Over the summer, I tried to distance myself from the work, fearing I may become too attached to a project coming into IP. The rest that comes from not working is often equally as insightful, and such is what I found. I still have a deep desire for discourse on the city, statistical metrics, what urban centers mean to metro areas, and how they can be successful.
I think these notions persist in part due to my attempts to travel more this past year. I find new questions arise as I visit other large cities and my experiences are broadened. What makes these other areas successful? Why do we hold on to something clearly struggling? What policies inhibit or promote growth?
I suppose that this is the midpoint between why I came to school, for history and social science, and where I find myself now, an art student. There was a project I completed at the end of last semester that attempted to tackle this.
It was a short video, roughly six and a half minutes of animation with voice overlaid. It was a first foray into sounding editing and comprehensive video editing. It was also a disaster, fraught with error.
I'm not convinced the premise was wrong, I think there was great value in the exploration, but the way I conveyed my findings just seemed somewhat unrevealing and wandering. As my professor pointed out, I chose time as a medium when I picked a video format. However, I didn't utilize it to my advantage.
Time was not the crux of what the information presented. I could have very well printed the information and had the same effect (something I in fact did for a revision of the project).
So the question: Was it the medium or premise rife with error?
I still think my exploration was of interest and was worthwhile to me personally. I'm hoping that this coming year gives me time to, foremost, delve deeper into my interests in this area, and secondly derive a format that compliments the information.
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