Abbottmister’s Weblog

It’s weird!, when you think your project is going shite! and give up trying to give meaning, it all comes your way! i was watcing T.V and suddenly on the news a break through in brain scanning technology, closer than ever before blah blah blah, they call it a ‘Brainbow’, i was like nice i could use that in my images. Then after reading some books i find perfect meaning to my images that relates to theory have been discussing in lectures! whoop! so it seems as if everything has come together at the last moment, I just hope i have spoke about theory for too long in my essay!, Its soooo hard sticking to 1500 words, and don’t get me started on sourcing everything! that did my head in! I feel i could have done better on myimages, but thats only becuase im still getting used to Photoshop!, my ideas are excellent, love em!…but putting it together on paper in an image im not so good at! But its finally over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ENJOY!

Here is the images that didn’t make it to the final 5!

O K its less than a week t go before the deadline, and yes i have all 5 images and nearly done my essay and website….so why do i not sound pleased i hear you ask!…. well today i decided i didn’t like two of my images becuase they do not quite fit my theme, so i have some ideas but my lord why do i have to always leave it to the last second….anyway i should be pleased i have done soooo much research and have found my theme and related theory to put in my essay! woohoo! actually pretty kewl stuff, i spent most of last night reading Berger’s ‘Ways of seeing’, good book people suggest you read it, this book i found fascinating and was sooo useful to my project. So my aim of my images is to explain to the viewer that nature and technology are one, the same, you probs think i sound insane but give me a moment to explain!, technology is natural, it has been here before you and i were born, it was here at the beggining of time….got your attention!….well the first forms of technology were in fact the alphabet, language is a tool for communication, you could even go as far back as saying cave men used sticks as tools same way monkeys do, so technology is in our nature and culture. Technology and nature go hand in hand, i found this out through my visual diary! jees its everywhere in adverts, magazine, games, but when it came down to research and actually thinking about this relationship between technology and nature i found that they have been together far longer than people think, most people think technology is some modern!!! NOPE! i got news for you its not!, technology does not mean just computers, over the years the definition of technology has changed, keeping up with todays world, its like people were trying to separate the two, when actually its quite clear that the two are indistinguishable, they are entwined. IF YOU WANT TO LEARN MORE CHECK MY WEBSITE OUT , COMING SOON TO A COMPUTER NEAR YOU! X

OK then its like a few weeks till i have to finish this assignment…….i have nothing…..so I’m gonna try and sum up now what the hell im on about so that i can go whack out 5 images at home! I think i have found that nature and technology go hand in hand, and actually both are destined to entwine, technology to me seems like a reflection of nature, which is quite clear and true when you think about it, and quite clear looking through my visual diary! so this is where it gets confusing, as technology is as real as us, a reflection in ways of us, i think to better understand nature itself. If you think about it our confusion of who we are? where we come from? are understanding of how the world works is so farfetched and to be honest we don’t really know, that’s why we turned to religion (something i’m my view been created to give reasoning to what we don’t understand. Then we used technology, a reflection of nature to better understand it, then when we do we progress, its like technology propels our understanding of nature and then vice versa, an on going teamwork. Examples are medicine, we create better medicines over the years and we have entended life and know more about disease and bacteria. we create space shuttles and satelites to travel the universe in search of answers, we now know more about our planet and how it works so we minipulate it, of forecast weather. So technology shouldnt really be seen as a separate thing, because actually it is as real as us and maybe someday be undistiguishable like forms of media, that we learnt in our lectures, (film becoming like games, t.v like websites etc). Wow thats good to get of my mind so i guess thats my theme here, explaining thats nature and technology go together like 2 peas in a pod, technology is in our nature, and nature is our technology, it can be argued that there are the same, after all thats what a reflection is, right! a reflection of the real!

The more and more i think about this project; nature vs technology i find myself asking bigger questions, life really big questions about life. What is nature?, what is technology?, I cannot seem to rogress with this project unless these seemingly two different things are defined. If nature is, pure nature, untouched or affected by technology or even humans, hen surely very little is actually nature!, even found myself asking well did god create us??blah blah blah, it hurts my tiny little mind to think about it all at the same time. I got a feeling i will lose my mind by the end of this course. My visual diary is going well, showing my progress of thoughts and ideas, i feel my ideas leaning towards the human body and how mechanical it can be seen and how we are infact similiar to what we know is technology. I think my confusion comes from the definitions of these two words, as they are so loose and changing its hard to pinpoint and separate what exactly is technology and what is nature? I sound completely mad! Ha

Another day, another day project! only this time in groups!, once again did not have that long for inspiration, also much harder becuase you have to compromise in your group, however i do fill i was fortunate with my group, with 3 great minds we were able to create a decent logo I was very pleased with the end result, and we even did some mockups with the logo. We  were able to create a kewl dynamic logo aimed at a 15-24 target audience, and also back up our presentation  through research and previous lecture notes about the triangle and the rule of thirds. I have learnt during this day project i can input good ideas into groupwork but need to work faster on photoshop and illustrator, MORE PRACTICE is needed! i realise even to my self as i write this that it sounds boring, but that is in fact becuase im half asleep aswell! PEACE!