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FOUND IT!

As for the videos that were posted:
Sound when watching them with the sound off i tended to not pay as much attention (like in the first one that is in a different language) but what i did really like in this video was the transitions.  In these days with movies an films having so much action going form just seeing words on a screen is not very exciting and doesn't keep peoples attention( or maybe just my very short add attention span) i relate this to when the sound is on i feel attached like i am moving with the words it is a different sensory experience.  However there is a big difference when the sound is just music  vs the words being read out loud. In the third set of videos  the Janus commercials use this technique and it really helps convincing the consumer to believe in it, the mans voice is also a part of this.  
Transitions i fell very in love with tragic peaceful death one, with and without sound.  The continuos line felt like music guiding me through the words and message. The transition in this one is different, in fact there weren't any but you always felt like you were moving that something was forming and since it gave you the sense you were moving backward the that the words are coming from behind you, i didn't know what to expect.  Then the line ended and all there was was chaos, serene chaos and i loved it.  Creating depth  with the type is very engaging like in the electronic music is happening. 
Type and Images i really like the ones that use type as image, there is some of it in the tragic peaceful death one but it can really be seen in the  one typolution example.  There is no words in the music complimenting the simplicity of the black and white color palette. There is a lot of personality to it though which  is supported by the green message it is visualizing.   Just talking about type now Hitlers speech example there is a lot of type on the screen at one time almost the whole way through, this is something i didn't like it was distracting me from what the words were doing although i did think they did a good job of showing static.  A good example of type and image working together is the Muhammad Ali quote, "you must be the change you wish to see"  it was short but alive 

I seemed to become attached to the ones that were slower and felt like i was supposed to be reading and paying attention to the words like in the universal declaration of rights. example, no words in the music, just using basic scale changes, rotations and a few icons to help get the point across. 

I can't figure out how to embed a video for some reason so here are some more links
I really like the ">transitions in this one especially how engaging they are making my eyes move around the screen and the change in typefaces makes a for a more interesting scene.  The music is creepy though. 
Ah Sesame Street.  I know we can do way better then these but the simplicity of them makes a lot of sense and they are putting in a lot of effort to create a variety in changing the words before "ake".  Here is another example i like when they turn the pages and the "r" changes colors, not a bad idea.  A more animated approach.
This one has some really nice transitions, the ones in the beginning where they split in half are pretty interesting.
Some actual after effects type animation, this makes me excited to learn how to  use the program.  Depth and variety can be seen in this, there seems to be alot of layers.  The type doens't have as much animation 

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you know how it says it is automatically saving posts, can i go back and see those.  Something was wrong with my HTML then my window closed, now i have lost all my stuff.

The Finale

Concept Statement: 

1. an all encompassing, fully enveloping, completely overwhelming

2. "Passion is a positive obsession. Obsession is a negative passion: Passion gets you through a hard time obsession is the milk that soaks your cereal soggy. Passion is fuel for your car obsession is fuel for addiction. 

To suggest:

-the void only found inside a prison cell

-the feeling of attachment as soon as you see a puppy

-the need to help, like the children in Africa commercials

-the  mysteriousness of an empty spooky town

quick links to speeches i found

I listened to some speeches on the server none really grabbed my attention. So i started looking for my own

Steve Jobs and text

This speech has some very interesting parts in it that could create a good visual.  In his first story he sums up and gives a lesson about it.

"Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."  

The dots reference good visuals and i think what he is saying is strong.  I believe int he words which i think will help when creating the visual for it. 

Another good part of this speech is:

I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

This section is about his being fired from a company he started.  His emotions in this paragraph go from excited from the start of the company to the end when he is completely devastated.

There are two other sections i think would be good for this assignment.  I wont post them though. but they are the last section when he is talking about not settling.  The second is When he talks about death there are many parts i like in it it would be hard to pick 20 seconds worth especially because he talks slow.

I am sure you have heard this one.  The Sunscreen song, which was not actually a song to begin with but an article.  The words are so true i love this song.  It would be very hard to pick a certain part of this song/speech.  I probably can't do it but i am defiantly going to try. 

