Raasch_mythmetaphor

http://www.google.com/search?q=rene+magritte&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS349&prmd=imvnso&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=jPLcTvruEoXg2QWLkqXYDg&sqi=2&ved=0CEYQsAQ&biw=1143&bih=589&safe=active#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=FnIaQC_Y_vXcHM%253A%3BHSqRjm763nU9KM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.renemagritte.org%252Fimages%252Fpaintings%252Fthe-false-mirror.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.renemagritte.org%252F%3B640%3B426 Rene Margrite

http://www.uelsmann.net/ Jerry Uelsmann

http://www.underwatersculpture.com/ Jason deCaires Taylor

Explain in writing the following:

 * CONCEPT: **  I want to create a myth of the octagon house and how it supposedly is haunted. I will take a picture of the octagon house because I live on the road by it. I will then take a photograph of one of my friends to be the ghost. I will use photoshop to create the myth of the octagon house. No one has ever seen a ghost in the house that I know of, but I have seen the windows move up and down when I talked to the owner and he said that the windows don't move.


 * SUBJECT: ** I will use a picture of the octagon house and a photo of my friend to be the ghost. I will have to change the opacity of the ghost because it will have to look like a real,believable ghost. My picture of the house will be either black and white, or in color but not really bright. I will use natural lighting because I will be taking the picture from outside of the house.


 * REASONING: ** This house has always interested me in a way ever since I was little. Now that I live 7 seconds way from it, my interest is even more drawn to the idea of it being haunted. Everyone always talks about it and, "oh it's haunted", or "oh the underground railroad is beneath it", so I want people to believe this myth and portray a ghost in one of the front windows. The idea that I'll take away from it will be not to believe everything you see because photoshop does exist. Also, when this project was announced, I immediately thought of doing this idea because it has always intrigued me to a certain point, where I actually went into the house for a halloween party one year. When I was in the house, I saw blood on the walls. Now, I don't know if that was real or not because again, it was a halloween party. But, I did see the 50 foot well in the basement. There was also a grate in the middle of the living room, where you could see right through it down to the basement. From that point forward, I have always wanted to know more about the house.


 * FACTS: ** There is a myth that this house is haunted. The reason it's haunted is because apparently the owner a long time ago, killed his wife in that house. Also, there have been mysterious noises in the house that were heard through the walls. When the house was being built, intercommunication speaking tubes were put in the walls. After awhile, the outlets were covered with wall paper but still transferred sounds.

http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=N:4294963828-4294955414&dsRecordDetails=R:IM43256 This website is where I got background information on the octagon house.