Friday, February 4, 2011

Character Bios

Name: LUCY
Nicknames: her mom calls her lulu, oscar calls her lucy goose
Birthday/Zodiac: September 15, Virgo
Sex: Female
Age: 20
Parents: Joan of arc, clown by claude verlinde
Birth order/siblings: passle of brothers, all younger
Hometown:
Current Residence: the tower
Occupation: imaginaut
Salary: paid in ideas/stories – kept in a notebook. Can’t use it too many times, gets old/worn out.
Talents/Skills: knows art history, retains facts well, no nonsense, organized (disorganized when researching – waves)
Greatest personality flaw: isolates herself, too involved in her work, has a hard time relating to decisions based on personal subjectivity or feelings.
Best quality: logical, original, creative thinker.

Personality: Logical, original, creative thinkers. Can become very excited about theories and ideas. Exceptionally capable and driven to turn theories into clear understandings. Highly value knowledge, competence and logic. Quiet and reserved, hard to get to know well. Individualistic, having no interest in leading or following others.
Linear thinker
Truthist

Leah and Ellie mashed together.

Background: middle distance runner, page at a library (LOL), used to do plays – really good extra

Physical Characteristics: a little chubby, jumper with cat, little cat purse, black energetic hair with pigtails? Doesn’t wear the uniform because it’s stupid

Race: image
Nationality: vague
Height: large and in charge
Weight: large and in charge
Dexterity: left handed +10
Favorite Color: dreamsicle orange
Eye Color: black
Hair Color: dark purple/blue/red
Hair Style: energetic hair with pigtails
Glasses or contact lenses? no
Skin color: vague – little dark, olive?
Distinguishing features: catpurse, pigtails, eyelashes
How does he/she dress? Dress with cat, collared button down flannel, mary janes
Speech Patterns: LATER
Health: secret gaptooth, lactose intolerant
Hobbies: collects bugs, reads historical fiction (secretly historical fiction romance novels) – obviously a big reader. Note-taking, always writing.
Spirit Animal: koala


Name: OSCAR
Nicknames: weed
Birthday/Zodiac: March 11
Sex: male
Age: 20
Parents: kiss of the muse, cezanne
Birth order/siblings: little sister
Pets: turtle, sock monkey
Hometown: vaguely european
Current Residence: the tower
Occupation: imaginaut
Salary: paid in ideas/stories – kept in a notebook. Can’t use it too many times, gets old/worn out.
Talents/Skills: energetic, yo-yoing, making, always doing something
Greatest personality flaw: no attention span, does not assess risks very well, bad driver – never allowed to drive.  
Best quality: extremely loyal, great people skills, adaptable.

Personality: Friendly, adaptable, action-oriented. "Doers" who are focused on immediate results. Living in the here-and-now, they're risk-takers who live fast-paced lifestyles. Impatient with long explanations. Extremely loyal to their peers, but not usually respectful of laws and rules if they get in the way of getting things done. Great people skills.
Connects things intuitively
Picky eater – health nut/snob
beautyist

Background: swimmer, grew up on a beach, mow lawns – draw pictures, worked at a grocery store- did the chalkboard things.

Physical Characteristics: always wears the uniform because he thinks its awesome (but it’s stupid)

Race: image
Nationality: vague
Height: variable
Weight: moderate
Dexterity: right handed (secretly ambidextrous, but very much)
Favorite Color: rainbows!
Eye Color: black
Hair Color: orangey yellowy blonde
Hair Style: always under his hood thing, little puff bursting out
Glasses or contact lenses? Yes – square, dark blue/bright red it’s like whatever.
Skin color: vague – on the lighter side, edging towards yellow and pink?
Distinguishing features: jumpsuit/hood/poof, glasses, sock monkey?
How does he/she dress? Body suit with utility belt with imaginauts logo.
Speech Patterns: LATER
Health: cavities, split ends.
Hobbies: jig-saw puzzle
Spirit animal: otter

painted people, puppets, personalities

Alexa Meade paints people on people. Athena in the literature episode? Maybe more?


Also also, here is a list of 16 personality types which we might use as a jumping off point for our two main characters.



My suggestion:

Oscar: ESTP

Friendly, adaptable, action-oriented. "Doers" who are focused on immediate results. Living in the here-and-now, they're risk-takers who live fast-paced lifestyles. Impatient with long explanations. Extremely loyal to their peers, but not usually respectful of laws and rules if they get in the way of getting things done. Great people skills.


Lucy: INTP

Logical, original, creative thinkers. Can become very excited about theories and ideas. Exceptionally capable and driven to turn theories into clear understandings. Highly value knowledge, competence and logic. Quiet and reserved, hard to get to know well. Individualistic, having no interest in leading or following others.


Thoughts?


Thursday, February 3, 2011

Episode: Photography

Problem: Our PC is a budding young photographer of his art class. His classmates, due to some sort of contagious delusion, think that photography isn't "real art." Our PC is so discouraged, he wants to give it up.

Episode: Figurative Sculpture

Problem: It's snowing, so our PC is having a jolly time on his day off school frolicking in the winter wonder land. He's making snowmen and creatures left and right. Exhausted from his creativity, he retires for the night. In the morning, he wakes up to find that his neighbor has built a magnificent snow sculpture, finely crafted by artisan hands. The PC is distraught. The masterpieces that he created yesterday are nothing compared to his neighbor's work, in his mind.

Episode: Architecture

Problem: The problem character (PC) is a child of a family facing economic hardships. They have recently decided to move into smaller, more affordable housing. Unfortunately, the PC's box of toys has been misplaced during the move, and the PC is forced to deal with this alongside his stressful new circumstances. His parents propose that he makes the best of things with the cardboard boxes left over from their move.

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Notes from 1/28: Sculptcha, Litratcha, Architechtcha, and Photography

[My notes are pretttty slim, so plz bolster them with yours! Feel free to edit the post itself.]

Photography: Goal: determine that photography is a worthwhile medium. We'll talk to vermeer about the camera obscura, see the whizz-through of the evolution of photography, go through the Photoghetto (??) to visit the Porchtrait, from which we'll meet and follow Ansel Adams? or that other guy? out onto the Film Strip (boardwalk?)
[obviously I'm a little fuzzy on this one's people and order they go in - amend! edit!]

Architecture: [failed to take any notes here - probably not the best person to write about this one anyway - amend! edit!]

Literature: Most of this is good for now, we just touched on the mythology part - Athena/Pallas will show us around ancient Greece, pointing out all these different gods/myths in process. Also before we get to Poe's house we'll stop by Mrs. Dalloway's house to say hey and see if she knows whether Poe is home / watch her kill a moth.

Sculpture: ? We need to find more artists. The episode will deal with how different artists approach and represent the human form - what aspects they are trying to emphasize. (venus of willendorf et al - fertility, classical grecian statues - perfection of form, african tribal sculpture -???, etc?)

Color and Light: Bumped to be the last/finale episode because the problem is NOT with a kid, but with ImagiNation itself - the Color Fields are at war/arguing/seperating/in a tiff and the Imaginauts have to sort it out. The Printing episode is now the second to last episode.