Some more pictures now ready to view on my personal blog
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Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Chris Collicott - Anyone with a bike
here goes...
Web / print system that allows people to upload their favourite cycle routes and ride other peoples'.
The system would allow people access to many peoples’ favourite rides across all kinds of cycling – commuting, racing, mountain biking, bmx, etc. They would be able to say why a route is good, if it suitable for kids, how long it is, upload photos and so on.
The site would consist of an interactive streetmap of London, allowing users to view everything cycling by effectively turning layers on and off – cycle shops, best snackeries, best place to park your bike, best cheeky shortcuts, etc.
There will also be a print area to the project, by producing maps which would be made for drawing routes on, and then sharing with others. The maps could be personalised and sent to each person or they could be printed at home.
As far as I can tell nothing like it exists, but it might be similar to runlondon. TFL’s cycle maps are useful, but in terms of showing whole routes it is fairly limited, and has no personal input – cyclists opinions can be shared and would be more detailed and useful than just a map – more of a community effort.
* The aim of this project is to make finding good, enjoyable cycling routes easy and accessible to anyone interested.
(this is independent of the cycling club project)
any thoughts would be great!
Chris
Web / print system that allows people to upload their favourite cycle routes and ride other peoples'.
The system would allow people access to many peoples’ favourite rides across all kinds of cycling – commuting, racing, mountain biking, bmx, etc. They would be able to say why a route is good, if it suitable for kids, how long it is, upload photos and so on.
The site would consist of an interactive streetmap of London, allowing users to view everything cycling by effectively turning layers on and off – cycle shops, best snackeries, best place to park your bike, best cheeky shortcuts, etc.
There will also be a print area to the project, by producing maps which would be made for drawing routes on, and then sharing with others. The maps could be personalised and sent to each person or they could be printed at home.
As far as I can tell nothing like it exists, but it might be similar to runlondon. TFL’s cycle maps are useful, but in terms of showing whole routes it is fairly limited, and has no personal input – cyclists opinions can be shared and would be more detailed and useful than just a map – more of a community effort.
* The aim of this project is to make finding good, enjoyable cycling routes easy and accessible to anyone interested.
(this is independent of the cycling club project)
any thoughts would be great!
Chris
Christine: graphic design - the preserve of the young?
I've decided to copy and paste a thought i had here, as my last post is a long way down; not sure if people are reading past a certain point. Here goes:
It would also seem that the design world itself is perpetuated by bright young things (i remember Geoff saying that they always asked what people looked like before they would interview them), which begs the question, if a 50 year old graduating student and a 21 year old with the same skills applied for a job within a design agency, who would be more likely to be offered the job? Would be interesting to call tons of agencies and tell them i'm a 21 year old graduating student of Chelsea and ask for an interview; then do the same thing telling them i'm 50. Wonder what the response would be? Would be cool to send my Mum in undercover too and see the reaction she gets!
I know this is naughty, but a project exposing nationwide industry ageism would be interesting; graphic outcomes could be an expose newspaper, with a free pull out map detailing the areas in the design world that don't welcome the over 30/40/50's.
Christine
It would also seem that the design world itself is perpetuated by bright young things (i remember Geoff saying that they always asked what people looked like before they would interview them), which begs the question, if a 50 year old graduating student and a 21 year old with the same skills applied for a job within a design agency, who would be more likely to be offered the job? Would be interesting to call tons of agencies and tell them i'm a 21 year old graduating student of Chelsea and ask for an interview; then do the same thing telling them i'm 50. Wonder what the response would be? Would be cool to send my Mum in undercover too and see the reaction she gets!
I know this is naughty, but a project exposing nationwide industry ageism would be interesting; graphic outcomes could be an expose newspaper, with a free pull out map detailing the areas in the design world that don't welcome the over 30/40/50's.
Christine
Juliana Davies
oops! last thing:
if anyone is interested here is my D&AD link: (i would love comments!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsw4y9GRpR4
tks!
if anyone is interested here is my D&AD link: (i would love comments!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsw4y9GRpR4
tks!
'Chelle' is in the audience
I have just recieved a phone call from the BBC to tell me they can put me in the audience this Saturday for the Eurovision-Making Your Mind Up Show and they said I might appear on tele/might not. Worth a try. Look out for me!
Juliana Davies - More Updates!
Just got off the phone with Georgia. We are having a meeting on Friday at 4pm - after her studio session where i am also attentding in order to meet with the band. i am thinking of taking my camera in order to take some photos to start testing where and how i will insert the band on the music promo and CD cover, etc...
She asked me for this meeting to take some of my work and ideas. She also said that for the music promo she thinks "Life on Mars" is probably the song she wants to prmote her album, which for me is GREAT because I love that song and I think she sings it beautifully!
i will be posting very soon examples of my ideas on the my blog, if you guys could give me your opinion that would be great!
