https://www.scribd.com/document/360815731/Francis-Carolan-Online-Greenlight-Review
Finally posted on here aha, I still need to upload some things like my Maya and Flash work, pretty much everything I've done, will do that soon.
Finally posted on here aha, I still need to upload some things like my Maya and Flash work, pretty much everything I've done, will do that soon.
OGR 06/10/2017
ReplyDeleteHey Francis,
Okay - it looks like it's take you longer than is preferable for you to break the seal on blogs and blogging and working in a more 'little and often' and responsive way. Not sure what the issue is, but you do need to sort it with some urgency or things will soon start to fall over... You need to learn to actually embed your Scribd presentations into your blog, which you do my copying the embed code of your presentations and pasting them into the HTML mode of your blog post, before switching back to the Compose mode. On receipt of this feedback can you have another go. Also - just while I'm on the subject of basic house-keeping - can you also set up your blog template in line with the original guidance - i.e. your blog banner includes your full name, the full name of the course and 'UCA Rochester'. Right now, your blog is a no mans land and it's not representing you or us terribly well. Again, on receipt of this feedback, can you sort - thanks.
So, Fedora then... firstly, it was exciting to 'finally' see your thumbnails; there's lots to like - you can obviously draw and you've got a good eye for spaces. This is all very encouraging - but quite why I'm only seeing them now is something you need to reflect on and sort. I feel a little like a spoil-sport now, because I'm just going to pick you up on the reading of the text; Calvino often writes in a poetic way which can confuse, but the spiral tower who like is actually a feature of one of the unbuilt cities inside one of the domes inside the museum which is inside the city of Fedora. It's not a part of the 'actual' city, but rather a feature of one of the versions you'd be able to look at. Calvino seems to contrast the more fun, more magical elements of these alternate cities with the 'grey metropolis' of the real Fedora. Indeed, the real Fedora seems like rather a sad, tragic and dreamless-space, from which its inhabitants escape by looking longingly at all the better cities that were never built.
I'm just going to share with you here some of my thoughts as shared with Chloe, who is also looking at Fedora as her chosen city:
https://chloe-gardiner.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/invisible-cities-online-greenlight.html?showComment=1507302883961
There is little doubting the cinematic appeal of the museum containing all those giant 'snow globes' containing imaginary cities - and I think the reason that museum is there is interesting to think about too - museums are a lot like tombs, after all - we go to them to look at the past glories of mankind - at things we once did, or had, but lost or have stopped doing, or can no longer do. Why is the 'real' Fedora such a disappointing place? What happened? And why is the museum in a metal building - is it like a safe, or a cage or a crate - some maximum security place? Is something wrong with Fedora - and if so, what? What happened there that meant that a whole population now goes to this great museum to day-dream about happier times?
For me - Fedora - the real city - is a mystery you need to solve, and once solved it will tell you about the purpose of that museum and what it looks like inside and out...