Meeting 2: 5/2/10

Today's meeting was helpful for a greater starting point, and making decisions and so on. I spoke about my initial ideas - the journal, Sam Taylor-Wood, people and routines.


Feedback I received spoke about;

• The importance of documenting my design journey via my blog - especially as it ties in with my journal theme.
• Look at online journals
• The use of sequencing a story/routine
• How journals are being used
• Historic and contemporary journals
• Photography as a journal - how it is used to document?
• New day, New photo?
• Look at Magma books
• Flip books as a form?
• The journals of Pete Doherty and Kurt Cobain
• Repetition/Journey/Routine
• Layering?
• Look at Nan Goldin - photography tells a story/narrative
• Recent photos of a cancer patient in the newspaper - (photography stopped when cancer struck)
• Green Wing opening credits

I was also informed to consider whether my journal would have an end; Whether it would be for public use, memory, or a private journal; Whether the journal would be about a ficticious character or a real person, me now or the past, other people, character from a film or TV show.

THINGS TO LOOK AT & VISIT;

• Book; Photo Journalism by Revel Golden
• Blog; http://twisted-genius.squarespace.com/
• The Photographers Gallery in Leicester Square
• The Museum of Everything in Primrose Hill

THOUGHTS...

I shall be visiting the Museum and Gallery on Tuesday, and looking at journals. Will take out books on Monday to get some inspiration.

THE DEFINATES;

I know that I want to do a contemporary journal because a historic theme would not interest me, or make me feel any passion towards creating it. 

I am thinking maybe some sort of narrative, but I am not sure whether I want to base this journal on a character from TV, my alter ego, or someone I know that I can document. It might be difficult to just do a TV character because there would be limitations in accessing information.

I like the idea of an alter ego, but I am not sure if that is too broad to sort of invent a new person... though if I base it on myself then that might be a better idea?! Plus, it might give me the courage to do things I would never normally do. New experiences are always good... well, sometimes. Hmmm.

Narrative/sequencing is interesting because then it would be like an ongoing story, and I like the idea of layering and overlapping too.

Lots to think about. Indecisiveness is not a good trait to have.


TASK FOR MONDAY;
‘CREATIVE THINGS’ – Retrofitting Design Analysis Exercise