Day 11

Envy

Today we had to present our idea of what one of the seven deadly sins looked like with a series of ten images that put together tell you which sin it is. I decided to work one envy, I choose envy because it was the only sin I could think of ideas. Part of the assignment was to not give away what the sin was with just one image, all ten had to be cohesive and show what they sin was. After seeing my classmates work I saw all the different ways that a sin could be represented, I was kind of disappointed that I couldn’t thinks of anything for the other sins.

The definition of envy is “a feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else's possessions, qualities, or luck” (dictionary.com). I thought for a bit on how to represent envy, the idea came to me that one of the ways to represent envy is to show the haves and the have nots. The have nots are envious of the haves. I felt that I had to represent both because in the definition of envy it says “someone else’s possessions”. If I just showed nice things then the sins would come off as greed, and if I just showed angry people then the sin would come off as anger or wrath.

We went through each of our sins, talking bout what worked and what didn’t work. Jimmy also told us that we could make 50 dollars an hour as junior designer, I still don’t remember how he got to that point. The next part of class we saw a video called the Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames. The video begins with a couple sitting in the middle of a Chicago park having a picnic, and then it begins to zoom and zoom out 10 metters making a perfect square and it keep going until it reaches 10 to the power of 26, showing what beyond the universe looks like. Then the video begins to zoom in, it shows us the couple in the park in Chicago, and it keeps going all the way to 10 to the negative power of 16. Showing us what an atom looks like, all the way to a nuclear space. I still don’t know what the video was about, and thanks to Jimmy I have to keep thinking about it because we have to write a creative brief for the video Powers of Ten. Wish me luck!