I tend to forget about you....

OK well I'm over the moon I got into the discipline I wanted, which is ceramics!!

Week one: 

We received a brief last week which was based on problem based learning. This was the beginning on how to develop research and to develop ideas further. Our problem resolved around pot,vessel, object.  
The problem was: To explore  the breath of ceramics in 2012 as suggested by the term pot, vessel, object.
To explore this we were placed into groups of 4/5 and started brain storming as it is the most essential part of problem based learning.As a group Sam, Fiona, Muireann, Jack and myself had to solved the problem, firstly the problem was that there is not enough distinction between the solo sub headings in the field of ceramics. Meaning although there are differences between the words pot, vessel, and object. They are not fully understood!

We began to investigate this by brainstorming, we branched it off to the various sub headings in ceramics such as glazes, kilns, contemporary artists in fine art and design. Each of us undertook a separate area to research. This was meant to be team work and had to give a presentation on our findings on Friday... HOWEVER, team work was NOT carried out, 3 of our members including out chairperson decided not to arrive in, leaving me and our other member Fiona to pick up the pieces and pull the presentation off!!... not impressed atal...
Anyways fair play to me and Fiona we done pretty well and put alot into the project and organising anything that had to be done.

Week two: This week is the "Narrative Project",  after following the steps from last week, the first thing I done for this project was brainstorm the word "Narrative"...My mind map is very broad, so I'm finding it difficult to limit myself to the area I specifically would like to experiment in. So I'm taking 3 aspects of my mind map which are:
Poems , Stories, and a photograph, to make it easier I began to research into them all. My poems I have been looking are Daffodils by William Wordsworth and Travelling down memory lane by Ralph Acosta. For me, the poem Daffodils relates back to memories as a child and the daffodils act as stage through life too. Growth to widering, to death. The story I have been looking into is one as a child my uncle told this scary one about a rag doll, which her name was the Jilly doll, just as I'm writing this, I just discovered why I'm afraid of clowns...... sorry just I never knew when people asked and NOW I remembered... YAAAAAAH!!I think it was because of the story and when he used to tell it to me and my sis, I practically had it all imagined in my head with ragged clothes, evil face and of course... RED HAIR! O.M.G!!!... I can't exactly explain the story it is quiet long... so ya that's pretty much it, and the photograph? well that's another long story of my lovely childhood as a bold brat, regarding a clothes line and leaving someone holding on and taking the chair and running away and my excuse to that person the next day was " I could hear my mam calling me"...TOTES  haha. I'm not a lil angel atal tal you guys, ye don't even know me yet :) hehe...

Thats it for this week really just busy with the researching and have been looking at these artists:

                                                         Ferry Staverman

    


                                                          Andrea Dezsó 

      


                                                                 Su Blackwell

           

                                


Bye till another day!

Laurzee Porzee x

Ok, I can explain......

Hey, It;s been another long time since I have been on this... So where to begin?

I have started Viscom which is my last elective and I have been very busy these past two weeks. Well between doing work for graphics and been extremely busy outside of this! As you know I do voluntary work as a Beaver Leader every tuesday night here in my home town, and Paddies day isn't too far away. We are organising our own float for the Parade in Rathkeale. The children, the other Leaders and I have been busy planning this as well as starting to decorate! I also do a web designing course every Monday night for 3 hours, this is so we can begin setting up our own web sites to help promote what we do. We are in the process of getting our badge produced so I'll post when its complete, I can't wait to see how it turn out.

I'm a busy bee if I say so myself.

Anyways back to Viscom....
Yeahhh, era it's not too bad I don't mind doing my few bits for people, it's like painting. I love painting in my free time, and it's most definitely a hobby for me, well maybe both are!!I haven't really enjoyed these past two weeks as much as I thought I would!!
We had to chose a metaphor and mine was "A recipe For Disaster", and our first week was all about typography. We had to mind map and explore as many ways as possible by using fonts to portray this metaphor. Ill just put up some examples that I had experimented with.

 These will NOT be in order!!!

They are just a few to give you a brief idea!

For this week then we had to explore illustration without using type, however my metaphor was suitable to have some type in it! Again began my mind map and tumnail sketches.

 Mmmmm Magic Mushrooms !!

Ok I tired adding picures here, but of course this silly thing hardly ever works!!

Yeaaaaah it's great having younger Brothers sometimes!! My youngest sibling had great fun with me taking pictures of all his guns and soilders, so I was able to use them for my illustration.


 I was looking into replace the main ingredients you use in a recipe and replacing them with items or everyday things, which of course result into a disaster. I began experimenting with a young couple falling in love, getting married, buying a house, having a baby and of course resulting not hving time to clean the house or sleep.



Its taking quite awhile uploading images so I can't put them all up now, it will be tommorow sometime so not to worry! :).... anyways I'll finish off with the bread that just wouldn't go mouldy for me!!! so disappointed anyways I just used painting and a fine pen for my typography. Have a look and ill keep you posted.