Exact Emblem
April 18, 2009 at 9:23 pm | Posted in Exact | Leave a commentTags: Israel
Though this emblem took a long time to make, it was worth it to get the point I was trying to make across about the book. It is supposed to represent the idea of how chaotic and crazy Dolly City seemed to Dolly in her mind. She felt it was a place of violence where bad things were constantly happening and that there were constant diseases being spread. Since the idea behind Calvino’s memo on exact has to do with the mood and atmosphere of a book, Dolly City proved to be a good place to exemplify these qualities. The atmosphere of Dolly City was actually made to portray Israel during times of war; therefore, the statement of “is violence real?” was put there to show the word “Israel” in the color blue to make that connection. Every shape and line that is coming out of the center building with the words “Dolly City” on it is supposed to represent the crazy and violent scenes Dolly constantly dealt with in her world. The overwhelming amount of images depict the idea that we live in a world of unending images, as well as how every exact concept is important to the overall novel.
Exact Analogy
April 18, 2009 at 9:23 pm | Posted in Exact | Leave a commentTags: city logo
This logo is named the City Logo because it is supposed to represent the Seattle City Council in a simple but powerful way. The logo fit appropriately with the idea of exact and the literature work, Dolly City, because it seems to form an overall sense of an interesting atmosphere. The face represents the mind, which exemplifies the mood that makes up a novel as well as the idea that we live in a world full of images. The city logo idealizes Dolly City with the stern and serious face that is the mood of the work. In addition, the outside of the face forms what looks like two “C’s” to portray cities where the blue brings forth a calming atmosphere that is natural and peaceful. Everything then ties together to Macnab’s principle of the eight stages of thought-altering discipline, which are used to shift reality perception where physical ability is related to mental acuity and willingness to take personal risk to calm mental conditions.
Exact Design
April 18, 2009 at 9:12 pm | Posted in Exact | Leave a commentTags: 8 stages
Looking closer into the principles of Macnab, the number eight seems helpful when contrasting it with the quality of work I chose. Dolly City continually touches upon the idea of the mental and how it gives way to harming others physically. The thought processes that Dolly goes through are what make the novel so intriguing as well as disturbing. She constantly is detaching herself from reality in order to perform the crazy surgeries on her son, believing that she is actually helping rather than hurting him. This ties together the principle that Macnab calls the eight stages of thought-altering discipline, which are used to shift reality perception, and in so doing alter it in fact. Macnab compares these thought processes to sports, but particularly martial arts, where physical ability is related to mental acuity and willingness to take personal risk. The disciplinary training of martial arts involves eight stages of mental conditioning that lead to abandoning both hope and fear, the final stage of spiritual bravery.
Incorporating the principles of eight into visual communication is a powerful but calming element and best associated with high intention and integrity. The processes involved in mediation, therapy or physical discipline are much like that of creating inspired, integrated design. Therefore, Macnab uses the power of the number eight for spiritual reasons to calm the mind. These stages would be helpful for a character like Dolly, but also allows the reader to notice the different moods Dolly goes through.
Exact Experience
April 18, 2009 at 9:11 pm | Posted in Exact | Leave a commentTags: city
Calvino uses the term exact to describe the mood or atmosphere of a piece of literature as well as the effort made by the words to present the tangible aspect of things in the novel as precisely as possible. What stood out most about Calvino’s ideas of the exact aspects of literature that is comparable to Dolly City is the idea that we live in an unending rainfall of images. These images are what help form the overall mood of the literature and the precise words make up the atmosphere for the characters to live in.
Calvino also discusses a more complex symbol in his exact memo that is very relatable to images throughout Dolly City. The symbol he uses is the City, which he discusses in his book Invisible Cities that expresses the tension between geometric rationality and the entanglements of human lives. Every concept and value turns to be double, even exactitude. The symbol of the city is very important when looking closer into the life of Dolly as well. The book is centered on the place she lives in, Dolly City, which is representative of Israel in actuality. The whole city around her is basically what drives her mad, as she believes everything around her is sick. Dolly City is the place where the main character grew up and she is constantly criticizing it for its flaws and the harm she believes it has brought upon her mentally. You could say that the symbol of the city in many aspects just leaves her feeling melancholy, enhancing the overall feelings the reader gets about the type of person Dolly really is.
