Keeping Time--Watch a girl grow up from zero to 14 in 4 minutes

Ok, I just thought this was really really cool. And as a parent, the trigger warning is spot on, delightful and crushing at the same time. And no, I didn't manipulate my own image or video as suggested in the assignment, I'm just not that talented, but I can appreciate the talents of others like this photographer, Frans Hofmeester.

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Optional Sketchbook Assignment 4: Keeping Time

As last time, for this week’s (and the last) sketchbook assignment we are offering two options: one for Track A learners (more visual-based), and one for Track B learners (a written response). Do one or the other, or both. Please note there is a separate forum for each track. 

Track A

1. Using any media you like, make a work or manipulate an image in such a way as to exhibit the process of making or unmaking as a quality of time or duration -- from slow to fast, as a sequence of one thing after another, using repetition, or abrupt transitions or gaps and blanks, giving the effect of a single glance or a long slow stare or ? 
2. Using the same image, repeat the above two more times but differently each time. 
3. If you wish, select one of the images and post it in this forum (Sketchbook Assignment 4: Keeping Time TRACK A) to share it with your peers. Start a new thread, and include 2-3 sentences about your process and what aspect of time or duration you wanted to convey in the work.

Track B

1. Write a long paragraph about something that happens very quickly (it can be something “real” that you observed or a made-up event). 
2. Then, write a sentence about something that takes a very long time indeed. 
3. Using the same events you chose to describe above, repeat steps #1 and #2 several times, rewriting the events differently each time. 
4. If you wish, select one of your texts (either one of your paragraphs or a sentence or both) and post it in this forum (Sketchbook Assignment 4: Keeping Time TRACK B) to share it with your peers. Start a new thread, and include 2-3 sentences about your process and what aspect of time or duration you wanted to convey in the work.

Moirologist...MEANING: noun: A hired mourner.

Well, I was going to do the Track A assignment for "Characters drawn from life (and death)" and I googled funny eulogies and found this.

I didn't know such a thing existed. Eulogy writers...kind of reminds me of the idea of old of hiring mourners


http://eulogiesmadeeasy.com/Example_Eulogy_for_Aunt.html


Yeah, I know, ...SQUIRREL...I got sidetracked from the original assignment, but now I have visions of actors lining up to play the part of mourner and writers lining up to provide eulogies, for a price. (I wonder if the actors and writers guilds covers this in contract negotiations?)