Constructed Reality Project

Big Busines and the Middle Class

Nostalgia 1

Nostalgia 2

It was a little dificult to get ideas going for this project. The creative process took longer than I would've liked. After I got through that the project went much more smoothly. I did not construct any setups, or use lighting set ups. I simply used props. I feel the project went very well.
I do wish that I had realized that someone had accidentaly photobombed the only usable shot of the second to last sceen, and that I put more emphasis on the toys in the last series.

Photographer Research Assingment-Sandy Skoglund

Biography;Born September 11 1946 in the New England region. Studied studio art and art history Smith College in Northampton. Earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from University of Iowa in 1972. Started to teach herself photography to document her artistic endavors. Eventualy she began creating photos as art.

Signifigance; Her photos are trademarked by containing an overwhelming pattern of a single type of subject, often a houshold pet. This subject pattern is trademarked by being in a color which sharply contrast a dull background. Here most famous photos are Radioactive Cats"and"Revenge of the Goldfish".

Concept; I believe thgese photos are speaking out against keeping pets. In both caces we see a common household pet takeing over a human home. The people being in dim colors and the pets being more vibrant helps support this.

I like her use of contrast to create both emphasis and movement.

Radioactive Cats

Revenge of the Goldfish

 

Constructed Identity Prompts

1) This video (link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDYDxWSjVJw) was extreamly cool. The ability to construct a virtual 3D set, then put real-life models into that virtual set is astonishing. This will certinely change that which we call photography, and art as a whole for ever.

2-1) Realitively speaking, my identity is not "constructed", I don't praticualary wory about how I dress or how my hair looks or any of that stuff. So long as I am  not filthy,  I am okay with how I look natuaraly. Likewise, I don't "preform" my life. I don't modifyy behavior in any way. I simpily act in a way that I believe to be appropiate, weather I am talking with friends, teachers,  or family.

2-2) My cultural/social enviorment on the other hand is definitely "constructed." My friends, for example, will act more formaly if a teacher or other adult is in the vicinity, and will act much more natuaraly if there isn't.

2-3) The physical space around me is one hundred precent constructed. I live in an urban enviorment. All biuldings, from my home, to my school, to the grocierie store my family shops at are all artifical constructions. Even the plant life within the city is cultivated,  and therefore constructed.

2-4) I consider my self and my family to be real, my friends and teachers to be half constructed - half real, and the physical space around me to be completly constructed.

2-5) A narative tableux I could create would be to have several people in formal suits siting around a large rectangular table, with one at the head of the table standing up, having just banged his fist on the table.

2-6) I could also do the scene in 2-5 with formaly dressed dolls, with a mineature table.

3) My 4 concepts for the Constructed Reality project are as folows:
    1) A parody of Toy Story in which a kid discovers his toys are realy alive, terifying him/her.
    2) A constructed scene in which an RC helicopter starts flying itself and destroies a room.
    3) A scene which we see a person destroying a cardboard skyscraper, from the prespective of a person on the ground, preportionaly scaled to the skyscraper.
    4) A scene in which we see a large group of people fighting (riot).