Toys :)

Plan... i have a fair few photos now..180 to be exact.
But theres only about 5 photos within that.
I got a little too interested in all the warn out detail and damage to the packaging. Just shows its been loved!

-Try some Charity Shops, ask to photograph some of the second hand toys. Or buy some cheap ones.
-Catalogues.
-Photo! Photo!
-Other methods of recording? Do some rubbings, drawings, scans?

It can't be a slow moving project due to the lack of time!!

Signs.

Here as a reference!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/signlanguage/3917183/The-best-of-Sign-Language.html

London Photos..

Signs.

Good Design.

New Brief - Good.

Restrictions? None. Just needs to be design for print.

Going to spend the next few days looking for a bit of inspiration before i clarify my ideas/aims.

Artist: Bart de Baets

Party Invitations - 

Billboardom

I like the concept behind this video - any film you can imagine. Its a clever idea and i like how they change the search words as they change the image. It displays the idea of "any film you can imagine," as it uses a frame that moves around everywhere, so anything anyone sees in front of them can become a video available on Google.
The fact that you can also see people interacting with it makes it seem more real and accessible. Seeing how people interact with the frame is interesting and sometimes is humorous.

More Keys Work..

During our final Crit, Jo picked on an idea that i had already thought about doing, but didnt think this could count as a book. But apparently anything that flows or tells a story is a "book" - could really find a way of anything being a book i think? Thats art for you.




Next, to look at categorizing keys. I have split my answers of the question "if you had a key to anywhere where would it be to?" into two groups..Fantasy and Realistic.



This image shows categorizing keys.. i have split the keys into different types and seperated them with key rings.

Film - My Blueberry Nights.

Watched this film, and was very impressed to find the start of the film related to my project! What i found interesting when i collected the keys was the story behind them, where they have come from. Check this out...

Do you think he will pick up these keys?

I don't know, i have had customers leaving keys here for years, sometimes it days a few days sometimes weeks

What about most of the time

Most of the time they stay in the jar

Why do you keep them, you should just throw them out.

No, i couldn't do that

Why not

If i threw these keys away then those doors will be closed for ever, and that shouldn't be for me to decide should it

I guess i am just looking for a reason

Sometimes its better of not knowing, and sometimes there's a reason not to be found

Everything has a reason.

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Can you tell me a story behind those set of keys.

What for?

Just wondered how they all ended up here.

Pick one...those belonged to a young couple a few years ago they were naive to believe they were going to spend the rest of their lives together.

What Happened.

Time happened. Things Happened.

Maybe one of them ran off with someone else.

Maybe the feelings just went Away.

What about these?

They belonged to a little old lady. Her friend was coming to visit. She never came. She was very old...

These keys used to belong to a young lad from manchester england who made plans... dreams to run every marathon...was going to make a journal of his experiences, but ended up running a cafe. The keys ended up with a russian girl who loved collecting keys and watching sunsets. Unfortunately she loved the sunsets more and the keys disappear.

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It's uncanny! Its completely what the roots of my project is based on. And i love the quote that i have highlighted. The script may not be exact as it is just me jotting it down as i watch the film..
Recommended Film!

Just came across this on a website when looking for places to download music. I love the use of mixed media, its for electro music i think, it kind of has this sense or feel the the piece has lots of different images have been mixed together.
It sticks to a theme though, labrador. I like the composition, and the use of negative spacing.

Mine and Jai's Trip to York Over Reading Week...

Keys!

Looking at different ways of presenting the keys. I thought that having an imprint would be quite suitable. As the idea of the key bieng something you impose on a lock.

Book Idea?

I have moved away from keys a bit, more towards security.
I think i am going to do a book, that has lots of levels of security - this could be many layers, use of padlocks and boxes. So that it is an interaction for the viewer to try and gain access to the book - as this is the point of security and keys - to control access to buildings and objects.
Inside i think i will have either a really simple book, maybe even a blank book - just for impact. It is also quite ambiguous, the viewer can make up their own interpretation of what the piece is all about.
Or, inside i could have a book, make up a series of peep/key hole images, referring to the idea of invasion of Privacy.

What is a Book?