Here is one by cartoonist Bill Watterson. I haven't been able to find it so i can here it but i have the full transcript. Maybe i can do it how i would read the words. This is the section i like.

We're not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand ourselves. Our idea of relaxing is all too often to plop down in front of the television set and let its pandering idiocy liquefy our brains. Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery-it recharges by running.
You may be surprised to find how quickly daily routine and the demands of "just getting by: absorb your waking hours. You may be surprised to find how quickly you start to see your politics and religion become matters of habit rather than thought and inquiry. You may be surprised to find how quickly you start to see your life in terms of other people's expectations rather than issues. You may be surprised to find out how quickly reading a good book sounds like a luxury.

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Post Secret

One of the things i love to do when i am board is look at postsecret.com.  There is something  about the way people decide to make their postcards.  The look they have to them and this video particularly  has a nice sketchy alive affect. 

You have been warned

There is explicit material in this one but it is very funny, it is from Donnie Darko and i think it is a very good example of  illustrating different people talking. 

Such a good scene from Good Will Hunting, but in type.  This one is a little bit confusing it is a little more dependent on the sound. 

This is probably a bit more what we are supposed to do.

Trollback

-Lets just say he is amazing.  His imagination runs wild connecting separate pieces and connecting them.  Even the intro to the three of these videos, which i assume he had some part in, just makes so much sense.

-to find inspiration look elsewhere, probably not design books 

-when putting things in motion, the gestalt principals are a good place to start it seems with tension,closure, pattern just to name a few

-At the beginning of part three he talks about how they don't do interactive things, a sad thing to think about i wonder what kind of cool interactive things he could think of.  

-How to get a person from one point to other, Designers are story teller's.  how to get good at this is of course practice; write a short story or music. I really don't like thinking about this because i hate writing but i am learning that writing is a skill i must get better at and can't ignore any longer.

Flight of Knowledge

  I thought this was a really good use of type as image

I found this web page designed very well the images and organization are classy and intriguing.

As i was looking for different ways to design my process book here are some interesting things i found.

This site is very typical of translating type to image 

This site is a business week article about Apple's design process. Pretty interesting and similar in a more dedicated manor to our process in coming up with a design.  One of the things i really liked seeing is there 10 to 3 to 1.  Coming up with 10 developed ideas the 3 refining them almost all the way through then narrowing that down to one which they take all the way.  

Last but not least is a site with the some of the best online portfolios my favorite was Chuck Anderson's No Pattern .  i like his logo and the stuff he does it definitely has a style to it and his t-shirts are something i really liked.

Journal 2

I loved reading An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth by Bruce Mau.  I am choosing to discuss 

PROCESS IS MORE IMPORTANT THEN OUTCOME

When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we've already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we’re going, but we will know we want to be there.  

Bruce is a designer who is creating the world he wants to live in embracing both good and bad things as an experience.  This relates to the Mantra i have chosen which is something i truly believe in.  Sometimes as designers i feel we are majoring in ideas creating things/objects/inventions/thoughts/ides as if there was no ceiling, that pushing something over the edge is not possible.  Other areas of study also seem to believe that in the process is where we find the answer . The Process Work Institute devotes it time to "research and training in process-orientated psychology" They study the fundamental problems of today to help individuals and groups to  "discover themselves, and to discover the meaning and creative insights within the conflicts they face."  They do this through classes and Training some of the concentrations mention are Movement, creativity and dreams, Addiction, and Body work just to name a few.

Some ideas of his that are good examples from Bruce Mau's Site of concept statements i fell as well as good statements to make.

-enlighten the audience. Instantly. Instructively.

-Integrated systems: When everything is connected to everything else, for better or worse, everything matters.

-Manufactured Housing: In one century the world population has gone from one to six billion, while life expectancy has doubled. The problems we share are plural. Architectural practice and education, however, are still locked to the idea of the singular.

-You can’t design love, but you can love design

revisions

1. an all encompassing, fully enveloping, completly overwhelming obsession.

