without a physical sketch. Its all mind to hand.
impressive skills
Mikito Ozeki / Cut Out from mikitoozeki on Vimeo.
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Other than lots of practice, he is one that can see negative space very well to sketch out the positive image.
still on the way to get all the information in.
I don’t know if it will still look like this in the end or I should spread my focus on exams and other modules..
Anyway, one thing learnt through random quick photographing of work vs executing the work: complexity don’t go through people’s mind. Simplicity does.
Everything that I came across these days seem to always fit in to what I am facing during crunch time.
An interesting post with cute visuals describing 50 messages. It is not easy to come up with theory like that. And it is even harder to work out visuals that enhances the content…
Here are my top 5 likes out of the 50. I think they just fit in to my current state of despair and stress from crunch time.
10. Listen to your instincts.
If your work doesn’t excite you, then it won’t excite anyone else. It’s hard to fake passion for mediocre work – scrap it. #the50
32. There’s no such thing as a bad job.
Always push yourself to do your best. Logically, there’s no way you can be dissatisfied with ‘having done your best’. #the50
38. Do not underestimate self-initiated work.
Clients get in touch because of self-initiated work. Ironically, business is excited by ideas untouched by the concerns of business. #the50
44. If you’re going to fail, fail well.
Being ambitious means you have to take on things you think you can’t do. Failures are unfortunate, but they are sometimes necessary. #the50
50. Don’t take yourself too seriously.
Take your work seriously, take the business of your craft seriously, but don’t take yourself seriously. People who do are laughed at. #the50
See all of them here
Is it because of the time frame or it is the process of the project?
I learnt that it is important to accumulate visuals (to take as much proper photos and decent drawings) while doing research and working out the content for the project. Because of this short time frame, execution becomes a mission impossible task without any visuals along with the content.
Staying at roughs and sketches won’t work.
Effort is accumulative, not explosive.
Without paying attention on the visuals right from the start, it has exploded my brain this time round.
good luck to me.
a costly lesson.
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Quotes and main points from journal:
As a rule, people have always been characteristically territorial. Territoriality is the behavior that an organism demonstrates to claim an area and defend it from other organisms
Relevance
As the world’s population density grows, the need to make space for people increases. By recognizing the various zones of involvement, relationships and emotions, more people can live comfortably together. By conducting this experiment, we are trying to determine how much space people need to feel comfortable. If people feel uncomfortable, they become more stressed. When people become more stressed, they become more sensitive to over crowding, and more space is required for each person.
A female may have been more likely to help another female, while a male ma have been more likely to help a female. Furthermore, culture was probably another major influence on this experiment. Different cultures are comfortable with having people enter different zones. Age would also affect out experiment. A much older person may hesitate to pick up note cards for a capable youth
4th Observation for the project with considerable findings.
Despite that all the people I observed are males, the observation showed significant documentation about personal space.
Some general conclusions.
People with similar ethnic group will tend to sit closer to each other. Surprisingly, they will also chat randomly to each other even though they are strangers.
Personal space is rather tight (estimated on average >1/3 width, approx. 5-10cm) even though their there are ample empty space around them.
Maybe it is because of the social norm at that environment, because of this closeness, it spark communication between people. Or they did not mind the closeness and hoping for interaction to happen to pass some time.
In cases when some felt the intrusion of personal space, (e.g one when an Indian talks on phone and another Indian man sits down beside him with almost 0 personal space, the first Indian man stood up immediately and walks away talking on the phone.)
They have a common intimate action of patting each other’s thigh while talking. (for both Asians and South Asians)
They extend their limbs to declare more personal space. (e.g with bend arm, or both legs crossed on the seat)
In another case, people place their objects around them to declare more personal space.
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Shivana Naidoo
Professor Southworth
Male and Female Communications
Fall 2000
Quotes in relation to the personal space project:
Based on previous research, men demand and claim more personal space than women.
As defined by Hall, intimate distance is 6-18 inches in the far phase and 6-0 inches in the close phase. Hall also defines Personal distance as 1-½ feet to 2 ½ feet for the close phase and 2 ½ feet to 4 feet for the far phase.
Most proxemic research suggests that female-female dyads stand closer than male-female dyads and male-male dyads (Arliss, 2000). Research also shows that men are more likely to respond more negatively to invasion of space than women (Knapp, 153).
This bubble widens in depth and encompasses more space in the front and sides of a person. People are less defensive of the space in back or in front of them. They are therefore more willing to let others surround or approach them from the sides and behind them than in the front (Arliss, 2000)
Leathers’ research suggests that males are more defensive of the space in front of them, whereas women are more defensive of the space that is on their sides. Females respond negatively to side-by-side interactions while men more upset by intrusions head on (Leathers, 97).
Another way to measure the proxemics between people is nose-to-nose distance. The smaller the nose-to-nose distance the greater the intrusion into intimate space and greater the possibility of discomfort.
Unlike the image of the proper, reserved, and pale white woman of the early 19th century, white females today are more willing to reach out and share their space with others (Hall, 84).
Of the Asian females that I interviewed, only 20% of them touch and stayed. Although there is no evidence for the reason why so few Asian women were willing to share their personal space with me, it is possible that their reaction may be representative of their proxemic cultural norms.
All of the Indian females and Indian males allowed me to get closer to them than any other ethnic group. The most likely factor that led to both genders allowing me to approach them is the fact that I myself am of Indian descent. Perhaps they felt more comfortable with me asking them questions, or were more willing to share their space and time with me as the result of our common heritage.
society and the humans that interact within that society have created a set of proxemic norms. These norms vary in many different cultures
Young children do not understand the concept space and its social norms. They create their boundaries as they get older, closing off more and more of themselves to the world. Studies have shown that as adults grow older, their need for space increases (Mayo et al, 81). As adults further mature they are more likely, to cut off more of themselves from the world and its ideas.
One of KLM’s latest adverts to promote their Business Class seats in Europe comes in this this great video that also explores personal space and their boundaries.
With candid camera, KLM went undercover at Schiphol Airport to measure people’s behavior as part of their personal space experiment. Hosted by Matt Chapman they want to uncover the secrets of personal space.
Thanks Darryl for the link!
When I set the project, I was intending to investigate the personal space in a multi-cultural and globalized society. With different mix of people from different background, cultures and upbringing, I hope to find out the difference between them and “hopefully” to derive something from there.
But even so with that, I am still confused.
Confused with how I should present the data. isit a infor graphics? or merely just presenting what I found which everyone can just replicate the project again and again in different context.
What is the “thing” that I want to represent so that viewer will not just “orh.. so that’s the difference” but rather, “hmm.. ya, I didn’t realize that” or more like understanding and becoming more aware of the personal space in daily life. And on top of that, becoming more sensitive and respect different culture background.
I know I am looking more into the tightness of personal space. The tighter the distance, the more it converse. It may tell us about the relationship between the people. Or reflect that they either have no sense of personal space or comfortable with tight personal space.
Don’t quite understand why on the average 40+ males and females in general don’t mind tight personal space with strangers but when they have the chance to take up more space, they quickly move to hog more space.
Why do they behave like that? Are the behaviours conscious or unconscious?
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