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we came up with the idea to create a shop that would sell our new contexts called 'blue chips', with the words taken from a combination of our text. we began brainstorming ideas for things we could create from our new images and from the original text

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it was really interesting seeing other groups work and they way they worked together, and how different each group worked and how different the outcomes were, even though we had all been given the same task. i also really liked how some of them started to think about further context for their images, like created album artwork or showing mock up in frams, it could be something i could do with my own work, maybe create a title sequence for a ulysses film using my sounds and animation?

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after sharing our work we found that we had some similarities between our work. we each began combing our work to create new images through collage and layering

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after discovering the context and doing some resaech, i began to incorporate new elements into what i had already created

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I combined elements from my early experimentation. I wanted to keep it experimental and raw, I included the photoshop canvas and used unnatural colours to contrast with the organic elements that make up the collage. The music was taken from various sources relating the text, for example a busy bar, jazz music, horses trotting. I basically just threw them together in Garage Band and then threw all the elements together in After Effects and just let it do what it wanted. I didn’t really know how to work either programme at the time so I essentially just pressed loads of buttons and this was the outcome.

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I began researching the context behind my given words and found a genius article that explain each part

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Bronze and gold refer to the barmaids Lydia Douce of bronze hair and Mina Kennedy of gold hair respectively. Lydia, Mina and another character, a prostitute, are parallels to the three sirens in The Odyssey.

Throughout the chapter, Miss Douce is referred to as bronze and Miss Kennedy as gold.

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Hoofirons are Joyce’s way of saying horseshoes. The odd re-wording was used to keep our attention on the thumping sound of metallic hooves on the ground, rather than on the image of a horse.

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The introduction of this episode is interpreted as a musical overture thus the sound the horseshoes make can be thought of as that of cymbals crashing, that’s the “steelyringing”.

This and some of what follows is a recreation of a band playing music. All the motifs for the rest of the episode are to be found in this introduction. Think of it as a sort of strange musical summary of the chapter to follow

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Now recreating a trumpet being blown.

This is also foreshadowing the dish boy mocking Bronze by twisting her words into this noise. She originally says “impertinent insolence”.

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A reference to Mr. Dedalus’s habit of “picking chips off one of his rocky thumbnails”

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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I decided to make earrings out of chips, using one gold and one brass fish hook, to represent my words.

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The correspondence of the sirens refers to two birdwomen whose beautiful singing tempts sailors off course, luring their ships to wreck on a craggy island.

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naturally, the word chips makes me think of the food, which in turn makes me think of a 'chippy tea', a staple friday night dish in the north. i wanted to expleriment with how i could interprate this, so i wrote out the word in ketchup and went from there

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using photoshop to experiment with different colours i created a new version of the 'hoofirons' image, creating footprints with the brushes i created from my original print

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upon hearing the text and receiving my section my first thought was to break the sentences down into singular words, and in some instances break these words down further into something i could make sense of. the words that stood out initially were ‘chips’ and ‘hoofirons’. i began exploring a typographical approach to these words, handwritten as i feel like the nature of the text delineates the rawness of handmade typography. i then moved onto print making, something i feel at home with. experimenting with unfamiliar ways of printing is a way of portraying the strangeness of the text. i then began to think about other things i could take from the text and the way it was spoken. it sort of reminded me of something david lynch would do, and in turn this made me think of the scene in blue velvet where kyle maclachlan finds a severed ear, which made me think of earring (making weird jewellery is a hobby of mine) and so i then decided to make some earring out of chips. the words ‘picking chips’ made me think of fruit and flowers, so i photographed the earring and the chips among nature. chips makes me think of a chippy tea, a staple of british cuisine, and i began to think about what else goes with chips and how i could incorporate that into  the work.

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hearing the text reminded me of david lynch, probably because of how surreal it is. The words i was given reminded me of that scene from blue velvet where he finds an ear. This made me think of earrings; making earring is an old hobby of mine and i think i could do something interesting with this.

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my first instinct was to create a print out of an iron, as i don't have access to any type of horseshow. i'm not sure why this was my first thought, but i am drawn to printmaking and upon hearing the word 'iron' i thought about the sad little iron that's sat in my front room, neglected and unused. i really love how the prints turned out, i think it looks really unique and fresh, and makes you question why anyone would ever want to ruin their iron and make a print out of it

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combining the 'hoof' part with the iron, i took an old boot and took a print out of that to represent the whole word 'hoofiron'

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I made a photohop brush out of the iron print and begane layering it over a picture of a horse in a pantone gold colour to represent 'gold hoofirons'