Cloning Project
Apr 27.09 / Design
The project I’ve been working on over the last few weeks is about the boundaries of cloning humans. I wanted to make people think about possible negative situations that could happen if the world chose to allow human cloning because I don’t particularly agree with it. I think it’s wrong and a bit creepy!
These are some brief pictures of just one of the two books I’ve made.
Each book is supposed to represent a natural human and a cloned human (cloned pictured above). Both books contain the same short stories about the same situation but one if it involved a cloned human and one if it involved a natural human being, so the endings are slightly different.
A clone would be genetically the same as a human, the composition of all the elements are exactly the same in both to represent this, but their personalities would not necessarily be the same, which the content represents, which links in with the different endings for each story in either book.
The bindings of each book represent the quality of health of each person. The clone book is a simple saddlestitch, tied into a ribbon, which can easily be loosened and all the pages will fall apart, just like how the health of a clone deteriorates quicker than a regular human, whose book has a traditional sewn binding, making it quite sturdy.
The typefaces used also represent the length of existence of the conception types. Serif typefaces were used for the natural book as it existed much longer than sans-serif which is quite modern. The actual sans-serif font chosen was Helvetica due to it being so commonly used, it’s no longer unique, similar to what a clone would be.
My last explanation is about the covers. As clones are (usually) meant to look identical on the outside and the books having different bindings which were visible, I had kept the cover long enough so I could fold it back over on itself, hiding the bindings, making both books identical on the outside.
Overall, the books are quite cryptic and the aesthetic qualities actually contain more meaning then anything else. But then again, the whole scientific process on cloning is shrouded in secrecy. I’ll probably add something to introduce the whole project to the people looking at it though, due to the fact I probably won’t actually be around to explain it!
Last thing, some stories would not have had the same impact without the awesome found photographs by superbomba at Flickr!
Summer
Apr 27.09 / Out & About
I can’t believe over the last few days, the weather has been lovely! I wake up this morning and it’s raining. It’s slightly disheartening but at least it’s better than no sunshine at all.
Music Videos
Apr 22.09 / Animation, Inspire
I’ve been very busy at the moment with the final project of my second year so I have had barely any spare time to stop and relax! However, I only have about a week left so I’ll be able to work on a few more interesting things to show you later on. But for now, here are two music videos that I absolutely adore, not just because they look good, but because of the massive effort that went into them both.
Tweenbots by Kacie Kinzer
Yesterday I came across the most adorable social experiment ever, a project by Tisch School of the Arts student Kacie Kinzer called Tweenbots. She’s created a small cardboard robot that can only travel directly forwards, placing it at the Northeast of Washington Square Park in New York and relying on passing strangers to guide it to the Southwest Corner.
It’s really lovely to see that it didn’t get vandalised or just picked up and taken home and it did actually make it across the park.
Read more about the project at tweenbots. You should also watch the video, the accompanying music makes it’s 10 times more adorable. There’s also a page where you can take a peek at other robots she is creating for more experiments, which I can’t wait to read about!
Brock Davis
Brock Davis or Laser Bread on Flickr, makes some super cool things everyday. You should definitely check his work out on Flickr or at his website, itistheworldthatmadeyousmall.com. He has some quite clever and funny ideas, here are some are my favourites pieces he’s done so far:
Rules
Shattered Tissue Box
Decowpitation (I love this title)
Birdhouse with Painted-on Entrance
Fatal Paper Airplane Crash
The Googly-Eyed: Paula
Paul Weller, littlehonda photography
Apr 07.09 / Inspire, Photographs
I’d like to show you one of my favourite Flickr contacts, littlehonda70.
I originally found him through the Through the Viewfinder Flickr community but once I came across the rest of his photostream I was hooked! The colour quality, the 6×6 cropping, the out of focus blur, it’s all very aesthetically pleasing. My favourites definitely have to be his in the seaside town series, they make me daydream about going travelling in the sunshine! You have no idea how much I crave being able to do that right now!