Little Wed Widing Hood.

Narrative:

In terms of the entire story's narrative, this is the part where Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf meet, with the wolf posing as the grandma. It comes before the man arrives to kill the wolf.

The picture could be seen in different contexts if you don't know the story. Looking at the narrrative of the image on it's own, it is merely a wolf and a girl in bed. The size of the wolf in comparison to the girl and the accessories it is wearing could suggest that the girl is actually nursing the baby wolf. There is no indication that the wolf is there to do wrong, or that the girl has mistaken the creature for her grandmother.

Interactive Option 1:

It could be a still from an interactive game or web-based game. The user could be in the place of the girl and there could be a set of options determining the fate of both characters.

Suggested options are:

-Ask "the" questions, e.g. "What big eyes you have..."
-Get out of bed
-Attack the wolf
etc etc

From then, each option would have it's own conclusion, i.e. getting out of bed would lead to a chase or just an instant attack.

Interactive Option 2:

Again, taken from a still in an interactive game, the user chooses which questions the girl asks the wolf, with a certain path of questions which lead to keeping the wolf at bay before the hero arrives. The wrong choices could lead to the wolf preparing to eat Little Red Riding Hood.

Interactive Option 3:

A first person shooter based on the role of the hero, battling through the forest to save Little Red Riding Hood. Or an old-school NES-graphic platform game, with the same idea.

Keeping the metaphorical ball rolling

So I haven't posted in fifteen days.
Diddums.

Here's a brief synopsis of anything that has happened worth noting...

I handed my project in. I'm not very happy with the essay but I'd rather hand in drivel than get capped at zero. Then I've had a week off. Hoorah.

Saw Bill Bailey live.
Funny stuff.
Saw Biffy Clyro in London.
Sexy stuff.

Worked a bit, as you do.
Don't know how much longer I'll have my job at 1812. Everything that is done wrong, I instantly get blamed for. They're looking for an excuse to get rid of me, I'm sure.
It's not a nice feeling, really.

Went SUPER LAZY and got my Asda shopping delivered to me.
It's worth the £5 delivery. They organise it into bags and everything. All I have to do is open my door and there it is, ready to be hidden away. Sayphe.

Addicted to a PC game called Crysis.
I'm not a gamer at all, but I love this.
I think it's the graphics that are primarily sucking me in, and the fact my g.card can handle them.
That's about it, I'm bored.

-x-

Shicking Brits.

Hey so I thought I was in control and ahead of schedule.
I've done the images and the website, sweet as a nut.
I've now got a week and a bit to do an essay. I had longer, but kept putting it off.
And now I just don't know what to put in it.

I can write about my images, what everything stands for and how I made it, but as far as theoretical ideas go I'm stuffed.

Shick.

TYPEYTYPEY-TYPE-TYPE

Purrrfection

I read someone's blog post, where they were thinking about natural names used in technology, focussing on cars like the VW Beetle and Jaguars and whatnot.

What instantly clicked with me, was Mac operating systems, and their animal names.
So it made sense to make a little advert.

And here it is.

Thom.

HELLO WORLD.

These posts in quick succession are probably pissing you off if you're on the impserver and i'm hogging the page.
So, sorry, but I didn't want to thwack everything in one post.
(I also like the fact my firefox spellchecker hasn't underlined the word "thwack.")



My next image.
"Hello world."
A phat computer in the middle of a park.
With onlookers.

My friend said "that's a dope idea."
(That means it's a good idea.)
But I don't see why.
Pretty average I'd argue.

I guess it's kind of about the whole wireless revolution. And how, going to the park is no longer about looking at plants. It's about enjoying the outdoors but still using technology and all that. Kind of.
Maybe it also touches on the subject of man-made things being ugly and don't really blend i with nature.
I don't know. I haven't slept much and ideas are flying around all over the shop.

Th0mZh0r.

I Spot A Theme, Ladies and Gents.

Two posts earlier I spladged up my picture about deforestation.
I've made a new one to follow on from it.
Thus I've found a theme, but only for two images.
The other three are to be unrelated.
Here is the deforestation one, followed by the contrasting recycling/replantation image.

That Coastline Thing, But A Bit More.

I just took my One Day Project outcome and whacked an Aristotle quote on it.
How very arty.
How very BUFF.

Laterz.
Thom.

Cut Down Trees; It's A Laff.

Wha-hey, pretty much finished another image for the hand in.
*does a little dance*

So my idea was to be heavily influenced by some Radiohead artwork, and was going to be about logging. The technology coming from the logging equipment of course, and the nature being the logs. I didn't want it to look pretty, it's not about that, it's about alerting the audience to the damage being caused. So how about some good old fashioned blood. Emotive. Yes. And the red itself symbolises a lot.

Here's how it started:



Then I wanted to add more. Some tree stumps and whatnot. But everything I added didn't quite work and it just looked over crowded. So I set to work just emphasising what I'd already created. And ended up with this:



The finishing touches, which you can just see, are some flyers layered over the red splats. This is to symbolise that all this logging for paper, is rarely for a worthy cause. Those people who camp outside Uni all day flyering for the shittest clubs in Britain, provided me with the materials for that idea. So, thanks.

Yeah back to the grindstone for some more ideas.