Archive for the ‘Animals, People and Things in Between’ Category


My hare-related project

Friday, May 7th, 2010 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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After I did my additional research, I brainstormed some drawings again and finally had an idea. I decided to make a model of a hare that fit over a large flat-screen plasma television/monitor, in which several pieces of the hare had been removed through which you would watch small videos related to hare mythology and [...]

Prototypes for Lepus

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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For my final project in three of my courses, I created an interactive video installation in which I aimed to connect the mythologies of the hare with stigma’s associated with being a woman. I incorporated the hare to fulfill the requirement for my Animals, People and Things in Between class. The video aspect was for [...]

The Hare: Cute vs. Monsterous

Tuesday, Mar 23rd, 2010 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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My Reaktion book animal is the Hare. So far, I’ve read through chapter one and I’ve learned at least a few things about hares, as well as some of the differences between hares and rabbits. For instance, I’ve learned that rabbits and hares come from different genera - Hare comes the genus Lepus, while rabbits [...]

Subjective/Objective Migration of the Caribou

Tuesday, Mar 9th, 2010 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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Caribou from Allison Walker on Vimeo.
For an assignment intending to investigate our chosen animal, Caribou, from a subjective and objective perspective, Jenine Durland and I made a pseudo-documentary of the Porcupine Caribou. I dressed as our character, while Jenine provided the voice-over in the video. Video editing by her; voice editing by me.
The mask [...]

Cultural representations of the Shark

Tuesday, Feb 23rd, 2010 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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Land Shark
Used by Saturday Night Live in a comedy skit, the shark is used as the punch line of a recurring joke and is seen as a clever serial killer. The synopsis is the Land Shark goes to apartments and masquerades as a plumber or deliveryman (i.e. “candy gram”). Eventually, the resident is tricked [...]

My deer self…expanded

Tuesday, Feb 2nd, 2010 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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As a deer, I slip in and out of the human world at a relative ease. I enjoy living deer-human, but I don’t spend too much time that way. It’s important that I learn to live my life as a human.
Most days I’m fine with my human self, but every so often I find myself [...]

Exploring My Animal Self

Tuesday, Jan 26th, 2010 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
Filed under: Animals, People and Things in Between, ITP

Admittedly, for my Animals, People and Things In Between assignment, I really wasn’t sure what animal I was going to choose. I took one of the (corny) okcupid.com quizzes, and found that I was actually really satisfied with the animal I seemed to identify with most: deer.
Deer are strong, yet graceful. Humble, but not [...]