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Sunday in the Park with George: Mr. and Mrs.
No full textOf the many characters in Sunday in the Park with George, Mr. and Mrs. are the most foreign. They are a Southern couple from America who are on vacation in France. To separate them from the rest of characters in Act I, they are dressed in an ivory and pink color palette which is not seen in any of the other adult characters. Both Mr. and Mrs. have extravagant accessories with floral details.https://ir.uiowa.edu/costume_design/1049/thumbnail.jp
Review: The Arab Spring: The Hope and Reality of the Uprisings
Get PDFMark L. Haas and David W. Lesch (eds.), The Arab Spring: The Hope and Reality of the Uprisings, 2nd ed. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2017). Pp. 338. $27.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8133-4974-9.
Reviewed by Ahmed E. Souaiaia, joint appointment in Religious Studies, History, International Studies, and College of Law, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; https://ahmed.souaiaia.com
Words Matter: A Situational Analysis of Alcohol, Conflicts, and Violence
Get PDFPast research focused on understanding the effects alcohol has on aggressive behavior. More recently, research has examined the situational context of this relationship to investigate underlying processes that influence it. This research examined whether words issued by disputants affect the way in which alcohol influences violence during conflicts. The data used in this study is from an original survey of inmates and their contacts in the community. Each respondent was asked to describe their behaviors as well as their adversary’s behaviors during a recent violent incident and a recent non-violent incident. I examined the extent to which escalatory and remedial actions condition the relationship between the consumption of alcohol and violence during conflicts. Conducting two separate analyses, I found alcohol consumption to be positively associated with violence during conflicts. When the recipient consumed alcohol threats increased the likelihood of violence during conflicts. Accountability for actions decreased the likelihood of violence during conflicts when the recipient consumed alcohol. Together, the results suggest escalatory and remedial actions condition the effect alcohol has on violence during conflicts. The findings reveal a necessity to expand on situational analyses of actions carried out by disputants that may condition the effect alcohol has on violence during conflicts
The Art of Lettering
Get PDFThe subject of my research project is learning how to hand letter. As a graphic designer, I have always had an interest in learning how to incorporate this skill into my work. I often find myself using script fonts, rather than creating my own. I think it is important to explore new skills and work outside of my comfort zone, which is very digital. Compared to script fonts, hand lettering is very unique and personable, something that cannot easily be digitally recreated. For this research project I will be studying the difference between hand lettering and calligraphy, then applying the knowledge to the creation of my own hand lettering style. I will be attempting to create wedding stationary with the knowledge of what I have learned.
To begin this research, I spent several hours seeking what would be the best way to learn hand lettering. I decided to sign up for a website called Skillshare. This site offered over 800 different videos teaching hand lettering. Many of these courses were set up with step by step instructions on how to learn the techniques. In order to follow along I had to purchase the right materials. This took some more research. People all over the world have different ideas of what they consider to best markers, pens, and paper for this skill. I tried to compile all of this information and ended up making my purchases. During this research project I was working with Tombow dual brush markers, Tombow soft/hard tip fudenosuke brush pens, and a Rhodia dotted notebook. I spent several days practicing writing out the alphabet over and over. One of the most important techniques I was taught was to put hard pressure on the markers when making a down stroke, and lighter pressure when the stroke moves upwards. After I continued to practice individual letterforms, I moved on to combining them into actual words. During this process I also did some research on the difference between hand lettering and calligraphy. I learned that hand lettering is the art of drawing letters and calligraphy is the art of writing letters. Both skills take a lot of discipline to learn. I also spent some time looking at different styles of hand lettering and figuring out which I liked best. The next step in my process was to begin working on the final project that would be showcasing all of the research I had done. I wanted to create a set of wedding stationary. This included invitations, rsvp cards, thank you cards, and envelopes. There are many different styles of hand lettering. I began to look on Pinterest and Instagram for some inspiration of the type of style I wanted my work to have for this specific project. I ended up creating my own decorative script which integrates a “bounce” style. This involves the letters moving around the typical baseline and x-height. After my research I went to Michaels and purchased blank black, white, and kraft stationary cards and envelopes. Once I was ready to start the hand lettering process, I began by drawing guide lines in pencil. Then I worked with the pens and markers to complete hand lettering my stationary materials. After experimentation, I realized using the black Tombow soft/hard tip fudenosuke brush pens worked best. This was due to the level of control they provided. I also used gold and white pens to achieve the aesthetic I wanted for my wedding stationary. In order to be satisfied with my final hand lettering pieces, I had to continue to try several different times. It took a lot of patience, practice, and a steady hand.
