Movement by Younjee Nam

M O V E M E N T

CONTENTS

MOVEMENT

CONTENTS

18—23

04—05 12—17

05. I AM A BIRD

24—29

06—11 01. I AM AN OLYMPIC COMPETITOR

02. I AM BEYONCE

03. I AM THE BEST DANCER

30—35

00. INTRO

04. I AM A GUIYARIST

INTRO

For every feeling I have, there is a certain song that just speaks to me and makes me feel better inside, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why I like music so much: for the emotion it provides me. Besides, I listen to the music and express it with my body. Music makes me move and imagine. I will show you how I move my body while imagining what music I hear. The power of music is a beautiful thing. When I am sad, I listen to mellow tunes that help me feel comfortable in my bubble. When I am trying to get into the mood for a great workout, I listen to music that boosts my energy and makes me want to climb mountains and sing along. When I want to increase my productivity, I listen to the classics to get myself past the writerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s block. For every feeling I have, there is a certain song that just speaks to me and makes me feel better inside, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why I like music so much: for the emotion it provides me. This book shows all of my story of movement. I have some emotions, I listen to some music, and I do some movement. I will express my emotions in color and show my movements with drawings. Welcome to my world.

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I AM AN OLYMPIC COMPETITOR

THE SHAKING OF THE CAR WAS LIKE A SNOWBOARD RIDE I was happy to have lunch with my friends. My appointment was over, and I got on the bus. The road was bad, and the bus was so shaky that it was too difficult to balance. I always get thrown off balance when I ride the bus. I hated it. Today, the bus was shaking so badly, so it was not once or twice that my body went forward. I was trying to give strength to my feet and bent my knees so that I would not fall. I felt like I was on a snowboard.

MOVEMENT

I AM AN OLYMPIC COMPETITOR

At that time, I was listening to music with a fast beat, and the shaking of the car was like a snowboard ride. I was listening to electronic music by DJ Tiesto. His music is really charming. When I listen to his music, I always feel like I am riding a roller coaster. His music uses a variety of beats and makes me thrilled with his high quality musical skills. Tijs Michiel Verwest, better known by his stage name Tiësto, is a Dutch DJ and record producer from Breda. He was named "the Greatest DJ of All Time" by MixMag magazine in a poll voted by the fans.In 2013, he was voted by DJ Magazine readers as the "best DJ of the last 20 years”. He is also regarded as the "Godfather of EDM" by many sources. In 1997, he founded the label Black Hole Recordings with Arny Bink, where he released the Magik and In Search of Sunrise CD series. Tiësto met producer Dennis Waakop Reijers in 1998; the two have worked together extensively since then. From 1998 to 2000, Tiësto collaborated with Ferry Corsten under the name Gouryella. His 2000 remix of Delerium's "Silence" featuring Sarah McLachlan exposed him to more mainstream audiences. In 2001, he released his first solo album, In My Memory, which

gave him several major hits that launched his career. He was voted World No. 1 DJ by DJ Magazine in its annual Top 100 DJs readership poll consecutively for three years from 2002–04. Riding the bus went very well with the music. I will go snowboarding in December and I decided that snowboarding on the bus would be a centering exercise, so I started snowboarding on the bus. I have only been snowboarding for two years now. I can barely go on a ride, but I feel like I can’t explain it when I ride a snowboard because the cold air and the pure white snow and all the harmony excites me. And the coolness that I feel when riding a snowboard is really exciting.

I AM AN OLYMPIC COMPETITOR

Sometimes I used to imagine how good it would be if I could be a snowboarder and do great tricks and show my skills in front of a lot of my fans. I was on a high slope descending fast. I felt like I was a Olympic competitor. It was dangerous behavior but it was really exhilarating.

