22/02/2012

Before the weeks holiday we were given a mini task for Contextual Studies on the film 'London'. The key terms of the film are: 

• Poetic Meditation
• Flaneur ('a person who walks the city in order to experience it' (Baudelaire))
• Derive (a spontaneous journey through an urban landscape guided by feeling and intuition)
• Psychogeography ('the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals.')
• Heritage Industry

The exercise for 23/02/2012 (Tomorrow):

1. Create an image - drawing, photograph, college etc - of Robinson (the main person in the film) and/or his home.
2. Like Robinson with his monument to the writer Lawrence Sterne, (a novelist and an Anglicanclergyman. He is best known for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy; but he also publishedmany sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics. Sterne died in London after years of fighting consumption.) 'imaginatively reconstruct' a part of your own environment, providing a brief explanation of why you made your choice.

I decided to go for option 1 and draw a picture of what i thought he would look like - this is my result: