Our homework for Monday was to find 3 unrelated images that would create a story when placed in a specific order. For my visual story, I chose a picture of a little girl looking at a Barbie doll in a store, a picture of a woman whose face was marked up for surgery, and a picture of Jocelyn Wildenstein, a woman who's had millions of dollars worth of plastic surgery done on her face in order to look "beautiful," but ended up looking like a monster. Look her up on Google and you'll know what I mean. WARNING: Nightmares may occur. Look at your own risk.
It was fun seeing what my classmates were able to come up with. Some of my classmates came up with really funny and creative stories, while some came up with visual stories that made absolutely no sense at all. Professor Moss posted up the visual stories that didn't make any sense on the wall, and as a class, we tried to figure out the story that the student was trying to tell. Then we were told to scatter all of our pictures on the tables and create new stories by mixing and matching each other's pictures. We ended up created some really funny stories.
Class ended with Professor Moss showing us a TED video about John Maeda, who's the current President of the Rhode Island School of Design. John's talk was about simplicity. He talked about how we, as people, want simplicity but love complexity. I thought it was really cool that John was able to create graphics just by scanning French fries and Cheetos. Simple, yet very creative. I totally want to try that approach on a project someday. I think I already have some ideas in mind. John used plenty of humor in his talk, which made the video very entertaining to watch. It was hilarious when he mentioned that his daughter once told him that he resembled the guy on those ...For Dummies books. They actually do look quite alike!
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