scrabble cufflinks. california screws and resin. see them tonight?

hoorah

made contact with both the melbourne poet and vic deaf, though neither can come to the exhibit.
should be rolling through in the next month.
yippee

glass engravers

i just visited 3 glass engravers in the city, one of which was in the same building as kate's studio.
the head guys were all south african. what are the odds?
just thought...

packt

I’ve sent letters to 2 people, a Melbourne poet and someone at Vic Deaf, and I haven’t heard a response from either. Its really unfortunate because I feel I have a good concept here, but I can’t make it come true. I don’t have the talent, knowledge or means to facilitate this idea. I need others help. I’m going to try and enlist the help of someone at RMIT student union, to make the video, and make a second attempt to speak to Kate Middleton. I will also try and get the help of my friend to come to this exhibition.
Its hard to get stakeholders in 2 weeks

halfway mark, giving up.

Have you been a leader and taken initiatives in the group?
I haven’t really been a leader in whole class activities, apart from putting my opinions forward. I took the leadership in the spending habits study group when we had to get lots of work done in a short time. I don’t see that there has been much initiative in the group in terms of leadership. For a class which stands for getting out and doing something about the problems we can see, we argue about what the right way of doing ‘something’ is. Sometimes I think it might be better if we go off on our tangents and collaborate when we have started something. Its hard to get a large group of people to come to a consensus on some issues.

Do you have a sense that you have taken on more than your fair share of the work of the group?
Not more than my fair share. I try to promote discussion, and I actively take part. I turn up to class and complete my assignments. And I have given up some things which are having an impact on me.

Have you gone out of your way to make the group work?
I think the group works well – as a talking group. As a doing group we are pretty hopeless. I guess I haven’t gone out of my way to get the group to do something. I did make my group work for spending habits.

Have you helped a fellow student overcome their learning difficulties?No.

feedback on feeling sound

• i like toast
• how does the object affect the sound
• interesting stuff!
• email me about building vibration (lawrence)
• some strong themes here - need to push the vibrations more - think about how it can translate into a city context - into a space, onto a book etc. nice work (liam i cant read your writing)
• hearing is a kind of touch (yeh cool!)
• good (squiggle, love heart)
• cool shit
• it makes sense
• very clever. Explore when and how the sound changes with your panel choice. Very clever boy!
• To hold your hands over both blue waves has a different effect than just one. the vibrations are stronger at different times.

feedback to the feedback.

I am quite happy with what I made there with the ‘i-pod’ box. But its important that I take this and contextualise it within the city. I’ve grabbed something and chucked it into a building within the city. I am looking at re-contextualising the touch or vibrations of trams and making a vibrating floor in a street with no trams. I want to change the sound waves from buskers into vibrations. And I want to translate sound into a secret for the hearing impaired.

here

here

boom box + marquettes

kiosk

this is the final kiosk. good model, prep, but poor pres.

exp

a thin wire necklace pendant

reflec

Its halfway through the semester, and I’m not sure what to think about this studio. Its seemed ok so far, confusing for sure, and I’m not sure what the final destination is. I’d really like to get cracking, but I’d like to stop exploring tangents and take action on a particular angle.
And I’ve decided I don’t want to decide what I want to be taught. I chose this course because it sounded like it could teach me about general technology, sound, sound recording, answering a brief, working in a group, and forming a tangible and meaningful solution to the city of Melbourne’s inquiry. We haven’t covered any of these areas thoroughly, and I don’t see it as my responsibility to decide what I want to be taught. My decisions ended when I chose this course. If I need to choose what I want to learn, then I am limited to the areas I already know something about. How can I ask Liam or Fiona to teach me about something if I don’t know that it exists? I want them to impart their knowledge and experience to me.
That said, I know I don’t want to spend hours in the workshop making something I know I can make. I would rather deliberate over sound in the city, work in groups to see how we react to sound and create something that I am proud of to go in the city. Then I will have learnt something.
Cant we just get a move on?