So Armilla - city of pipes - nice. If I'm being completely honest I can't see the connection between the thumbnails and the qualities of the city described and I'm not convinced that Calvino's Armilla is so very dark and dramatic and doomy - isn't it a bit quirkier, maybe? There's that wonderful description of all the bathtubs, sinks and toilets hanging like white fruit from a tree... I'm also not sure why 'Art Deco' is so integral to the look and feel of this city; I commented previously on a thumbnail that had a 'deco' quality, but 'deco' is the aesthetic of the Jazz age and is associated with modernity and the future. It absolutely could work, but things seem a bit confused at the moment, and also you're making Armilla into a bleak dystopia, when I'm not sure that's its character exactly. It feels a bit more 'peaceful' and surreal than that somehow - and somehow a bit sad? I'm just going to put some additional visual reference on here for your curiosity and interest:
Check out Heath Robinson for a much lighter take on stripped back mechanisms:
and pipes - lots of pipes! http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/26/37/05/2637057b41e0b1e61bc7152f47d04da4.jpg http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/series-parallel-old-pipes-wall-32424000.jpg
Remember, you're imagining a city - something vast - something made of lots of verticals and u-bends - networks of tubes: it might help you to think of your city as being more like this:
so - not solid, but as if the solid has been stripped away leaving only the network - a bit like an 'x-ray' of a city, so that only the 'veins and arteries' of the city's infrastructure remain behind. I think Armilla is like a skeleton of the city that used to be there..., like I said, not so much sinister as melancholy...
Thanks for the Feed back! Now i look at it, i focused way to much on the idea of Amilla being unfinished, and completely read over the pipes, sinks and toilets. After doing some Research i found that using hints Vorticism might convey Calvino's Armilla Better than Deco. I re-analysed Amilla's extract and it seems more akin to the scrap yard/city in Andrew Stanton's Wall-e (2008). This gives me a rough idea of how it might look, less dystopian, more empty and forgotten?
After re-reading i noticed that there were a few grammatical mistakes, so i re-uploaded.
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ReplyDeleteHey Ryan,
So Armilla - city of pipes - nice. If I'm being completely honest I can't see the connection between the thumbnails and the qualities of the city described and I'm not convinced that Calvino's Armilla is so very dark and dramatic and doomy - isn't it a bit quirkier, maybe? There's that wonderful description of all the bathtubs, sinks and toilets hanging like white fruit from a tree... I'm also not sure why 'Art Deco' is so integral to the look and feel of this city; I commented previously on a thumbnail that had a 'deco' quality, but 'deco' is the aesthetic of the Jazz age and is associated with modernity and the future. It absolutely could work, but things seem a bit confused at the moment, and also you're making Armilla into a bleak dystopia, when I'm not sure that's its character exactly. It feels a bit more 'peaceful' and surreal than that somehow - and somehow a bit sad? I'm just going to put some additional visual reference on here for your curiosity and interest:
Check out Heath Robinson for a much lighter take on stripped back mechanisms:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5mmakxIPIJs/Tzu5UkjP3cI/AAAAAAAAFyo/IDB6mM0ur9E/s1600/HeathRobinson.jpg
and pipes - lots of pipes!
http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/26/37/05/2637057b41e0b1e61bc7152f47d04da4.jpg
http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/series-parallel-old-pipes-wall-32424000.jpg
Remember, you're imagining a city - something vast - something made of lots of verticals and u-bends - networks of tubes: it might help you to think of your city as being more like this:
http://www.elu.sgul.ac.uk/rehash/guest/scorm/244/package/content/images/lungs.gif
so - not solid, but as if the solid has been stripped away leaving only the network - a bit like an 'x-ray' of a city, so that only the 'veins and arteries' of the city's infrastructure remain behind. I think Armilla is like a skeleton of the city that used to be there..., like I said, not so much sinister as melancholy...
Thanks for the Feed back! Now i look at it, i focused way to much on the idea of Amilla being unfinished, and completely read over the pipes, sinks and toilets. After doing some Research i found that using hints Vorticism might convey Calvino's Armilla Better than Deco. I re-analysed Amilla's extract and it seems more akin to the scrap yard/city in Andrew Stanton's Wall-e (2008). This gives me a rough idea of how it might look, less dystopian, more empty and forgotten?
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