DSDN 101: Final 'The clip' video

DSDN101- The Clip (P3) from Jackie Liu on Vimeo.

Here's my final video for 'The clip', some parts of the video are a bit dark and blurry because of the crappy weather, on the day that I was shooting photos for this project, it was raining on and off the whole day. I got the sounds off soundcloud.com.

DSDN 101: Final storyboards

This is my final storyboard

This is my final storyboard with annotation of whats going on.

DSDN 101: Standpoint

For this last project ‘The clip’ I’m trying to show physical industrial design, which will be shown with my Bmx bike because a bike is designed for physical use. The phrase that we got given is ‘a new way of seeing’. So in my video I’ll be using the bike to relate to that phrase. My standpoint is ‘Industrial design; a new way of seeing purpose in physical forms’. What inspired me to use my bike for this project is that Freestyle Bmx riding is my hobby and I’ve been doing this for just over five years now. So in my opinion I think the bike will fit well with my standpoint.

At the bottom there is an image of a set of Bmx pegs, they are designed for a purpose, but they might just look like a set of poles that are only for looks on a bike for some people. The purpose of pegs are for grinding on street objects, in my video I show some clips of my bike grinding on tables and benches. Showing the grinding in my video will relate to my standpoint and the phrase, because grinding is a physical movement that’s being performed which is what the pegs are designed for and it’s a ‘new way of seeing’ what a bike can do these days.

A bicycle is an everyday use transport, for getting from one place to another, but a Bmx bicycle Is designed for its own physical forms which is freestyle. A Bmx bike will relate to fabrication for prototyping because since it’s a dangerous sport it needs to be manufactured right to with stand the impact that gets put on the parts of the bike. In my video I have my bike riding along, like other bikes and I it does tricks out of grinds so creates ‘a new way of seeing’. 

The Shadow conspiracy little one pegs [image] (date unknown). Retrieved from http://www.vitalbmx.com/product/guide/Pegs,17/The-Shadow-Conspiracy/Little-One-Pegs,551

Stevie Churchill bike check [image] (2011). Retrieved from http://mellonbmx.com/stevie-churchill-bike-check-3/

POTD: Kevin Kiraly [image] (2012). Retrieved from http://espn.go.com/action/bmx/blog/_/post/5232872#

DSDN 101: Precedent videos

Blog 5: Locovisual

The building in Wellington that I’ve choose to research is the Railway station, since I use the train to commute during the week, it’s a building that I always use and in my opinion it shows a great example of historic architectural style. The first Wellington Railway station was built in 1874 until it got burnt down in 1878 which was replaced in 1880; the station that’s there now was opened in June of 1937 by the Governor General, Viscount Galway.

The styles that best describe the design of this building are neoclassical/classical and Rococo, these styles have influenced the designers and developers that The Fletcher construction company lead, who are Gray young, Morton and Young.

As you can see in the picture of the station, it gives you a similarity appearance of the Parthenon; by focusing at those pillars on the Railway Station it’s got the same light creamy colour to it just like the pillars on the Parthenon which evidences both neo/classical styles. Symmetry form again symbolizes Neo/classical style and the Parthenon and station are in that form as you can see. “Symmetry, geometric forms, and decorative motifs such as swags, urns, and lyres were combined in the architecture of the period” (Allison Eckardt Ledes, 2000, p.1).

Since Rococo style associate with curvilinear and organic forms, the details around the clock on the Railway station building best describes those forms. Those designs around that clock are organic leaves attached onto two leaf stems and those stems evidence the curvilinear form because it’s got that curve design look to it.

Wellington station is like a one of a kind historic structured railway station in New Zealand and there are probably no other stations that’s design like this one here.

Resources

-          Gauvin, A.B. (2012). (Baroque and Rococo (Arts & Ideas)). Unknown:  Phaidon Press Ltd.

-          Allison, E.L. (2000). Neoclassical architecture. The Magazine Antiques, 158(4), 2. Unknown

-          Cracken, H. (2008). Wellington Railway Station. New Zealand Historic Places Trust Pouhere Taonga.

http://www.historic.org.nz/TheRegister/RegisterSearch/RegisterResults.aspx?RID=1452&m=Advanced