I chose timeline images based on two categories: mortgage crisis images that are directly related the events
from Wikipedia’s Subprime Crisis Impact Timeline and apple images from four seasons that have symbolic
meanings. The chosen events start with initial stages of (somewhat positive and beneficial) mortgage policies
and history in 1970’s and ends with the recent problematic results and facts in 2008.
I adapt the notion of intellectual montage into my timeline design. Soviet filmmaker, Sergei Eisenstein
mentioned that montage is “an idea that DERIVES from the collision between two shots that are independent of
one another” and explained the intellectual montage by mentioning Chinese ideograms, dog + mouth= barking.
The images conflict each other but the assemblage of them creates new meanings.
In my timeline, for example, apple blossoms image is juxtaposed with images related to races and low-income
houses, and the synthesis yields the symbolic meaning that mortgage policies related to race and low-income
neighborhood were started at that point (1970’s). Juxtaposing fallen and rotten apples and foreclosure images
creates a new indication of recent economic problems and the failure of mortgage policies.
Data Source: Subprime Crisis Impact Timeline from Wikipedia
Four Season Image Sources:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_blossoms.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Green_apple.jpg
http://www.edupic.net/Images/Plants/red_apple432.jpg
http://kateiredale.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451c50869e20105369c8f8c970b-pi
Mortgage Crisis Image Sources:
http://lowincomehousingguide.com/page/2/
http://urbanhabitat.org/uh/newfront
http://z.hubpages.com/u/419505_f260.jpg
http://wpcontent.answers.com/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/DowntownLosAngeles.jpg
http://www.findhomeloans.com/images/home_loans/home_loans_250x251.jpg
http://myurbanabode.com
http://myurbanabode.com
http://www.thefinancialhelpcenter.com/Real-Estate/The-Case-For-A-Housing-Bubble.html
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/02/02/mortgagecrisis_part2/
http://www.ehow.com/how_4887614_live-through-foreclosure.html
