Hell

[soc_puppet]

Don't give me that look! It's a valid topic!
So. We're reading Dante's Inferno for World lit, right? And Mr. Hartwig gives us this 'Right Brain' assignment (only he called it left brain because he _has_ no left brain for such things). Basically, we get two weeks to do something really cool and artsy, only it has to be Dante's Inferno themed. And he goes off on a tangent about how, every year, there's this kid, or these few kids, who do something incredibly cool and stuff and everyone talks about it. And I sit there thinking, I wanna do that.
What I want to do is make a 3D map of the levels of hell. Seriously. See, I'd do one layer at a time, and there'd be rings, see, and it would all be connected together in this great big funnel shape. And I think I can pull it off in two weeks.
But the really good ideas? I just started talking about them with Mom today. If I had, say, six months instead of two weeks to work, I would love to do Dante's Apartment Complex of Eternity *grin*. See, the basement levels would be Hell, and the lobby would be Purgatory, and the upper floors would be Heaven. This is a bit of a problem as we won't be reading the Purgatorio or the Paradisio for class, nor have we yet finished reading the Inferno (so I don't know how Dante and Virgil get to Mount Purgatory or what have you).
And then Mom suggested that I could do Hell as a sleazy Hotel (with 'Hotel' in light-up neon, only 'ot' would be burnt out so it would say 'H--el' :) which would be really incredably cool. But again:
1)Have not finished book;
2)Don't have time.
Anyway, probably going to go with the 3D map idea. If I can find a way to use some of those chopsticks from way back when, that'd be better still. Maybe I can get around to those other ideas eventually.

Comments

[think-tomorrow.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Either one of those would be incredibly cool. I haven't really given it much thought, but I did want to make something 3D for it. Three-dimensional objects are cool.

[soc_puppet]

Yes, 3D objects are indeed cool. You can use one of the ideas that I'm not using, if you want. I'm going to go with the Hotel idea, becuase the muse is possessing me and going crazy over it and it gives me an excuse to use those four thousand-plus chopsticks I have laying around.
And the concierge would be that one demon with the tail, and there would be Hellevators (to borrow from that Toothfairy movie) and Hellevision and all sorts of other Hell themed hotel stuff... >D

[ysabet.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmm........ You could also do it in 3D as a sideways map (you know, half of the funnel, sliced vertically downwards and mounted upright onto a board). It'd look sort of like a demonic ant-farm; that'd be cool-- and WHY didn't I get projects like this when I was in school, dammit?

[soc_puppet]

Demonic ant farm--O_o.... But how would ants get into hell, anyway? They're pretty much genetically programmed to Obey the Queen and Kill Other Ants. Come to think of it... *considers humanity glumly* But still, Ant Farm Hell sounds quite amusing. And there would be Red Ant Hell and Black Ant Hell, and the opposing ant color would run the opposing Hell. It would be adding insult to injury. And at the lowest circle, the worst ants ever would be forced to serve the enemy queen... Ooh, ooh, and on whichever level there was supposed to be fire and brimstone on there could be Magnafying Glasses XD!
You probably didn't get projects like this because all of your teachers were lazy, boring and uncreative. We have the coolest English faculty ever. And the coolest Science faculty ever. And some pretty cool art teachers, too, considering all the anime fan related projects I can get away with. Envy my education.

[ysabet.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... Must admit, the first thing that comes to mind re: 'How would ants get to Hell?' is "by biting ME." >E But I like the idea of the two AntHells warring and all that... Maybe televangelists and politicians could be incarnated after death as ants? And telemarketers who call at 3 a.m.? And people who tailgate you while driving with their brights on? ^_______________________________^

Actually I *did* have some very cool teachers-- problem was, my school district's bosses were very big on 'homogenization' (i.e., the same level of dreck produced by every teacher) and imaginative projects got squashed. Had a few that worked around this, though... like the one that let us build a Goldsberg-Effect thingie with dominos and a watermelon and skates and all sorts of stuff to demonstrate the effects of kinetic energy. THAT was fun.

[soc_puppet]

*blinks* Watermelon and skates? Like roller skates skates? That _does_ sound like fun...
We have some rather restrictive administrators, but that's mostly concerning student behavior. It's as if they're paranoid that we're going to join forces and rise up against them or something (which I am only occasionally tempted to do). Other than that, the teachers can get away with some pretty neat stuff, and the students who know how to use this to their advantage can make it even cooler.
Speaking of, I need help thinking of a way to use a camera to make an AMV, since the point of the project is camera familiarity. Best idea I can come up with is make the AMV on the computer, copy it to a tape, and then film the AMV playing on the television. The only problem is that it's _really_ difficult to line up the pictures so I can actually see the AMV on the film of it... you know, instead of little half-screen shots of it. That, and the actual shot wouldn't actually be changing from scene to scene. Any suggestions?

[ysabet.livejournal.com]

Yep, a watermelon. The watermelon was ON a rollerskate, see, and... Well, you get the idea. The goal was to use kinetic energy to perform several tasks, like push down the lever-thingie on a toaster and launch a helium balloon by cutting its string. Was INTERESTING. And I didn't set *anything* on fire in this class (Jeeze, knock over just *one* alcohol-burner...)

As for the AMV-- uhhhhhhhhhhh..... Do you know anybody with a large-screen TV and a computer hookup? Or a DVD player that plays .avi files? That way you could at least film the AMV playing on a larger screen.

[soc_puppet]

Thanks for the suggestions. I think I'll probably go with the 'film-what's-on-the-TV' option. If that isn't acceptable for the project, I'll just film some random stuff and put it to the first movement of Vivaldi's 'Winter'.

[nekokenchan.livejournal.com]

I'd be willing to help. In any way I can. I have a question, tho. For the costumes for Large Group Speech, which is doing a choral reading by the same name (I don't know how to do underline), I need to make a costume for Dante, Virgil, and the She-Wolf. I have Dante's costume planned out, and it will be from Devil My Cry 2, but I don't know what to do with the others...What I'm trying to ask in a convoluted way is, can I use your sewing machine again? And while I'm at it, can I make a white mage costume as well?

[soc_puppet]

Absolutely ^_^. We'll probably have to move it out of the lizard's room (what with it being right next to the lizard's cage and all) but I've done it before, and it's not too difficult. Also, we still have some white cloth left over from the hakama, if you're interested.

[lord-vor.livejournal.com]

actually i think Hell just might be a hotel after all. I wonder how much a demonic deity would actually care about torturing people if he could have as much fun as he wanted lifting the proverbial middle finger to his adversary by screwing things up on earth. Read I, Lucifer. Or at least watch David's film I, Lucifer. I think it will be good despite the fact that David is making it.

[soc_puppet]

¬_¬.... Shall I call in and reserve a room for you?