week eight

Some of the many images i took and then we had to whittle them down to just three.



my final three images

week seven

200 photos:

We all came together minus Dando who had left the group, and we brought our 200 photos we took of anything.so this was to add to the 100 that we had previously taken the week before, so now we had around or close to 300 photos each.

As you can see we laid out our prints which completely covered one class room, and then it was the painstaking task of looking through each of them and whittling down to around 20 each i think.

once we had marked the ones we liked each we then went and printed those particular images off

and came back to our meeting room and looked at the images again.

And again we then chose the better of the images out of the 20 each down to 6, and this continued until we had 3 of the best images of ours each.

                                                whittling down to around 20 photos

knocking down to 6 photos

week six

This week we spoke to Peter out tutor and explained to him that we were now beginning  to  slow up on our ideas and wanting to have something concrete to go on, but having one member still not attending any meetings we decided to drop this member and carry on.

When peter asked us what got us going as we were talking to him about the mind being a stimulant,
and the funny thing was that most of us came back with similar topics.

Hana went and took photos at a disused hospital, which looked like something out of a horror movie, or jack the ripper was going to jump out at you. So her stimulant was fear.

Sarah is an asthmatic, and so she depends on her inhaler for cases of if she has trouble breathing, for her this is a stimulant that helps her to breath and to live in some ways.

For Launi hers is coffee, and her normal dosage is three cups before 10:00am (laugh).
for her this is a stimulant that keeps her going and awake.

for myself, mine is speed(not the drug). i race motorcycles and the rush and thrill of racing a machine capable of 200kmh and on you're knee is an amazing rush of adrenaline.

So we came to an agreement that we would go away and do an action with speed and within a deadline that we would not meet, but still continue to to.

so we went away and took 100 photos of things that involved our stimulation i.e motorbikes, coffe beans or an inhaler, 

week five holidays

We ended up having one collaborative meeting on the second Monday at 9 o clock,

The Notes

Find a jumping off point (starting point)

We are collaborating in out lifes, every time we talk to someone, send a text, an email etc we are collaborating.

What Skills do we have to contribute ?

Lani – Piano, Finer Details, drawing, organised

Hana – Painting, Drawing, expressing, organize, idea generating, coordinating meetings

Me – Painting, Drawing, digital (illustrator and Photoshop)

Harry – Drawing, Painting, Confidence Boosting

Dando – Research, Controversial Sculptures, Being outside comfort zone and taking others to that place, drawing and painting

Sarah – digital, movie making, organised

Process from the last meeting

Mine -

Steering wheel – if you didn’t have one you wouldn’t be able to steer , but if you had no car and a steering wheel you’d be able to steer.

Hana -

Blank paper – if it was 3D it’d be hard to read and write, idea that generated from this covering self in screwed up paper

Sarah's idea that come from it, to write every thought down and cover yourself in it screwed up, this would be making your thoughts from the inside be on the outside.

Over Thinking, is great, but sometimes it can ruin things.

Where did we want to go, what came up in our conversations that meeting

Brain, Part of brain, brain maze, thoughts, half made of real brain and half of digital parts, taking the thoughts out of your mind so you can physically see it – writing, putting coffee to sleep, stimulate, box.

what keeps coming up in our conversations

brains, boxes and what stimulates your mind eg Coffee

we decided on doing 2 or 3 drawings, related to the mind and brain.

i only ended up doing one image

week four

Attending this meeting was: Sarah, Hana, Launi and myself. 

and when we began it seemed as though we had hit a brick wall and and were just sitting around enjoying a coffee, so we brought our ideas to a halt and began to link our ideas together and put them into the category of "inside out".

At this point it was still just us four so we were able to just discuss some more ideas and things  to get the flow going a bit. But i think the challenge at this point was the fact two of our members were not turning up for the meetings, so i think we were feeling that we were recovering over the same ideas and processes and not getting the fresh ides from the other two members.