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I AM BEYONCE

BEYONCE, I AM IN REAL LIFE I finished class and went home. Today, I was in a bad condition: my body and mind were exhausted, so it was hard to close my front door. I dropped a heavy bag, took off my shoes, took off my coat and headed to my bed. I like to relax while listening to music. I started to watch a music video by Beyonce. The concert video was so powerful and cool. At that moment, I began to think about what I would do if I were Beyonce, and my body was already dancing. Beyonce is really my favorite singer and admirer. I was in middle school when I found out about her. I also watched the

music videos of many singers and listened to a lot of music and danced. From the moment I heard her music, I realized that this song was my song. From then on I began to listen to her song and started to love it. She really has power. She has power in her voice and her dances are stoic and sexy. Her costumes and stages especially are really great. When I see her music video, it is essential to watch it more than three times. And then I stop listening to the music video and music I come out of my trance. She is a drug for me. I wonder at how beautiful her style is. At

university I had a hair style and clothes like Beyonce. Beyonce 's has many R & B songs. R&B lyrical themes often encapsulate the African-American experience of pain and the quest for freedom and joy. The lyrics in this genre of music focus heavily on the themes of triumph and failure in terms of relationships, freedom, economics, aspirations, and sex. I think she gives us a message with a song. Like a singer singing at a concert, I started singing and dancing with an imagined microphone. I moved in rhythm to Beyonceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s song. I pretended to

MOVEMENT

be Beyonce in front of the mirror. Late at night I did not really sing much, but I moved my mouth and danced as Beyonce songs. I was so happy at that time. Only a few hours ago I thought I was too tired to fall into bed and sleep well, but I watched her video and I was working hard for two hours. I realized that even though my body and mind were exhausted, when I listened to her, I liked her song and I felt strong. Today, the imaginary crowd and sang songs and danced. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget to say hello to my fans who came to my concert. To get a lot of response from the audience, there must be a great performance. I danced with enthusiasm for the audience who came to my concert. Beyonce tries to make eye contact with her each member of her audience, so I tried to share my joy with the audience, who could not see in to my eyes. I imagined that the curtain was made of spectacular lace with diamonds in it. I was tired, but dancing made me feel happy.

The most alluring thing

CONFID

a woman can have is

DENCE

M A DA

E H

T S E

CLARION ALLEY IS A SPECIAL PLACE WITH SO MANY

The downtown streets are smelly and scary, but there are many beautiful and cool places. I go to Clarion Alley. It runs one block in San Francisco’s inner Mission District between 17th & 18th and Mission and Valencia streets. Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) was established in 1992 by a volunteer collective of six residents/ artists – Aaron Noble, Rigo 92, Sebastiana Pasztor, Michael O’Connor, Mary Gail Snyder, and Arcely Soriano – who were inspired by the murals of Balmy Alley that began in the early-70’s as an expression of artists’ outrage over human rights and political abuses in Central America and who focused on Central American social struggles. However, CAMP did not choose a single theme and instead focused on the two goals of social inclusiveness and aesthetic variety. As a result CAMP has produced over 700 murals on and around Clarion Alley by artists of all ethnicities, ages, and levels of experience, with an emphasis on emerging artists, new styles and a social justice framework. Additionally, CAMP has produced largescale projects off-site, including the Redstone Labor Temple Project and Sama-Sama/Together, an international exchange and residency with artists from Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

MOVEMENT

This is a special place with so many impressive ideas. There are various artistic murals, so I really like it here because the murals inspire me with their creatively and meaning. I am watching a video of my favorite dancer. His name is JAY BLACK. His dancing was so varied. Sometimes I dance like a man, but he dances more smoothly and beautifully than a woman. I think he is the god of dance. I can never take my eyes off his dancing. Every one of his dances touches my nerves. The video I am watching now at that time is a dance battle. He is invited to dance on the celebration stage. I begin to tremble as I begin to appreciate the murals around me even more. I start to feel the rhythm, and I imagine who is in front of me. I am doing a dance battle now. The woman in front of me is good at dancing, but it's just her outward appearance. She

will never beat me. I have never seen anyone who dances better than me, and I am proud of my dancing. She starts dancing hard. I start to see her dance effortlessly. Now my turn comes. Hip-hop is my favorite music. I give my body over to the music. It is not a calculated dance, but rather a dance which come out of me naturally.

