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The Museum of New Zealand, is a post modern giant that is seated upon the shoreline of wellington harbor. The Maori name given for the building, Te Papa Tongarewa, means “Container of Treasures”(Our History, 1998), however, not only does it hold a magnificent bounty inside of its walls, but an intriguing history and culture as well.

The leadings up to the birth of Te Papa Tongarewa consisted of the government producing a Project development board that worked along side JASMAX architects (an Auckland based company) to design and then construct the National Museum (The designing of Te Papa, 1998). Although the board was in charge of making decisions throughout the project, they had consulted people from across the nation including Maori Iwi (Our History, 1998) to produce a building which we can understand to be post-modern, because of the different aspects of cultures and styles across New Zealand, which collide to form, what is, Te Papa.

A direct quote taken from The Designing of TE PAPA, describing the museum, states “bicultural nature of the country, recognising the mana and significance of the two mainstreams of tradition and cultural heritage and provide for each to contribute effectively to a statement of the nations identity”, (The designing of Te Papa, 1998) this clearly shows the bicultural diversity of the museum. Examples of cultural input into the museum can be seen through the various art and exhibitions it holds, and is shown in the stance of the building facing the sun like a Maori Marae (The designing of Te Papa, 1998).

Te Papa Tongarewa is a great example of a post-modern piece of architecture and brings with it a great history and cultural diversity to represent New Zealand.

References:

J. Hunt. (February, 1998). The designing of Te Papa. New Zealand: R. Beckett.

Our History. (1998). Retrieved from: http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/AboutUs/history/Pages/default.aspx

DSDN101 group proj 2

For the advertisement we wanted to show the everyday struggles over 60's have with technology. We've exaggerated them in the clip to show a humorous side. The clip is short and to the point to grab the elder's attention. We tried to think of everyday objects that they could potentially struggle with. These were the mobile phone, Eftpos machine, car door and parking meters. As no one in our group was elderly, we dressed up a member of our group in a beard, glasses  with a walking stick and pipe to represent an elderly person. We used these props to continue the idea of "over exaggerating". We want our target audience to be able to see the advertisement, relate to the struggles and contact our company after watching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0bspVBa1vc&feature=youtu.be

  “Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.” ― Lao Tzu. (Goodreads, 2012)

Much like the quote above by Lao Tzu, this model, made by Nikolai Scott at the University of Victoria in 2012, compares the hierarchy between fluidity and rigidity. The structures essence has been derived from the two precedent images shown; an angular sculpture constructed from triangular and rectangular shapes (left) and the dark, elegant, swirling currents that form smoke in the second precedent image (right). By combining the images and their design principles, such as rhythm and contrast, this model has been born.The model has been constructed using multiple, individual, triangular pieces of vellum paper that are closely placed next to one another to show a stunning contrast between the shapes. The Vellum pieces are attached, pinched together, then joint, to sit upon, what looks to be, a pedestal of rigid, angular shaped wire. The vellum parts have then been pulled down over one another by a, thin, black cotton thread, that contrasts against the opaque white of the vellum. This transforms the structure, that would otherwise have looked similar to the sydney opera house, into a strong and beautiful, fluid form. The model was built to show and achieve a control between contrasting elements (The curve and the straight line) and also the underlying geometric forms that give fluidity its strength.

             Shot one of final model.

                  Shot two of final model.

References:

GoodReads. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/365687

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DSDN 101 Proj 2 FLASH MOVIE - TETRIS

This video was created and based on the game Tetris. I have studied the game and tried to imitate it to characterize the word "TETRIS".
The Tetris theme song was downloaded from a free website and edited by the program Audacity. All other sounds were made by me in garageband.

DSDN 101 Proj 2 Fishing Storyboard

DSDN 101 Proj 2 Tetris Storyboard

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The word that I have picked from this draft to go forward to my storyboard is Tetris. This is because I believe I can perceive this to have more depth than that of a simple word such as PUNCH, DETONATE or POP.

I will study the game to get a better understanding of how the word should operate in the program Flash CS5.5 and try to imitate the basic mechanics of the game into the word.

DSDN 101 proj 2 kerning 1

This is an example of kerning, which I have done as a tutorial exercise.This shows suitable and even amounts of space between letters in a word and will be useful to me throughout the project.

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