Friday, April 21, 2006

JD2: Snarling flowers

My idea origianlly was to play off of Georgia O keefe's vagina flowers in aesthetic and function by apropriating her paintings and making them open and close yoni style while making very ridiculous and monty python like meep meep sounds
that would form into a symphony.
However it has been changed since. After much attempts and much freak outs I changed the idea to.... flowers that I animated for the most parts (except for the purple one) to these very pretty but also thorny almost cartoon like flowers .....
that aren't as delicate as they look.
If you touch them they growl and snarl at you and even scream.
So it is taking something that is delicate and onsidered feminine (by association of it being pretty and prim)
and arming it making it dangerous instead of just decoration.
I also thought it would be funny to have growling flowers....

It probabaly comes from wishful thinking of If I lived in upside down world and I was its ruler: flowers would all be vicous
they would snarl and growl and bite and be man eating creatures the size of a long stemmed rose.

It took forever to get this up cause I was having trouble with fetch and finally figured it out. I can now say I hate fetch with a passion!.
So here is my instrument.

http://www.student.ocad.on.ca/~bmohamed/

2 Comments:

At 11:38 AM, Blogger Judith Doyle said...

I'm so glad you were able to get this finished, Shara. The flower animation is quite lovely and vivid. I like how it doesn't exactly come together into any single plant form, but morphs into a kind of snarling backyard domestic jungle - pretty but lethal.

 
At 3:15 PM, Blogger shara said...

Judith theres a bit of weirdness going on.
The flower thats the main animatin dissappeared and now all I can see are the buttons.
The page looks semi empty. I don't understand how this can happen.
I am freaking out

 

Post a Comment

<< Home