[A page developed for the zine project based on the art of Steven Sagmeister. If truth be told he's not my favorite artist but I appreciate the skill that goes into his work.
The tutor on the course, as noted below, has been trying hard to get us to do something arty and statementy outside parliment but there is really nothing I feel strongly enough about to protest against.
I'm also firmly of the opinion that even if I did manage to write some huge slogan somewhere it wouldn't change anyones opinion on international whaling or nuculear testing.
Now that I come to think about it I don't think I would want someone who's opinion is so very easily influenced on my team. It would only take some graffiti by the opposing side and I would have lost them.]
INTRODUCTION:
Ladies, Gentlemen and assorted others. What you see before you are the inauspicious
beginnings of the Chaos Project. It has
been suggested that, in order to get our messages across, we paint a message on
the steps of parliament or upon the side of visiting ocean craft.
These have been dismissed for two reasons,
the first is that the planning involved in such a movement would take far too
long while the second is the simple fact that it would not help any movement or
political statement.
No the problem is that the general public,
who would be the ones to receive the message, would view it as a kind of
irksome graffiti that doesn't even have the benefit of being artistic.
The Chaos Project differs from other
artistic or sociopolitical en devours however since it exists only for the sake
of existing and will continue on in a memetic form long after the project has
finished.
OUTLINE:
At its heart the plan is simple. We take some tennis balls and roll them down
the street. However the aim of this plan
is Chaos and by multiplying the amount of tennis balls exponentially we are
able to strike a blow against the forces of ordinariness that seem to have this
city in a vice like grip.
1.
Acquire dump truck: This may have to be rented or bought
outright. Either way this is an
essential part of the Chaos Project. The
use of private cars has been suggested but was voted down due to the sheer bulk
of the payload.
2.
Acquire Tennis Balls: 40,000 of
them, I estimate this to costing about $18,000.00 although I am certain that
for such a vast number of balls some sort of bulk rates will apply.
3.
Number the tennis balls 1 –
6. This works out to around 8000 balls
for each number but it is important to make certain that no ball is marked
number 3, for reasons that will be explained below.
1.
Balls marked 1 should carry the
message: Let us begin!
2.
Balls marked 2 should carry the
message: Think about yourself
3.
Balls marked 4 should carry the
message:Anyway the wind,
4.
Balls marked 5 should carry the
message:Love will conquer
5.
Balls marked 6 should carry the
message: Exaunt Omnes
4.
Load marked balls into the
truck and release into the city streets.
It doesn't matter what hour of the day this is performed as the effect
of 40,000 tennis balls is bound to have an arresting affect on the population
of the city. But for our purposes the
height of rush hour in the middle of Wellington City should prove entertaining
for all concerned.
OUTCOMES:
The messages on the balls are meaningless
when taken either individually or as a whole but we are counting on the magpie
like nature of humanity to kick in when the messages are discovered. After they've gotten out of the way of them
all, there will be people picking through each one in a desperate attempt to
collect all of them. The news agencies
that cover this will only make the problem larger since their reports will
reveal that there is a message to be decoded in the collection of balls.
But, as noted above, there is no number 3
ball and never will be.
The biggest problem that I see with this
plan is the question of stealth. Any
individual buying this many tennis balls is going to be remembered as is anyone
who is hired to write the messages on the balls. Getting the balls printed with the messages
already on them might go some way to
keeping anonymous about the whole thing.
But all those involved with this project are going to need to accept the
fact that, sooner or later, we will be identified.
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| The actual page that I ended up using. Keen eyed viewers will note that I didn't actually use any of the text that I'd prepared earlier. |
For the last six months I've been working on my animation project where we got free rein to design a beast and rider. So now that I've finished all the assignments and not only have free time to play in Zbrush but also don't have to worry about things like the polycount or time constrants what is it I decide to play around with?
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