2. "Passion is a positive obsession. Obsession is a negative passion" Passion gets you through a hard time obsession is the milk that soaks your ceral soggy. Passion is fuel for your car Obsession is fuel for addiction.

revised audience persona.JAy Foster i a 65-year old man, a successful psychologist he has owned his own practice for over 30 years now. He works with all types of patients under 30 and thier families. He drives a black convertible. His home life is simple he has three kids all of whom live in the same state but no in the same town, they all have families of thier own and visit often.  His wife Jane is retired and volunteers in town at the local schools helping to tutor and work on homework with them.  Jay's office looks more like a living room then and office.  The walls are faded orange.  The set up is a couple of fabric couches arranged around a knee high table.  Around his office you can see a lot of homemade crafts, artwork, and ceramic sculptures.  His desk is a deep mahogany medium sized set in the corner, it doesn't intrude of the patients personal space.  There is a full wall of books from Dr. Suess to the medical works of his colleagues. 

revised to suggest:

-the void only found inside a prison cell

-the feeling of attachment as soon as you see a pulpy

-the need to help, like the children of Africa commercials

-the mysteriousness of an empty spooky town.

concept development

Audience Persona:  Crystal Power is a typical shy 17-year-old girl going to medium sized highschool in a graduating class of around 200.  She is normal sized and kind of plain with thin straight hair.  She is not active in the school. The town she lives in is a wealthy suburb. Crystal’s family is on the lower end of the income, which puts her in the minority.  The clothes she wears are not name brand or if they are she got them on sale with money she has saved from the job she has working at a local popular coffee shop so she sees all the popular girls.  The popular girls who dress there stick thin bodies in the name brand clothing and are always with their boyfriends. Crystal doesn’t hate herself, doesn’t think she is not pretty but she can’t help but wonders why she doesn’t have a boyfriend and wants to make herself better. 

 

Audience Persona:  Lynn Work grew up in a “perfect situation” her family didn’t have income problems she had a large group of friends and a younger brother.  She graduated high school with flying colors and went to collage at the University of Massachusetts with a degree in business and is now a stay at home wife.  Her husband Mark works a 9-5 job and is off on the weekends. She is now 45 with 3 children the oldest her son Andrew is in college, her middle child is a girl named Amy who is currently a senior in high school and the youngest Julie is a freshman.  Lynn worries about Julie.  She knows Julie has a lot of friends in school and they have given her anything she could have wanted but she thinks Julie is going through some teenage issues with her body image. 

 

Audience Persona:  Jay Foster is a 65-year-old man, a successful psychologist with his own practice. He works with all types of patients most of his clients are under 30. He drives a black convertible and his office looks more like a living room.  With couches a small desk made of mahogany, and an entire wall devoted to books.  He has vases with flowers in them, there are handmade items all around art work, ceramic sculptures, the walls are a faded orange. 

 

Concept statement: Feeling miserable?  Know that you are not alone and there are people who have gone through the same thing.  Put a smile back on your face and fill the void inside you.

 

Concept statement: Disorders are not meant to be dealt with on your own.  There are people who have gone through what you are going through and people who are willing to help.

 

Concept Statemnt:  Are you curious as to why people hurt themselves or others?  Curiosity kills cats do not try to figure it out by experimentation.  There are personal accounts of people willing to share there gut wrenching stories of how they spend there days trying to only eat 200 calories a day or throwing up.  How they spend their days drinking alcohol sniffing, snorting, injecting drugs into their bodies just so they can feel good they go up so high they don’t want to come down only to come down and feel like death is living inside of them.  Children who have bruises not from falling but because someone has hit them so hard they have broken bones, teeth and pride.

 

Concept Statement: “The life of the Addict is always the same. There is no excitement, no glamour, no fun. There are no good times, there is no joy, there is no happiness. There is no future and no escape. There is only an obsession. An all-encompassing, fully enveloping, completely overwhelming obsession. To make light of it, brag about it, or revel in the mock glory of it is not in any way, shape or form related to its truth, and that is all that matters, the truth.” 

 

Concept Statement: “Passion is a positive obsession. Obsession is a negative passion” Habits can turn into passion, which in turn can turn into disorders and or abuse to yourself or other persons. Passion is the milk that soaks your cereal.  The fire that burns a house down.  The last cookie in the package.