Time Metropolis Final: Time Management

Write Up:

time management write up

Benjamin Franklin once said, “Dost thou love life? Then waste not time; for time is the stuff that life is made of.”

If you look back and go through your work process from the day before, would you say you were organized? Or did you plan your procedures thoroughly? Or do you believe you had enough time to complete your project?

Depending on how you answered the following questions, reveals how well you manage your time according to Stephen R Covey’s, “Four Generations of Time Management.”

This interactive/ installation piece touches upon the theory of time management. I demonstrate the theory of time management by having my audience members conduct the “Pickle Jar Theory”. Which consists of a jar, rocks, pebbles and sand. This experiment is intended on demonstrating how one is expected to live their life style. In an orderly and scheduled manner. To begin the project you start with a pickle jar. Following that procedure, you put as many of the larger rocks as you possibly can until the jar is full. Once you have finished that step, put as many pebbles into the jar as you possibly can fit. After that you place the sand inside the jar until there is no more space in the jar. Lastly you will fill the jar up with water.

This process is a representation of our scheduled lives, and what it is like to be “managed”. Each of us has many large priorities in our life, which was represented symbolically by the large rocks. We also schedule moment in life in which we enjoy doing, the pebbles served as this symbol. That we have other things which we must complete, which is represented by the sand. And lastly, we have obligations that simply clutter up our lives and make their way into everything: water. In each of our lives we must make time and find a balance with in things, in order to feel truly fulfilled and non cluttered. If you make time for everything, it will simply fit where it is desired to fit.

Presentation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fouN2mZpes&feature=youtu.be

Beginning Process:

First Idea: (Fail)

My life during finals

Dec9

I usually am not all for social media rants, or letting the impact of others affect me but I had to write this short essay describing my emotions. I usually don’t let others see this, but given that I am starting my life fresh, and my learning portfolio is a place for self expression I found this little moment in my life most suitable for this site. Recently a lot of instances have been happening that are unexplainably predictable or inspired by what I have been doing and learning at parsons. And it just so happens that an event that made me consider a lot of who I am, during the time of a project I am doing for my Studio/Seminar Shift Class. I believe the piece I am doing definitely depicts, the situation I am, and I am so sincerely glad I am given the opportunity to express myself through this assignment as well as through my Time, and Space and Materiality class. Following this paragraph I am writing the descriptions of my assignments, and following that is the short essay I wrote involving the situation going on in my life.

1. Studio/ Seminar Shift: We were given the assignment which we will explore the meaning of self and the image that we put out into the world using photographic portraiture, the selfie, some yet un-named technique. In one image we will show the viewer who we are, and the other can be an exploration

2. Time Metropolis: I had to choose a topic of time theory, and relate it to something we have learned in this class during the semester. I chose to relate my topic to the theory of time management, and how it is a personal matter to me, and relate it to my struggles, and how we can improve.

3. Space and Materiality- Community: We will be mapping a personal experience that takes place over time and space. Than choose an event, situation or timeframe to base your work upon. This could be a specific hour, or day, a walk from one place to another, a rock concert, attending a cross-fit class, making a meal, a dance party, a nap, etc. but it should be an experience that takes place in a finite amount of time. After completing a variety of mapping and collection exercises, we will create a multisensory art installation that represents our chosen experience. Our final artwork must engage two or more of the 5 senses. Choose materials for your installation that will help shape the meaning of your finished artwork.

