week 12-13 "The art of seeing"

Online Journal Assignment 1
"The art of seeing"

I took a walk to start my online journal assignment and the first object I found useful for this was a clay brick, one of the most ordinary building blocks in England. This object has a very diffuse red or brown colour with a rough texture, like a sandpaper. It has a rectangular cube-like shape. I can’t say that it has a distinguishable smell and I wouldn’t try to taste it. It’s very solid therefore it doesn’t bounce when you throw it and also it’s not reflective or transparent. I chose this object as I’m sure that I will definitely come across it while trying to create virtual environments.




The next object I found on my way was a certain concrete column that it’s used to prevent cars passing through. It has a smoother surface than the brick, but this one is made from mixed cement with sand, gravel, shale and water. It seems that it has been molded into this rigid and cylindrical shape and then polished. It’s colour is grey and it’s so hard that nothing can break it apart from a bulldozer or maybe a very fast driver. You can distinguish some small air bubbles left from the molding process and also some even smoother and shinier areas made by the people touching it with their oily hands as they go through, since it’s located just at the entrance of the park.




I also took some pictures of the road, which is also a very common material that I’ll have to use in the creation of my future projects. The road is made from tar and gravels and stones of variable colours, such as red and black. Some of the gravels are shiny and have small reflective highlights. You can sometimes find some that have a coloured glass-like appearance. The asphalt has been polished from the car tires over the years. If you touch it you can feel the smooth surface of the gravel but the hard areas as well, that are between the bigger gravel made by very small crashed gravels and tart.



This is another photo I took of the road inside the park and because of the fertile ground on the sides of it and the high level of moisture, there appears to be some green grass growing in it, which makes the surface smoother but also slippery.