Chow 161 :: The CITY

[Aly Fell]

ROUND #161 :: The CITY

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The City

No it's not Environment of the week! Thanks to Zaxser for this suggestion.

This week we want you to take a city, anywhere in the world, your own, or another, and visualise it as a character. Present a city as a human personality, male or female it’s up to you. If possible try to avoid national costumes, and instead imagine how the city would look as a person.

Zaxser’s suggestions:

London is crying. It's just one of those days.

Paris is such a tease.

New York is a huge .

People think of Miami as a party girl, but she keeps her secrets well with an abyss of hidden depths.

Tokyo is incredibly obese, writhing and feeding. No one knows where she ends and her sisters begin.

Some people say everything is bigger in Dallas. Some people lie.

Since the flood, New Orleans just hasn't been the same.

New Amsterdam is the normal one in the family. What's their problem?

People keep saying a character can be a plant, an animal, an object, a place. All it needs is personality. Prove it. Present a city as a character.

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DEADLINE
MONDAY, June 8th, 2009
Deadline is Monday, at 5:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (GMT -5).
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[Phuzion]

I love it!

~d

[bangalore_monkey]

thanks for using up all the good ones!

great idea, i'll have to do one of my home town.

[Aly Fell]

Originally Posted by bangalore_monkey

thanks for using up all the good ones!

great idea, i'll have to do one of my home town.

You can still use those ones, they were just suggestions. And there are no dibs on any particular city. More versions of any particular one the merrier!

[courtyard]

Oh. My. God. This is beyond exciting--thanks so much, Posh!

[S.C. Watson]

this should be fun

[Ghostbrush]

yeh this sounds great...again! could get quite personal with peoples different perceptions of places, should be some great characters!

Alex

[Cosmitron]

Wow! that's a challenge!

[bangalore_monkey]

it's hard not to visualize a city as one of it's inhabitants. so much of a cities character comes from our view of it's people.

[darklogik]

This is going to be a fun challenge! Gonna be Great to see what comes out of this round, almost complete creative freedom. I think Im going to go more exaggerated cartoony Denver since I know most people are going to take the cool cities. Sports, Beer and drugs =P, ill stay away from the other evils of Denver, just too many of them LOL.

[trevor]

wow!
i think this may be one of the best topics ever in chow
crazy almost existential premise, i absolutely love it!
whether or not i will have time to do it on the other hand...sigh

[darklogik]

Thinking of going this route... or should I go more / less cartoonish? Let me know.

[clockworksnail]

LOL at Denver, i like it ive never bin, but i now want to go!

[Phuzion]

DARKLOGIK: I think you should have him getting PWNED by Kobe Bryant!!

[lkjhgfdsa]

Brisbane City- Australia... heh ha!
'hey mate, got a smoke?'
'hey mate, gota dollar?'
2headed, inbred, meth-head is what I'm thinking...
...not that there aren't pretty places in brisbane...
...without 2headed, inbred, meth-heads...

[Phaethon]

Extra points if your character is actually dressed as a city.

[NicHolS]

Originally Posted by lkjhgfdsa

Brisbane City- Australia... heh ha!
'hey mate, got a smoke?'
'hey mate, gota dollar?'
2headed, inbred, meth-head is what I'm thinking...
...not that there aren't pretty places in brisbane...
...without 2headed, inbred, meth-heads...

haha wow you mustve met the wrong people while in brisbane... the only people ive met who said that are homeless people from the valley... and im pretty sure every city in the world has worse

made me laugh tho...

what a weird topic, hopefully i get time this week away from my color theory tutorials i really missed out on last weeks topic... bummer

[~baxter]

Very interesting topic. Thinking about going with the good ol Steel City, Pittsburgh. Lived there for 3 years and I'm starting to miss it a bit

[Missile]

Clever idea for a topic!

I'm tempted to do Essex but I don't think enough people would 'get it'. >_>

[-HAWK-]

This is going to be the coolest CHOW, I'm totally psyched!

[Sulk-Sal]

Wow, this is so tempting...If I do this it will probably be Philadelphia PA or my home town of Johnstown PA. J-town would be a bit easier since I know more about it but it could be a good one too.

[DefiledVisions]

Oh damn.. This is so interesting.

[darklogik]

So many people pwn'in denver lately hard to choose LOL

[Max Martelli]

I'm liking this idea. I think I'm gonna have to go with Boston. Home sweet home.

[-HAWK-]

I think I'll try New Songdo City, it would be an interesting challenge for me and I thought I could maybe incorporate tech into the character's body as it's being developed as a ubiquitous city. Would that be ok?

[MichaelNoel]

Eh... So vague. D:

I guess I'll twirl a globe and see what I land on.

[Tommoy]

Teteringen has probably been taken so I'll go for Berlin.

[clockworksnail]

is that really how you see berlin???

[mojokingbee]

Nice challenge for this week...a little trickier but interesting nevertheless. Here's a super rough..Lady London...Lived there for a year and I got the impression of fast-paced modernity contradicted with old traditional values..lot's of old and new with a heaping serves of hip, arrogance and crankiness plus the lovely weather...I miss London.

[Missile]

First idea-

Prypiat (Ukrainian: При́п'ять, Pryp”jat’; Russian: При́пять, Pripjat’), or Pripyat, is an abandoned city in the zone of alienation in northern Ukraine, Kiev Oblast, near the border with Belarus. The city was founded in 1970 to house the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant workers, and was abandoned in 1986 following the Chernobyl disaster. Its population had been around 50,000 prior to the accident.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prypiat

I see 'her' as a cross between the cast of a Pompeii victim and rusting derelict industrial items sprouting weeds, frozen in a (hopefully) clearly 1980s sense of clothing (though I may opt for something a little more Soviet in style). Once lively and hot but now quarantined, alone and forgotten.

Bit of a downer... maybe I should have gone with Essex after all.