*To see what I will be doing for these projects you must keep up to date on my portfolio 🙂

-Now the essay:

For those of you who know me, know that i usually say “i do not care what others think of me” or “that i am who i am, and i am not going to allow the opinion of others change me”. Well for once in my life I let the opinion of others impact me. Just the other day I heard from a few people that people who i considered to be my friends, confront mother close friends and ask them if i was “ok”. If “ok”, means accommodating to societies approval. Than no, i guess I’m not okay. I believe it’s sad to see how unaccepting people are in this day in age, and i know that being open minded person means that you have to be understanding of those who are close minded as well, but how can i be accepting of those who do not accept me. Looking back on the photos I’ve posted, and the things I’ve said I don’t think i could be any happier than I am today. My friend taylor said to me the other day, with her best interest of me in mind, “well if you don’t feel right about what others are saying maybe tone down the drag pictures and postings.” Another friend said to me, “well people have been saying how you flaunt that you are with gay people, and are really out there, although I have no problem with it maybe you can tone it down a bit.” I appreciate those of you who have told me what others have been saying about me behind my back, although it does not really mean much, but it just sickens me to hear that i have to alter who I am, and what i do, and who i hang out with in order to receive societies “approval”. Even though I do not need to justify my case any more than I have, I go to a school where majority of the students like I enjoy being artistic, and there are like many schools homosexual students, and do not attend tailgates, or drink out of kegs on the regular, or post ‘basic’ photographs with the common Rebecca Minkoff bag. There is nothing wrong with any of those things, just as there is nothing wrong with what I do.

I understand that I have died my hair white ish/blonde, and just have gained a bit of weight (like many of you have as well), and I have changed my crowd of people… but I think that I am finally beginning to embrace who I truly am. My brother said to me yesterday, “You’re becoming who you are going to be, you were a shadow of yourself and so was I.” That one sentence, made me realize I was never myself, I was a shadow. Last month I watched the play Searching For Neverland, and just as peter pan was searching for his shadow because with out it he was not himself, I am finally searching properly and developing into who I am meant to be. My shadow was just a part of who I was, and now just as shadows are meant to be… behind me.

I know that I am going through the cliche faze that everyone goes through in accepting who they are when they go through what they believe extreme life changes. But If being who I am means loosing the people who are unaccepting of who I am, than it is their loss. I am who I am. I am going to screw up, flunk an exam, trip on a rock, dye my hair, go through weight fluctuations, do my hardest to succeed and try and make my family proud but I will not change for a second my path way because I have a goal, and in order to reach my goal I know I have fuck up… a lot. So i am not going to let any of you out their who have negative comments to throw at me, set me off my track.. so back the fuck off. unnamed-2

-I chose to upload a photo of my brother and I, because we recently became extremely close and I learned how similar we are externally and internally. For the record, I used to believe he was adopted till 4 years ago (but thats another story), and until this picture I thought we had different fathers. Also it was his birthday on december 6th, and I thought I should bring him into my personal portfolio a bit.

Book Project- Perception Image- Time Metropolis

Dec2

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Book Project: Perception Image

For my book project presentation I was assigned to discuss perception image. Perception Image is a “set of elements which act on a centre, and which wary in relation to it.” It is also particularly viewed as a wide angle shot. I chose to touch upon the two main ideas of perception image, which are subjective and objective perception. Subjective perception is, is the manner in which an individual views the physical world based on the workings of his own brain and sensory systems. Each individual has a brain, sensory systems, and cognitive structures that differ from those possessed by everyone else. As for objective perception, it means perceiving reality, and all that confronts our awareness, as it is. It is a matter of seeing things as they are, rather than seeing them from a certain point of view or position.

How I began my project, which was an instalation piece, was by walking through a park with a friend filming him as if I was looking into his life, but no one was really there and what we were really experiencing was his emotions and in his perspective. I chose to film this project first rather than take pictures right off the bat, because I wanted to use the way my mind sees and works with assignment. Which is in a moving image format. When directing the actor, I told him to act out confused and dull emotions. Some of which you would feel in a park. I occasionally focused the fram on a main subject, such as a dog or statue, just to allow the viewer to get more of a feel as to where we are and what the mood is. Following that procedure, I went through each scene and screen shot each major scene as an image. That alloud the viewer to see each scene as an image, rather than film. This also aloud the viewers to see it in a story board POV. Looking back on the project, I orginally chose for the project to be filmed at night, but when shooting at night problems occur, which is why I now believe it should be filmed during the day rather than night. When presenting the project, my originaly plan was to hang the images above the viewers head, inorder to have them experience the feeling of perception image. But that did not work out. So I chose to hang the imageson the wall as a story board view, although this also gave the viewers a perception image affect, because this alloud them to see the project in a wide angle shot and as a whole setting. In the end the project turned out ok, although I wish I did plan this a bit better.

