Final shizz

Very small version of the final poster

I don't believe I spent £5 on magazines to cut up straight away.

I have found this project particulary hard as it's not something I am really interested in. I struggles at first to find something i wanted to do, and ended up starting to create various different posters but was never happy with them. In the end i thought the only way to come up with something half decent would be to try and associate the poster with something i am interested in. Initially i thought i wouldn't be able to combine my interests with the brief.

With some scissors, glue and the most important subject known to mankind i came up with something i was finally happy with!...



This isn't my final poster, of course, although i will be using this as my magazine front cover that will be projected onto the surface of sorts.
It was fun to do and looks pretty. Great success.

I want to go home

The Idea for my poster was to create a piece of technology that allows you to project magazines onto a surface so it would never be a hassle to carry big books around. The concept of the projector would be that instead of buying your usual magazine, instead you would purchase a micro chip containing the magazine to load into your ‘projector’. The remote is small and simple, with only the options of your favourite magazines and the option of ‘back’ and ‘next’ which controls the pages of the magazine.

The poster will be created in two seperate parts, consisting of a magazine that i will design to be projected onto a surface, and the second part being the remote control that projects the magazine.

The magazine will be the most fun to create because i am a child.

I don't want to be a robot.

Developement of technology seems to be a tough concept to keep up with these days. I MUST BE OUT OF DATE!
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy having a camera on my phone, it allows me to take pictures whilst being out if i had forgot my camera. Or having an mp3 player on my phone incase the night before I forgot to charge up my ipod. I think the fact we need two of each though is just wasteful really.

Mobile Camera - Digital Camera
Ipod - MP3 phone
Television set - Television computer
Personal organiser - Computer
Playstation - PS3

I can understand wanting to have mobile versions of the things you already have at home, it has its uses. But the fact we spend so much money on updating technology, just to have something we already have, just seems ludicrous. Sorry my spelling is bad.

I personally won't be purchasing the Ipod Touch this Christmas. How ever much I would like to, my current ipod (the first 7mg video ipod) is doing its purpose just fine.



In other news...

Today we had a crit on our ideas for the 2020 brief. Some peoples ideas really scared me. I decided to keep my idea quite simply where as other people where on about chips that control your brian and never having to leave the house again because your living in a virtual world. With everything there are advantages and disadvantages. Theres nothing I would like more to wake up on a cold, rainy morning, and instead of having to walk to college just log into a computer and virtually do your work. Depending on what subjects you study that would be more useful to some than others. It seems like an ideal idea for when its cold and rainy, when you can't really be bothered to leave the house, however, when the sun is out and its hot, is it really healthy to be stuck in the house all day infront of a cimputer getting taught your daily English or Maths class? I think certain aspects of online learning are really useless, Moodle for example allows you to access information about a specific project which you could not get if it was out of college times. The thought of having to tell stories about what school was like to grandchildren etc is a saddening thought though.

To infinite... and beyond!

Whilst trying to research on the 2020 brief, I came accross this crazy website. Its called "News Of The Future" and it basically predicts what the future will be like from 2020 and beyond.
Some of the stories are absolute madness. Non of the stories are bound to be anywhere near accurate, although with headlines such like "US Medicare Costs Now 7.5% of GDP" and "Senior Drivers Account for 25% of US Driver Fatalities" it just kind of proves my speculation about how nothing at all will have dramatically changed in 2020. Of course theres the usual stories like "First Tourist Heading for Mars" and "Beam Yourself Around the World with Telebeamer", but for how long have people been saying that? I'm sure once over, by the year 2000 we where meant to be floating around in bubble cars or something...

Anyway if anyone wants to have a read of some of these stories then the website is http://www.newsoffuture.com/ (I tried to link it but it wouldn't work!)
There might actually be some pretty interesting stuff on there (hmm), I think i might read around a bit more, but if its anything like i've already read its pretty humourous reading.

I don't like Star Wars, its just not the way i roll.

Watching this video makes me realise how over rated technology can be in the sense of creating a good piece of Media. This video I have posted is the most simple video in the world yet I never get bored of watching it (and theres always something new that I find which I never realised before!). It has no flashy effects or such, yet I think its so much more interesting than a load of music videos out there that are over done with effects and fancy filming. That is probably because the song is one of favourite songs, but having one of your favourite songs accompanied by a bad music video is bad crack.

This got me thinking about what I want to for the 2020 brief. Well I still actually don't know what to do but today I was thinking to myself that I don't actually think much will of changed in 13 years. The most will be that will of happened is there will be a mobile phone that you can fit in... your tooth and will ring, be a camera, music player, video recorder, computer, boil water, do your ironing and what not.

One thing that scares me is all this online teaching that we are getting encouraged to take part in. I think the internet is starting to take over peoples lives and before long it will be so drastic that people will not have to leave the house. Soon we will be educated over the internet instead of having taught classes, we already talk to our friends online but soon it will be as bad as we never have to see them because we will have everything before our eyes at home on your desktop computer. "Online disco tonight at 10pm, be there or be a low life". Its all madness and it scares me. I blame Tom from myspace.

Why are we talking about Lara Croft?

After further analysing my poster I feel it didn't exactly come accross the way I wanted it to.
The main inspiration for my poster was from a video by one of my favourite bands, Death Cab For Cutie. The video is called crooked teeth and includes animation as well as moving image.
The Animation was made of pictures cut out and put together. I tried to replicate this style with my own spin... but it just turned out bad. Well not bad, I think (hope) it did turn out ok. Just not as good as it looked in my head!

Print screens from the video Crooked Teeth...