Sunday, 19 October 2008

Inspiration

I love this photo. I don’t know what to do with it yet but I love it. I wish I could say I took it or was even present when it took place, but alas it’s from my good friend Flickr.com. I hope I get hundreds ideas from this photo & other ones I have discovered, but at the moment all I know is I love it and want you to see it.

Tuesday, 14 October 2008

100 ideas in 3 weeks

I missed writing up my blog last week and I wish I hadn’t. It seems that in the last week my motivation had dwindled and my project progression advancing at a slow snail pace. So I have vowed never to miss a Tuesday blog! I find writing the blog helps me clear my head about the project as I have to convey it to other people. But anyway enough rambling.

It is 3 weeks until our first hand in of 100 ideas with insights worth 15% of the module mark. 15%!!! So far I have roughly, very roughly have 5 or there about. So where are the other 95 to come from? My research. Hum my research.

As it stands my research is:

Probes – get them back on Thursday

Books – so many books

Film – just for kicks & a bit of puss in boots

Emails

Blogs

Observations

Flickr – I now adore flickr

Below are some items from my probes

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What I am really interested in is the emotions we get from bare feet, shoes & movement & possibly trying to recreate these experiences. Had a bit of a chat with Jasmine, Eva & Imran today, juggling about some ideas. It was defiantly a help. But 100 ideas? 100 great ideas? It is feeling a bit daunting. I hope to have a disco ball of ideas not just a light bulb.


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Wednesday, 1 October 2008

The powers of the internet

Wow I’ve had my Gum Tree adverts up for less than 24 hours andalready I’ve had a multitude of willing guinea pigs (or people interested in shoes etc) reply. Keep up the good work, the more the merrier! Some of my probes are defiantly going to be sent by email – saving the environment, cheaper costs, hopefully a quicker response – I just hope they will be as insightful as my physical probes should be.