People Watching: Connections

WORDS

"Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain"
-Betty Edwards

"Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain"
-Betty Edwards

"A Whole New Mind"
-Dan Pink

"A Whole New Mind"
-Dan Pink

"A Whole New Mind"
-Dan Pink

"Why Designers Can't Think"

-Michael Beirut

"A Whole New Mind"
-Dan Pink
"A Whole New Mind"
-Dan Pink

"A Whole New Mind"
-Dan Pink

IMAGES







CONNECTIONS

The cattle herd is a metaphor for the crowd .

I translated "modern hieroglyphics" as icons, and with the hand I immediately thought of the United Way logo. I had to put it in a lot of desgins when I worked for a non-profit tutoring agency.

A large van and a diplomat, both things come in handy on a road trip.

Vehicle + distastefully commercial = Hummer. Self-explanatory.

The planet and the room are spinning.

He looks like a backwoods hunting kind of red neck and the sentence sounds creepy and uncomfortable taken out of context, the two together made me think of Leatherface. Completely by chance, the pictures have several similarities in color and composition.

The woman is carrying flowers and heart balloons, paired with poets, there's love.

The hand and the sentence put a picture in my head of Ziggy Stardust Bowie holding his hand up intensely on stage. But I found this image that complements the other well.

During my experience I wrote "Marlboro Man" for the faint transparent man in the image below. Children draw houses and play cowboys and Indians.

People Watching: the Execution

Above are my findings from people watching at Winn-Dixie.
Below is a link to a site containing the photographs from that, as well as photos from party people watching.

http://webspace.ringling.edu/~severhar/SITE/index.htm

People watching

"Sit in a public location and document people you see for one hour. Take detailed notes. Make sketches of one item that stands out most about each person."

My first experience. I'm going to do it in Outtakes on Thursday after my 3:30 class, because that's when I visit Jessica while she works. The whole school comes through there so there's plenty of material. I'm going to take pictures mostly along with written notes, but if some of them are in there long enough I want to sketch them out as well.