Introduction

The first week back studying has been and gone and at the time I didn't think I accomplished much, but I think I must have been listening.

I am a student in my second year of study, continuing design in culture and context. In the past year and a half I have been the person in the group who has always thought of really crazy even slightly silly ideas and thought them plausible, not that that is a bad thing, it just means it takes longer to create some decent work.

So my first idea was television. Is it relevant? I don't know. Last year as a part of my DSDN101 stop motion project, I took a computer out into a forest and set it up to work using lots of extension cords, it worked really well. (I also have this idea that smashing a working television with a baseball bat would look awesome but maybe that's besides the point at the moment). Setting up televisions in a forest and photographing them is cool but what does it mean?

I expanded on the idea. I have noticed with my niece and nephew and other young children too that technology is become more and more a part of everyday routine. I wanted to use the television as a metaphor for this, completely removing the children from typical child environments and replacing them with the television. For example, a television in a baby cot, a television on a swing, a slide, in a sandpit, in a car seat, etc...

In reality this was harder than I expected, televisions are REALLY BIG. I am currently thinking of something else I could do, however, on my way back home from my Television attempt I saw a place that just looked really interesting and just went exploring with my camera. Here is where listening becomes important, I remember hearing the words "You will never get better at taking photos unless you take photos". This was a place that looked interesting to photograph so I went for it. I also remembered something along the lines of "Don't Die!" and this stayed in my head as I was unsure if I should have been there.

I shot some cool pictures. I will get these up in a contact sheet soon.