For project four I'm feeling very optimistic. I want it to basically be about Identity; to consider that perhaps everyone's Identity is not what they think and is maybe too caught up in objects. I'm a tutor/mentor in Stalnaker Hall this year, and every single student who lives there has an arbitrary desk full of their school things. The idea of this project is to get them to list everything that is in their desk, along with pictures if they like, and then one large picture of them. I'm then going to link everything to my blog and tie it all together, starting with a picture of the person that links to a "personal description," only this personal description is nothing more than a list of items in a desk.
It's coming pretty well, I have four or five people's already, I just havn't compiled them online yet.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
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Good idea! :)
I like that the personal description is just going to be whatever is on their desk. I think that the things people constantly keep around them (which would most likely be on or around a desk in college) says a lot about the person.
I don't think I have any "to do list" ideas.. It sounds like a good idea. :)
This sounds like a very creative and original project. You seem to adhere to the syllabus and what it is asking for you to do.
One thing I thought of as I was thinking about you going through your dorm is maybe taking all of the photos, and stories that you gather, and then linking them all of of a picture of the dorm. So say you have a picture of your dorm, and you gathered information from a guy named Billy, and his dorm window is the 3rd window on the right. If you click the third window on the right you get Billy's information. Does that make sense?
If you wanted to go with the mystery theme you could Photoshop the picture to look more mysterious than just a regular old picture of Stalnaker. This might take some creative effort in something like Flash, unless you can come up with something else, but I think it would make your project interactive and even more unique than it already is.
Louie: Nice. The content of the project will be whatever they list. I'd say you should tell them this is for a course and ask them to be as complete and honest as they can. And/or the picture - great idea!
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