Monday, March 12, 2012

Devising Exercise: Stimuli

Stimulus 1: umbrella, dress, purse
The dress has long sleeves of lace and is white. It reminds me of a simple wedding dress or even an afternoon dress that one would wear for tea. The umbrella is green, but has colorful paint and drawings which makes me think of child's crayon drawings. The purse is a light brown and snake-skin looking.
The combination of these objects as one stimulus makes me think of a single mother who is going on a date to meet a man she's been flirting with all summer, but only realizes that her young children have painted and drawn all over the umbrella by the time she opens it.

Stimulus 2: Robert Hass
This line from Robert Hass' poetry makes me think of a person who very carefully arranges and organizes events for another person, paying great detail to the amount of time they have and how precious it is. It almost makes me think of an obsessive planner, someone who needs to have a schedule for everything (Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory if you watch the show).

Stimulus 3: The rainbow
This makes me think of a funny song from Barney. However, it also makes me think of the weather that occurs before a rainbow forms which may also correspond to a person's feelings: first it rains (someone is sad or depressed or dreary) and then the sun shines brightly (something has happened to dramatically change the way a person is feeling)


EVERYONE
Stimulus 1
  • Lady walking down the street in NYC in the 70's, it's raining, she is talking and meeting other people on the street.
  • memory of a wedding; old woman walking in the rain and remembering her wedding
  • purse - evil; woman dressed nicely, drops purse, meets man --> looks can be deceiving 
  • imaginary world, no head - imagination and being able to accept eccentric things; child playing dress-up
  • Mrs. Potter book
  • little girl visiting grandma, loner, playing with her grandma's old things, creating own world
  • open umbrellas inside is bad luck --> wedding going wrong
Stimulus 2
  • going into world of books
  • stripping away time from objects
  • intelligent guy surrounded by idiots
  • TIME - can't stop it, destroying something of great value, doing something hurtful
  • someone who restores paintings, assistant to world renowned paint restorer
  • beauty goes away over time, things are more appreciated
Stimulus 3
  • leprechaun - story of his life
  • beautiful
  • alternate universe
  • childhood, gay rights, freedom, joy, happiness, spring, light at the end of the tunnel, movement, good coming from bad
  • ROYGBV
  • segregation

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