Paradox:

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

Paradox = contradicts itself. We seem to keep coming back to doing something with a paradox so we have now decided to look a bit more into it and see what comes out of this. “Deep down you’re really shallow.” We found this little quote on the internet trying to get our heads around the concept of paradox and bringing it to everyday things.

i really enjoyed looking at this painting by Banksy, its a perfect example of a paradox,

in that generally homeless people ask for change on the street, meaning the coin change in your pocket, but in this piece the picture is asking not for coin change but rather a change in his future? 

http://weburbanist.com/2007/07/19/banksy-paradox-unofficial-guide-to-the-worlds-most-infamous-urban-guerilla-street-artist/

This got us thinking, and we began thinking what if got an idea and then broke a rule for that.

I suggested that Launi who is a Christian Sunday church Girl

swap places with another one of our group members

Hana who is very blunt and straight forward girl who likes to part .

week three:

With our third week meeting we began looking into the mind and paradox themes.

and at how the mind can be such an amazingly powerful mechanism of the human body.

I began researching into Quantum Physics, but Wow, what a topic.

I began studying you tube videos and trying to get an understanding of how the mind is not just a blob of mass in the skull.

Quantum Physics & Microscopic Universe [Full Documentary] - YouTube

week two

In this meeting we began by updating  one of our other member's Sarah who was away for the last meeting. after that we got stuck into throwing ideas on paper of what we thought about "inside out".

 Launi told us a brief story about a bird that had gotten stuck inside a shop in Stratford and the people couldn’t get the bird out, the bird did not want to be caught and taken outside. It was quite and inside out moment for her while at work, nature being stuck inside not being able to get outside.

Another idea I'd had was, to get cheap or free furniture and leave it outside somewhere  in New Plymouth were the public could interact with it. i mean why do we have everything inside? Shelter?.

 So to bring what is the norm of living inside, outside.

For this we would of placed it around the Huatoki Plaza area but we thought of the process and paper work we may of had to do with the New Plymouth Council.

http://www.thesmartteacher.com/exchange/resource/548/MySpace-Inside-Out-Room

Inside out week one

Ideas:

It was a slow start to our group discussion as only three of us where in that day, Myself, Hana and Laulani. But we proceeded on with our first meeting anyway.

We had a couple of ideas floating around and wrote them down, anything we thought of we wrote down as it was something, even if it wasn't relevant we still used it as i could move forward into something else.

One of my ideas consisted of cubes. Having a large perspex or acrylic cube on a stand, and on the inside of that have a smaller cube built from mirrors facing outwards, so that when you look into the large cube, you would see your reflection looking from the inside of the bigger cube to the outside.

Lani's idea was to move everything from inside F Block.

Hana's idea was to take experiences here in F Block and expand on them.

another of mine was a Wasjig puzzle, as you have to build a jigsaw only by looking at another picture of the opposite thing.

We decided also to meet on Fridays at 1:30, so that we would have a set time, date and place and each week we would go away and research.

B1B3K8C7A6T0 Final Installment

This is our T-shirts that Sarah kindly purchased and stenciled on our profile code.  

The code is comprised of a letter and a number. The letter represents the first letter of our destination name;

Bath = B

Barcelona = B

Kent = K

Czech Republic = C

Amsterdam = A

Te Kuiti = T.

And our number from our numerology beside the initial.

Bath = B1

Barcelona = B3

Kent = K8

Czech Republic = C7

Amsterdam = A6

Te Kuiti = T0

Instalment

Final installment of the group piece included the movable scaffold and a good head for heights.

   

final construction

The final idea layout.

Construction. Sarah and Aly had the touch, so they were tying the fine fishing wire

through the wholes which were hole punched at each end of the A3 maps.

week six

With this meeting we brought together our A3 maps of our favourite destinations and a long with our place coordinates we could begin to finally put together something solid.