# a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together); "I am reading a good book on economics"
# physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together; "he used a large book as a doorstop"
# ledger: a record in which commercial accounts are recorded; "they got a subpoena to examine our books"
# a number of sheets (ticket or stamps etc.) bound together on one edge; "he bought a book of stamps"
# record: a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone; "Al Smith used to say, `Let's look at the record'"; "his name is in all the record books"
# a major division of a long written composition; "the book of Isaiah"
# script: a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance
# a collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game
# record a charge in a police register; "The policeman booked her when she tried to solicit a man"
# a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made; "they run things by the book around here"
# reserve: arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance; "reserve me a seat on a flight"; "The agent booked tickets to the show for the whole family"; "please hold a table at Maxim's"
# Koran: the sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina
# engage for a performance; "Her agent had booked her for several concerts in Tokyo"
# register in a hotel booker
# Bible: the sacred writings of the Christian religions; "he went to carry the Word to the heathen"

New Camera!

Got a new camera today due to dropping the other one whoops. But that was a bit of a drunken accident. This new one won't be taken on nights out as its a bit fancy! Its not an SRL, but its "in the middle" as the guy in the shop said.

So, final decision - record images/ things relating to the word "DISCARDED"

Took some photos this afternoon..

Discarded

Definition -
v. dis·card·ed, dis·card·ing, dis·cards
v.tr.
1. To throw away; reject.
2.
a. To throw out (a playing card) from one's hand.
b. To play (a card other than a trump) from a suit different from that of the card led.
v.intr.
To discard a playing card.
n. (dskärd)
1.
a. The act of discarding in a card game.
b. A discarded playing card.
2. One that is discarded or rejected.

Brain Storm - Unwanted Objects

-Abandoned Vehicles
-Rubbish
-Scrap Yards

Maybe Broken objects would be more interesting? Or discarded Objects in general.
I don't know if it would be a good thing that the objects all appear quite random and the only thing they have in common is that they have been discarded and are unwanted.
Here are some images from deviant art to help explain my idea...

100

New brief to collect or record anything, somehow relating it to the number 100. I think i am going to record and collect unwanted objects, abandoned things. This could be quite interesting..first things that come to mind are a scrap yard. On the train home we went past one full of cars..that were obviously out of use but to me were quite interesting. I think the idea of unwanted objects interesting because they may not have a function anymore, but it is quite interesting to think of the story behind them, why have they been abandoned. The objects that come to mind look good as an image, but are past working. This idea just generally intrigues me.

IDN Magazine

I have found a really good magazine called IDN. It has such good layout in it, and really good designers. One interview i found particularaly interesting was one with the design studio ICFF, founded by Oliver Wiegner. I found it interesting because i could relate to alot of his responses.

Q - Do you have a design philosophy? What sort of feeling would you like your wok to inspire in the viewer?
A - Not really a philosophy, more a feeling or an attitude. Everytime i do a project i want to go one step further. Everytime i try to provoke wth more oddness or beauty in a strange way. I like to create a lack of understanding. It's more interesting for me if people do not understand my work immediately.

Q - What do you think about the relationship between art and Music?
A - Music is like a drug. For me, its really inspiring to listen to music Futhermore, music - and especially electronic music - and graphic design have a lot in common. I guess the process of sitting in front of your computer and mixing sounds or going around and collecting samples is quite similar to the work i do. From time to time i was a VJ. That is the most direct way to bring both together and to be influenced by music immediately.

\"Music is like a drug. For me, its really inspiring to listen to music Futhermore, music - and especially electronic music - and graphic design have a lot in common. I guess the process of sitting in front of your computer and mixing sounds or going around and collecting samples is quite similar to the work i do."

This is a key answer for as this is the music I listen to when doing my work, and this may help to explain why I have always felt there is a link between the music I listen to and the work that I am doing.

Futher into the interview Oliver Wiegner went on to say that when he thinks of a project he will think of connotations, a concept and try to form this picture in his mind of what his work will look like. Even if it is a really rough picture..he would like the ability to print the ideas out of his brain, but the process of having to transform work into the real work brings ideas with it. The results end up being completely different to what he originally thought of.

This is something that i can comepletely related to, more often than not when i get a brief i will have an image of my final piece. But never has my final piece turned out like i originally planned, just because as i am working through development of my design other ideas come to mind.