easter break update

Start with the good news first. D&AD is done, handed in and on time, which is nice. Other good news is dissertation is coming along, its a bit of an uphill struggle but managed to churn out a good 2000 words in one sitting thanks to a few cans of John Smiths... those widgets really work

bad news is, i forgot about the client proposal... completely. So going to have to work really hard on that, but hopefully shouldn't take as long as what i think its going to.

As for the stuff we were supposed to talk about today:

Accidental discoveries were:
- America's Next Top Model - yes i know it is a completely superficial pile of tripe, but its easy watching. The main thing i got from it was the end photos of each episode in how a narrative is told and how characters are formed in just one still image. Not really directly relating to my dissertation, as i'm looking at alternative comedy and the design of the grotesque, but a good point was made in that a joke being told within just one image. I suppose the best example is the funnies in the papers, but also Jerry Lewis movies do a lot of this, namely the Bellboy, because it is based on silent movies it uses a lot of visual gags.

will probably have to re-look at my dissertation and narrow things down a bit more. I hate writing so much, so not a happy bunny at the moment.

Something that directly relates to my dissertation is Samuel Beckett's play Waiting For Godot. The tv show Bottom was heavily influenced by this in that the 2 characters have a symbiosis, and the banality of their lives. Also how the show, and the live tours, nothing really happens. The language and word games also have similarities.

other similarities are:
- pantomime - use of facial expressions to convey meaning
- tableau - presents audience with moment of frozen action
- dialogue - starts with assertion, develops into uncertainty

- little sense of time or day
- one physical character one cerebral
- references to god and the bible - lost absolutism as they can't stand up to scrutiny and trying to establish certainty in an uncertain world
- brought together by solitude only to find themselves imprisoned in a mutual dependency they'd like to break
- scene/setting backs up characters bleak lives and outlooks
- aware of audience

it's only bloody done - part III

d&ad project finally put to bed after blood, sweat and, on one occassion, tears went into it.

pretty chuffed with the images, think i let myself down with the binding which pisses me off no end but not much i can do about it now. I really need to stop getting bored with things and stop losing my focus/concentration/temper half way through which is always going to be my downfall.

Probably my favourite project thus far, despite the 5am bedtimes upon finding out about how i completely screwed up with the resolution (i'm still going to be moaning about the resolution cock up for years to come yet)

i probably should have thought more about the look of the actual book, but that went completely out of my head when i saw how incredibly complicated the binding looked (it wasn't in the end), but at that point i'd given up on perfecting it and got a little craft-knife happy

there's not really a lot more to say about it, so onwards with the dissertation.

have put all my images up on flickr if anyone fancies a nosey