What is an apple?
Create a variation on the digital image of an apple of your choice by manipulating the basic elements of the image: pixels (color and position), image size and resolution. Any approach is valid
In your manipulation strive to create an image that responds to the question in the title, bearing in mind the poetic approach, i.e. by sparking the senses:
What is an apple? How does it feel like? Its flavors, textures, weight, smell? What kind of memories, feelings or experiences do you associate with it?
The task here can be also understood as the transformation of a representational image into an abstract one.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bd8wSLEB0f7/?taken-by=cheerchercer730
I really love the way how you separated and distorted the apple, and my senses are kind of sparked off by the image–it reminds me of the freshness of the apple as well as the crisp watery bites of it.
Here is my image of “APPLE” with music on Newhive: https://newhive.com/hedy/apple (if the link does not work, you can click on this version without music: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pFP_PXm5fCYEMMawqLEaUCWgNcms_hje)
“APPLE” has a lot of meanings nowadays. It can be a fruit, a metaphor, a symbol, a technical brand, or personal experience for people. I choose to make this image to express my personal understanding toward it mainly in three aspects.
To begin with, in the aspect of personal experience, apple is a symbol of weight loss. During this day and age, keeping fit is a significant topic for human, especially for women who want to be thin and beautiful. When the word “APPLE” appeared, the weight-obsessed women who would supposedly do anything to be thin came into my mind. Therefore, I choose to turn an apple into the outline of a woman stature. To be specific, apple is an accompany for me during the time I tried to lose weight. For people who want to lose weight, eating low calories food is the best choice, so there are many experts suggest to make your belly full. Personally, during the high school, I tried to eat a lot of apples to lose my weight for a month, because I wanted to stay in good shape. The image is a woman filled with the apple skin, and this is my first understanding of apple.
What is more, there is a famous sentence that “You are the apple of my eyes.” Obviously, for here, “apple” does not suggest the fruit only, but also a metaphor to show the love. In Old English, the pupil was like the shape of the “apple” and when you looked at someone, their reflection appeared in your pupil. That is why we use the word “apple” to suggest enjoying looking at somebody.
Also, I chose to make a background music with the sound “MetroGnome”, which is the ringtone for Apple’s product – iPhone. In the aspect of brand, It is another understanding about apple. Apple is one of the most successful companies in the world so that when we talk about the word APPLE, it is easy to think of the products in the Apple Company, like iPhone, iPad, iPod, Macbook, iWatch, etc.
http://newhive.com/ding/what-is-an-apple
I haven’t been able to get my image to display properly on NewHive. So, I have used imgur instead to host my image at the following link:
https://imgur.com/iYwPa0z
I am intrigued by the textures the water droplets depict of the surface on your apple. These allow me to be able to feel the apple in my hand without actually holding it; its smooth, almost slippery glossy texture that is desired among apples. I like it!
I was not able to upload mine to hive either, so I uploaded it on a google doc and provided the link below.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z8XsbFfMQgRaPpm5wA7QHpHBoRXbqPKpwt7lgl7dOrY/edit?usp=sharing
The textures in this image remind me of the experience of eating and touching an apple in interesting ways. The smoother areas remind me of the external skin of an apple, which has that smooth yet waxy texture. The rougher areas of the apple in the image actually make me think of the inner flesh of an apple, which is sort of rough and grainy. It find it interesting to experience the internal texture of the object projected onto the external surface (or, at least, that is how I view the object in the image).
I uploaded my digital image onto Google Docs as well:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cYBi1debswv05Cb7EW1hU9ZI8COXwXWRgFBOxlcZ5bE/edit?usp=sharing
Cheers
I really like your approach on the apple! I think it’s great how different it is and I also like how your image has a message behind it.
Here’s the one on newhive:
http://newhive.com/elsy/apple
But if that doesn’t work here’s another version:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tXl0WajGq6nr9LULvsPoIG1AiMKLO1fsHqgPFVEVNIo/edit?usp=sharing
http://newhive.com/jana/1-how-i-feel-eating-an-apple
I am allergic to apples. The process of rotting represents my feelings after eating an apple.
The image can be seen in my NewHive account but I cannot find it through the link. So I add another link in case the NewHive one is not working.
Week2 challenge
https://newhive.com/verokeli/a-claim-being-identified
https://imgur.com/a/W2LCH
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18BUlf7AUhvRhocDmNkjOTfPQaKmwqyXRV-6tdSEO1-k/edit?usp=sharing
I love the way that you combined Newton and Apple together. Even though they have a large span of time, when mentioned with apple, most people came up with similar ideas.
I am not able to upload the image to the Newhive, therefore I used google doc instead.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cZSR5SSjX312f386VKfYOUwDApLEBmnx8gioZNZ5NYw/edit?usp=sharing
http://newhive.com/janiechen/weeklychallengeapple
http://yuyukami.tumblr.com/private/169799934470/tumblr_p2opb7tc1l1r5lzhe
Ps, I don’t know how to make transparent backgrounds work with this so I guess it’s just white :/
Hello everyone! My name is Roman Stepanik and I am new to your class! I’ll be meeting you all tomorrow but I thought I would throw this up beforehand. I haven’t quite figured out hive yet so here is a link to my APPLE project!
Im so sorry I totally forgot to link the project mentioned above! here it is.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13KvGmtiR1zsW4uwjQEWfEyLw6aB0YY5H-iwn70jb2n0/edit?usp=sharing
I just realized the image I attached to my post on newhive does not show up so I reuploaded the project on to google drive.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iQ8V9WQzUgEJin4_H8ZNe_jibox6rQbkpPiafyrwiDs/edit?usp=sharing
https://www.instagram.com/willdickson_visa210/
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1OhQSGNV2WW0UxojgxVJ4rchDP9fmRMQ6
Here is the link of my image. (can’t upload it to Newhive)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qiN5BQSOVckwygXIIDfzQ3qBuGkcTpc78U-LsaDCecE/edit?usp=sharing
Here’s a ink to my image:
https://imgur.com/a/kWdac
I tried to convey the different tastes you get while eating the fruit. I also like to eat cold apples so I tried to implement that too.
http://louiseschubermann.tumblr.com/post/169803203798
I had to download it on my tumblr argh
Even though I don’t get the feeling of eating an apple, I feel like the Prof likes it as a way to evoke thought about images as a language. Defiantly original. Nice work.
http://newhive.com/ratchie/apple
Just in case it doesn’t work:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12zR7fuMyclNHff1SYz6mDLgCAGfukhIp/view?usp=sharing
http://newhive.com/ratchie/apple
In case it doesn’t work:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12zR7fuMyclNHff1SYz6mDLgCAGfukhIp/view?usp=sharing
Image link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xvHTNq1Q3pVK5vFTO0z9V23V1dn1eBdx/view?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nxWUcsGXN02BMcg2yiPP89dZ_koilom6cpI83BLWuCI/edit
I realized that my Newhive link does not work, so I uploaded my image here again:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Wuyu_yOGVRHJhXcqb-z1VRIBP9RV8Dky
I am allergic to apples. The rotting represents my feelings after eating an apple.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nxWUcsGXN02BMcg2yiPP89dZ_koilom6cpI83BLWuCI/edit?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1PDifZTjAqAFOtuGjiFlSv91vS-sqMSb-