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.

Theme 5: Cardboard

Here it is, the last of the class blog photos, Cardboard! Ba-dah! (that was... a success sound of sorts). This means that next week is my last photography production class, and I am a little sad because it was definitely the most fun class I had this year. Here is young Macaulay Culkin, in, dare I say, his prime... Home Alone is one of my favorite movies of all time, when I was little because I had a crush on Macaulay Culkin and wanted him to be my boyfriend, and now because it's just an all around great movie. Also, I think it must be mentioned that as of late I have been having a recurring dream where it is 1990, and I am in Home Alone. I'm Kevin McCallister's older sister, and the two of us are outwitting Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern (Harry and Marv) together. Yup. I am THAT cool.

Theme 4: Blue

Took me a while to post it, but here's my blue photo. It occurred to me as I was preparing for this shoot, that I have a crapload of blue clothes and accessories. I guess I really, really like blue, I've always been drawn to it for some reason. The doc's in the middle of the makeshift clothesline are my favorite shoes. I've never seen anybody else wearing the same ones in all of Toronto, which makes me happy because it's really hard to be original in this city.

Theme 3: Injuries

Here we have class blog theme number 3, injuries. My friends Shira (make-up) and Maddy (model) helped out a great deal, without them this would just be an image of my shower's walls. I put some others on my flickr page, you are encouraged to look at them. You are also encouraged to enjoy them.

Theme 2: Water

I put this up on the class blog almost two weeks ago... I'm not very proud of it, but I figured I should update this blog for my plethora of readers, all waiting for my next post with bated breath. The next theme, injuries, is due this Wednesday. I haven't started planning, let alone shooting, which is silly because I'm on reading week and have been just the laziest person. It's two pm, and I'm still lying in bed in my pajamas. I sicken me.

Scary dream

I dreamt last night that Graeme and I had several little tots, and one was a baby, but every time I held her she bawled until her little voice was hoarse. But when Graeme held her she was fine and dandy. It scared the crap out of me. Having babies.

Theme 1: Hair

I have completed my photo for the class blog under my teacher's chosen theme of "hair". Next theme, "water". If anyone would care to see how other people decided to depict the profound subject of hair, I have provided a link to the class blog on the left. It's the first blog on the list. Or click this.