"Imagine a sunny morning and you get up wanting to take a walk. Your walking down your neighborhood and the houses are small and the trees are big. As you keep walking you start to get closer to the forest. You walk into the forest and you come across a clearing. The clearing is and edge of a cliff. The view is nothing but mountains. As this story is fantasy, a giant white bird flies over to you and tells you to get on it's back. You hop onto the bird and fly over the mountain. The bird takes you to a cave. You get off and go into the cave. You then see a door with your name on it. Draw what you'd see inside."
When I first heard the story, it felt very eerie to me. Maybe it was Jimmy's tone or maybe the mystical feel the story had. I drew a dark room with a single light bulb hanging dead center of the ceiling. Right beneath the light bulb is a Television with a DVD player. Tons of DVDs are scattered along the floor. Each DVD has a different title. These DVDs are your memories starting from the beginning of your life, your future, your dreams. A room where you can reminisce, see the most vivid and meaningful dreams you've ever had or see what is in store for your future.
I think I thought of this because I'm fascinated with the idea that our subconscious has more knowledge than we can ever tap into. That we spend 1/3 of our lives dreaming. Or even though I hardly admit to this, I think the main reason I enjoy taking photographs is to remember the times I've had. I've spent a majority of my summer coming to that conclusion and sort of a thesis statement to my work. I strive to capture the ordinary to make it extraordinary. All with my inspiration for dream like fairy tales of life to the eerie-ness to my dreams.
I believe this exercise was for us to understand where our inspiration comes from. Whether it's from something you seen on your drive to school or something as cheesy as mine inspiration. I feel that if you pay close attention, you'll begin to see more ideas within yourself.
This exercise reminded me of an exercise I did back in high school english. My teacher had put on an instrumental song and told us to write what we thought what was going on in the song. No knowledge of why the song was written or who played it. It was merely the feelings we got from each song that helped us write what we thought what was going on in the song. I'n not quite sure why I remember this exercise so much but it stuck with me. It's these exercises that you get to do in class that can help you broaden your horizon for great ideas.
The second half of class we had went over our ideas for the previous assignment. Our assignment was to pick a magazine photo and come up with 10 different phrases for that one photo. Changing the meanings of the phrase gave the photo a different meaning each time.
It was a difficult assignment to me because I guess I'm not that good with putting words together in a clever way. Or maybe advertising just sucks, either way. But really, I give props to people who work in advertising because it is hard work.So far this class is helping me understand the amount of ideas we are capable of. I've also never had a class that had to work together a lot. It's refreshing from any other class I've taken at CSULA so far. I am enjoy this class, just ask me if I'm enjoying this class in a couple weeks of homework piled to my shoulders. We'll see.
- Leslie
[ P.S Just a little motivational poster ---> ]
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