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Have you seen this? Today's internet crazyness came to me via POPBITCH - you can phone up this doll and she'll speak to you live, on the phone and via webcam. It seems to be some sort of recruitment campaign for a Digital design agency. Nice use of hybrid space I thought... conceptually very interesting plus the old lady is Hot!

Ok, In Peru making a documenatry film. Much going on. Can´t think in Blogg mode just now. Regenerating my creativity.

Regaining my concousness

Dear Diary

My mind is swelling up to bursting point with ideas, hopes, dreams and information.

I am tired but there are not enough hours in the day.

What do I do?

(dry)

Revision, Learning, Projects, travel and high adventure....

All these things rush through my mind on the way back from a revision lecture with Brian Morris on Multimedia Production Management. I am going to miss his lectures next year. I suddenly sit back and see a lot of my year's work in a context. Revision lectures start raising points that I can plug into things that I learnt without knowing that I learnt them. There is much to do...

First of all I need to sort out what I have learnt, and wake up to this knowledge as something(s) that can be pinned to respond in written form to exam question. I realise that the divisions between the different subjects that I have studied this year are false divisions - sititing back we start to see each one overflow it's seperate module "container", and flow into one pool of knowledge that has been learnt through doing.... for me anyway - this is how I feel.

In a "revision", lecture Tony Cockett made a good point - that there is no point in learning much of the management theories/ learning practises for their sake for an exam. You have to expierence. I plug this into the frist chapters that I have been reading of "What is Philosophy?" by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari - basically saying that there is no real concept without realisation. I have been learning about project management and kicking about all of these wayward design philosophies the whole year without actually seeing that they are a project managemnet system in practise. I constructed an artefact that I am proud of. My project was not about getting a degree, it was about transcending that purpose - for personal satisfaction. These motivations are infact implementations of motivational theorists - All I need to do now is pin the experiences that I have had to the particular theories and read contextual background to these.

I am not complacent - I know there is much to be done, but I at least feel in control of my learning all of a sudden.

Brian Morris's revision lecture overran by half and hour today. An unusally "Full House" of MMTD students was captured and did not notice the passing of time. We were watching sombody embody what they teach, while (I believe) many were looking inward at the same time and beginning to see their own experiences in a broader sense against the context of what (theorists) has been said before as and idea, but put into personal practise.

I could not believe my ears when he spoke of the head of faculity refusing to admit the benifits of open ended projects for level 2 students. Is this not multimedia technology and DESIGN. I believe this DESIGN side of my degree to be the part that I could not get from sitting in my bedroom for three years learning how the use the multimedia software. This is because I believe DESIGN to be an organic thought process that comes through personal development, in an encouraging environment of likeminded people.

DESIGN is not a science (though it recognises the benifits of scientific approaches and application), that you can learn step by step. DESIGN orientated thinking is not something that you can learn about in a text book fashion step 1,2,3,4 - it is something that has to be DONE - i.e. it is not Tacit knowledge - it is practical wisdom. This is what I aspire too - and I hope that everyhting I do takes me one step closer. Nobody told me to do this.

Travel - I am going to Peru. It was planned as a holiday - but now it will be hard work fillming a documentary. Will I be able to get hold the necerrary resources to do this? watch this space.

Tasks for next 48hours:

1. Reading - E Commerce Green Book and MM Production M'ment notes.
2. Website - I've been paid and must deliver on Saturday - get cracking!
3. Glass of wine.

It's 12 1/2 hours to hand in...

I've got a full hard disk of video clips, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and I'm wearing sunglasses...

Hit it

Well, I saw Brian Morris earlier and showed him a few pages from my report. His interest inspired me to press on late into the night, and now dawn is approaching. My artifact is slowly emerging from the 200Gigs of video footage that I have. And it is starting to find it's own voice. I have now only to let it speak to me, and hopefully I'll end up with a degree worthy preview for the film that has become to me so much more than a university project.

The critical light I can see my footage in now will help me to come out with a better film at the end of it. I see it's faults, but I see it's potential. I can only hope to get hold of more computing power (bitlab?) over the summer where I can start to really go to town with the 3D sequences. With one frame taking an hour to render; 25frames and second and an aim of including about 10mins of 3D sequences in the final film, I will need more power than my PC can give me. Strange how the situation has gone full circle. To begin with I had all this technology and the limitations were my lack of ideas. Now the ideas are here, but they have reached a stage where some of them requrie more technology. My design philosophy is rooted in the fact that you have to control the technology, not let it control you. I lust after glossy effects and rich picture information to serve my ideas, not "just because I can". This is a stage that I have reached after 3 years of my degree course. I feel different.

Two years ago I think I was in awe of the technology/software and what it can do. My learning has introduced me to the technology and I befriended it (coming from a background that was nothing to do with comptuer aided design what so ever). For a time (through last year) I think that I let all these wonderfull new technological "Goodies", determin the direction of my ideas, my creativity. I suppose I was rulled by it for a while - I wanted to design things for the sake of using the technology, not to explore the ideas that I should have been working on. I would work as a task robot - I'd pick an idea (often at random), pick a technology and go bull at a gate down that path.

This year has been more of a journey of descovery for me; and I am only just starting to realise how much more there is to learn with the software/technology to the point where is is useless trying to stay ahead of the game in all of the fields. Instead I need to keep with the ideas, and explore them through whatever medium suits them best. If that means learning new software/programming/media then that is the way it must be. Funny how the early morning makes you think of these things. Right now my mind is racing on a few differnt threads, but also reflecting on the past three years as this phase draws to a close.

Well - what a crazy 24hours. I have swung from despair to trimumph, from concentration to passing out due to lack of sleep.

Paper is still all around me (in plentiful supply) - however I ran out last night and was in despair as the printing is taking so long, ink running out, my computer was compressing my video diaries and rendering some special effects so I was paralised for a few hours. Howevr this forced me to sleep and I feel better now.

I feel encouraged. I am just over half way through printing, and I am now realising why I wanted to stick with my method of combining text based, paper printed document with the small CD inserts making up the digital side of things. I am actually proud of what I am doing, for the first time in three years I feel I am starting to produce a product in the way that I see it in my head. For me this is exciting.

As for my artefact - it is coming along slowly. The last moment U turn to stop working on the film as a whole and produce instead an extended preview has turned out to be a good one. It is making me analyse the work that I have done, the sequenes that I have produced etc.. to strip them down to the most visually inspiring moments; in order to weave them together into a short sequence that's purpose is to make the viewer want to see more. This process is forcing me to look critically at what I have produced over the past few months, and I know that when I go on to produce the full legnth feature I will be in a better position to do so.

I still have lots to do, but it is manageable (only just). I aim to hand in first thing on Friday morning, before official opening hours start so that the submission will be date stamped as Thrusday.