EC Container 4
brain
5th May
05/05/10 16:16
Right it is Wednesday 5th of May I am walking up the hill I don't feel this morning like I've got a great deal more to say on the work that I'm doing on the MA because so many other things crowd in this time of year and make it difficult for me to concentrate I want a month off now do it all wrapped up to my satisfaction which would be impossible because I'm impossible to satisfy although I can relate to feeling I had this weekend that to me finishing the MA now it is sort of irrelevant I'm already on to next year and thinking about next year and no matter what the outcome of this MA there is so much that I have gained from it way more than what I set out thinking I might achieve err that it has been an extremely useful experience for me there are lots of loose ends some of which make me quite cross the iPhone apps in particular because I still think that my iPhone app is a brilliant idea and I would very much like to develop it and maybe I can for next year but that thread of the MA has receded a bit as the photoshoppingpong has come to the fore and photoshoppingpong is really beginning to take off from my point of view again looking towards next year I will need to get more students involved to turn it back towards students and hope that it's not too much work for me to keep a pottering along but slowly getting lost in the play activity of creating photo shop files painting with digital paint really enjoying the ideas has been a fantastic experience just having that element of game gives a little bit of the incentive that is needed to get me creating to get me into that state and I have myself always needed that he's never been quite good enough that I'm just doing it for the sake of doing it I need that little bit more incentive whether it's working towards a degree or an A-level or GCSE or whatever her or whether it's doing it because there's something else or someone else on the horizon with the rather stupid amount of work that I put in over the weekend to the BAL library presentation that I created which in many ways was way way over the top a .doc document properly would work just as well but I spent very many hours producing the pressie presentation for the Olympic Museum and I will put it into the MA somewhere because it is definitely part of it from my point of view maybe not for marking point of view but it does encompass a lot of thoughts that have I been having with this thought in particular that I do something like that because there's a very slight outside motivation to produce the work I'm thinking of someone else or thinking of a target audience as I do it at the same time mostly doing it for its own sake because it's so way over the top so perfectionist and no one is ever going to really look at it that closely unless of course I make use of it myself for next year perhaps working with a history teaches the idea of the timeline dropping things into the timeline organising your brain space three dimensionally rather than two dimensionally I think that's the main thing that's perhaps the main thing the essence to get into the MA is this idea of three-dimensional space three-dimensional patterns as the brain is a three-dimensional object and we're still in a two-dimensional space often with our computers it's still print based or computer based on a two-dimensional model that comes from the written word and the book and then the screen and while film added linear time it was time that went from here to there a not time the you could jump about in and the beauty of the prezi is that you can jump from place to place and the prezi in relation to timeline as you can jump from place to place within that timeline from era to era and it zooms and out in this beautiful way
A Dream
23/05/10 09:18
waking up from a dream, trying to hang on to it... but it is gone - I suspect what I was trying to retrieve was never there anyhow.
It was in Australia, a swimming pool complex, it was all about playful learning, and I had found a young woman enthusiast attendant who was introducing me to the most amazing and highly relevant concepts about play. I would need to add these to my writings, they were a new and very exiting angle. She introduced me to her guru, a man in his 60’s, looking a bit like an ageing Hollywood star. That was it, that was the point at which I woke - needing to get this concept, which I suspect was never there, down, before it went, but it wasn’t there.
It was in Australia, a swimming pool complex, it was all about playful learning, and I had found a young woman enthusiast attendant who was introducing me to the most amazing and highly relevant concepts about play. I would need to add these to my writings, they were a new and very exiting angle. She introduced me to her guru, a man in his 60’s, looking a bit like an ageing Hollywood star. That was it, that was the point at which I woke - needing to get this concept, which I suspect was never there, down, before it went, but it wasn’t there.
1st April
01/04/10 07:43
I just recorded all that and none of it recorded so I shall have to do it again.
It was beginning with the idea of making an iphone app out of a filemaker pro database, I had an email advertising this as a possible service and I immediately thought of the possibility of the game of consequences as an iphone app I shall have to have a search when I get back to see if one already exists, but otherwise it seems like a good idea, I could at least do the interface if I don't actually build the app because of the expense. I went on to do some talking about Hare Brain Tortoise Mind' and - this is really difficult now because not only am I talking, but i am trying to remember what it is that I was saying, it was to do with the radio 4 programme where there was a propensity for people to believe in wrathful gods as a way of control in large societies where in small societies people are more inclined to worship spirits of natural things. And it was about teaching as a gut feeling working with the gut feeling with an artistic sensibility and wether people are genetically wired with certain brains so that if you have a brain that is more spatially aware and makes looser connections does that mean that you are going to be inclined to be an artist. And if you decide that your are going to be an artists, do you become an artist, or is it the way brain works that turns you into an artist. Are you an artist if you decide that you are going to be an artist - can you be an artist if you are not mad? VG, Picasso? I think that is basically what I was trying to say.