Our destinations were:

Janicks - Czech Republic

Aly's - Barcelona

Chad's - Kent

Sarah's - Amsterdam

Tj's - rural bush area of New Zealand 

Janicks 49.7500 N, 15.7500 E

Mine 51.3800 N, 2.3600 W

Alys 41.3833 N, 2.1833 E

Chads 51.1900 N, 0.7300 E

Sarahs 52.3667 N, 4.9000 E

As i was away sick for this meeting the rest of the group came up with ideas to put together the A3 maps and to some how incorporate the coordinates into an abstract instalment.  

some of the coordinates but unfortunately not all of them.

week seven: construction ideas

initial construction ideas:

The first idea to create a box with each map on a side of this box,
then chad came up with this idea

Each page is a map strung on number 8 wire with the numbers we came up with from the equation between each map. The wire goes from one end to the other.

                                      

This is the same as above except for hanging from the ceiling and the wire makes a circle.

Meeting four, week five

After gathering the information together from the groups questionnaire we could begin piecing together any information that could possibly connect one or more of the group members,

So we found out that Aly was born in Malaysia and that i came out on Malaysian Airlines in 2000. Also Aly and my birthday was on the same day, July the 24th.

Then we discovered that Chad's Dad's birthday was on the 24th of July as well, so we were beginning to find some big connections with each other.

Alys favourite destination was Barcelona, and Barcelona happens to be a favourite song which was sung by a band by the name of Queen.
As we continued on with this discussion and reading over the questions we became more and more connected than we thought.

It seemed as though we had some connection with the band Queen and the Royal Queen in England, i had met the Queen on a pheasant shoot, then things stared to get a bit out of hand, TJ had shot a pheasant, Chad owned a pheasant as a pet and Janick had seen a pheasant at a zoo. So i myself thought that this was getting us no way near the goal of a team profile.

Our tutor Peter sat down with us and asked us questions more to do with our destinations and explained about what if we went along the lines of a code for the group profile, such as numerology.


So our mission for our next meeting was to find and print our favourite destination and gather together the longitude, latitude for that country,town, city, or even a rural area.      

Meeting Three, Week four

For this meeting we realized we weren't really heading anywhere with just ideas for the final piece, so we thought of a series of questions to ask the whole group. Sarah wrote down the Questions whilst the rest of the group came up with some complex questions.

Meeting two

Meeting Two, Week Three

What we found out about each other:

Aly was born in Malaysia and loves football and is learning spanish. She grew up with christian beliefs.

Chad is the son of a dairy farmer and went to Francis Douglas Memorial Collage. His grandfather comes from Kent in the UK.

Sarah was the dark horse of the group and it was hard to find anything about her.

Janick has a passion fro music and is in a band, when he was younger his mum use to by ribbons in his hair.

TJ is from the Waikato region and has just recently shifted to Taranaki. He loves to go pig hunting and enjoys spending time in the bush.


Once we had established a ground to go from we then looked at how we could express ourselves as a group in some way shape or form to do with our hobbies and interests.

We disgust How we could use different areas of visual art such as, audio, video, abstract or performance. Smells even came to the table, with someone suggesting we take the smells from things that we enjoy doing like speedway fro Janick, or cow muck and milk smells for Chad, for Aly it was to be the smell of Spanish cooking and for Sarah it was the smell of electronics in the hardrive of a computer as she was a bit of a computer whizz.

meeting 1

Project 1
Team Profile


In our team : Chad, Sarah, Janick, TJ, Aly and Myself.
Meeting one:

For the first meeting we asked each other questions, about where we were from, were we grew up, favorite foods and hobbies. We tried to get some ideas going as to maybe what our final piece was to be. we found this tricky.

Some of the ideas were,
3D Profile
Time Capsule
Treasury Box
Family Tree
Puzzle
Good Question Are we already born or slowly being born? How do we become real humans?

Mould the profile around the characteristics not the characteristics around the profile.