Storyline:

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Time Metropolis: Time Management Project

Nov24

Project 3: VIDEO+SOUND- “Drag Dealer”

Nov9

“Drag Dealer” Write Up:

Drag Dealer. As a common trait in my films, I leave the ending as open minded as I possibly can and unclear. I try to leave my audience with the question as to what happens next, or a mind blowing effect.

Right from the get go when we were given the foley sound assignment I knew I wanted to have my theme involving the use of illegally proscribed drugs and underage drinking. I gave it a drag queen touch, because I thought it was appropriate given that we are now in a time period where everything is in the open and anything can happen. I began the process by recording random sounds that you would most likely hear in a party. Such as a ruffling plastic bags, a broken glass bottle, a glass bottle moving around a counter, music playing, door closing, pills shaking, elevators opening, for the elevator buzz I filmed a tattoo gun, heavy breathing, and foot steps, and whispers. Following that procedure I chose to go a bit against the instructions, and go right into the movie making procedure. My original movie was sadly deleted, and I was forced to remake the film from scratch. I had to use last minutes actors that had no acting experience, and completely direct every expression they had to make by demonstrating it than have them rehearse it than re-demonstrated it than finally film them. The process was a bit tedious but it was a learning experience, which definitely was beneficial in the sense that I was able to connect better with the actors. For my main character, “the innocent boy in need of drugs”, I didn’t tell him his role. I chose to direct every move he made, another downfall was that he didn’t understand english quite well so I had to communicate with him through expression as to what he had to do, which definitely was revealed in the film. I believe the audience was able to feel his sense of nakedness, and overly exposed. The boy was meant to feel out of place, almost as if he is now entering the drug obsessed world where he was able to take a dive into the look of his future. In the following scene after he searches though the cabinets for the drugs, a drag queen, otherwise known as a “drag dealer, basically pulls him out of that shell and teases him with the drugs. After putting the drugs into the boys mouth, she pulls him out of the room, and into another. We don’t know what happens next, whether they continue their trip or decide to act upon their sexual needs. The ending is completely open ended, which I believe to be my little signature in each of my films.

PsychoGeographic Mapping: Sight- Madison Square Park

Sep30

Jacqueline Groll

Time Metropolis

Due: 10/1/15

Write Up

PsychoGeographic Mapping: SensoScapes

Madison Square Park: Sight

There is no telling where you will end up when walking through a park. Especially when it comes to walking through Madison Square Park. You have the option to lounge out on a chair or bench or even a patch of grass, to enjoy a burger with a side of fries and shake from ‘Shake Shack’, bring your kids or dogs to a park for some you time, and lastly enjoy the ambiance while walking through one of New York Cities most historic parks. Although there is so much going on around the park, I personally enjoy glancing around. I tend to study people’s actions, as well as my environments, and I never seem to get enough. So when I was given this assignment, I was immediately driven to the sense of sight.

Rather than honing in on what art installation was being exhibited, or the differences between the people around me, I found it most suitable to describe the parks geographic through flowers. While walking around the perimeter of the park, I was immediately fascinated by the different flowers that were planted. In my home town, Miami, Florida, we are exposed to solely tropical flowers such as hibiscus’s. So as a newly named “new yorker”, I am still accumulating to my surroundings. The contrast between having forest-like flowers as well as tropical in a city to compacted, compelled my curiosity. You are faced with three different worlds in this 4 block radius of a park. The country side, tropical islands, and city life all in one remote area. This park truly gives the people a way to escape the little flares in their lives.

Madison Square Park- Flowers

Sep17

Jax Groll

Electronic Learning Portfolio

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