeball rather than the eye, I thought that I would make this little strings attached to the eyeball that would kind of look like nervs..... So this throws off the color study I had in mind and directs it to a red dominant field....
Here is a picture of the finished piece.

Sketches of Final Project

Please find here the following sketches of my piece, and my project proposal as well as the MAC report on influences here.

Emotions with colors

This week's assignment was to create 3 compositions per feeling (Anger, happiness, hunger, and melancholy); One main composition and two others that we feel are weaker.
ANGER:
I feel that the first picture represents the emotion of anger better because of its shape and the color combination of the two different reds, unlike the second one which has movement but contrasts red and orange, or the third one, which focuses more on the overall shape composition than colors.







































HAPPYNESS:
Here again I like the one that is not focused on the shape of the composition (the second one).
I found the third one interesting because of both the color combination and shape.







































HUNGER;
I thought this one was the hardest to achieve. Only combinations of shapes and colors came to mind, shapes that sugested food. The first one is my favorite, because it looks like your tongue dreaming. The second one reminds me of two teeths about to bite something, and the third one looks like a mcdonalds ad, it has the same colors....


































MELANCHOLY:
I used faded colors and some shape compositions for these works. When I think of melancholy I think of something decaying, dying, falling...This is why you can find in these works a movement from left to right or up to down by either a change from big to small strips, or arrows pointing down....

les degradés de peinture

voici des exemples d'exercices ce que l'on a fait en classe cette semaine.
des degradés de peinture au pinceau...

For the graded homework

I was not in class last week so I did the homework based on the info posted on the class website and I understood/guessed from them....
Here is my Book/poster:

VISUAL PUNCTUATION

This week's homework was a little different from the previous ones....We had to come up with most of the elements that would compose the work, this includes the medium used, the subject and he materials... The only condition was that we had to follow the example given in class.
In class, we did exercices with tape which had to visually represent words. The two following pictures are based on the word pause:


This composition is representing the word SYNC (synchronization):














For the homework, I had trouble finding an appropriate word, which would be original and challenging at the same time. I choose the word INEVITABLE, which I thought could only be represented by a fast moving object that could not be stopped or deviated...When I hear that word, inevitable, I feel it has a negative connotation, so I decided to make the object aggressive and mean. I did not do this composition with tape, but with simple markers and pencils. Which is what I like to work with best.
Here is INEVITABLE:

Imaginary interface

The interface I imagined is a mix of a current technology, a little imagination and movie references. I designed a new tv based on the transparent screen seen in "Minority Report". I thought that imagining a 3d tv would not be original, as we have all imagined and dreamt about it....I thought of a more possible near technology.
Have you ever been in a room with somebody watching tv and you both want to watch different shows? well my "glass poster" is the solution. It is a flat screen tv with incorporated speakers on the side when you and your friend agree on the program to be seen. But when you disagree on the program choice, one of you can put on a high tech pari of glasse s, with transparent lenses. These glasses actually display a different image when facing the screen. Images don't overlay since the images that the person are watcing with the glasses only appear in the glasses. It is just using the same system, kind of like a computer loading and browsing different webpages using just one ressource. Using a system of packet switching between the glasses and the screen system, up to 6 pairs of glasses can watch a program simultanously. I don't believe more is necessary, when was the last time seven of you were in a room watching tv and wanted to watch different programs..... If for example 15 people want to watch a soccer game, and that 6 others want to watch different movies, then the 15 persons can watch the game without glasses on the actual screen and the 6 others can watch that same screen with their glasses.......
Each pair of glasses have retractable mini speakers/headphones, which will allow its users to listen to their program peacefully...there is no need to tell you that my glasses will be equipped with the best sound available. If a sports fan wanted to follow to games at the same time, he will be able to watch one with his glasses, and then retract one or wo headphones to listent o the other game being played on the physical screen.
You can buy different models of tv, with 3, 4, 5, or 6 glasses captors. But all system will come up with one remote for the main screen which can store around 500 movies, or 100000 songs (~342 gb). The remote will work on other tvs of the same model so that you can bring your media collection to your friends house easily.
Here are some pictures to help you visualize the interface: