Scene from V For Vendetta
One way of looking at masks and the meaning behind it.
Monday, 24 September 2012
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
B-Grade Movies
(1990)
I thought of It as one of the B-grade movies Mr Charles talked about. It is a novel-based movie on the book written by none other than the famous thriller and horror author, Stephen King.
It revolves around Derry as most of Mr King's books do, telling the story of 7 children who call themselves the Loser Club. A monster lurks the town Derry, shapeshifting into a sinister-looking clown and goes around feeding on children's fears and the children themselves. As a group, the 7 children manage to somehow defeat the clown(known as Pennywise) but must come back as adults when they realise the fight is not yet over and that the monster is very much alive and dangerous.
In continuation of "Masks"
THIRD SECTION OF SEMESTER..
is an explorative experiment.
mask -> mythology
RESEARCH ON:
b grade movie
frankentstein , etc
indie movies, small budgets
is an explorative experiment.
mask -> mythology
RESEARCH ON:
b grade movie
frankentstein , etc
indie movies, small budgets
-why they are still popular
-what makes people watch them
are people learning to appreciate more independent films?
-cheesy special effects
Saturday, 15 September 2012
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Project 3: Iconalogy (Pop Icon)
Any
Doctor Who fans in the house? If you are, then you'll definitely be able to
recognize this imminently large(but larger on the inside, always remember) and
blue police box. Just looking at it gets me all excited.
This is the TARDIS(Time and Relative Dimension in Space). It is an invention of the highly advanced technology of the Time Lords, an extraterrestrial civilization, in which the main character, the driver of the TARDIS, is known as the Doctor. Doctor who? The TARDIS is a sentient and telepathic machine that is enabled to travel through time and space through the time vortex.
Doctor Who is a highly popular British science fiction television series that dates so far back(1963) that even the older generation in England can relate to the stories with their youngsters.
The show depicts a time-travelling, humanoid alien with two hearts, now at the age of 900 years old. He is known as the Doctor. He travels the entire universe in his TARDIS along with very fortunate(although sometimes not so) humans known as “companions” and face a wide array of alien monsters from outer space, defeating and saving civilizations and more than once, protecting earth from destruction. By the way, he does this all with only the help of a sonic screwdriver, a multi-functional tool.
The Doctor is actually the last of his kind, as his race was wiped out of the universe. To be honest, I feel that despite his cheery exterior and mischievous attitude, the Doctor is actually a very sad being. To be the only surviving one of your kind, with no one else to relate to can be soul-crushing. You might say that hey, at least he’s got those companions to accompany him throughout his adventure, right? The thing is he always has to say goodbye to them. Despite the fun of his meanderings, there is also terror and perilous danger. Often a time he has put his many companions in terrible danger, almost killed. Can you imagine having to say goodbye a million times, and never being able to visit the friends you’ve made along your travels? Because the Doctor is a trouble magnet. Wherever he goes, it follows.
The Doctor, being an alien, is also built in a way that he, is in fact, immortal. You see, every time the Doctor is killed, he never really dies. He can regenerate right at the brink of the end of his existence. But the Doctor doesn’t just regenerate his limbs, like a starfish. He regenerates into an entirely different person with a different face, body, personality, preferences, everything changes. This is why the Doctor never has companions for long, partially because he also outlives all of them. He can only do this 13 times, though.
In real life of course, this means they change the actors who play the Doctor.
These are the 11 different faces of the Doctor.
This is the TARDIS(Time and Relative Dimension in Space). It is an invention of the highly advanced technology of the Time Lords, an extraterrestrial civilization, in which the main character, the driver of the TARDIS, is known as the Doctor. Doctor who? The TARDIS is a sentient and telepathic machine that is enabled to travel through time and space through the time vortex.
Doctor Who is a highly popular British science fiction television series that dates so far back(1963) that even the older generation in England can relate to the stories with their youngsters.
The show depicts a time-travelling, humanoid alien with two hearts, now at the age of 900 years old. He is known as the Doctor. He travels the entire universe in his TARDIS along with very fortunate(although sometimes not so) humans known as “companions” and face a wide array of alien monsters from outer space, defeating and saving civilizations and more than once, protecting earth from destruction. By the way, he does this all with only the help of a sonic screwdriver, a multi-functional tool.
The Doctor is actually the last of his kind, as his race was wiped out of the universe. To be honest, I feel that despite his cheery exterior and mischievous attitude, the Doctor is actually a very sad being. To be the only surviving one of your kind, with no one else to relate to can be soul-crushing. You might say that hey, at least he’s got those companions to accompany him throughout his adventure, right? The thing is he always has to say goodbye to them. Despite the fun of his meanderings, there is also terror and perilous danger. Often a time he has put his many companions in terrible danger, almost killed. Can you imagine having to say goodbye a million times, and never being able to visit the friends you’ve made along your travels? Because the Doctor is a trouble magnet. Wherever he goes, it follows.
The Doctor, being an alien, is also built in a way that he, is in fact, immortal. You see, every time the Doctor is killed, he never really dies. He can regenerate right at the brink of the end of his existence. But the Doctor doesn’t just regenerate his limbs, like a starfish. He regenerates into an entirely different person with a different face, body, personality, preferences, everything changes. This is why the Doctor never has companions for long, partially because he also outlives all of them. He can only do this 13 times, though.
In real life of course, this means they change the actors who play the Doctor.
These are the 11 different faces of the Doctor.
1. William Hartnell
2.Patrick Troughton
3. Jon Pertwee
4. Tom Baker
5. Peter Davidson
6. Colin Baker
7. Sylvestor Mccoy
8. Paul Mcgann
9. Christopher Eccleston
9. Christopher Eccleston
10. David Tennant.
11. Matt Smith
11. Matt Smith
The Doctor that I currently love is the eleventh doctor. (!!!!!!!!!!!!!) Played by Matt Smith, he is incredibly adorable and endearing. He is funny and silly and has an affliction with bowties. Of course, being a British television series, the accents are very appeasing.
“Bowties are cool.”
Doctor
Who icons:
Daleks.
Sworn enemy of the Doctor. Very harmless and emotionless.
Sworn enemy of the Doctor. Very harmless and emotionless.
Weeping Angels.
They usually stay still and do not move.
Until you look away.
Matt Smith
David Tennant
Sonic screwdriver.
And some incorporations of the TARDIS into everyday life! :)
I shall end this with a video of Matt and Karen(the Doctor's current companion) being silly with each other AS USUAL :'D
Iconography
What are icons? Icons are better recognized in religious terms, such as religious works of art, or a painting more commonly found in Eastern Christianity or Eastern Catholic churches.
Archangel Gabriel on a Russian icon
Icons gain their power over societies by societies themselves. The Christianity religion is constantly growing at an amazing pace, and as it does, it grows stronger, drawing yet more people into its beliefs. But a belief cannot stand on its own and be expected to grow. It needs a face, a body, something people can see in replacement of their invisible deity.
That is where icons come in. Religious icons can appear in any form, so long as it is visible, be it a statue, a book, a painting, a sculpture or a piece of toast.
Along the course of history, a wide array of religious cultures have been equipped and inspired by concrete images, in any kind of dimension or form. These icons, depending on how they are depicted are treated as holy objects meant for worship and such.
That is where icons come in. Religious icons can appear in any form, so long as it is visible, be it a statue, a book, a painting, a sculpture or a piece of toast.
Along the course of history, a wide array of religious cultures have been equipped and inspired by concrete images, in any kind of dimension or form. These icons, depending on how they are depicted are treated as holy objects meant for worship and such.
Over the years of modernization, icons have grown a new purpose to their existence aside from religious relics.
"by extension- icon is also used, particularly in modern culture, in the general sense of symbol — i.e. a name, face, picture, edifice or even a person readily recognized as having some well-known significance or embodying certain qualities: one thing, an image or depiction, that represents something else of greater significance through literal or figurative meaning, usually associated with religious, cultural, political, or economic standing."
An example of simplified versions of objects.
Icons are basically symbols used to simplify what would have been a large paragraph of explanation. Icons smooth over the rocky edges of communication and produce and easy peasy quickie form of understanding things around us.
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