Week 9 — Art Activity — Time-Series Photography

Dennis Nguyen
3 min readJul 27, 2020

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As the person known as Dennis the Dentist, I chose to take a picture each time I brushed my teeth in the morning and night. Also, because of my extremely unusual sleep/nap schedule, I tend to brush my teeth a lot more often for some odd reason. After the first time I did it, I wanted to modify it. This change to the rule was that I would have to take a picture of myself brushing my teeth, as usual, though at 7:07a.m. and 7:07p.m. while making a “seven pose” with my right elbow. I don’t actually like the number 7 by the way as it doesn’t feel like a lucky number to me. Also, those times seem to be a lot earlier than for the average person. At least it’s not 12 in the morning where hundreds of eye bags are hanging from my eyes. I’m exaggerating. I was hoping to produce a plethora of photos that seemed similar to each other as if it was like a team pose but with myself only. My results didn’t match up because the first few photos are different and I had realized how my arm can’t bend in a way to make the seven shape look clear enough. I was going to take each picture with where I was standing in that moment to diversify my photos because sometimes I would walk around my house in deep thought, but I didn’t want anyone to think how weird I am. Also, some of them seem too similar which makes them look suspicious. With a team of 5 people tasked to develop a marketing plan, I would establish the rule of taking pictures of the product, let’s say the newest new Ultra iPhone 99 RX IDK, at sometime in the morning of a different student with his or her university as the background, since it seems like it would mainly appeal to young adults.

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Dennis Nguyen

¡Hola! I am second year mechanical engineering major. I enjoy sketching, watching videos, and playing games in my free time. I’m very excited for Art 110!