Sunday, 19 April 2009

Brief- Use of Typology (Part a)

Part one of the brief is to use a typology to create a series of photographs or video outcomes in response to one of the following:
• Tree – Shape
• Hair – Suite
• Flow – Course
• Coat – Finish
I have looked at their dictionary definitions to see the various outcomes of these words.
Source: The Oxford English Dictionary (1933)
Collins Gem Dictionary and Thesaurus

Tree – Shape
TREE
1. A plant having a self supporting woody main stem or trunk.
2. Includes bushes or shrubs or erect growth and having a single stem, and even some herbaceous plants which grow to a great height.
3. A piece of wood; a stem or branch of a tree.
4. The cross on which Christ was crucified the holy road.
5. The wooden shaft of a spear.
6. A wooden vessel.
7. Any structure or figure, natural or artificial of branched form.

SHAPE
1. The visible form or appearance or characteristics of a particular person or thing.
2. A persons body in regards to appearance.
3. One of the forms or diversities of appearance, structure or properties in which a thing may exist. 4. The sexual organs; the distinctive organ of either sex 'the private parts of a female '.
Shape- create, fashion, form, make, model, mould, produce, appearance, aspect, build, size and cut.
Hair-Suite
HAIR 
1. Fine and generally cylindrical filaments that grow from the skin.
2. The aggregate of hairs growing on the skin of an animal; that growing naturally upon the human head; also, hairs collectively or in the mass, as used for manufacturing purposes and the like.
3. Instrumental. 
4. The epidermis of a plant.

Hair of the dog- an alcoholic drink taken to cure a hangover. 'hair of the dog that bit you' 
A hair’s breadth- a very small margin.   
Keep your hair on- stay calm. 
Let one’s hair down- behave wildly or uninhibitedly. 
Make someone’s hair stand on end- alarm someone. Blockquote

SUITE
1. A set of rooms for one person’s or family’s use or for a particular purpose.
2. A set of furniture of the same design. 
3.A set of instrumental compositions to be played in succession. 
a set of pieces from an opera or musical arranged as one instrumental work.
4.A succession or series.
5.Rooms in  series leading from one to the other.

Flow-Course
FLOW
1.The action or fact of flowing; movement in a current or stream; an instance or mode of this. Originally said of liquids, but extended in modern use to all fluids, air, electricity, etc.
2. Any continuous movement resembling the even flow of a river and connoting a copious supply; an outpouring or stream.
3. A deluge, flood. An overflowing. 
4. A flux for causing the colours to ‘flow’ or blend in firing.
5. To move on a gently inclined surface with a continued change of place among the particles or parts; to move along in a current.6. Of the blood; to pass along the vessels of the body, to circulate. Of persons: to come and go.
7.Move steadily and continuously in a current or stream.
8.Of the sea or a tidal river

COURSE
1.A direction followed or intended. 
2.The way in which something progresses or develops e.g the course of history. 
3.A procedure adopted to deal with a situation. 
4.A dish forming one of the successive parts of a meal.
5.A series of lectures or lessons in a particular subject.
6.A series of repeated treatments or doses of medication. 
7.An area of land or water prepared for racing, golf, or another sport.

Coat-Finish
COAT
1. An outer garment.
2. Used to translate ancient words.
3. Coat of arms.4. Indicating profession; hence, profession, class, order, sort, party.
5. A natural covering; an animals covering of hair, fur, wool, feathers; rarely the skin.
a. A membrane of outer structure investing or lining an organ – coat or the brain and eye.
6. A layer of any substance; such as paint, tar, plaster, covering a surface.
So much as is laid on at one time: a coating.
7. Anything that covers, invests, or conceals.
8. To cover a surface layer or coating (or with successive layers) of any substance, as paint, tar, tinfoil, etc; also predicated of the substance covering the surface.

FINISH
1.Bring or come to an end. 
2.Consume or get through the whole or the remainder of something
3.Have nothing more to do with.
4.Reach the end of a race or other sporting competition.
5.End by doing something or being in a particular position. 
6. Kill or comprehensively defeat.
7.Conclusion, last stage, termination.