"Design In our Life"

a great place to reside

The Sea Shelter was very captivating to me because one of my mothers favorite movies is titanic and the I did some research on this raft that was set up and it proved to be quite the helpful tool during, lets say an event like, the titanic because it takes less energy to climb aboard the raft opposed to lets say a regular canoe. After the body is weary from finally reaching the raft it would be very inconvenient not to be able to board the raft because it keeps flipping over or you cant get your foot in or for any other reason. With the Sea Shelter Raft it allows you space to plant your feet and hand inside while balancing your weight and also gives you handles that you are able to support yourself coming out of the water. I deemed this invention to be highly functional in the case that someone was ever in a position as such. Another invention I saw to be very intriguing was the Water cone that basically consumes evaporated water and transforms it into drinking water. In parts of the world, third world countries and places of drought, I think that the water cone can be very useful and because of the evaporation process most of the germs have been filtered so the water is freshly prepped to drink. I think this is a highly functional design that if it works can provide aid to a lot of people.  In the Plywood: Material, Process and Form exhibit I found that most of the designs proved to be highly unusable. They had this table that could not have been more than 6 inches tall and as amazing as the design was, I highly doubt that it could be used for the purpose that tables are invented for. Another was the butterfly stool which was made from plywood. The design, I must admit, does capture the eye but for example if a person of my size wanted to use it for its purpose of creation, it would prove to be inadequate. It doesn’t seem to be able to with stand any weight and considering the cheap material of plywood, which is glue and lumber, I think that the chair needs much added support but on a scale of design it was quite a looker.  The final exhibit that I wasn’t so much interested in but found to be very creative in design was Fore Closed: Rehousing the American Dream. It was basically teams set out to explore different possibilities of architecture for mostly suburban areas. The building models seemed very unstable because of the predicted material and balance of some of the buildings. They seemed nice in design and able to hold quite an amount of people but I don’t think that those building would be left standing for very long because of this reason. In the design aspect if I had to choose a favorite it would be the complex, fully made in glass I think if better materials that have proven to be withstanding to natural weather changes it would be a great place to reside

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Visit to MoMa Ps1

I visited MoMa Ps1 and I was very intrigued by some of the art that was created and displayed. Some of it I found to be very confusing. Frances Stark I believed had me the most confused as to her inspiration for her piece. She had these two animated characters and their privates where covered by a leaf for each of the exposed parts. The two characters where speaking about sex. I was confused about where her idea came from with this video and i found that her inspiration came from someone she met anonymously on a website and formed from their conversation. She then found this site xtranormal and began to create her characters and dialogue. I felt that the green screen represented the whole idea of being in "no place and coming from nothing and out of this nothing they created a dialogue so the viewers can create their own projections. It also made me understand why she used a video versus a painting or expressing this in words. As I analyzed this piece, I came to the realization that she left it open to the viewers imagination to create their own characters as well as well as voices and their own scenery which then made it an individual experience for everyone. Clifford Owens exhibit of anthology is very difficult to define and the fact that it cannot be defined is the part that really is intriguing to me as well as most of his viewers whom i spoke with at the exhibit. He depicts this kind of sexual vibe of dominance. He then had this three part video playing at the same time on different screens where he showed interactions between human and an animal, human and human. He always gives the sense of me the subject, the foundation and his interactions with either the camera or another person and even if he repeats the same action with another person the "subject" always receives different responses which was very comical and kind of really difficult to understand. From Henry Taylor, I got this sense of black power. He had an exhibit of this black fist and directly behind it was a display of Huey Newton. In the display Huey was dressed in all black which reminded me of the black panthers era and this fight for justice was executed with showing a staff in one hand and a gun in the other and her sat upright on this pedestal which depicted power and strength. There were also some "African artifacts" that surrounded him in the display to reflect on heritage. I loved the piece.