Achilles

Hi. It is Jae Wook Lee.

My Greek myth is Achilles.

Achilles was a Greek hero of the Trojan War.

He was invulnerable except for the part of his heel.

He had produced a remarkable accomplishment in the Trojan War.

However, he died in the war 

due to a poisonous arrow shot into his heel.

My concept is 

A great hero who has only one weakness.

myth

hi! it's amie. 


the myth i chose is medusa.


briefly, medusa was the most beautiful girl and aphrodite was jealous of her beauty so she cursed her w/ a snake head and whoever looked at medusa would turn to stone. eventually medusa looked at her refection in a shield and died.


concept= how jealousy can ruin a person


1- cheerleader (medusa) gets taken down by nerd (aphrodite) and nerd becomes cheerleader 
2- butterfly is taken down by ladybug and the butterflies process is reversed and it becomes an ugly caterpillar again

Wassup It's Andrew.
My Greek Myth
is Minotaur.
Here is a
little bit
of the story.
I don't know how
to make this good. If
you got opinions, lemme
know. Anything can be
appreciated. Holla~
-Aye

Greed makes problems. If you put your problems aside, it becomes bigger.

    Minos wanted to be the king of Crete. He prayed to Poseidon to send him a sign as a confirm and Minos was suppose to sacrafice the bull that was sent by Poseidon. However, Minos valued the animal too much and did not sacrafice the bull. As punishment, Poseidon made Pasiphae, Minos’s wife, to fall in love with the bull.
    With the help of the legendary inventor and craftsman Daedalus, she had an affair with the bull. She then brought forth the birth of a monster, half man and half bull. His is known as Minotaur, or the bull of Minos. King Minos then tried to hide this horrible creature in a vast and convoluted maze - the labyrinth. As the Minotaur lives in the labyrinth, and every nine years, seven maidens and seven young men from Athens were offered to Minotaur as food. Theseus volunteered to go in place of one of the seven youths and defeated the Minotaur and got out of the Labyrinth with the help of princess Ariadne.

Myth_Narcissus

Hi :) I'm Soomin.

My Myth is about Narcissus.

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Once upon a time, there was a beautiful boy called Narcissus.

A nymph was in love with him but he was very unkind to her and told her to go away.

The goddess was angry about it, and punished Narcissus to fall in love with himself.

One day, he was walking by a lake and saw his face in the water.

He thought it was another boy, and he fell in love with him.

He didn't want to leave the boy in the lake, so he stayed there.

Finally, he died there.

Flowers grew where Narcissus died.

They are called "Narcissus"

And now, people who love themselves too much are called "Narcissists."

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My concept is that too much self-love is dangerous. Self-love can cause self-destruction.

He fell in love with himself(reflection of him) and died because of too much love. 

My first work represents it. I made 3 versions with same idea. 

And...

I made a simple movie to develop and test this idea.

I really need you guys' help :]

Thank you and good luck!

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Myth Poster

This is Marie Graboso.

My myth is the story of Persephone's abduction:

This story is about Persephone’s abduction into the Underworld. Growing up, she was so beautiful that every God wanted her especially Hades. He took her away from her mother Demeter, goddess of bountiful harvest, who was so sad she didn’t make anything grow (establishing the cold winters.) Though, she wanted to spend time with her mom, ate the seeds of the pomegranate while living with Hades. So in the end, she divided her world as Queen of the Underworld and daughter of both Demeter and Zeus in Olympus. As a naïve child from childhood began to be consciously aware of her choices and decisions growing up and being away from her parents.

So above, is the first draft of my idea. What I did was I used the story of the Little Mermaid and how she was torn between two worlds. The pomegranate is a symbol to be with her mother (had six seeds that represent the 6 months with her) and the crown represents her choice of becoming Queen in the underworld (which has 6 pearls to represent the 6 months with Hades.)

I'm still working on it, but I'll be open to ideas and such. c:

Myth poster ideas

Hey this is Caryn

My myth is the story of Medusa.
~ Once there was a young woman, more beautiful than any other in the land.  She was able to attract any male she chose merely by looking at them.  Men from all areas of Greece would flock just to spend one moment by her side.  This girl’s name was Medusa.

