Introductieweek 2e jaars en deeltijd 1ejaars RO

Voor onze introductieweek van RO2 en RO1 deeltijd hebben we de opdracht gekregen om een constructie te bedenken die stevig genoeg is om iemand de ene kant van het meer bij school (lees: een oversteek van 15 tot 18 meter) naar de andere kant te brengen.

Van de constructies die we gisteren met rietjes hebben gemaakt in groepjes van 2, hebben we de beste 2 ontwerpen uiteindelijk gerealiseerd in het groot.


De stokken waarmee de constructie is gemaakt zijn 2,55 meter lang en worden bij elkaar gehouden dmv ogen die we als groep aan beide kanten van de houten paaltjes hebben in hebben bevestigt.


Het geheel bestaat uit zo'n 60 paaltjes, 120 ijzeren oogjes en nog een stuk of 5 D-ijzertjes.
Ik vond het een zeer inspirerende introductieweek, die goed duidelijk maakte dat je met een concept nog nieteens aan het begin van het uiteindelijke ontwerp staat.

Het in elkaar draaien van de oogjes op de punt van een driehoek...

Als de basis eenmaal gelegd is, gaat ons bouwwerk al snel de lucht in..



Vooraanzicht van de constructie terwijl m'n teamgenoten ploeteren om de langste zijde van een driehoek ertussen te krijgen. ...

Ons bouwwerk met rechts het bouwwerd van de tweede groep (grotendeels klasgenoten), welke dmv een cirkel naar de overkant willen komen.

Onderaanzicht..

De brug staat voor het eerst helemaal compleet rond het begin van de middag..



Er worden touwverbindingen aangebracht om de zwakke balken in de driehoeksvormen extra steun te geven. ..




Het eindresultaat met er voor het beginconcept, gemaakt van rietjes en paperclips....


Het bouwwerk gezien vanuit de eerste etage.

Environmental design: clothing and extensions

For our subject of friday, given by our teacher Wim Ewals, we've got to make some sort of extension of the body, which brodens the personal space we're all having .

We were also supposed to try to fit in this project with our own idea of what our final project is going to look like.

Mine is 'material/immaterial', and for Ewal's project Í've made some sort of 'breast-extension', in which it is possible to save your money.
In this way it 'll be a lot easier to save your money close to your heart. The shape of the extension also has a purpose: The need of having bigger breasts -especially when you already have some- also is a sign of materialism, simply because you just want 'more'.

Environmental design: Social space

For this period I've chosen to follow the course of '' ruimtelijk ontwerp'' (environmental design, a.k.a indoor architecture)I'm really curious of what this period might bring, but for the last two weeks all I can say is that I love the way the courses are brought!

It's all brought like a 8-lessons during course, in which is tried to make you being inspired and active as soon as you've got an assignment.

Last monday we've looked to a series of films, like Das leben der Anderen, some strange-looking Japanese film and Dogville (made by lars von trier, a member of dogma 95) Particularly the last one I found quite inspiring, so I've bought it myself a few days later. After looking some of the pieces of the films we were searching for the way 'personal space' was being handled.
We've also seen some inspiring pictures of performers and furniture which had somehow to do with personal space.

On wednesday we had a most bizar lesson: with groups of 6 people, we were supposed to write down as much words as we could inmagine with the following word-groups:
Public space: - context
- action

social space: - context

- action

personal space:- context

- action

This might sound a bit weary, but it's quite simple once you've got the hang of it. Context is nothing different than 'a possible place'. When we're talking about personal space, a possible personal context could be your bath-room, your toilet, etc.

An action in the personal space could be toothbrushing, toe-nailpicking, etc.

After having made a lot of long lists, we got our second task:

We had to place two words (gathered from two of the 6 produced lists) toghether. The main idea was to match for instance an action of the social space with the context of the public space.

Of the combinations we've got -of which most were utterly weird- we were make a fast sketch.

Some of the combinations were:

marry - skinny jeans

using your bank-card - church

getting lost - interior

With obtaining these combinations we are supposed to eventually make up our own investigation-questions wich will lead to our final 'work of art'.

This monday I've drawed my first male model, these are the results:

SERIAL IMAGES : POETRY

For the subject serial images we have to find a poem (gedicht) and express the emotions and thoughts of it via a series of images.
I've chosen a poem of anna Enquist, of which I've learned during my Literature lessons at my former school De Willem van Oranje.

Binnen

Straathoek waar zij niet staat,
fietser die haar rug leent, ademloze
stilte van haar telefoon. Zij verschijnt mij
in het missen. Zoeklichten
richt ik op de buitenkant.

Geef op. Laat gaan.

Binnen hangt zij met heel haar gewicht
in mijn voeten, klauwen haar vingers
om mijn slokdarm. Strak
achter mijn wangen spant
zij een breiwerkje van ijzerdraad.

