Saw some work. Edited some words. Made some posters. Answered some questions. Moved everything along. Tried to avoid making monuments. Trying to let things be allowed to be finished even if not perfect so that you can do and finishRead more…
Penultimate Friday
essays
Introductory remarks about essays, films and stuff from Wednesday’s class:
Updates, Notes, Clips, Quotes
In the lab I showed the very opening of Chris Marker’s Sunless (Sans Soleil). Widely regarded as the masterpiece of essay films. What I showed was the film’s first minute: I emphasised how it discussed itself, solved its problems byRead more…
Week 10 Part 2
This is one of those posts and today was one of those studios where you can’t write it down to explain what we did or happened. That misses what we did, but also confuses the teaching and learning with aRead more…
Week 10
Summary read Corrigan apply edits and complete draft of script For this coming Friday apply the edits that have been suggested today, keep writing. Aim for 1500 words maximum. We are going to work intensively on the writing on FridayRead more…
Exhibition, Posters To Do
All semester one studios are exhibiting work on Thursday June 11. (This is also when the ballot for semester two studios is being conducted.) For the ontography studio I am trying to make a poster for the individual final projects.Read more…
9 Task List
The task list that today and this week revolves around: place a tick (or a cross, we’re pretty open about it) in what you ARE, CAN, or KNOW HOW to do. So what doesn’t have a tick are the thingsRead more…
Week 9
Class notes that began today: WHERE WE HAVE BEEN lists (of things, of questions and responses, of media) as a thinking and making in ways to recognise the interdependency, complexity, and nonhumanness of the world what is the difference betweenRead more…
Things to be Done
For (which means before) Wednesday’s studio: blog three quotes from the Bordwell/Thompson reading of parts that will help me do or think about my project outline of my presentation (written on paper or cards ready to do on Wednesday) haveRead more…