Image to upload later.
Lauren Jo: if you're able to upload the shot from the 2nd floor that'd be great!
This past week, I was exploring on different materials that people have used to create large "paintings" on the wall. Various results included push pins, chicken wire, various tapes, colored pencils (gluing together the actual pencils!), and post-it notes. Post-it notes seemed like a great idea, but I had wanted to make use of it as something more than just "cool."
I decided to then try replicate this very website. I realized that using a plethora of post-it notes would require a greatly sized canvas, so I purchased a large roll of poster paper, about 15"x30' - also so that it'd be portable to take to class. As the nature of any website, they are generally intended to be scrolled from up to down, not left right, so I took used a portrait orientation. The biggest struggle with this, however, was realizing that I really could only fit at most seven letters in one row.
This piece ended up being made of two parts: the top half which included the titles "Art 400: Humor in Art" and the links of the categories, with "discuss" highlighted since I was replicating that page. In the bottom half of the piece, I did not fill in any words but instead simply attached blank, long rows of post-it notes in place of post-it notes forming the shape of words. Doing this made use of the idea of a typical post-it note: to write on, to share ideas (with the original author or among others). This blog has the exact same intention, so why not put them together? A viewer would be able to then give the image shown (the horse) a title and its corresponding artist. Someone else can put in their name, email, website, and comment below, just like how one can on this site; as such, their blog "post" will then be "posted" on these "post"-it notes!
In an unorthodox way, multiple people can leave their info and comments in the same text area, but on different post-it notes; it is not limited to just one person writing their comments - unless someone decides to try use a letter per post-it for the sake of scale with the rest of the piece. That may be an interesting social experiment for Project 2.
Post by Kevin Hu
Lauren Jo: if you're able to upload the shot from the 2nd floor that'd be great!
This past week, I was exploring on different materials that people have used to create large "paintings" on the wall. Various results included push pins, chicken wire, various tapes, colored pencils (gluing together the actual pencils!), and post-it notes. Post-it notes seemed like a great idea, but I had wanted to make use of it as something more than just "cool."
I decided to then try replicate this very website. I realized that using a plethora of post-it notes would require a greatly sized canvas, so I purchased a large roll of poster paper, about 15"x30' - also so that it'd be portable to take to class. As the nature of any website, they are generally intended to be scrolled from up to down, not left right, so I took used a portrait orientation. The biggest struggle with this, however, was realizing that I really could only fit at most seven letters in one row.
This piece ended up being made of two parts: the top half which included the titles "Art 400: Humor in Art" and the links of the categories, with "discuss" highlighted since I was replicating that page. In the bottom half of the piece, I did not fill in any words but instead simply attached blank, long rows of post-it notes in place of post-it notes forming the shape of words. Doing this made use of the idea of a typical post-it note: to write on, to share ideas (with the original author or among others). This blog has the exact same intention, so why not put them together? A viewer would be able to then give the image shown (the horse) a title and its corresponding artist. Someone else can put in their name, email, website, and comment below, just like how one can on this site; as such, their blog "post" will then be "posted" on these "post"-it notes!
In an unorthodox way, multiple people can leave their info and comments in the same text area, but on different post-it notes; it is not limited to just one person writing their comments - unless someone decides to try use a letter per post-it for the sake of scale with the rest of the piece. That may be an interesting social experiment for Project 2.
Post by Kevin Hu