Anna Enquist uit: De tussentijd,
De Arbeiderspers, 2004

This is an (not finished) piece of the movie I'm making. I'm trying to express tension, hopefully it's starting to work a little already.

Image and concept: third period, '' the tree tells''

For this period of image and concept we've had to look for a monumental tree, which would be our project for the coming weeks.

I've taken a lime tree (linde) which has been positioned at the 'Mookhoek' in front of the 'lindehoeve' for about 110 years. I've chosen this one after a brief email-conversation with Arie Pieters, head of the Fransicus excelscior - a tree-society which looks for monumental trees and documents them.

The lindehoeve in the old days...

I asked him if there were any monumental trees in the surroundings of my growing-up place which had the same interesting story as the cut-down tree to which he had named his society. He reffered to this tree in the mookhoek, which had been (almost) bombed by the people from Brabant trying to get away the last Germans. There used to be two of them, but because the second one had been harmed too badly during the war, it wasn't able to survive the horrible waterflood-disaster which occured in 1953.

During the last lessons I've investigated the historie of the tree by searching through the files of a museum in Heinenoord, a place close to the Mookhoek. Some things I've found seemed to be a little odd:
The last owner (mister De Lijster) said to me during a telephone conversation that his ancestors had build the Lindehoeve (the same time those two trees were build). Those trees are rated about 110 years old... but the house seems to be excisting since 1722 (and previous) and belonged to a certain Arie Stooker, NOT De Vos (which are the ancestors of De Lijster).

I didn't find anything that could show something like a burning down of the house, -which possibly should explain something- only that mr. Stooker had rented it to them.

In the telephonebooks of 1937 and 1950 I've found the former telephone numbers of the family De vos:
1937

1950

I've also found a picture made at the lindehoeve's land. The text below says the worksman still used to get their harvest by hand.

So my visit to the museum of Heinoord seemed to have payed out well! I've found a new question to ask in my upcoming interview with mr De Lijster (about the 'building of'; ) and I've discovered those interesting phonebooks. Next to that I've found a paraview of Strijen during WOII with the batteries of the Germans on it and some information about the family-tree of De lijsters.

picture-course

Image and concept: The last check-up

Image and concept -final mark: 8

For image and concept I've made a start with the end of my project: A room full of price-tags, to highlight the fact that the room of my excange-classmate is full of things that are second-handed. Finding those cards for free has turned out to be harder than I firstly imagined, so I haven't been able to actually start getting them into a space.




........Room made with photoshop....





For the last lesson I did make a series of photographs, though, to orientate myself on the possible outcomes of the square figures the room will be filled with...

I've worked at a miniature of the room of jessie, made of paper. I've taken a needle to sew the little tags onto the walls and cut out a hole for the window. After this I 've made pictures of the 'little complex' and I've made a small video.

















The weeks before that I've made a maquette of my own room, which I've fotographed in such a way that it seems to be my room aswell, due to the view through the windows:











I've used the same maquette to made a small movie in which my room flips over to the maquette, trying to show the similarities. (watch the movie below)

Minutenwals met een zoete nasmaak -Serieel

SERIAL IMAGING

This is a movie I've made in reaction to the last posted one. This time I've chosen to use chewing gum, while it's got the same high daily-use factor as the last used material. It showed to be a much more usefull material to work with. If I keep out the moments the gum sticked to my fingers so I couldn't work with it -after a while I discovered the handyness of bloom to un-stick everything- I would say it's véry nice.

I'm content about this work, though I thought my hagelslagwals to be nicer.




This one wasn't right, for it wasn't too odd to see the doll got bigger when eating hagelslag, and because I should have done more with the material. I wasn't supposed to put myself down with this failure, so I 've made another movie, in which the irony and contrast were more obvious to see. It shows a chewinggum-like matroeschjka, which dances on the beats of sammy davis jr's '' the candyman''.
the fantasyworld of a child, full of pinkish sweets has thereby turned into the fantasyworld of an adult (fe)male.

PREVIEW HAGELSLAGDANS

Serieel beeld - Final mark: 8

This is a movie I've made out of 'hagelslag', a chocolate substance normally used on bread. I tried to make a contradiction by using the plainness of something like 'hagelslag' to produce something sophisticated like a ballet. I chose 'swan lake ' composed by tschaikovsky, while I think it's a number which has something dramatic in it which can be used in order to get the right mood into the movie. In t his 24 seconds I 've made a series of nothing less than 185 pictures, created with a screen capturer when viewed from my videocamera.
I used this technique while I don't have a photocamera and the pictures I'm able to make with my current videocamera aren't too well.

Next to this I'm working on a combination of icecream and some sort of glycerine which is made blue. The frames shot with those will be used in my one-minute movie aswell.

