A moment of clarity in a mind of madness.

The beginning of a project is the part I hate most. You have a raw concept and a million paths that you could travel down. Its almost like your head is filled with ideas, yet you cant find them in the vast space which is your mind, sometimes its as if the mind cant control itself, its just too big to handle. I decided that my note making was getting me nowhere, sure it helped to get things down on paper but when I read them back nothing made sense. It seemed I was still stuck in my own head, with ideas going off in a different directions to my original concept outlines and with a feeling that they would all be pointless experiments leading to no conclusion. If there's anything I hate when it comes to my own work, its not having a conclusion. I personally feel that art and design is like a story, it needs a beginning, a middle and an end.
I felt like I was slowly going insane, so I managed to pin Steve down in the afternoon. Talking to Steve can sometimes be a stressful experience, firstly because he seems to think that I'm scared of him, which I find slightly amusing because in reality its just that I'm confused and stressed about my concept, and he actually reminds me of the friendly ranger. But secondly its because his mind is insane! I don't understand how he can take the small amount of explanation that I give to him and managed to write everything down on paper in such a clear manor. Speaking to Steve really does give me a moment of clarity before returning to my own mind of madness. So these are my initial ideas in a rough note form.

• Exploring the idea of how we are desensitised by the internet. For example, you see a photo on the internet of someone with a large cut, bleeding in a violet manner, it would have little affect on us compared to if that person was physically stood in front of us. This kind of violence would be shocking in real life.
• Wikileaks. Wikileaks is a collection of somewhat secret information. After looking through this information I think its safe to say most people would find some of this interesting. It tells of government secrects from many countries including our own, with information which has been covered up and hidden from us. When as a country we find such outrage in information along these lines why is it that we ignore a site such as Wikileaks? Only paying attention to this information when it is reported nationally within the news.
• The idea of putting information back into the public. I see the internet almost as its own world, a world which is present in ours, both feeding into each other. With some often choosing one or the other as their main world to live through.

How can I transfer information from the internet into the 'real world' making people pay more attention :

• If transferring info such as tweets or wikileaks I may want to erase and replace the text. This could be done by using a whiteboard, chalkboard or canvas and paint. This would help show a live feed.
• Creating my own wordsearches or presenting information on ready set scrabble boards. This would be a way to communicate information to those who may not use the internet such as the elderly.Changing the form of communication for different audiences.
• Using paper rolls attached to two walls to have a twitter or facebook conversation. Communicating only by writing on the real life 'wall'. This may show how we act differently, would we let our guard down like we do on the internet? Or would put our guard up more than usual as we can see the people that may view our 'wall', choosing not to say certain things.

Other points of interest :

• Displaying a text message conversation. As these are only between two people it is more private, yet as we leave these messages on our phones do we allow others to have access?
• Recording a face to face conversation, compare and contrasting them to our 'virtual' conversations.
• Looking at how our conversations change under the influence.
• Begin to write letters. Why has the form of communication by letters gone? Would the way that I wrote change as a letter seems more personal than receiving a text or a comment. Do words begin to mean more when written?
• Investigating the college text situation - How the college does a mass text on demand for the teachers. Send a text through Priestley to my fellow students, ask a question get a reply?
• Document the way that people leave comments. 'I hate art' was found written on an isle, look at the context. What’s written where and why?