Project 1a/1b/1c A Frog in hot water

Brief 1a Spot the Difference

The picture above is a representation of me before and after the change of sustainability as a designer. I have tried to represent myself as a multimedia designer and the impact it will have on me.

The image on the left side is me in today living like most individuals and recycling into a recycle bin like most people that are provided with recycle bins within a household. The imagery is presented normal with no filter or effects so that I look average and ordinary participating in a process that most of society does in today day and age.

The image on the right is a representation of me after what I think will change within my life as a sustainable designer. The most significant aspect in this image would be the pixilated filter that I have placed and the recycle bin which if you don’t recognize is the desktop icon recycle bin. The use of these aspect are a representation of me as a multimedia designer and that after the change I will be taking sustainability more in account within the design work I do.

Brief 1b Spot the Difference

1 > Lynda Carroll, Ferntree Gully

I love so many of the books on the list, but this struck a chord of bookworm childhood curled up on the lounge chair, biscuits at the ready, preparing for a poetry reading session with my grandfather: ‘Halt! Who goes there?’ ‘Twas Mulga Bill from Eaglehawk’, ‘I had written him a letter…”There was movement at the station’, ‘On the outer Barcoo’.

Banjo brought me a ‘vision splendid’, gave me a vivid imagination with his rhythm and images. My parents were forced to interrupt my ad infinitum recitals of ‘Clancy’ (alternating with Tennyson’s ‘Blackbird’!), and I knew that ‘Santa Claus had come to camp/without the countersign’! off by heart.

These gems linked me inextricably, a child of the 1970s, to a different time and so many rare places. And when my grandpa passed away in 1989, I had only to shut my eyes to hear his country school teacher’s voice lilting with ‘the sunlit plains extended/And at night the wondrous glory of the everlasting stars.’ Wherever I go, whatever I do, Banjo, through sunlight and star glow, is a vital part of my life.

The area was the key to this before and after analysis where I looked into account Ferntree Gully and what may happen in X years. At the moment the area is fairly limited to public transport so people are forced to drive to shopping centre. Lynda is standing at the bus stop waving at herself before the change.

2> Kevin Gillespie, Brisbane

This book is an excellent window on modern society. It brilliantly looks into the ever present weaknessess and foibles of our social structure. A structure that prides itself on being careing and humane. It mirrors our society. But the reflections are not sharp and bright – they are dimmed and clouded. The book dispalys how easily a society or family can or will, rebuke or refuse a person, regardless of closeness or relativity. The author displays a character who is different, a character who is somewhat disturbing in certain aspects. Outsie the Norm. But, the character is still a person. A person with hopes, dreams and aspirations. Some of which may be confusing to the character, but nevertheless, the aspirations are still evident. The one thing the character has to support herself is family and society – but she is rejected. She has suddenly become different. Almost an alien. She is a social embarresment to all concerned -no longer a normal citizen. To be different is risking being socially doomed. There are many messages in this book, all of them relevant and all of them founded in every day life and social acceptances or denials. I suppose, if I was aked to say what major point I gleened out of it from a humane and social viewpoint, I would have to say “Charity begins at home – unless of course it’s your home.”

Here I listened to the tone of voice through words used to describe the book about modern society. I felt that Kevin wasn’t happy about society and the way it function so I chose to do a simply before and after about the community he lived in now where everyone man was for himself and the after which demonstrated a closer more structured community (Cuban community), where they functioned as one.

3> Jennifer Costelloe, Melbourne

Why this book is special
This is a childrens/teen novel which I first read when I was about 11. I then went on to pick it up for a reread every year for 6 years. The despcriptions of Sydney at the turn of the century could be almost smelt through the pages, and I can’t go to the Rocks, even now, without imagining how the area looked at this time, still influenced by the imagines conjured by Ruth Park in this book.
It also had the tiniest hint of romance, which was the first book I’d read describing any awakening of feelings and caring in this way….which is probably another reason it stays in my memory. It is about growing up, and is a wonderful book for Aussie girls.

I based this representation of Jennifer on the area she lived (which I guessed would be somewhere within the Melbourne city) and also the tone/words used to explain the book description of evolution of Sydney’s landscape. I believe that this evidence was a representation of her personality and perception to live within a city. The image above is two different views from within a household looking outside. After the change Judy will live more nature and environment conscious life.

Just for the record I took these pictures.

Brief 1c Sustainable media networks