Movie 1


Movie 2:
I've made a movie excisting of hubba-bubba (bubblelicious), showing a pole-dancer on the tunes of 'Who can make the sun rise' made by sammy rj. (yes, the one on the original charly and the chocolate factory! :D ) I wanted to show the contrast between an adult wonderworld and one of an enfant.

ACADEMIERAADVERKIEZINGEN

Beste schoolgenoten,

Zoals jullie misschien al op het informatiebord hebben zien staan vinden aanstaande woensdag, donderdag en vrijdag de verkiezingen voor de academieraad plaats. De functie die je als lid van deze raad bekleedt is zeer divers, en mede omdat je als deelnemer daadwerkelijk invloed kunt uitoefenen op de gang van zaken op st. Joost heb ik me een paar weken geleden kandidaat gesteld.

Als lid van de academieraad is het mogelijk om:
….invloed uitoefenen op de directie op het moment dat deze beslissingen wil nemen die niet
overeenkomen met de behoeftes van de rest van de school.
….als spreekbuis te dienen voor je medescholieren en er zo voor te zorgen dat de ideeën die
rondzweven onder je studiegenoten niet alleen onder je studiegenoten blijven maar ook daar
terechtkomen waar er iets verandert kan worden. (de directie)
….(enige) invloed op de medezeggenschapsraad van de Avans hogeschool uit te oefenen, welke
besluiten maakt die de directie van het st. Joost moet uitvoeren.

Zoals vermeld heb ik me dus opgegeven om een verschil te kunnen maken op school, met het oog op bepaalde onhandigheden. Neem bijvoorbeeld de schoolbus die alleen voor tienen en ná tweeën bij de Loevesteinstraat stopt, omdat deze in de tussentijd moet invallen voor bus 8: voor de leerlingen van de NHTV heeft de hogeschool een extra bus geregeld, desondanks het feit er in de ochtend iedere 10 minuten een bus aankomt op de plaats van bestemming. Deze bus wordt gefinancieerd door de school zelf, dus waarom zou er ook niet zoiets voor onze school gedaan zou kunnen worden? We zijn niet bepaald één van de grootste vestigingen van Avans, maar er moet toch wel een mouw kunnen worden gepast aan de ellenlange afstanden die je als student moet lopen om bij je school te komen op het moment dat bus 11 niet rijdt?
Deze kwestie en al die andere zaakjes die onze tijd op school een stuk praktischer zouden kunnen maken (al is het alleen maar de mogelijkheid tot pinnen in de kantine, of de aanschaf van een pinmachine) zou ik graag willen aankaarten tijdens de vergaderingen van de academieraad.
Ik hoop dat ik jullie met deze mail wat meer te weten heb laten komen over de verkiezingen en zou erg blij zijn te horen dat ik jullie steun heb gekregen tijdens de Academieraadverkiezingen. Vragen staat vrij, dus als er onduidelijkheden zijn hoor ik het graag!

Groetjes,

Felice Bok

3d Beeldonderzoek (3d-object investigation)

3D beeldonderzoek Mark: 7

The images below are made with co-oporation of my sweet rabbit, which -after being stroked for a considerable while- wasn't too bothered by having to bear one of my self-made creations on its head.

Pictures of the final result (below) show the final looks of my work, and magnifies some of their parts.

Earlier investigation...

For 3d-beeldonderzoek (3D-objectinvestigation) we've got the assignment to take along a device which was consisting of a number of parts, which could be used later on. I took along a monitor of an old computer, because it seemed quite usefull to me at the moment. It was a huge black one -kind of heavy aswell, I must say-, and after the first lesson I decided to go on with it.

Firstly, we made some pictures of our subject from more than one angle. I tried to make sure the details were also captured, for you'll never know when to use them.
After taking my pictures I started to open the monitor, which didn't go too well. A lot of screws seemed almost molded into the plastic, so I needed some help of one of my classmates (Bow).

After opening my device I made some pictures aswell:

I found the results to be very interesting. The little battery-like parts on the motherboard (?) altogether looked a bit like a little new york, and the cooling system (shaped like a cd-holder) had the appearance of a tiny flat! I'm thinking of doing something with that, though I'm not already certain of what that 'll be.

Our teacher gave us the assignment to place the object in it's time with photoshop. I wasn't too excited about that part because my monitor was made in 1997, which isn't a véry exciting time.

My roommate (which is in the same class aswell) also had a monitor, which happened to be also from the year 1997. She chose the 'gabbers' ( a dutch subculture which listened to some sort of dance-music and shaved their heads bold) as her subject.
The only other subculture that rested for me to choose was the gothic culture, which found it's revival in the mid-ninety's. I started to look for pictures and information about the revival, music and all related things.

This is the result of my attempt to place my object in it's time:


I think the result isn't quite what I hoped for to achieve, but that's mostly due to my troubles in making a photoshop image. I hope to make a better resulte once I'm more known with the programme.