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Branding the Species
Herman Rosiles Rodriguez (M, 22)
Los Angeles, US
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Herman Rosiles is proud to be the home of a Y-chromosome since July 1986, when he sprung from the ground somewhere in the metropolitan city of Guadalajara in Mexico. Years later, the United States was very fortunate indeed to receive a visit from Herman, and continually since 1994, he has lived in the state of California. Having graduated from a dirt-poor high school in 2004, Herman is now a student at the University of California, Los Angeles under the prestigious Design | Media Arts major.
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    Project: Branding the Species
    My project was totally massacred this past Thursday by my instructors. Part of the reason why things didn't go so well is because I didn't have a clear way of telling them how I arrived at my conclusions. They asked me questions and I just sat there blankly without good argumentative responses. Indeed, it could have been the best, most appropriate project for my research, but without being able to communicate to them my thinking, they still would have tanked it.

    It is important, therefore, to have a set of guidelines to guide me through picking & creating the most appropriate project in light of my research. I mean, my research has been mapped out already; I can read it all I want, but it is necessary to have a simple, straight forward set of rules that I can look at pretty quickly so that I can make decisions on the fly about what works and what doesn't. I have come up with four key points for my rubric of evaluating my project's worthiness. They are listed below:

    • How does this brand the human species? This entire class has been about finding an interesting way of portraying something that is uniquely human, so does my project reflect an aspect of humanity, such as vulnerability, joy, or irony?
    • What does it communicate about ecstasy & fear? My big conclusion from my research has been that there is ecstasy to be found in what we fear the most. Does my project depict something that I, or somebody else, fears the most? And is there ecstasy to be found in that?
    • Appropriateness of content. I'm most likely to pick a poem, part of a poem, or parts of different poems, and pair them up with images. So how do I make sure that the poem or poems reflect the above two points? In the same way, how do my visuals do justice not only to the above two points, but to the poem itself as well?
    • Juxtaposition of content. Somewhat related to the previous point, is how do I make for an interesting combination of, say, my poem(s) and images? Do I want them to directly relate, or for a relationship to be implied, hinted at, or totally be different but still make sense together and make people think?

    Using this rubric, I can be more confident about my work and when my instructors ask something about my work, I'll be able to confidently reply using my set of guidelines as principles to justify everything I did, and what I chose not to do.

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