First Brief

Ok, so I’m on the train to Maidstone, listening to Omarion/21, with the mother of all colds, 2 twisted ankles and about a million fucking bug bites, to see my girlfriend for the first time in what seems like forever so I figured I’d write a blog post on this ever so long 3 hour journey, I got my first brief this week for my uni course, and as usual I generally have no idea what I’m doing, I’ve got an idea in my head, but have every doubt that it even relates to the original brief. Oh well, only time will tell whether I’m doing the right thing or not. There’s no right or wrong answer any way, so it’s all good.

My initial idea was to do something silly like take a picture of a blossoming flower with a mobile phone inside it, great idea, but I can’t produce 5 of those. Unless I do it.. in 5 different ways… hmmm maybe not. This idea kind of got me thinking about an advert I saw quite a while ago… it was an LG advert. They basically made an LG mobile phone out of cells, which looked AWESOME! All of a sudden about a million ideas started flowing into my head, a quote from the brief kept pounding into my head.

Human life will depend less and less on working with natural kinds (feldspar, turkeys, cellulose, or carbon) and more and more on artifacted kinds (vinyl, transgenic turkeys, fiberglass, or Teflon).

Holmes Rolston III ‘Technology Versus Nature: What is Natural?’, Ends and Means,
Journal of The University of Aberdeen, Vol 2, No.2, Spring 1998: lines 149-153.

Re-reading that, it doesn’t actually relate to what I’m about to say, but hey… humour me for a bit. It got me thinking about how small technology is becoming, and a bit about a few things I’ve randomly seen in the past… the whole idea about my project I think, will be based around natural and technological evolution, things like iRobot, nanotechnology, bionics, that crazy thing in Battlestar Galactica where they have a fetish for making robot babies. It sounded like an interesting idea in my head… let’s see if it slides… and whether I actually have the Photoshop skills to pull this off!

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