Nobody can bea

I AM THE BEST DANCER

at ME

I feel that I scream to the cheering crowd in front of me. “Nobody can beat Younjee. Her dancing is beautiful”. Music is flowing in my body. In the end, she has incurred my wrath. This is the result everyone expected. No one can beat me because I am the king of dance.

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T S I R

I CALMED DOWN AT ONCE Finals were coming soon. I did not get the ideas of one assignment because I felt pressure to do well. I liked graphics, but sometimes it bugs me. It was very difficult to persuade other people of my ideas. It had been two hours already, and my head was hurting. I wanted to run away and escape my assignments, and I wanted to tear up the design that I was doing. I wanted to scream and mess things up in a quiet library. I went to the mall quickly because I thought it would make me feel better. "Wow"

I calmed down at once and started to walk around the mall. These days, there were many beautiful clothes and it was Christmas season, so there were many sales. Once I came to the mall, my eyes seemed to be in better shape and felt better. I walked for about 30 minutes and there was a clothing store that I liked. I was looking at clothes. A girl who was wearing earphones was passing by me and I could hear my favorite rock music.

I started to hum, and my hands gradually began to take a guitar. Finally, without knowing it, my head began to move up and down. That's right. I started to imagine I was a guitarist playing. I ignored people's gaze and played the guitar like crazy. As I was exhausted by the task and my body and mind body and mind loosened up at once, I was playing the guitar like crazy. It looked like a really crazy person. I think rock music is really a strange music.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

MOVEMENT

I AM A GUITARIST

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CLOSE MY EY AND

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YES D SWING I go to play at my friend's house and found a swing in front. I realize I had not seen a swing for over 10 years. When I was a kid, I thought I was a bird and I rode on the swing every day. I always used to swing if I wanted to be a bird. I do not know why, but I seem to be envious of the birds. I catch the swing carefully. I am terrified, but I close my eyes and starte swinging. The sun shine on my face, and the sound of a cool wind come to my ears. It seems like new friends have gathered around me. "With then" I am flying higher, and carefully spread my wings like a bird.

When I was a child, I had to go to the swing when I was angry with my mother, had a fight with my friends, or was depressed about things. I am alone, but when I close my eyes, I feel like new friends are coming to me. I am so excited when I first get on the swing that I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ride it for a long time before my hand my hands are trembling. It is funny that it is such a dull adult getting on the swing now. Perhaps someone passing by would be surprised at me, but I do not care because I do not want to be disturbed by anyone during this time. How does a bird really feel? I really want to be a bird. It 's really amazing to fly on that high sky. I hate high places and I can not get on scary rides. So the birds are envious. I also think that if I were really a bird, I would not have become a coward swing into the air.

I swing into the air and leave my body. My body moves as the swing moves. I want to feel more of the wind and carefully spread out my arms like a bird. I feel a wind coming in between my arms. I am worried that I will fall off the swing, but I am so excited. It gives me such a feeling of relaxation. At that time I was listening to Yiruma's piano music. Lee Ruma, better known by his stage name Yiruma, who is a South Korean pianist and composer.

I AM A BIRD

His piano really brings peace of mind. I also like classical music, but I sometimes do not listen because classy music gives me a headache. However, his music clears my mind. That means my heart rate will be calm. I am becoming a bird because of his music. At that moment, I feel like I was going back to my childhood. In my childhood I was pure and innocent. I can not go back to the past, but I think it is possible to imagine it. I have a good time with my new friends, who are birds. All my worries disappear as soon as I am flying.

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I AM A BIRD

CLOLPHON Typography Helvetica

Design Tools

Adobe Photoshop CC Adobe Illustrator CC Adobe InDesign CC

Design

Younjee Nam

Photography Ginny Seo

Class

G613 Experimental Typography

Instructors Stan Zienka

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