<p>actually it makes sense. mine seems to be a mess too but I think we can make sense to eachother because we probably all think similarly. (that is why I will love art school. man.)</p>
<p>but cool! I like how everybody here really went for the concepts (well, 'everybody' being you and michaelangelina so far). there must be so many good ideas in all the work of all the people who applied to cooper. It's really rather sad that so few get in..</p>
<p>for the animal one i got reallly far fetched ...perhaps too far fetched ...but i interpreted the word animal as "A person who behaves in a bestial or brutish manner"
aka...a rapist or sexual predator...so i painted myself but i took away all real human qualities ...for example my eyes were just these gray sort of orbs---i wanted to emphasize the way a rapist might see a woman as an inanimate object....and i also sort of indicated a green circle around my body ( like the view finder of a gun)....i doubt it'll make sense..but i included my "special" definition and an explaination on the back...ah well</p>
<p>yeah. I was going to do a person/people as well, but time was a crunchin' and i started freaking a bit, so I opted for the ever pleasent swan. I wanted to do something with plastic surgeons and everything ... but then I couldn't figure out how to convey compassion on their side (you know fixing people that have been in freak accidents. clefts in the lip ... that sort of thing ... and my brain was on overdrive at this point)</p>
<p>Too far fetched is good. They want to see somethng they've never seen before.</p>
<p>Yeah, I mean, as long as they get it - and you included an explanation. you really didn't go outside the rules (which I don't think they like much - people trying way too hard to 'push the envelope' etc.) because that is another definition of 'animal' - so it is fair game, I think. </p>
<p>(my mom found out somewhere that someone once acually sent meat in the envelope.. so that's why they have so many rules, people do stupid stuff..)</p>
<p>I have feeling that, with this test, they're trying to see who does 'this is me from above, like a bird's eye view!' and who comes up with a conceptual message with it. There do seem to be several very easy 'solutions' to it, so they want to see which route people take. I suppose if you do one of the typical things they weed you out immediately.</p>
<p>yeah i suppose...but i feel like a lot of people maybe have gone the human being route....o well...what did you folks do for "map a grandiose idea"...this way my favorite (aka my first) i made a realistic fold up human being (the legs arms and head were attached to the body by these hinges that i made) and then i put those blue plastic surgery preperation markings all over it....so i made a medical map of the idea of perfection...again far fetched but i wrote "a medical map of perfection" on the back just incase they had no idea what they were looking at</p>
<p>For my grandiose (the one that never made it), I had a wooden box I painted, and inside the box were twenty envelopes and twenty cards (I made). I asked the committee to write to someone they've lost contact with or just someone they haven't talked to in years ... because we all have "someone" we'd like to get back in contact with ... </p>
<p>Backstory: three years ago, my best friend from childhood wrote me a letter out of the blue (we hadn't talked for 2 years at that point) ... and she had mentioned something along the lines of "so did you ever get into that school in New York? ... You were always the artistic one ..." (Cooper. ehmmm) ... and at that point, I had given up on everything "art". I had made the decision to go into the medical field, just because it was stable and it was good pay (even though I still really wanted to be in art. I reasoned with myself that I never was never "good" enough, because I never had real art training.) ...blah blah blah ... long story short, that letter made me think of what I really wanted to do ... and what would make me happy in the long run ... blah blah blah ... even if it was only a sentence in a three page letter ...</p>
<p>ok. So, the whole premise around this whole "grandiose" idea is that we all<br>
change/go in different directions in life, everyday. what happens throughout the course of our day will always put us in a different direction in life, be it something you saw on the street, something you read in a magazine, whatever. (even if we don't realize it. We might never realize it.) ... what I thought was, maybe that letter to whomever might spark something, or give them a different perspective on things ... I don't know ... maybe put them in a different direction? I never seem to make sense when I write things down (hello art) ... hopefully you all got the gist of it all.</p>
<p>oh. and the "mapping" part? haha. I went super literal on purpose. There is a little map of the world somewhere in that box, and whenever someone sends a letter and gets on in return ... they have to draw a line from the sender and the receiver is ...</p>
<p>hey those are good! I really like the concept of yours halfsorry, how you involve the commitee like that, don't really treat them like a commitee.</p>
<p>mine was about the self-portrait and how it can be interpreted based on factors like art experience, age, etc.. I started writing ideas down on a big sheet of paper and then asked differet people I knew (mom, art teacher, art students) to draw a quick self-portrait in boxes I mapped out. It was a process really - I responded to the portraits they all drew in writing around them. the original idea was that you can register your existance, in a way, with a self-portrairt. your idea of your identity, face that belongs to you. I thought at first that people could do them really quick, like a minute, but then there were all sorts of other fatcors like certain anxieties so I upped it to five. all of that process got recorded in the writing. it was the one I had the most fun doing.</p>
<p>I do not know how they will choose between ones like both of yours. you both have good solid honest ideas.. the selectivity of the school continues to confound me..</p>
<p>I wanted to ask this before but I forgot. Where do you live? it seems that you are near Cooper becase you delivered your hometests personally and halfsorry, you mentioned that your friend asked you about Cooper several years ago, so you've known about it for a while.</p>
<p>I live in a Chicago suberb and I learned about Cooper this year. I think my mom found it when she was looking up art colleges on the computer; otherwise I might never have known. I don't think it's terribly well-known outside the east coast, do you think so? The only art school anybody seems to know about here is risd, and course the art institute of chicago.</p>
<p>I live in san francisco, and we have a lot of art schools here. I think everybody has heard of Cooper here, and that it is near impossible to get it ...</p>
