Intermediate studio - taxonomy - folksonomy

Ok the plan for this will be to create a taxonomy of my shoes... rather than creating a list/ mindmap of words I want to use the words to create an image of the shoe... to build up a picture... the words could be colored with a relevant shade e.g. party shoes (bright multicolor) beach sandals (yellow) bedtime slippers (pale pink/cream) outdoor shoes (dark blue) and so on...

folksonomy : this project will be to create little caricatures of my shoes - a bit like the Disney/Pixar movie Cars, where every car has a character based on the type of vehicle that it is... I can do this as a quick animation using photo images of the shoes and creating simple animation faces to go on the shoe and lip sync for them.

Taxonomy & folksonomy

Ok Taxonomy... to provide a classification using some form of arrangement or structure in words, list format, diagrams, images, art, photographs... etc

Hesse-Honegger created a taxonomy using her illustrations of bugs showing their mutations over time - creating a taxonomy of prototypes of future bugs/ nature.

Damien Hirst created his art using taxonomy by creating a gallery of shelves containing medicines and bottles / packages... all arranged and placed in order of some sort.

Folksonomy... is a social classification, classifications created by 'folk' e.g. tagging (images online)

Folksonomy is derived from the practice and method of collaboratively creating and maintaining tags to annotate and categorize content. :/ the term was coined by Thomas Vander Wal.

Examples of folksonomy: bookmarks (for web pages) tagging (photos-images) personal tagging of information and images usually shared and open to others... (the tagging is created by the consumer of the information).

Walker Evans (American social realist photographer)

Looking forward to getting back to Uni next week... thinking of movies and animations for inspiration and remembered an old favourite... Hayao Miyazaki's "Laputa: Castle in the sky". Great story telling and imaginary characters / worlds...

Skillset Animation

- a very useful website Ive been checking out. Impartial careers resources and advice, helping to keep the industry globally competitive with useful information on events and festivals, facts and figures... www.skillset.org/skillset/ the sector skills council for creative media! for example;

Animation companies currently provide employment for around 4,700 people throughout the UK, of whom nearly two fifths are freelance or on short term contracts, with almost 20% Sole Traders, or self-employed. The largest key occupational groups are draw/stop frame animation employing around 1,000 people, producing (910), computer generated animation (900), and production (430). In addition, a further 1,100 more people are employed in key animation roles in other audiovisual sectors.

39% of the animation workforce entered the audiovisual industry before 1990, 39% during the 1990s and 22% since 2000. Less than a quarter of the workforce had received structured careers advice at any point in their working life.

34% of the animation industry's workforce are women, slightly less than the norm for the audiovisual industries as a whole. At 3%, the representation of ethnic minorities is among the lowest amongst all sectors of the audio visual industry.

http://www.skillset.org/animation/overview/article_2967_1.asp

very useful :)

my little laughing spider animation!

Created this little laughing spider using pencil software, took about 30mins...

digital photo manipulation - fairy & bug

My second attempt at a photo manipulation image... not bad but not quite there!