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FANZINE

This is my fanzine which is half a collection of

all the blackness and half of all the whiteness.

What goes around, comes around...

OUROBOROS

I wanted to explore the quote 'What goes around, comes around'. Instead of

waiting for good things to come to me, I have decided to do nice things for

other people, relying on the theory that it will come back to me I have

written a poem to illustrate that idea and printed it on cards:

'Today I did something nice for you,

Please do the same for someone else too,

Pass on this card with a piece of your heart,

And one day it will come back to you.'

I then attached these cards to roses and gave them out for free to random people

on the street, hoping to inspire them to do something nice for somebody else.

Catalogue proposal

Our proposal for the 'Catalogue' project was to put together a catalogue where all kinds of great ideas would be contained. We wanted to create something fun, exciting and an interesting object to hold on to. What I found very interesting is that for the whole day after our presentation, people kept singing the jingle "Great ide-e-e-a-as" all around. So, even though our idea didn't get selected, I feel that we've done quite well with the presentation and pitched a solid concept.

The oddest thing...

The oddest thing happened yesterday... I saw a series of birthday postcards

in Paperchase which look VERY similar to the one I have designed for

the Boomerang project last year. How strange.

The SOUND cover.

And here is the Sound Cover outcome. I'm happy with the image, as it conveys the idea of sound+location very successfully. I have designed the cover so that it's really easy to reproduce and glue together. However, I think there are still many things wrong with it. It's not very engaging. It looks like a CD cover for a cub mix, rather than a creative student project. I want to experiment with the image, make it more fun and less futuristic.

Watery sound

So I haven't posted anything here for a while, so i've decided it's time to catch up and organize my thoughts... Here is our sound project. We have chosen water as our source of sound and recorded a song using various water sounds. For 'location' we have decided to make a machine, using which all the sounds were created. Here is the machine.

Here is the CD cover that I have made for our project. The whole project was about getting engaged with the water and pushing the limits, which is why I have tried to make the CD cover just as experimental. the idea is that the CD is contained in a plastic sleeve filled with water, and to get it out, you have to rip it open and get wet. The cover that goes in the front sleeve is really simple, just like water is. When you unfold it, you can see the made up notes corresponding to each sound made by the water machine.

We've had lots of fun with this project and I think it's quite successful. The final piece that we have created could be improved in many ways (it's a bit unorganised right now), but then the whole project was a bit experimental and out of control, so I think it all adds up.

Time is invisible

Our reenactment of the "Saigon Execution" photograph in modern

days was a good project. It still needs refining in places, but a lot

of hard work has been put into this and overall i think we've done

really well. I love the newspaper. I want to keep reading it over and

over again! Im also quite impressed with the final photo, it looks

exactly like the original! The only problem with this project right

now is that we have all these separate outcomes and they need

to unite and become one big single outcome.

And here are the videos "The Evening Standard" wrote about:

WITNESS VIDEO

GANG VIDEO

We are discussing taking it a step further, and recording a news

broadcast where this event would be discussed along with all the

publications. It might just tie in all the bits (videos, paper,

websites etc) quite nicely together.