WOII | Week 4 & 5

Objects carry layers of meaning beyond their practical use. They are extensions of our identity, memory, and values. 

Our activity was to bring objects to class and as a group, select 2 objects under different themes. We chose memory and materiality. Memory in objects carry the experience, emotions, and associations tied to the object. The materiality of objects are its physical properties; texture, weight, color, shape, and scent. With “memory”, objects act as triggers, accessing memories. With “materiality”, it affects how we perceive, handle, and emotionally connect with the object.

The next activity we selected objects from the class under a different theme, “humor”. Objects can be humorous in different ways; physically and emotionally. Physically, they could stand out in comparison to other objects. Emotionally, there is a backstory that triggers the humor in it. 

During the New Bahru field trip, I came across a plant from soilboy which I thought connected to “humor” quite well. It was visually funny looking because the roots/trunk/branches were intertwined and looked like humans having intimacy to me. 

Furthermore, I explored objects under a new theme on this trip, “structure”. I had no plan on the types of objects to photograph but after looking through them, I tend to capture objects that follow or challenge the idea of manmade vs natural. 

Manmade objects are created, designed, altered by us for a purpose. They often express identity, creativity, or status and reflect human intention and imagination. 

Natural objects occur without human invention. They often symbolize connection, temporality, or grounding. It is a reminder of life. 

Some objects are made to look natural. They are crafted to mimic natural forms in order to create a sense of connection to nature in spaces where it’s absent. 

Objects carry memory, meaning, and emotion. They act as storytellers of who we are. They blend materiality and imagination, turning the simplest form into reflection. 

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Works Cited

“OBJECT | Meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary.” Dictionary.cambridge.org, dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/object.

“Unicus Olympiads.” Unicus Olympiads, 2018, www.unicusolympiads.com/concepts/how-do-materials-like-cotton-or-glass-show-natural-vs-man-made.

Vedantu. “Natural Things in Biology: Definition, Types & Examples.” VEDANTU, Vedantu, 30 Nov. 2021, www.vedantu.com/biology/natural-things.

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FM / AM
Radio Cassette General Electric
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I just bought this chick to celebrate Easter, look at this thing, it’s a chick in a wicker hat with a ribbon:

It’s the same thing only mine has a blue hat, which I frankly prefer. Look at it! I’m crying so hard, I’m like this guy:

Summer objects

A quite large and rusted metal object, on the beach.

Devin Rosychk

Tempted to start a line of potentially “Self-fulfilling fortune cookies,” like this one (which I’m very tempted to heed):

Metal objects. Black and white photo.

Concept: A two-device accessible cheese grater design, both of which are probably useful accessible kitchen gadgets in other respects as well:

Device one: A cheese-cutting wire guillotine. A sharp, durable wire pulled taut via a supporting rod. Place a block of cheese on the platform below it, lower the wire, and slice off a thin layer of cheese.

Device two: A rectangular clamshell cutter. The bottom is a sharp metal grate (thin enough to provide appropriate dimensions for shredded cheese), held in a frame with empty space below it for cheese to fall into/pour out of. The top is the inverse of the rectangular prism containing that grate — a grid of long, rectangular blocks designed to force cheese through the grate when lowered and pressed down.

A big snail

Draw a musical instrument as a deadly weapon.

Source
“ZZT Objects” by KAB/SMB (1994)
[OBJECTS.ZZT] - “Title screen”
Play This World Online

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Concept: An artist alley business which sells items that most any artist could design, but wouldn’t sell because a competent execution would showcase little-to-none of their own style/skill. Some examples of the kinds of things they might sell:

• “Safety” sign designs. (And other designs which require reproducing a specific design, like in-game menus.)
• Missingno sprite stickers. (And other items that use “official” art which owners of the media containing them don’t want to acknowledge.)
• A “D&D Alignment Chart” cork board, an Animal Crossing fossil rug, and a “YOU DRIED” Dark Souls towel. (And other items requiring straightforward, mostly skill-free implementations (and/or manufacturing orders) of clever ideas.)
• An organized variety of 8-bit heart pins — all combinations of a selection of shapes and colors. (And other “generic” items which you can’t really “design” in any meaningful way, but that people would still want.)

I was going to call this business “Canonical __” (perhaps “Forms”) for a meaning of “canonical” in computer science I once heard. It referred to “the most basic approach to a problem anyone could come up with,” like blocking/finishing two-in-a-rows in tic-tac-toe. But I can’t find any reference to that meaning of “canonical,” so it’s back to the drawing board.

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