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== Discussion ==
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== Design Research ==
While discussing about the several options to start or create a meme, we found out that our group was not on the same level. Some wanted to use the theme 'Abuse of Power' for a topic that is big in the news nowadays: the refugees. Not everyone felt confident with that, and wanted to keep the theme more general. That is why we decided to split up in smaller groups.
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Pip and I are both persons who are not very busy with our phone or other digital divices. Therefore we took a look at the world and people around us, in the public space. It was shocking how everyone looked down all the time, and did not even have notice of the small, funny and beautiful things that happened around them. We felt that we could make a difference here by capturing the 'little things in life', where everyone is so easy and silly about, but the actually no one sees it anymore.  
  
During the discussion, because we were pretty far, we came up with the idea to use a spray-can as a connector for the different memes along the theme 'Abuse of Power'. The spray-can was an important object in one of the memes (pepperspray cops), so it is recognisable for a lot of people. Besides, when you spray something (doesn't matter what kind of spray), you react. And depending what kind of spray, it defines your reaction. Like pepperspray can mean 'i don't want to see this', and glue spray 'keep it to yourself'.  
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We choose a typewriter and polaroid camera to capture this, because these two mediums are 'slow' nowadays which makes sure that you will be very busy with really looking at your surroundings before capturing it. This is in total contrast with how we use our camera and phone today, where we take 10 pictures of everything and write little messages without actual meaning sometimes.  
  
But even when we thought of the spray-can as a connector for all of our ideas, we will still not satisfied. This is the point where we decided to split up again and work in smaller groups. From here I started to work with Kars, a fresh and new collaboration which we never did before.
 
  
 
== Design Proces ==
 
== Design Proces ==
  
Kars and I where at the same level during the previous discussions, and this made the starting point of our design proces very nice. From spray-it we moved on to spot it. And this is where we made the link to John Baldessari, with his famous price sticker art. Because he used bright coloured round stickers on black and white pictures, he found a way of changing focus in an image. And therefore he also changed the message of the image. We used his technique, but designed our own way to do this for all the pictures of the refugee topic in the newspaper nowadays.  
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== Design ==
 
== Design ==

Latest revision as of 23:58, 9 November 2015

Group

Project Group
Pip Passchier & Leontien van Hattem

Starting Point

During class we read a piece of the book 'An Attempt At Exhausting A Place In Paris' from Georges Perec. This artist went to sit down at a cafe in Paris in 1974 and wrote down what he saw. The ordinary daily things coming by. The question that was asked for this project was: will this still be able today? With all the digital divices that are now ordinary daily things in our life.



Design Research

Pip and I are both persons who are not very busy with our phone or other digital divices. Therefore we took a look at the world and people around us, in the public space. It was shocking how everyone looked down all the time, and did not even have notice of the small, funny and beautiful things that happened around them. We felt that we could make a difference here by capturing the 'little things in life', where everyone is so easy and silly about, but the actually no one sees it anymore.

We choose a typewriter and polaroid camera to capture this, because these two mediums are 'slow' nowadays which makes sure that you will be very busy with really looking at your surroundings before capturing it. This is in total contrast with how we use our camera and phone today, where we take 10 pictures of everything and write little messages without actual meaning sometimes.


Design Proces


Design