Week 5B

Today in class we started off by sharing our 200 word stories and getting feedback. I presented my idea to the whole class and got some good feedback but not a clear path forward. People liked the myth, they said I could use actually mythological characters though instead of inventing my own. James suggested that I change the wolf into the trash god or some other lame god in order to add more humor to it. My second Idea was the house idea, Kay said that she thinks I would do that one really well since it fits my drawing style better and she liked how it shows people interacting with the place. My third idea was the Tooth idea. I got the most positive feedback on this one but I think it's honestly my least favorite. The idea wasn’t really supposed to be too funny, but people thought it was. In my mind it was more of a metaphor for workers rights. People thought it would be good to focus on what makes the tooth mad, and showing the tooth being frustrated would be humorous. We then broke into smaller groups and gave feedback to everyone else. One idea from my group that I heard that I really enjoyed was a tiny UFO struggling to abduct people.

The idea that I am going to choose for the project is the address. I really enjoy buildings and showing how people interact with them so I think this will be a fun idea to explore. I also like the large time span for this story, I think it will be exciting to take a long look at an address, because I don't think many people think about the people that were in their house before them.  I started what I wanted the house to look like and think about layouts.

These are two quick sketch of what I was thinking, but the left one was too scary, and the right one was to plain.

This is the house that I’m going to go with moving forward. I think it really captures what I wanted with a sixties small suburban house. I explore it from every angle except for the back.

Here is what I pictured the house looking when it's starting to be run down.

I had an idea to show the story and have the house make up a neighborhood. Each new house in the neighborhood is a new step in the addresses story.

This would be the house as its built up.