NAQOYQATSI--->Life as War

“NAQOYQATSI” or Life as War: This film focuses on society's transition from a natural environment to a technology-based industrial environment. It was created not by filming in the real world, but by using archive footage and stock images, manipulated and processed digitally on non-linear editing workstations and intercut with specially-produced CGI. Reggio described the process as "Virtual cinema."

This film has been capture movable picture or VDO of the societies in both natural environments by using negative graphic, slow motion picture, repetitive motion, and reversing scene to remind audience of the natural being. Those movement is playing along the excitement music which is quite contrast to the film. The interesting in this film is that they try to link nature to the human activity. The example is when the soldiers walking in a circle, surrounding their captain which refer to the galaxy that all star is circling around the sun.

...SOLDIERS IS WALKING IN CIRCLE AS GALAXY...

FORM FOLLOW FUNCTION

From the topic that I pick up this week is a famous quote that many try to use as the concept of their architecture; however, to define the exactly meaning of them is become problematic. As I did a research, the description of ‘FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION’ in WIKI is a principle associated with modern architecture and inductrial design in the 20th century. The principle is that the shape of a building or object should be primarily based upon its intended function or purpose. In my point of view, there are a lot of potential of using ‘form follows function’, such as, the clearly space planning and the nicely access of the building, however, this may effect to the form outside which may not good in the outside facade. It is more formalistic.

Seattle Central Library by Rem Koolhaas and OMA

Another quote that I focus on is from the lecture, WORDs CAN BECOME ORNAMENT. In this quote make me realize of EVERYTHING is EVERYTHING. I think of the thing that we just let it out from our mouth can be inspire as an ornament.

Vitra Design Museum by Frank Gehry, Weil am Rhein

METROPOLIS and TRANSPARENCY

To continue the lecture, ‘TRANSPARENCY’ becomes the main word that TAYLOR keeps talking about. He have been comparing ‘transparency’ with government things, such as, government place set the window to let people see how they work, however, it doesn’t mean that people will know exactly how they cheat or working on. Therefore, ‘transparency’ is the topic that I will focus on. As I watch the film ‘METOPOLIS’, the thing that I get is about the emotional things and the way they design the text instead of using sound to represent the feeling. Transparency was popping up in my mind, because of what they using text to express their feeling. For example, “LOOK--!!” some may think this text represent bossy feeling or represent a feeling of startle but for me I think this text represent the excitement.

To conclude the entire thing that I wrote, there is no right or wrong to simulate something, its depend on what is in your mind that lead you to result it.