                One day, a male from a local village complimented her, claiming that she was more beautiful than the goddess Aphrodite.  Instead of rejecting the compliment and asking forgiveness, Medusa bathed in the “power” of the compliment.  While sitting on Olympus, Aphrodite hears this compliment.  Her anger rising, the goddess comes down to earth and presents herself to Medusa, ordering her to apologize for the insult against her.  Medusa merely laughed and claimed the Goddess to be petty and jealous.  In response to Medusa’s insolence, Aphrodite turned the young woman into a horrible monster and cursing her eyes with the power to turn only men to stone.

                Ashamed and scared of her new “power”, Medusa fled her village and went as far away from humans as possible.  As time passed, loneliness and hatred filled her mind; turning the once kind and beautiful woman into an even uglier monster then Aphrodite had first produced.  Eventually nothing remained of Medusa’s human counterpart and had started attacking any male that came within miles of her new home, hoping to ease her loneliness.

                This changed one day when word of Medusa’s terror reached the ears of a young hero named Perseus.   Gifted with tools from the gods, he had used Medusa’s own gaze against her and destroyed the monster, freeing the country of Greece from her wicked terror.~

I'm goin' for the idea that Aphrodite was wronged by Medusa and that Medusa is punished for her ideas and talkin' back to her.

 

1st idea is that Medusa is a firefly that lost her light to the bug zapper

 

2nd idea is that Medusa is a butterfly and Aphrodite is the bug spray and sprays her into a Moth

 

3rd idea is when I thought of the story of Snow White. So I twisted the story so that the Evil Queen (Medusa) and that she wronged the beauty of Snow White (Aphrodite). So Snow White turns her into the old hag.

pictogram

This is my pictogram assignment.  I have full intentions to revise it and start it all over to show much improvement

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visual music(Brian Cundari)

Here is my visual music, I must say I am proud of myself for the hard work and improvement i made with it.  If there is anything else that should be done to progress it, please inform me

Myth Project Rough Sketches

This is Omar, and my Myth is the tale of Icarus.

The general plot was about Icarus and his father Daedalus's attempt to escape the army of the king Minos, after his father was accused of betraying the king. Daedalus had built wings for him and his son to use to fly because the king couldn't catch them in the sky. Before flying, Daedalus told Icarus that he couldn't fly too close to the sun because the wings Daedalus invented were only made of wax and feathers. As they flew Icarus became overwhelmed with the sensation of flight so he continued to fly higher and higher until eventual he was close to the sun and just as his father warned him, his wings melted and he fell out the sky, plummeting to his death.

The main idea I'm seeing is that Icarus was tempted by the idea of flight, so I've decided to go try and give a visual representation of temptation. Keep in mind these are sketches, feedback.

Moth to a light bulb.
A chest of treasures protected by barbed wire and dynamite, and a rat to a mouse trap.

brochure

This is my front and back cover of the brochure for marian bantjes and i intend on fixing it more, if you can say what should be done to improve it.

Greek Mythology Icon poster

 

versions 1 &2

Myth: Prometheus - Zeus punishes Prometheus for tricking him and 

takes fire away from Prom.'s creations: man. Prom. steals back fire for man and

is punished by Zeus for doing so. His punishment is to be chained to a mountain,

and a crow would come and eat out his stomach during the day, the during the night Prom.'s stomach

would grow back only to have it eaten out again the next day and so on.

VISUAL MUSIC

so simple, but sooo coool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYJWGSJ8Jc0

Aksana.

Typornographers

There is a salon at the TDC today at 6PM for Typornographers, the 4 dudes behind Friends of Type. Everyone should check it out!

http://tdc.org/tdc/archives/2811

www.friendsoftype.com

Synesthesia

I came across this video- and i loved it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZEL31Mq2OA&feature=player_embedded#!

Visual Music - Midtown by The Sea And Cake

This is my interpretation of Midtown by The Sea and Cake.

 I'd love to get some advice on it, because i'm having a terrible time with it.

here is the song on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SHgCsunG2E

Thanks!

-David Castillo