Quick Emblem
April 17, 2009 at 5:29 pm | Posted in Quick | Leave a commentTags: spiral
Since I see the idea behind quickness as the path of thought through the plot or the events that occur in the book, this emblem was made to portray that idea figuratively. The path starts out at the bottom, moving pretty straight just as the beginning of a book does as the plot and characters unfold. After reading for a while, the plot changes and curves as more characters and events are added, making the story more interesting to read. Since each event in Dolly’s life seems to happen at a rapid pace, the swirls begin to get smaller and happen closer together. At the end of the loops, they come back around to connect back to the previous ones because that is how Dolly City ends. Dolly comes to the realization that after all the pain she had inflicted on her son, war wounds and battles were nothing that could kill him after all she had done. She knew that even though her mothering skills were very outrageous, that there was nothing else she would do to save him but let him go. The story comes around in full circle, completing the cycle of mother and son relations. Also, the rainbow colors on this emblem are used to show the many contrasting incidents that occurred as well as the always-changing and sporadic thoughts Dolly had.
Quick Analogy
April 17, 2009 at 5:28 pm | Posted in Quick | Leave a commentTags: rare disease
This logo seemed to fit with the idea of quick and how Dolly believes that diseases spread very quickly and to everything around her. The main objective of Rare Disease Day 2009 is to raise awareness with policy makers and the public of rare diseases and of their impact on patients’ lives. Also, the three hands can been seen as a multiple of the principle of six previously discussed and the colors that blend together form other colors, exemplifying regeneration. The name on this logo is also ironic when comparing it to Dolly’s ideas because believing that everyone and everything around her has cancer is a very rare thing.
Quick Design
April 17, 2009 at 5:01 pm | Posted in Quick | Leave a commentTags: six
Through the use of the number six, Macnab discusses a transference method called lateral diffusion, or the spreading from one node, or person, to another. It is supposed to portray the way in which gossip, jokes, rumors, diseases, corporate communications and computer circuitry move through space with very fast, two dimensional speed. This not only embodies the idea of quickness, it portrays the quickness that is described throughout the life of Dolly. Her main issue throughout this literary work is her constant fear of the spread of disease, mainly cancer. She is convinced that everything around her, including trees and cars, are infected with cancer and that she is the only one who can find a cure to fix everything.
This can also relate to the idea of the six degrees of separation where it is believe that any two people could be connected through no more than five others. In other words, if this theory is true, Dolly believes that because so many people are connected through others, that diseases spread even faster and to even more people in Dolly City.
Quick Experience
April 17, 2009 at 4:52 pm | Posted in Quick | Leave a commentTags: chaos
Calvino distinguishes the idea of the quick in literature as the path of thought that goes through the plot’s rhythm of events. I would say that the book Dolly City could be described as what Calvino discusses as quickness. Though the words Castel-Bloom uses are powerful, they are to the point, making it a quick read. There is an immediate connection made through the writing that establishes everything that is existent and possible. I would use the word “chaos” to label this work of literature because of all the crazy and intense things that go on with the Dolly.
The idea of the rhythm of events makes this connection between everything existent and possible because as one read’s this story, many things seem impossible, but are put down on paper to exist. For example, Castel-Bloom embodies the idea of chaos through her words, “All the streets in Dolly City are one-way streets, but everybody drives in all directions anyway- that’s the main reason for the chaos!” (99). There is a more literal meaning to this statement of course, because this really is representative of the minds of the people in this city. Everyone goes in the direction they want in life, without thinking about the outcomes. The path of this plot is immediate in thought and continues quickly, unfolding the many elements that make up such an interesting story line.
Light Emblem
April 17, 2009 at 4:39 pm | Posted in Light | Leave a commentTags: bird
This emblem is representative of not only the idea of lightness, but also the overall feeling one gets when reading Dolly City. I tried to make this emblem so that it fit well with the entire theme of the words of the novel that can be read lightly, like a bird flying, but the actual meanings of the words are heavy, like the tree the bird rests on. This is a quick read because the words are to the point and upfront with what Castel-Bloom is trying to say, but as you read more into the book, what is being said is actually very heavy with imagery and intenseness. The symbolism of the bird is almost ironic because of the cruel surgeries she performs on animals as a way to find a cure for the real people around her, which also makes this emblem relatable to the themes in the book. Also, this emblem embodies the idea that Dolly sees her actions as insubstantial, not that big of a deal, when in reality her words and actions are very weighty and severe to the world.
Light Analogy
April 17, 2009 at 4:37 pm | Posted in Light | Leave a commentTags: Aspire
Keeping with the theme of Dolly and her home that kept her out of harms way, the logo I found for Aspire seemed really interesting when looking at the number five as well. This logo uses the “A” in aspire to form a house structure that incorporates what the company does for their community. The Aspire Community Development Company is a subsidiary of Rutherglen and Cambuslang Housing Association. The Association set up the company in 1999 as a vehicle for its wider role activities. Its first project was the development of the Aspire Business Centre and they have made many other facilities like childcare centers.
The house in the logo catches your eye and immediately displays what this company does, build homes and centers to help others. The logo depicts the idea of lightness because it is simple in its design, while still showing how important the company is to others. The language itself makes up this emblem and logo and enables others to know what they do right away.
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