Jolanda-Pieta van Arnhem, MFA

Daily: April 18, 2007

Goals for this week:

*Find magnetic sheet at a decent price
*Finish Reading Moving the Mountain and Summarize
*Get second life size doll prototype drawn and printed
*Get first box prototype shrink wrapped to see how it will hold up
*Clear 8 Feet of Wall in the Lavender Room to start working on display stuff
*Contact AT’s for next semester
*Work with Bern on Hair book

Studio Project:
Some interesting stuff going on this week in the studio. I tested the magnetic paint theory last week and I am not a hundred percent sold. I have decided to move to magnetic sheet and right now I am trying to find it at a reasonable price. Here’s some pictures from this weekend.

Magnetic Paint Test

Yuck!

Painted On. It is Magnetic. Best if you Use a
Roller and Not a Brush!

I also had lunch with Yvette today and brought her my box prototype to look at. I think this will work with a few adjustments. Here’s some pictures and some notes from lunch.

* Use Ledger Paper as box background
*Print using 2 pieces of card stock (inside 1 print, outside another print)
*2 pieces should make box stronger for shrink wrap
*Use cardboard around the edges
*Look at other toy boxes to come up with more marketing junk
* Include a Slogan: Jerry and I have come up with this based around the Transformers slogan:
More than Meets the Eye. Women in Disguise. According to Jerry Anne Bryant wrote the transformers theme song. (He found this on a Dutch website and she currently works at the Joey Company…life can be kinda funny sometimes).

* Use numbers on the doll and ledger paper that are meaningful to women. For example, height/weight chart numbers, waist bust measurements, etc. Here’s a picture from an old Playboy I found after I had started working on the dolls. It might be an interesting way to incorporate the numbers on the paper doll itself.

*Use a sliding scale with 2 colors for the "good" and "bad" guys. Depending on each dolls percentages is where they will fall on the scale. The war between consumer/pop culture and counter culture places each doll on a "side" but the actual stereotypes have not defined an affiliation and are simply assigned by their traits.

Here’s some pictures of the packaging prototype. Try to remember that she will have clothing, hair and features. Each doll will have a different background and ultimately each box will be shrink wrapped. Things are slowly starting to come together.

* Last but not least, MUSIC. My video class is coming up very soon and I am starting to think about the Dead End Friends video but have been really thinking about using the paper doll instead. Jerry found a link for all the Transformer music at: http://www.tfcog.net/music.htm and this could actually be very fun. We will have to stew on this one.

Visual Culture Project:
The visual culture project is coming along slowly. I am actually experiencing a great deal of panic right now. In an effort to follow Sowon’s instructions I am trying to write note cards while reading my books. This has really slowed down the process of reading the books. My hopes are that I can organize and present the information better in the summaries and paper. I’ll let you know how this goes. Right now I am trying to get through Moving the Mountain and it is killing me.

Facebook/Communication with the Group:
I heard from Sabrina earlier this week. She is nominating me for the Tri-State Sculptors scholarship. Coolio.
Shaw is in France (lucky her), and all the CD’s finally went out. It seems that everyone is doing ok. Oliatan is also struggling with her reading and it seems like we are all either reading or working in the studio. Man.

Life in General:
Today was a good day but yesterday sucked a duck. And. I am officially stating that WORDPRESS SUCKS! We had a major malfunction after installing a spam filter yesterday with the blog and then I had a meltdown. I almost called it quits on this. But today is looking brighter although I have not attempted to post yet. In all fairness it could have been Go-Daddy. We will see.