Last thing: does anyone know those "cut-outs" that you can make on paper and then make a "pop-up" out of it? I'm not sure i'm expressing myself correctly, but does anyone know what I mean?
She asked me for this meeting to take some of my work and ideas. She also said that for the music promo she thinks "Life on Mars" is probably the song she wants to prmote her album, which for me is GREAT because I love that song and I think she sings it beautifully!
i will be posting very soon examples of my ideas on the my blog, if you guys could give me your opinion that would be great!
Last thing: does anyone know those "cut-outs" that you can make on paper and then make a "pop-up" out of it? I'm not sure i'm expressing myself correctly, but does anyone know what I mean?
70 projects....Going...going...gone
It's been a busy two weeks, but here they are in all their glory...my 70 projects:
1) Music Band - Battle, signed to EMI/ Warner Brothers.
2) Car Graphics-private seller
3) AAR- Law practice
4) Metographic Jewllery
5) Sam Greenberg, fashion label, Carnaby Street
6) Private Buyer
7) Le Gun magazine
8) Senior Citizen Association, SELWFA
9) Solo artist, Paco Pais, Spain
10) Private Electrican
11) 1st year Photographic project
12) 2nd year Clip Art project- to be published in June
13) Private Buyer
14) St George's Charity shop
15) Graniph Design Awards
16) Smarty Pants, Dry cleaners
17) Chelle Griffiths
18) Rendevous (Timi Adedji DJ)
19) Elim Church
20) Apple, Regent Street
21) Lizzie Finn
22) Andy Steven, Graphic Thought Facility
23) Guys, Kings and St. Thomas Cricket Club
24) Model, Lauren Rippingham, signed to Premier Model Agency
25) Funrun, sponsored by Volvo
26) Duke of Cambridge pub- wine menu
27) Iain Armstrong- production of 13th Floor, TV show
28) SELWFA, newsletter
29) Lahori Baba restaurant
30) Asya Samilbegovic
31) Designer cake
32) Textile specialist, Trinidad
33) Fashion Designer, Shantel Dyal, Canada
34) Rendevous
35) Battle
36) Florist, Julie Walten
37-44) Duke of Cambridge pub- posters
45-6) Post Office, N4
47) Sirens, Carnaby street
48) Designer, Ally Waller
49) Cheese and Fickle, Designer bags
50) Communist Activist, Sofie Buckland
51) Private cake specialist, Trinidad
52) Youth Development Scheme
53) King's College London Islamic Society
54) King's College London Bangladeshi society
55) J4Y- Youth Today, Leaders Tomorrow Assoc.
56) Lazy Oaf, Carnaby street
57) Never too Busy to be Beautiful Cosmetics
58) Lush
59) Toyota
60) Channel 4
61) Precursor Studio
62) Van Ltd.
63) Office
64) Ben Branagan
65) Vega Communications
66-69) Luke Lobely
70) Wonderl and magazine- Final piece will be published in June edition.
From Russia with Love - Karina
All of my previous ideas were not approved, so now I’m going to try and present another idea, which is also about my home country. This is very important to me because for my Final Major Project I would really like to do something personal and valuable to me, to be able to use as part of my cultural difference in the future.
Here I was looking at the assessment criteria, and setting the aims:
What is the idea?
• Presentation of my culture into different environment
by braking the traditional rules of visual forms e.g. holiday pictures, postcards
• Looking at my culture from different point of view
• Documenting, and using raw material.
To help you to understand what I mean, I’ll try to explain: during spring break I am planning to see and document my country and its traditions, for a foreign culture to see it. But the main idea and what I like about it is that I am going to present the material, different from what we all used to see about other foreign cultures. I want to try to document my country as it’s not usually seen on postcards and pretty pictures, but its real form, good and bad sides, like I see it sometimes, sort of like being on a journalist mission. I am not planning on discouraging it in any way, but just to let the audience see its real picture.
If my idea is approved, I am planning on going to St Petersburg (Russian second capital) and documenting aspects of culture there, documenting negative as well as positive sides. (I am also very keen on using photography as my collective tool). My next step after that will be Moscow.
Outcome: everything which is associated with visual cultural representations, like postcards, for example, photo snaps etc will be used as form through which to present my overall material, in a way to show the cultural difference, its inner beauty and regrets.
Here I was looking at the assessment criteria, and setting the aims:
What is the idea?
• Presentation of my culture into different environment
by braking the traditional rules of visual forms e.g. holiday pictures, postcards
• Looking at my culture from different point of view
• Documenting, and using raw material.
To help you to understand what I mean, I’ll try to explain: during spring break I am planning to see and document my country and its traditions, for a foreign culture to see it. But the main idea and what I like about it is that I am going to present the material, different from what we all used to see about other foreign cultures. I want to try to document my country as it’s not usually seen on postcards and pretty pictures, but its real form, good and bad sides, like I see it sometimes, sort of like being on a journalist mission. I am not planning on discouraging it in any way, but just to let the audience see its real picture.
