"CIRCULAR RUINS" & "THE LIBRARY OF BABEL"

Circular Ruins

At first, it was hard to understand, because I was not sure which part is dream and which part is reality. However, at the end the author made my concern useless, because he stated that even reality that the man had, it is just another dream of somebody else. This remind me what I used to think. I used to imagine that what if the reality that I am having is another person's dream? Is the one that dreaming is me or someone else? At that moment, I felt I am being separated from my surrounding.

The Library of Babel

Babel is a building that existed years and years ago. The description of this building is featured on Bible. The author, Jorge Luis Borges, borrow this into the world that he created. In the library of Babel, there are uncountable number of books, and built in hexagon shaped rooms. All the people in there, the were eager to find "truth". This is just my assumption, maybe Borges made this library and made people to find it, because there are "truth" as many as books, but when group of people try to find something, they just simply assume that it will be just 'one'. This will make impossible to people to find "truth" 

FICTIONAL DOCUMENTARY

STATEMENT

 Our fictional documentary  will be about a song and an artist. A song on YouTube got really popular. However, no one knows who is the artist. Generally, the basic story line is finding this  guy. We got our inspiration from a movie called "Searching for the Sugar man." This movie is a real documentary about searching for an artist who is really famous in South Africa, but sold 10 albums in United States. 

STORY BOARD

1.Opening scene - Night sight of Manhattan
2.You-tube video starts to play the song. - original song title: Latch by Sam Smith/ still-image only
3.Listening the song.
4.Typing
5. Video Screen shot of twitting.
6. Captured Social media image pop-up.
7. Reporter is reporting about the song.
8.Billboard chart
9.Who is this guy??
10.Interview[1] expert
11.Investigating scene
12.Interview[2] tattooist
13. Trying to catch a taxi
14~16. Walk towards to the guy.
17. Focus on his tattoo on his hand.

EXIT THROUGH GIFT SHOP

Banksy is trying to say through this "documentary", what is moral or not, and what is art. It is hard to define what is believable and which was not, because 'believable' and 'truth' are different, and in this documentary, they are conflicting with each other a lot. Art is a term that when something can evoke or contain some meaning to somebody. It could be a point of view and expression of the artist, or it could be something that the artist did not mean anything or something else, but audiences can get something from the artists' work. At the end of the documentary, Shepard Fairey said, "I think even when you have the best intention; sometimes things can be go awry." This is a comment about how does he feel about being partially responsible for creating Mr. Brainwash. This comment overlaps on entire art industry. Even though artist intention is pure, the art become commercialized. 

SOUND

This is sound collage of all the sound that collected from Washington Park. Weather was so nice that I felt relaxed even though I had bunch of stuffs to do. I want to create a sound piece that can represent that nice weather, but the sound turns out a bit dark. This could mean even though I felt relaxed, my unconscious mind was nervous. I want this sound to sound like from radio, so I add noise, or adjust their speed.

SEQUENTIAL MOVEMENT