Grief-Ascent:
Memorial and Renewal after the Thurston High Shootings

Nathaniel Bobbitt
ac551@rgfn.epcc.edu

  • COMMUNITY BENEFIT
  • PROJECT NARRATIVE
  • PROJECT EXCELLENCE

    • COMMUNITY BENEFIT

    Grief Memorial-Website



    This project brings into relief issues relevant to public safety, violence, and the role of technology by promoting dialogue between municipal departments and the gaming industry according to the following initiatives:

  • Promotion of Non-Violence through Safe-Gaming Practices

  • Develop Virtual Community (Website) to Address Youth Violence

  • Integrate Virtual Community with the following components:
    • Municipal Leadership
    • Health Care Providers
    • Grief Counseling
    • Public Safety Representation
    • Educators and Youth Counselors
    • Community Based Groups

    The challenge of this group is to communicate internally as a group and to provide parents, children, and professionals a forum to address Youth Violence, Violence in Gaming, and issues related to Public Safety and Education. The web-presence of this group opens the dialogue to other communities facing the problems of Youth Violence and Violence in our Schools.

    The following organizations will be targeted to further support and advise on technical issues related with technology, grief counseling, and public safety issues:

    Thurston HS
    Springfield Schools (ESD #19)
    4-J School District
    Springfield City Mayor's Office
    Sony Disc. Manufacturing
    Dynamix
    Symantec
    US West Media Group
    Lane County Committees on Public Safety
    Prevention against Abuse and Violence Task Force
    University of Oregon Institute on Violence and Destructive Behavior
    Looking Glass
    PeaceHealth


    PROJECT NARRATIVE



    [Healing-Site]|[ Nathaniel Bobbitt]

    A web presence is offered which documents and dramatizes public responses to a Cafeteria High School Shooting.

    In conjunction with LEA an electronic publication of the MIT-Press a site on the Thurston HS Shootings is on-line. This site addresses a descent into grief. The next phase of the project addresses the ascent and renewal from grief.

    A summary of ASCENT-Healing & Renewal:

    The challenge in this web presentation is to arrive at a representation of family relations and document the dramatic social forces represented in the ability of a community to recover from teen violence.

    Resources:

    • Memorabilia from Thurston High School Memorial Fence

    • On-Line News Articles

    • Audiovisual Digital Art

    Grief-Ascent:
    Healing and Renewal Mining the Grief Process


    Project Excellence: Group Discussion

    Interactive Discussion according to "Pictures which Make You Think"

    * Visual Communication according to Iconic Language

    Nathaniel Bobbitt:

  • Web Portfolio
  • N. Bobbitt Resume
  • Research

    ICONOGRAPHY

    A three tiered virtual environment based on the three primary colors in digital graphics RGB (Red, Blue, and Green) are used as the basis for an allegorical ascent toward a pond, that is, a votive sanctuary where the culmination of the healing process is visualized through digitally manipulated 2-D imagery within a user controlled 3-D animation.

    RED

    Extremely Slow Transitions

    RED-BLUE

    Interactive Light

    BLUE

    Eclipsing the Grief Imagery

    RED

    1. Zoom-In

    2. Imagery:

    Corrosive Heart *Blood Stain * Tears & Roses

    (Prisms)(2 School Girls)(3 Boys in Arms)



    RED-BLUE:

    1.Interactive Light/Lens Flare Animation

    2.Methodical zoom-in/zoom-out of images based on Thurston Shooting



    BLUE

    1. Crystal Lattice Structures

    2. Material/Physical Color

    Resources:

    3-D Animation

    Ascent through Fisheye Lens

    Mouse-Sensitive Interface Programs

    Still pictures related with grief and the Thurston High School Shootings are placed within 3-D animations based on color coding and interactive programs developed by Nathaniel Bobbitt

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