Process Audio

Our piece follows the process of doing the dishes from opening the tap to putting the dishes away. We recorded the sounds of each individual task separately to then edit it all together. First we recorded the sound of running water, which we then looped so it would keep playing in the background. Then, we added the rest of the process to it. 

We chose this particular process because doing the dishes creates a lot of noise and it would give us a lot to work with once we were ready to edit. When we started editing, we wondered about the different ways in which we could present the process and finally decided that the linear form would be most convenient for this process.  As we were recording, we focused heavily on the different steps to doing dishes rather than the significance of those steps. Our main concern is that it has a clear beginning, middle, and ending. There is neither metaphor nor lesson; it is a simple process and we thought it should be presented on a simple way. 

In a way we can relate this to Dean Duncan’s  “Scriptures”.  In this short, Duncan shows us the processes of family scripture study in a chronological way, only interrupted by a series of interviews relating the participant’s views on scripture study time. Nevertherless, we never hear commentary directly from Dean Duncan. Also, the Sternfeld photos are accompanied by brief chronological narratives conveying the history of the places being photographed without additional commentary from the artist. Surely, Sternfeld and Duncan had a point to make in their pieces but they both present us with linear narratives that allow us to make sense of them on our own.  We can look closely at Stenfeld’s photo of Mount Rushmore and marvel at the craftsmanship or feel distraught for the tribe who was kicked out of their land even before the monument was built.

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Tiny Stories

Alfred was blind. All of the other giraffes made fun of him. Little did they know, Alfred was a professional dub step break dancer.

 Willie the fish had a small tail. All of the other gold fish made fun of him. Little did they know, Willie was a professional opera singer.

 Braden Slice had mold growing on him. All the other bread slices in the loaf made fun of him.
Little did they know, he could play guitar solos.

Peter the parasurolophus was large in size. All of the other dinosaurs made fun of him. Little did they know, peter invented the art of quilting.

Henry the alien had a large head. All of the other Aliens made fun of him. Little did they know, Henry could grill the best tasting steak in the galaxy.

Creative Statement

The inspiration to make these stories originally came form two different sources. Last week I was spending much time with a girl that I liked; however, I eventually decided not to persue her anymore. I have decided that one good thing that came out of this experience was it allowed me to receive inspiration for my tiny stories. In her apartment, she has a gold fish that has a huge clumpy head and a small tail. The fish seemed coherent and functional, it just looked really funny. When I was reminded of this assignment, this gold fish was the first inspiration that came to my mind. My secondary source of inspiration comes from doing cleaning checks last week. As I was cleaning up the kitchen, I came across a loaf of bread that had a couple of moldy slices. Annie Dillards short story "Seeing", helped me develop a mentality to notice the small thing in life. In her story she says, "It's all a matter of keeping my eyes open...Im always on the lookout for antlion traps in sandy soil, monarch pupae near milkweed, skipper larvae in locust leaves.". Annie seemed to notice various random simple things in her everyday life. The awkward looking fish and the moldy bread slices were small and are generally considered to be insignificant; however they inspired me to write a series of stories about objects(living and non living) that have some sort of physical quirk and the other similar subjects make fun of them. In the beginning, this was what I was going to write about. However, I felt the theme would be to tease  people that are different. So i added another element to each story. Each subject would secretly have an amazing talent or hobby that nobody knows about. This changed the theme to never judge someone based on their appearance. To make the story comedic and interesting, I gave each character an obscure hobby or talent.

Music Mosaic

                  These images were inspired by the song journey's end by the dub step group Blackmill. This was one of the first songs that came to my mind when the assighnment was announced. The images were chosen to symbolize certain elements. They provide a visual element to the music. When I listend to it It made me feel a huge admiration of God's creation's from the complex plant to majestic mountains. Before the dub step starts the music is soft and starts to build up. This segment of the song caused me to reflect on small plants in nature due to the simplicity. Once the dub-step began, immediately mountains came to my mind because this part of the song has a majestic feel to it. Because their are echoey sounds in the song, it makes me visualize cold weather in the settings I just described. I am not 100% sure why the song makes me think of a winter setting. The pictures are arranged from morning to evening, showing the journey of the day. The desaturated picture was included to represent the bridge of the song. The picture was taken at the time of day when the sun appears to go down. It bridges the gap between the day and evening pictures. The picture was desaturated to visually show a stasis in the bridge. You will notice that the second to last picture has a church in the middle ground. The steeple points upwards towards the heavens. This piece was included to show how man always should look towards heaven as he goes through the journey of life. The photo mosaic concludes with a close up picture of a icicle hanging from a parking garage at night, showing the "Journey's end". All pictures were taken on BYU campus and on the way back from Idaho on a work trip.