If my idea is approved, I am planning on going to St Petersburg (Russian second capital) and documenting aspects of culture there, documenting negative as well as positive sides. (I am also very keen on using photography as my collective tool). My next step after that will be Moscow.
Outcome: everything which is associated with visual cultural representations, like postcards, for example, photo snaps etc will be used as form through which to present my overall material, in a way to show the cultural difference, its inner beauty and regrets.
hung
Thought out our generation, we see a lot of development on technology, for example cassette tape, CDMA phone, typewriter, game boy were once the most popular gadgets in their time, but as technology developed, those things are no longer being use any more, Mp3 has over taken cassette tape, mobile phone network today doesn’t cover CDMA phone anymore due to the introduction of Sim card technology in mobile phone, computer and printer are much widely use than typewriter, and game boy is too out of date for consumer to buy. All those things were once very important to us but now they are rarely used/seen in our world now days! It seems like ages since the birth of those technologies, but it was only 20 years ago! Our generation is developing so fast and people don’t realize that those things were the beginning of our technological world. It is similar to the beginning of human kind.
For the past decades we have been trying to find out more information about the past, and we actually get those historical information by discovering fossil, then we predict what those fossils are and how it was changed.
I am aiming to collect as many of those ex-popular gadgets as possible, than reproduce or make them to fossil alike, so those gadgets will become the evidences of our history, then people can look at those fossil-objects in a different point of view instead of old gadget which has no meaning to this world anymore!
Possibly once those object are made, they can be view in a gallery or in the national history museum…
also this is the link of my D&AD music Promo for those who are interested
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7IqNC1sDVA
Juliana Davies - Updates!
Hey guys! new updates on my blog! As everyone may imagine, this past two weeks were crazy due to D&AD - everything about making a movie takes long hours! But I posted some research I feel is relevant and I spoke to Georgia and arranged a formal meeting this week, probably on Thursday, to finally decide what music will be used to promote her new album. But from our past conversations she has been very liberal in letting me be as creative as I want and open to everything I propose to her! Which sounds VERY exciting!
for those interested in listening to the music it is available at yousendit
link: http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=batch_download&batch_id=T2dkUXVucHZZY1EwTVE9PQ
and.... for those who want to take a look at my D&AD work, i would LOVE some comments!!!! you can check it out at youtube. Its draft8 from my account:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=julianadavies84
let me know what you guys think!!!!
thanks!
for those interested in listening to the music it is available at yousendit
link: http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=batch_download&batch_id=T2dkUXVucHZZY1EwTVE9PQ
and.... for those who want to take a look at my D&AD work, i would LOVE some comments!!!! you can check it out at youtube. Its draft8 from my account:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=julianadavies84
let me know what you guys think!!!!
thanks!
Tim Keay FMP - Digital Aesthetic -
I am very interested in creating a film based around the idea of the 'digital aesthetic'... the fact that almost anyone can record and publish video with modern digital technology.
To explore this further I intend to direct and produce a piece of moving image work, made over the internet from 'user submitted' material, shot on mobile phones.
There have been (relatively low budget) films released over the internet (www.thisisnotalovesong.com springs to mind) and there is a surplus of footage shot on mobile phone - youtube and video blogging are both huge but lack structure and quality.
Is it possible to put the two together and make something that uses Youtube's ideal but has interest and... a point?
The project would require a basic website and online publicity (not a problem), offline publicity and participation (more problematic)
I have also been thinking about offline methods of display, and im interested in whats been termed 'projection bombing' - projecting moving image work onto buildings - bridging the gap between the online and offline. I very much like the idea of putting work produced by 'the public' back into both worlds.
Im meeting up with some guys who made camera phone moving image material for the watermans arts centre, to find out how their low resolution work translated onto the much bigger screen, their aesthetic etc etc.
Any comments, ideas and offers of contribution would be very much appreciated! Cheers
To explore this further I intend to direct and produce a piece of moving image work, made over the internet from 'user submitted' material, shot on mobile phones.
There have been (relatively low budget) films released over the internet (www.thisisnotalovesong.com springs to mind) and there is a surplus of footage shot on mobile phone - youtube and video blogging are both huge but lack structure and quality.
Is it possible to put the two together and make something that uses Youtube's ideal but has interest and... a point?
The project would require a basic website and online publicity (not a problem), offline publicity and participation (more problematic)
I have also been thinking about offline methods of display, and im interested in whats been termed 'projection bombing' - projecting moving image work onto buildings - bridging the gap between the online and offline. I very much like the idea of putting work produced by 'the public' back into both worlds.
Im meeting up with some guys who made camera phone moving image material for the watermans arts centre, to find out how their low resolution work translated onto the much bigger screen, their aesthetic etc etc.
Any comments, ideas and offers of contribution would be very much appreciated! Cheers
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