véjà du, all over again

by | Saturday, September 04, 2010

A véjà du experience is about looking at a familiar situation but with fresh eyes, as if you’ve never seen it before. It forms the basis of an assignment I give in my CEP818, Creativity in Teaching & Learning course. The assignment is described in greater detail here, but the core idea is to take multiple photographs of some everyday object in such a way that the viewer cannot easily determine what the object is! More here.

Today, I spent some time with my kids re-doing the assignment. My son suggested taking pictures of his X-Box 360 but we finally went with an object selected by my daughter. Here are the pictures. What do you think it is?


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8 Comments

  1. Punya Mishra

    A corkscrew it is! This is what the overall object really looks like.

    or click here to see all the images

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  2. Amy Strange

    I’m going to agree with Randy that it looks like a corkscrew.

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  3. Jung

    I think this is a part of the lawn spreader!!

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  4. Kylie

    Corkscrew?

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  5. Mary

    part of a table umbrella???

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  6. Heather Nordman

    Telescope?

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  7. Randy Johann

    It looks like a corkscrew.

    Reply

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