lol.

So I have been working on the context report and TBH the hardest part has been deciding where it’s all going… I think this is the synopsis… maybe….?!

I want to believe

This project has come about from an ongoing interest in ‘the meaning of life’, and how, and why people attempt to reason and wrestle with the idea of their own existence.

Belief takes a large role within this area, whereby meaning can be assigned to peoples lives through the beliefs they hold.

In this paper I propose that belief is an integral and essential part of the human psyche. I will attempt to reveal this within a design context by looking at how designed objects, technologies, systems and manifesto’s are subscribed to and attempt to understand and unpick the systems of belief surrounding them.

So it’s not there yet, I am going on from this now…

Suggestions welcomed…Anyone want to go to the pub next week?

Michael Shermer… King of skepticism… Oh man…

Well, I just spent all my money on books, stupid Goldsmiths library…

I’ve got some stuff by Newburg on it’s way, which is looking very promising I’m hoping it will help look at the Neuroscience behind belief, which seems to be where I’m heading…

Christmas has turned me super slack…Time to turn that around.

I’m still obsessed with this thing… I need to move on!

These are looking at sequential collecting, possessing an artefact for a short period only and then ejecting it from the collection. It’s like a snake or an intestine. It’s hard not to remember the psychoanalysts views of collectors as anally retentive when looking at a model like this. I like that the objects shapes are still slightly described by the material.

My Dad likes playing organs and he went to play this Compton Theatre Organ at Stockport Plaza. Theatre organs are different to say, churchy type organs- they have loads of different sounds not just ranks of pipes, but also bells, chimes, glockenspiels, drums, cymbals, screams and birds. Unlike an electric keyboard when you pressed the roll cymbal key it actually played a real cymbal up in the pipe room- the birds weren’t real, but it was still a real noise rather than an approximation (they use water for the birds and can change the pitch with the amount of water!) I liked that for most of the stuff the noise was actual and real, apparently some theatre organs have a grand piano next to them and can have that as like a voice if desired on one of the consoles; what a sweet instrument.

http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~harry/Relay/RelayTalk.pdf

and everyone will just be like wtf

Maybe you’ve seen this already but it’s worth bloging again. http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/12/the_year_2008_in_photographs_p.html