<p>typo: *in</p>
<p>i live in the ny suberbs....my private teacher (who amazingly has sent 15 students to cooper told me about it) ....i dunno why i'm so enthusiastic about it....i don't think it's necessarily the school...and to be totally honest the money has nothing to do with it ....i'm probably drawn to cooper because it's such a huge challenge</p>
<p>anyhow back to our original convo...what did you people do for ur etomology of a word problem?....i used (excuse my french) "****" i made four drawings the first a really belligerent looking girl screaming...then a person breaking a nail...then a ditsy girl using it as a space filler...then a tolder smiling.....u get the idea (i hope)</p>
<p>o wow...i didn't realize this site would block that word ...obviously the stars signify the "f curse" (haha i feel like i'm in forth grade writing it this way)</p>
<p>I really like yours!</p>
<p>I made a short video of mine (I wish I shot it on 16mm, but I was running short on cash and time) cut to music (final cut pro, is love!)</p>
<p>My word was "no"</p>
<p>It's starts off very literal ... but by the end, "no" means "yes" to me. haha.. meaning people keep telling me I can't do things, but I get driven into proving them wrong or something of that sort. </p>
<p>My title for it: "I'd like to make a career out of turning "no" into "yes"</p>
<p>These were words I almost ended up using: Time, Space, Alone</p>
<p>that's almost nuts! 15 from one school, holy crap.. Well, there is one girl from my high school who is at Cooper now.. but she was only at my high school for two years; she spent the last two at a magnet school in the city, Chicago Art Academy I think.</p>
<p>I said something about my etymology one before; the word was 'clandestine.' I liked it because of the variety and character of the words used to describe it: 'artful, cloak-and-dagger, closet, concealed, covert, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, hidden, hush-hush, illegitimate, illicit, private, sly, stealthy, surreptitious, under wraps, under-the-counter, undercover, underground, underhand.' Then its roots were Latin words for 'intestine' and 'clam.' great image potential, i thought!</p>
<p>this was the one I had a problem with because I had this clay thing that I'd already started at school, so I just picked a word to fit with it but then I ended up unable to use it. i don't want to spend time trying to describe it because I probably can't do that and make sense, so links: <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/Weile/Clandestine.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/Weile/Clandestine.jpg</a>
and with the drawings in it. lighting sucks because my mom took the picture, heh. <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/Weile/Clandestine2.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/Weile/Clandestine2.jpg</a></p>
<p>I had to send the drawings in that .. gold thing (whatever it IS..) separate from the tablet. it will probably look really stupid to the admissions commitee because they'll never see it like I planned it. ah well, not like it would have been the difference between getting in vs. not. (still a little peeved at myself for not thinking about the directions better. ahhhh.)</p>
<p>well the fifteen students were not accepted the same year! (if thats what you were thinking)- though one year she did have three accepted ...which is pretty impressive if you ask me....and it actually is a magnet school that she teaches at- i guess that might have something to do with the numerous acceptances..but i really don't know.</p>
<p>She has this video tape of their(the three students who were accepted in the same year) work hanging in the halls of her building....my goodness...it's just amazing</p>
<p>but keep your hopes up because she showed me the work of another student- which honestly was not good...who got accepted. I really don't know how this happened. It almost feel like it was a mistake or something. I mean it wasn't conceptual, creative, or technically great. Oh well.</p>
<p>So we've been through, "map", "space", "etymology", and "animal"</p>
<p>what about "tactical" and "six inches vs. six feet"</p>
<p>these were probably my worst conceptually (aka the ones i did last)</p>
<p>tactical for me was just a pencil drawing of a man luring a child into his car...(prob my worst piece)</p>
<p>For six inches vs. feet i realized (at the VERY last minute) that i already had an illustration that fit the category</p>
<p>it's this really dramatic illustration of a girl looking into a mirror with a forshortened hand....it's very hard to explain..so i'll spare you the descripton</p>
<p>By the way i really like both of ur ideas for etymology (as well as for the other categories).....my teacher had made me feel like it was rare to really think very far into the test...but apparently that's not the case...by the sound of it you both have great shots...wouldn't it be funny if we all got in!</p>
<p>I assumed you meant that the 15 students had all gone within.. I don't know, five or ten years of one another. still very impressive, like you said.. I mean, that one girl from my school is probably the only person, ever, from my high school to go there. (actually not many people from my high school go to ANY art schools, for some reason - there's one kid at MICA and I suppose several at Chicago Art Institute. and big h.s. - 2,500 people.) not sure about Chicago Art Academy, they probably have a few more because they're connected to Cooper somehow. I don't know how that works but I think magnet schools are something of a 'pipeline' (to use my mom's word for it) to Cooper. That might explain how that not-so-good person got in. I think Cooper is looking for the type of thinker you are, but then how can they disregard the art like that? surely they can find enough people with unique minds AND artistic talent..</p>
<p>(nothing makes sense, ha!ha!)</p>
<p>btw that is one of my most gigantic pet peeves, mediocrity being praised to high heaven. That's how things happen at the Schoolastic Art Awards! sometimes a confoundingly average thing gets in and you would do anything to have the choice explained to you. it does feel twisted, and like something went wrong, exactly..</p>
<p>ah, I have to go to bed, I'll describe my 6 feet six inches and tactical tomorrow. (even though those were the cruddy ones I did the last day, eheh.)</p>
<p>I believe I'm disqualified because my "grandiose idea" never made it. AND I found part of my questionarre. GAAAHHHHHHH. I'm going to send these in for the hell of it though. I need closure. I'll give you two private post links to my art. My 6 feet 6 inches is sort of personal; not something I want floating around much.</p>
<p>Does anyone go to Parsons? Do they like it? My sister is going to attend there next year and i wanted to know what it was like.</p>
