Wednesday, September 29, 2010

That beautifully burning number 1 is 6 times the fiend you'd imagined!

While doing my psychology homework I started thinking about the Prisoner (who doesn't think about the prisoner now) and I was thinking about the identity of number 1. Is he this all knowing figure like Big Brother from 1984 or... is he the evil essence that lives inside each of the villagers, this would explain the Number 2 in the A, B and C's episode's fear for him because we fear nothing more than what lives inside of us. And also Number 1 can mean Number one's self. To show even more evidence if you look closely at the opening the place where Number 6 lives in London, it has the numeral 1 on the door. And with the iconic lines "Who is number 1?" There are two responses that are completely different when read the normal one which we all hear is "You are number 6." Which can be perceived as number 2 telling number 6 that he is indeed number 6, but the hidden meaning could be "You are, number 6." With the added comma number 6  has become number 1, a self image he is striving to compete against. I actually have to credit my hypothesis to Bobby who came up with the idea that The Village was just a mind game that Number 6 is playing on himself, a dream like in the A,B and C episode.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Surrounded by the melody of the sea breeze, writhe under my feet on a coral reef!

I feel like I just have been mind crushed (if you have ever seen Yu-Gi-Oh you would know what that means) by that Prisoner episode. This is what I picked up from it. Number 6 wanted Number 2's position so he may escape back to England so he may take his long deserved vacation. However Number 2 had other plans, he made it seem that number 6 had a fighting chance against 2 but in actuality it was fixed with the use of mind disorienting drugs and tests (I still did not know what the deal was with that square and circle). As soon as number 6 won favor amongst the villagers (which I find totally weird because out of the blue number 6 supporters spawned). And his foreign maid turned out to be the actual number 2 where the other number 2 was just a replacement. (Though we can't be entirely sure). And I think that egg thing in the cave was a new rover being made or something along those lines. It just really freaked me out but I love it so much.

Monday, September 27, 2010

My groggy self is an angel and you who crawl the earth, are a demon

... how should I start this. The game, it took over all of us, it changed us, caused us to link together in total fear for our "lives" (anyone who thought their life was in actual danger I apologize). This game showed how dark and treacherous we can truly be, Viviana turned into a blood thirsty monster and well I ain't exactly excluded from the whole dark transformation but you all know what I did so I don't need to explain myself. Though I believe that there were better ways to have gone about this, we still had lots of fun doing it. Today me and my group wrote a synopsis for a "The Prisoner" episode, which I thought was pretty hilarious considering. I looked for more symbolism with the circles and since we did robot children I was thinking of gears moving in a circular motion. We also made sure the ending reincorporated with the beginning like all good Prisoner episodes. It seems that the spy game and The Prisoner has become our existence. Heheh, it was nice game but it definitely is not for everyone. What do you think the disastrous effects that will ensue if "normal" kids play this game, madness will ensue I tell you

Sunday, September 26, 2010

The Summer sonata comes to an end - A mad dog, the water boys , the legendary man cloaked in mystery

Ssssshhhhh
That's the door to the library
For my second psychogeography project I took pictures of doors. Because honestly I love doors. Both in the literal sense and the metaphorical sense doors are very interesting they open us to new rooms or ideas. So I took pictures of doors in my house.

My cat is in that room.
*sigh*
This would be the entrance
to my room...
Yep, you could totally tell
The door to my house's
entrance

The door to my garage
The door to my pool
If you saw the last post you would see
the problem here
The inside of my room
The door to my patio
The outside of my house
The door from my mother's room

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Dance like you've prepared for the worst! A sunday battle fever.

So for my psychogeography pictures I've taken photos of light, objects and their shadows. So inside my house and around the neighborhood I saw how light was refracted and how objects affected how they looked. As I closely examined it, I never thought how ominous the shadows looked, it was as if there was a whole other world that existed in the shadows. It sent shivers down my spine, the cool kind that is.
It's an evil tree I tell you, an evil tree!

A table for four anybody?

Many a bird (and idiot)
 have crashed into
my near invisible glass door


In order not to anger Luke
I had to throw my cat out of there
Poor poor Cleo
They say there's a witch on
Ridge Road, yep
there totally is one

That is all  you're going to see of my room,
unless you're a girl and ask nicely ;)



Stop in the name of the... Sun?
(Yah I'm out of witty phrases)
After I threw my cat out of the barrel she jumped on the couch which I then threw her out of there as well. It's just not her day
That tree almost looks creepy
For a minute it looked like the light
was on, weird huh?



So that's all of them. Light and shadows can be cool huh?
Cecil Harvey from Final Fantasy IV he
is both light and darkness in one
very very pretty boy
And a picture of the person (sort of) who made me think of it

Monday, September 13, 2010

Is Cupid utterly devoid of manners?! A decisive Monday battle that sets hearts on fire

There is truly so much symbolism in the Prisoner it's not even funny, but that's what makes it so interesting.  The circles, the weird blob balloon made of a celophane/kevlar material, the symbol of the village (the bicycle wheel), the greeting hand gesture and even the people walk in circles and how their clothes are stripes which circle around the body and one can even say the old general is circular (his body shape that is).  No matter how much I think I understand the show it turns the tables on me so I'm dropped on my ass all the time. I really want to see it again, it's so fun to watch. I can't wait

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Does the Summer Bambina, The Former Angel, dream of cactus flowers as she steps out of her dress and flies into the flame?

Well after finding out the "proper" way to cheat we experimented with waters and the color theory. I haven't used water colors since elementary school which would be about seven years. Unfortunately I was not able to operate the brush correctly so I ended up botching up all the images (well no one is perfect I guess). Well overall I guess I had fun using the complementary colors to make the image stand out and I liked the idea to put them all on the door, they all turned out great, especially the ones with jokes and pop culture references (I couldn't resist making one myself). I hope there are more fun times to come. See you next time.