Monday, May 11, 2020

Reflection of my capstone project

REFLECTION-

At  the starting of this project, I was stuck for a while because we were given a fairly wide topic and were told to find our own approach to study it. What challenged me at the beginning, made the project extremely interesting to me by the end! Of course, not being in the college studio environment was a struggle but other than that I struggled to cut the less important parts from the articles I read during this project. In the beginning I felt like putting entire articles in my presentations, but overtime understood that simply explaining the "gist" also works in some cases. Another struggle was, to make the outcome, i decided on making an animation with apps on my phone, it took a lot of "jugaad" and a lot of patience but it was worth the experience!

PHASE 1.
 I realized that having a visual presentation makes the presentation more engaging for the viewers, some struggles were, network issues, trying to come up with useful feedback for my friends and vice versa.

PHASE 2. 
During this phase, I dealt with trying to arrange prescribed formats of the videos and pictures into the Presentation. I dealt with a bit of confusion as to what to put and what can be avoided.

PHASE 3. 
I had to keep talking to my friends for inspiration, we would generally brainstorm ideas together which made the process a bit easier. I struggled here with less patience. My stop motion came out a bit shaky because I kept running out of patience. 


Achievements: I feel during this project I was more interactive that I generally am, which turned out to be a great source of motivation. In my opinion, I was fairly up to date with what was happening which was extremely important due to the current times. 

Overall, I learnt how having less resources can become a very interesting opportunity! 


Drive link for all the work done for capstone

Final outcome of the food project

PHASE 2 of the food project

PHASE 1 of the food project

PRE WORK for the food project

CAPSTONE PRE WORK : food project

Sunday, May 3, 2020

visual diary day 20

go corona go   - video. i saw this video of a woman just jumping and screaming go corona go, that video summed up all my feelings. this is inspired by that woman on the internet



dance party  - video

visual diary day 19


go with the flow  - video 

visual diary day 17

visual diary day 18

crime master gogo  - video


flexibility    - video

visual diary day 16

look i can do a split   -   I made this for my friends birthday, the happiest part of her college experience is her dance team. She recently learnt how to do splits, this is just a stay safe warning for her.



moods in school   - these depict the various mood my friends and I had in school

visual diary day 15

I was blinded by khichdi for a day or two due to the food project.
I have realised my love for khichdi.
in one corner of the kitchen lay the lunch boxes which were indeed being overused just 2 months ago. 

visual diary day 14

My second eldest sister lives in New Jersey, they've strictly quarantined themselves like the rest of the world. Their building was out of filtered water for 2 days and my sister and jiju went crazy between working from home and boiling water. These two illustrations are inspired by their misery. It's all good now though!

visual diary day 13

 My mom makes us feel like she is interrogating us when we don't feel like eating.







We have been forcing my dadu to eat more fruits with antioxidants to keep maintain his health. He is rather sick and tired of eating all of the fruits.
I have realized that "whats up" is invalid as a question now.

visual diary day 12

these dried flowers are of the plant   
after some days we will shake the seeds of these dried leaves and use those seeds to plant more plants.







Video about stillness   - I was sitting outside, sketching and then suddenly a leaf slowly falls on the paper I was working on. (This slow motion video is inspired by this.)

visual diary day 11

INSAAN are mostly INSANE!


visual diary day 10

 Nature's Nature 

All the monkeys came and ate the yellow capsicums that my dad was growing, dissapointed but glad someone extremely glad that the monkies liked them
this ghiya is called Bottlegourd. I discovered that not all lokis, ghiyas are called bottlegourd in english. this particular variety is called BOTTLEGOURD as it looks like a bottle. My dad grows bottle gourds at home.

Saturday, May 2, 2020

visual diary day 9

I made this for the food project but this story means more than khichdi to me, when I was a kid I wasnt much of a reader, by the time I was 15 i wanted to indian ize my nephew who lives in the states, so one day i went to this old bookshop in kamla nagar and got all available akbar birbal comics, tinkle and what not. In order to get him reading them, I also read the legendary comics. Better late than never!




visual diary day 8


I feed three dogs who live in my galli, I still feed them but sometimes during night i hear random dogs barking and can't help but wonder how they would be doing. If everyone fed the dogs right outside their homes, wouldn't it be lovely?

visual diary day 7

I saw neighbours I've never seen before! 

 My family has started spending more time in the garden than in the house!


visual diary day 6

This was the last maggi packet avb in my house. It was SO special!
Lockdown without electricity (only one day) truly put my family's self entertainment skills to test!

Visual diary day 5

I started watching some videos about minimalism, and discovered that me not willing to wear anything but the two t shirts is a very small relation to it.I feel it is not for me, but the wearing same thing everyday part is something i would like to take up.





Visual Diary day 4




when will we see unfamiliar faces ?


visual diary day 3


    
Until you feel scared, you don't know what the opposite feels like


finding karelas
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 this picture reminds me of my dog, pluto.