Tuesday, November 08, 2005

defining space and place

I wanted to make some comments about today’s review with Hammett. I liked how he was telling me to look at space. As a camera sees space, or as a person sees space. He was giving me an example of movies, when a camera pans to a person or zooms to a person running, and the foreground, middle ground, and background are compressed due to the perspective of the camera and the angle, this compression is obviously a false interpretation of the distance between them. This is a very interesting way of looking at space. Congested space, expanding space, spaced that relates to perspective, point of view, relates to how that space is framed.

I am not sure which medium or which content I can apply this to. This is something I want to keep in mind.

Space and place are over used terms at this point. Looking at aspects of space, whether looking at specific places like vegas and documenting terms like “fast space” or “vast space” or any of these specific terminologies. I can define what about space I am trying to talk about.