Page one of my notebook., 13/9/12, Grove, 1:41 am
Got back from movie night and the insomnia kicked in, just as well since I get most of my work done at night anyway. So I stayed up and started in on my notebook for the Sense My Space project. By this point I had a good few ideas milling around, about 8 vague-ish ones and 4 I could see myself actually using.
My Mind Map: 13/9/12, Grove, 2:24 am
So I started with the basics and threw down a brainstorm, exploring some of the directions I want to go in.
I numbered all the concepts too so Ill just give you a brief run through of them.
- Spaces in Conversation - Basically looking at awkward pauses, cluttering, silence, sound, gaps, reduction, typography.
- Dropped stitches - Spaces in thread, cloth etc, finger-shaped holes, constucting clothes from dropped stitches.
- How Perspective Changes a Space - photograph a space from my perspective, then from 360 degree panoramic view, reduction, altering famous art, taking away perspective from Da Vinci's Last Supper.
- How a Picture/Image/2d visual fits its space - scale, overlapping, widening, enlarging, shrinking
- Padded Cell- How do the senses change an enclosed space. If you're trapped in a space does the space change? do the senses change a space - a bad smell, ugly sight, hunger etc.
- My Space - urban vs rural, Limerick vs Carlow, taking parts of carlow town or countryside ad placing them in limerick and vice versa.
- Cluttering in video - is an image changed by the process of cluttering or reduction even if the end product is the exact same as the original image you began with.
Before I went to bed I took a few photos of my immediate space, where I'd been working for the night, which was the coffee table in my new sitting room, it means I cant use the internet while I work but I just hate the chair in my bedroom.
And as you can see I has a cup of tea to keep me going, which doesn't help with the insomnia but is definitely good for my motivation.
Finally this is a 360 degree panoramic shot of my workspace for that night, sort of jumping head first into the number 3 idea., I don't know though if it formats properly for an online blog.
Well that's all for my first day on the job :-)
