Dinosaur

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Originally uploaded by claud-hop

This is a series I created for a final assignment in my "Visual Studies" class. I find that university class titles are very vague and general sounding... I had a class last semester called "Concepts and Theories" which could really mean anything.

The series is titled "Dino The Office Dinosaur". The title sounds a bit like a low-budget late 80's early 90's children's television show, which I thought was funny because, growing up in the 90's, there seemed to be a lot of anthropomorphic dinosaur related entertainment, ie. "The Land Before Time", Pterry from Pee Wee's Playhouse", and of course, the really strange and chaotic television series "Dinosaurs", which was about a working class family of dinosaurs who's society has this bizarre toxic lifestyle. But I digress. I wanted to make a series that displayed something remarkable living a completely unremarkable life, so I chose to create an office series of mundane images, but spice it up with a dinosaur-man-creature that works amongst the "normals". The images display Dino interacting with his co-workers like a normal man, but struggling at times because of his walnut-sized brain and impatient dinosaur tendencies.

Thanks to all of my friends who helped me out with this shoot, especially Graeme, who had to endure the hot flashes being inside of that rubber mask. Also, thanks to my mom, who got me the permission to use the office (that she works in) on a Saturday. Oh yes, and if you are wondering, "but what mark did you get on this assignment, Claudia? I simply must know!" I got 100%, boo yeah. Click on the dinosaur to see the rest of the series on my flickr page.