Process Appropriation

1. Process Appropriation Project 7 Rachel Fox

2. Digital writer who creates online fictional stories. He primarily uses Flash to create compilations from text, sound, images and video to portray his stories. Alan Bigelow

3. Elevates ordinary objects to archetypal status. Puts manufactured objects in relation to nature. Archetypal Africa

4. Multimedia • Interactive • Easy to navigate His Process

5. Appropriate his process and apply it to print media. Take his work out of its original environment while maintaining the same overall feeling. Project overview

6. Create descriptions of objects using personification and metaphors • Fictional events • Overlapping images of actual object How

7. While widely recognizable, yet rarely appreciated, pens are the record keepers of intimate memories. Ink soars across pages in endless delight, painting the unspoken words of mankind. Often accompanied by a cap that fits snuggly over one end, like the encompassing arms of a content lover. Pen

8. Pen discovered that records the thoughts of God. – Zimbabwe | Oct. 3, 1992” • Due to too many choices in pen colors, teenagers are going broke on stationary expenses. – 2001” • Ink found in pens in Australia revealed to be from poisonous snakes. – Sydney, Australia | 2005” Pen

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10. Standing tall and proud, typically in the center of the room, a table is easy to locate. Like an ever present butler, tables hold and serve our needs. Commonly crafted from wood, tables embody nature in its refined and material form. Table

11. Table created to hold up humanity’s sins collapses after centuries of usage. Repairs ongoing. – Switzerland | 2013” • Table found on Mars, Astronauts are still awaiting a dinner invite from the Marians. – Moscow, Russia | 1997” • New table with 5 legs is ostracized in the furniture community. – Worldwide | Feb. 18, 2002” Table

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13. To provide endless comfort, pillows, much like sirens, lull one into a surreal trance. Offering promises of endless dreams and peace, pillows come in almost every shape and size for enhanced pleasure and appeal. Pillows adapt to their environment, using their innate flexibility to absorb pressure while maintaining a solid structure. Pillow

14. Pillows filled with stones revealed to be unpopular. Product designers are baffled. – New Zealand | Nov. 3, 1901” • Dispute of the pronunciation of “pillow” vs. “pellow.” Mass riots have broken out all over the U.S.A. – Washington D.C., U.S.A | 2003” • Pillow of Napoleon Bonaparte found and sold on Ebay for 3 billion dollars. – France | 2008” • Pillows proven to reduce effects of sleep deprivation. In large demand. – Worldwide| 9000 BCE” Pillow

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16. Requiring human interaction, a straw can become a gateway to instant satisfaction or endless torment. Forcing particles through its long, skinny channel, it asserts its dominance in its natural environment. Usually used for liquids, but sometimes, straws will accept a tougher challenge. Straw

17. Drinking straw created with so much suction that it creates mini black holes when used. – Research Facility, Spain | 2010” • University student seen using an invisible straw is expelled for displaying inappropriate behavior in public. – Beijing, China | Sep. 30, 2004” • Man chokes on straw. Straw company sues him for stupidity. – Chicago, U.S.A. | 1999” • First Bendable straw invented. What is next? Sliced Bread? – Toronto, Canada | June 10, 1885” Straw

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19. http://www.webyarns.com http://elmcip.net/creative-work/archetypal-africa http://www.webyarns.com/MythWatch/ArchetypalAfrica.html Sources