Overall I enjoyed the experience of learning about hand lettering and calligraphy. It gave me a greater appreciation for the amount of time people have to spend in order to become talented at this skill. It was something that I always thought would be easy but never realized how many different elements went into it. Hand lettering takes a lot of practice and patience to master the skill. The few months I had to learn it was not enough time to reach the level of expertise that I had originally hoped for. In the future, I plan to continue to learn and grow with this practice while also incorporating it into my graphic design work
Ports of Entry
Get PDFI’m by no means the most seasoned traveler in the world, but I’ve been on two amazing international journeys so far in my life: four months studying abroad on Semester at Sea and a month-long backpacking trip through Europe with my best friend. One of the things I’ve always regretted most about my travels is that I never seemed to get as much out of them as I thought other people did. They all had life-altering, earth-shatteringly deep reflections to share with everyone once they returned. Meanwhile, I couldn’t figure out how to tear my gaze away from my future plans long enough to focus inwards. But, as is the case with most things in life, I just needed a little distance and a little time. Maybe my experiences hadn’t been earth-shattering, but they were life-altering, in ways that were both subtle and significant. As it turns out, traveling impacted me more than I had thought, and these five stories helped me figure out how
SAAH Scaping
Get PDFTime outside of class is an opportunity to reflect and refresh. My studies in 3D Design have taught me how a space should serve its function. In this honors project I chose to conceptualize an outdoor landscape that takes into account its role for students and connects the University of Iowa Art Building West and Visual Arts Building using plants native to Iowa to motivate and inspire students in Art and learning new techniques in computer aided design to clearly depict my concept.
I began by shooting reference pictures of the art buildings and compiling maps and textures to draw inspiration for how I would organize the space.To make the space feel open and inviting for students to engage with or simply enjoy passing through between classes, I designed my paths to reflect the feeling of exploration I get from the subordination of right angles in the Art Building West. The paths surround flower beds which I intended as a reflection of the concept of porosity that inspired Holl Architects’ layout of the Visual Arts Building. I also include open lawn grass areas for recreational activities as well as for outdoor studying and relaxing. To reflect Iowa’s history and create a sustainable space, I researched plants native to Iowa. My references for plant life in Iowa City were the Natural History Museum in Macbride Hall, the local flower shop Earl May, the Hickory Hills Forest, and the University’s Facilities Management. I found plants that grow in the respective zone that thrive in areas that are often exposed to the sun and modeled and textured each plant asset using a computer aided design program known as Blender. I chose this program over Maya and 3ds Max due to its efficient and effective realtime renderer, Eevee, which enabled me to render my images with realistic lighting and textures more efficiently than with a ray tracing render. To reducing the complexity of the models while maintaining their likeness, I removed unseen faces and vertices that did not contribute to the overall silhouette in the model. Each leaf I acquired from either royalty free websites, I painted, or photographed and edited to have a transparent background in photoshop. The transparency allowed me to give leaves complex edges while using simple geometry. I used a translucency shader to make faces opposite light sources higher in saturation and shifted in hue just as real plant textures respond. Once all my assets for the environment were created, I placed each plant one at a time around the space. To reduce the amount of data in the environment, each repeated asset was duplicated as an instance. I took into account variations in density that would realistically support a plants ability to grow and be viewed.Lighting was important for presenting the scene realistically and complementing the level of detail in the environment. I used a high definition image for the sky background from hdrihaven.com and edited it in photoshop to create a sky realistic to the spring environment.
Through the research, design, and modelling process I developed a more thorough understanding of the needs, structure, and geometry of the plant life and relevant space. I also learned about the variety of plants native to Iowa and the criteria for making plants grow in specific environments. I hope that this work will inspire others to continue to improve the University of Iowa’s landscapes. These tools and skill I learned and practiced in this project will be pertinent to my future in design 3d modelling and conceptualization
Quotidian Science Fiction: Posthuman Dreams of Emancipation
Get PDFThis article argues that Science Fiction is a posthuman art form, whose texts posit a utopian dream which emphasises that the process of becoming posthuman is both incremental, and conditional upon the equitable cultural, social, and environmental evolution of our societies. The genre provides a transient dreamscape for visitation by the (post)human mind, by which the reader gains an expanded perception of not only their own empirical environment, but also of posthuman possibility. This posthuman dream however, is not a simply literalised by SF’s estranging narrative strategy, but rather is located in the intersection between the SF narrative and its generic form. Through the decay of their initially defamiliarizing nova into data which are cognitively explicable by their (post)human audience, SF texts dramatize our species’ continuous journey of becoming posthuman. This fundamentally posthuman model of the SF genre therefore challenges the model of cognitive estrangement proposed by Darko Suvin, and so proposes that SF exerts a pragmatic utopian dream that avoids being deterministic or teleological
Jackson #2 Image of Dr. Menninger
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