SOUND PROJECT (ADDED)

For this project, I have compiled sounds that you would hear in the kitchen and edited it in Adobe Premiere. The sounds include sink water, frying, frozen food package sounds, stirring of eggs, plates and the microwave. It was my first time editing something that was solely sounds, but I found it to be really fun. I tried many effects such as changing the duration, adjusting the volume, and other audio transitions. Overall, I thought the end result was pretty successful!

                     FINAL TIME PROJECT

For my final time project, I was asked to create something that incorporated the concept of linear vs. non-linear time. Since I'm really interested in typography, I wanted to do something that involved words and writing. I decided to make a video of the concept of writing in a diary and focus on the strokes of written words and having the non-linear element as going back in time. This video shows parts of a diary entry, and the entry specifically talks about the waves at a beach since I think the motion of waves perfectly suits the concept of time. As the person describes the motion of the waves as going "back and forth", every time the word "back" is written, it goes back a day. Since the entry starts on July 11, 2013,  I stopped at July 7, 2013. If I were to make this video official, I would let the video keep on going back in time, but I just decided to stop on the 7th. In the end, I wanted to show that the process of writing in a diary begins again, just like a constant cycle, so I decided to end my video with a blank page of a diary. Overall, I think this video came out really successful since I think it portrays time well, and I really enjoyed editing it!

          WILLIAM KENTRIDGE INSTALLATION

Artist: William Kentridge
Title: The Refusal of Time 
Place: Metropolitan Museum of Art 

William Kentridge is a South African artist whose works incorporates science, globalization, colonialism and memory. In this installation, "The Refusal of Time," it is a thirty minute animation that explores the various historical ideas of time with the inspiration from Albert Einstein's hypothesis of railway stations not operating exactly on schedule. 

I really enjoyed this installation and the way time and space were shown on another level, almost 4-dimensional in a way. I was instantly intrigued as I walked in the room because of the darkness and the  surrounding of screens around me that were showing something that looked like a galaxy.  The space gave off a very "industrial" like feeling which was pretty interesting and especially with the wooden machine in the middle, it really made me feel like I was in a factory of some sort.

I really liked how Kentridge focused on the theme of "colonialism and industry" which was emphasized in the beginning where a group of people "walked" slowly across the screens with old tools. The motion of the people walking slowly and the viewing of people of different ages demonstrated hard work and labor. It brought us back in time in a visual appealing way and it was almost as if we were stuck in time as people kept on "walking" across the screens. It was almost as if it was a GIF, something that kept on repeating. 

Kentridge experimented a lot with sounds which also gave us a sense of time. The sounds almost sounded as if it were being looped but at different intervals of time, such as the viewing of the metronome. There were five metronomes showing on the screens around me, but each one was ticking at a different time, which also changed the way the metronome was ticking. It was almost as if it was an optical illusion.

I enjoyed the way Kentridge took different scenarios and portrayed it in ways where it involved different motions, repetition, sequence and sounds. He almost made some scenarios comical such as the scenes where the man kept getting on and off the chair. I also found it interesting how the wooden structure in the middle conveyed a sense of "linear time" by the constant sound of ticking, while the scenes that were shown on the walls conveyed a sense of "non-linear time" because of the various sequences.  Overall, I think this exhibition showed time and space in a very unique way!