Friday, 19 October 2012
Thursday, 18 October 2012
Wednesday, 17 October 2012
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
guerilla gardening collab project (saiyme)
http://www.guerrillagardening.org/ggseedbombs.html
^^^^^^^^^^^^ above link to different methods of making seed bombs, pretty awesome.
a list of seeds and shrubs that will survive in winter
^^^^^^^^^^^^ above link to different methods of making seed bombs, pretty awesome.
a list of seeds and shrubs that will survive in winter
- hazel shrub
- cornelian cherry
- nandina
- winter heather
- viburnum tinus
- gaultheria
- john proffitt table mountain ice plant
- wooly thyme
plan for tomorow
-meet saiyme at 10.30 in studi
-go buy plant seeds and materials
-make seed bombs
-scatter them around
-document with photography and film!!!!!
-seed dispersal techniques
crit with steve hoffman 9/10/12
- communication to the public in previous projects was kind of leaving them in the dark about my ideas and the reason for the activity.
- voyerism- the practice of obtaining sexual gratification by looking at sexualobjects or acts, especially secretively.
- leeds council- leeds city trails
- research the argument
- student rail card
- trans penine, leeds-manchester, leeds-liverpool
- the difference between long hall and short hall journeys (what people are doing on these journeys and compare the statistics that are gathered.
- Satire , is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement.[1] Although satire is usually meant to be funny, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit as a weapon. A common feature of satire is strong irony or sarcasm—"in satire, irony is militant"[2]—but parody, burlesque, exaggeration, juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre are all frequently used in satirical speech and writing. This "militant" irony or sarcasm often professes to approve of (or at least accept as natural) the very things the satirist wishes to attack.Satire is nowadays found in many artistic forms of expression, including literature, plays, commentary, and media such as lyrics.
- look into instruction manuals
- http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Mac_Pro_User_Guide.pdf
- user guide and combing graphics designs
- specific diagrams on how to spy on people
- e.g. drawings of people in the reflection
- e.g. mirrors used as a spy techniques
- need to investigate and find statistics that validate my reason for this project.
- there is a correlation between the reflection in the screens of phones, and the reflaction in the window to the outside world.
- same shape of screen and window... both have reflections.
- IDEA: hand out national express style manuals/leaflets on 'how to effectively spy on people' - dress in national express uniform. so its a performance and then an activity. i don't think ACTUALLY pretending i'm a member of staff is a good idea and also doesnt enable me to explain the project to anyone... also if i have statistics it gives me the confidence to take this through and talk to the public about it
- documentation of performance? hidden Dictaphone?
Friday, 5 October 2012
individual dissertation tutorial dan robinson 5/10/12
- "how we think about walking"
- will self- micro enviroments
- mapping, granularity?, totgraphy?
- how the development of cars/transport has effected the way people think about their surroundings
- layla curtis (person) maps
- route finding
- cycling and reading + riding + writing
-cycling and drawing a map of where i'm going
-cycling and measuring the bumps by holdong the pen in the same place and seeing what type of line drawing it makes.
-cycling and wrighting about my experience on a bike whist writing?!
- susan kelly. MA cultural studies. leeds university- train travel
- jane rendall
- spying public transport
- walking: richard long, hamish fulton, iain sinclair (m25) , patrick keiller
OBSERVATION:
-birdseye view vs. single point perspective
-e.g. train and walking are moving perspectives (subjective) yet birdseye view is a not subjective and very much down to measurements and physicality. (foucault- pernoptasism... the all seeing eye)
- guirilla gardening- seed bombing, similar to how a dog or a cat marks it scent.
- robinson in space (1997) aka film watch...
PRACTICE IDEAS:
- follow a cat, analysis of movement...
- cycling and reading + riding + writing
-cycling and drawing a map of where i'm going
-cycling and measuring the bumps by holdong the pen in the same place and seeing what type of line drawing it makes.
-cycling and wrighting about my experience on a bike whist writing?!
Thursday, 4 October 2012
ran prier and links to other philosophers
- final empire- william.h. koetke (person)
- livingstone (person)- prostetic being
- parable of tribes (book)
- richard luve (person)- last child in the wood- nature defesite disorder
- the long walk (book)
- "people like a world where you can just walk, in this world you hit a fence, a road, a freeway, you've got private property signs. you cant just go walk aroundanywhere unless you go way back to the deep wilderness"- ran prier ...2/4/ 1min in...
- "cars- allows us to put things further away - and then we become dependant on them, which enables us to lose the activity of walking"- ran prier... 3/4 14min in...
- lifestyle change
- vicky robin and joe damingues (person) 'your money or your life' (book) aka how to drop out of the system
- 100 monkey experiment theory
The Japanese monkey, Macaca Fuscata, had been observed in the wild for a period of over 30 years.
In 1952, on the island of Koshima, scientists were providing monkeys with sweet potatoes dropped in the sand. The monkey liked the taste of the raw sweet potatoes, but they found the dirt unpleasant.
An 18-month-old female named Imo found she could solve the problem by washing the potatoes in a nearby stream. She taught this trick to her mother. Her playmates also learned this new way and they taught their mothers too.
This cultural innovation was gradually picked up by various monkeys before the eyes of the scientists. Between 1952 and 1958 all the young monkeys learned to wash the sandy sweet potatoes to make them more palatable. Only the adults who imitated their children learned this social improvement. Other adults kept eating the dirty sweet potatoes.
Then something startling took place. In the autumn of 1958, a certain number of Koshima monkeys were washing sweet potatoes -- the exact number is not known. Let us suppose that when the sun rose one morning there were 99 monkeys on Koshima Island who had learned to wash their sweet potatoes. Let's further suppose that later that morning, the hundredth monkey learned to wash potatoes.
THEN IT HAPPENED!
By that evening almost everyone in the tribe was washing sweet potatoes before eating them. The added energy of this hundredth monkey somehow created an ideological breakthrough!
But notice: A most surprising thing observed by these scientists was that the habit of washing sweet potatoes then jumped over the sea...Colonies of monkeys on other islands and the mainland troop of monkeys at Takasakiyama began washing their sweet potatoes.
Thus, when a certain critical number achieves an awareness, this new awareness may be communicated from mind to mind.
Although the exact number may vary, this Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon means that when only a limited number of people know of a new way, it may remain the conscious property of these people.
But there is a point at which if only one more person tunes-in to a new awareness, a field is strengthened so that this awareness is picked up by almost everyone!
From the book "The Hundredth Monkey" by Ken Keyes, Jr.
- culture of empire
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