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This week I made a poster covered in the comment cards that I had recieved during the silent critique of my Final Project.

Generally I had recieved very positive critique on the final outcome, format, and concept, "Extremely cool concept. The idea of typography, photography, and personality is very strong". Most urged me to continue on to my final project, where typography would be painted on to people's faces as I have been planning. Dan Sinclair suggested that I don't over think this project, but just go and let it happen intuitively. This is something that I will be doing immediately as school comes to a conclusion for the semester.
SOme contructive criticism stated that there could be more product for the process that I had undertaken. What I failed to present was the extensive photography sketches that I had done in my sketchbook and wall. I suppose pictures didn't suffice.
Otherwise, my exploration is astrong and there is a great movement towards the final project.

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I have begun embracing my studio process by continuing collecting and posting found items onto my wall. Soon I will begin taking these photos and applying them into my final, which will be a book and explores the relationship between typography and the human figure.
So far most of my found items are coming from the bins in the darkroom, where people trash bad and damaged prints.
I am not going to use these as my own, unless I damage and manipulate them in such a way that they become my own creations.
As you can see, my wall is literally covered in color, black, white, and type.

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I have been feverishly researching my topic, focusing on two themes-- human expression and destruction. This has led me to several interesting websites and books, one of which is a site dedicated to facial anatomy and expression: http://www.face-and-emotion.com/dataface/anatomy/anatomy.jsp.
I also found interesting information on the bone and nerve systems of the face and it's purpose towards our everyday function: http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/835401-overview

I have printed images from this site and begun mapping possibly solutions towards my typeface design. Some inspiration has been coming from Process Type Foundry:http://www.processtypefoundry.com/. I also have decided to begin with using Helvetica as a typeface to destroy, due to its avid popularity and loaded quality.

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Through out the last week I have come up with 5 different variation of my project, working on the next four in the next few days. My most radical departure from my original idea was the application of collage on to the subject's face. This is radical due to the damage and contorted proportions towards the typeface that would occur during the process. Perhaps the process of application ought to be most focused on, as it is a mask or a disguise to the subject. In some ways, collage would make the entire process could even expand to a developed mask, made of collage and paper mache. The typeface could become an object that could stand alone, compared to the synthesis between the subject and the typeface that was primarily suggested.

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Spring break was more a time of relaxation and reflection. I have begun planning my final project looking into different artists and movements that inspire me. Again, there is another posting on fecalface.com of photography in Venezuela, http://www.fecalface.com/nyc/. Again, there were children in crafted Halloween costumes, which was something I was first interested by a little bit earlier in the semester. The idea of identity being hidden and transformed is what fascinates me, and is a leading concept towards my final.
I have decided to design or apply a typeface on to several faces of different subjects through face paint. This will be done very precisely with measurements that will determine the anatomy of the typeface on the subject, creating unity and a balance through aesthetic and style.
I am deeply interested in how the expressions made by these subjects will effect the form of the typeface, destroying a carefully designed form and balance.

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The color inverted during the upload...I have no idea why or how to fix it. Regardless, these are a few of the compositions created for our projection project. Nameless Vicus has been working very hard to make this projection happen. So far our group is doing well, everything is getting done as it should be.

It's been interesting to see everyone's collages and messages that range from poltics to contemporary society and culture. A great deal of typography is being experimented with. I feel that this investigation is making our work stronger, as most of the direct language is coming through written word. This allows us to be creative and bizarre with our visual work.

All of our compositions are currently posted on our group blog : http://namelessvicus.ning.com/

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This group project has led me to consider more interestig elements to my theme of destruction. Typographic form is essentially perfect in quality. It is designed to be as such in any give environment. Perhaps there is something to be said about that relationship, and maybe use that as a playground for the destruction of form. The Halloween photographs project an intention to hide the human form and figure, to distort and disguise it. This isn't necessarily destroying form, rather it is a temporary state of being.

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Our group is making progress towards the final project. Although, we do not have an image of our group working, we will after Monday night (during our meeting). Instead I will discuss our plans and my ow individual progress towards the collaborative project.
In general, we are focusing on the disturbance of space and environments. We aim to make a collaborative film of still images,collage, movie clips, sound, and all the things in between that will later be projected around the school by a moving projector (a projector on a mule).
My part in this film will be based on collage. I plan to cut figures and objects out of still images and animate them in stop motion format. This will be very time consuming however, I think the overall effect will be nice and applicable to the other pieces produced by fellow group members.