Take three
I had an email this morning from a company suggesting that I could make an iphone app from a filmmaker database and my immediate thought was that I could turn my title game of consequences into an iphone app and gradually build up stories over time. I may design it anyway even though I am thinking that it would be a little bit expensive to actually put it into practice just for that. But if it is designed and the idea is there then that will be a part of the work done. And then I went on to talk about 'Hare Brain Tortoise Mind' and specifically talking about the way our brains are built would give us a propensity to be an artist or a mathematician perhaps but if we have somehow a loose more right brain approach then we are more likely to be artists and have that artistic sentimentality. I think that came from thinking that you can teach proportion, golden section, balance and composition, perspective, but mostly this just comes by feel, you get students that just seem to have an innate ability with putting colours together and making comfortable and easy compositions. Where does that design sense, the balance, the composition, come from? Is it somehow in the way that the brain is working is it trained? I definitely think that I have students who seem to have a natural ability with it, is it therefore programmed somehow into the genetics, into the brain, do certain brains have a propensity towards being artistic and if they do does that predetermine what you might become if you have a brain that is somehow looser, are you more likely to become an artist. And how much is the teaching in education involved in that and how much is the identity - if you decide that your identity is that of an artist, If you identify with artists is that what makes you want to become one and therefore you find the tools. So is it that identity that is vital, and are there experiences in life which give you that trigger to be choosing your identity in that direction. That reminds me of north american indians and the fact that if you are born with green eyes you are destined to be the medicine woman and then the programme on radio 4 about the basis of god and religion talking about the fact that is small tribal societies where everyone could know every one the sprits are more likely to be in and of the earth and in the animals they wouldn't be overriding creatures spiritual deities that have control, they would be more benign perhaps but big societies like Egyptian and Greek Roman and then Christianity, the other big religions, have powerful god or set of gods in control maybe big societies need to have the control in order not to fall apart. A sort of spiritual police force. Maybe that is programmed into the brain collectively as we are social beings.
It is an extraordinary experience in itself that the first recording that I made flowed pretty well - the thoughts just tumbled out - and then the second third and fourth recordings when I was trying to reproduce what I had said, I couldn't do it. The thoughts did not tumble out in the same way as I was trying to think about what I had said as well as saying it.
It was beginning with the idea of making an iphone app out of a filemaker pro database, I had an email advertising this as a possible service and I immediately thought of the possibility of the game of consequences as an iphone app I shall have to have a search when I get back to see if one already exists, but otherwise it seems like a good idea, I could at least do the interface if I don't actually build the app because of the expense. I went on to do some talking about Hare Brain Tortoise Mind' and - this is really difficult now because not only am I talking, but i am trying to remember what it is that I was saying, it was to do with the radio 4 programme where there was a propensity for people to believe in wrathful gods as a way of control in large societies where in small societies people are more inclined to worship spirits of natural things. And it was about teaching as a gut feeling working with the gut feeling with an artistic sensibility and wether people are genetically wired with certain brains so that if you have a brain that is more spatially aware and makes looser connections does that mean that you are going to be inclined to be an artist. And if you decide that your are going to be an artists, do you become an artist, or is it the way brain works that turns you into an artist. Are you an artist if you decide that you are going to be an artist - can you be an artist if you are not mad? VG, Picasso? I think that is basically what I was trying to say.
Take three
I had an email this morning from a company suggesting that I could make an iphone app from a filmmaker database and my immediate thought was that I could turn my title game of consequences into an iphone app and gradually build up stories over time. I may design it anyway even though I am thinking that it would be a little bit expensive to actually put it into practice just for that. But if it is designed and the idea is there then that will be a part of the work done. And then I went on to talk about 'Hare Brain Tortoise Mind' and specifically talking about the way our brains are built would give us a propensity to be an artist or a mathematician perhaps but if we have somehow a loose more right brain approach then we are more likely to be artists and have that artistic sentimentality. I think that came from thinking that you can teach proportion, golden section, balance and composition, perspective, but mostly this just comes by feel, you get students that just seem to have an innate ability with putting colours together and making comfortable and easy compositions. Where does that design sense, the balance, the composition, come from? Is it somehow in the way that the brain is working is it trained? I definitely think that I have students who seem to have a natural ability with it, is it therefore programmed somehow into the genetics, into the brain, do certain brains have a propensity towards being artistic and if they do does that predetermine what you might become if you have a brain that is somehow looser, are you more likely to become an artist. And how much is the teaching in education involved in that and how much is the identity - if you decide that your identity is that of an artist, If you identify with artists is that what makes you want to become one and therefore you find the tools. So is it that identity that is vital, and are there experiences in life which give you that trigger to be choosing your identity in that direction. That reminds me of north american indians and the fact that if you are born with green eyes you are destined to be the medicine woman and then the programme on radio 4 about the basis of god and religion talking about the fact that is small tribal societies where everyone could know every one the sprits are more likely to be in and of the earth and in the animals they wouldn't be overriding creatures spiritual deities that have control, they would be more benign perhaps but big societies like Egyptian and Greek Roman and then Christianity, the other big religions, have powerful god or set of gods in control maybe big societies need to have the control in order not to fall apart. A sort of spiritual police force. Maybe that is programmed into the brain collectively as we are social beings.
It is an extraordinary experience in itself that the first recording that I made flowed pretty well - the thoughts just tumbled out - and then the second third and fourth recordings when I was trying to reproduce what I had said, I couldn't do it. The thoughts did not tumble out in the same way as I was trying to think about what I had said as well as saying it.
doodles
28/03/10 18:47
When do people doodle, and why - on the phone, in meetings - when it is not the primary focus of attention, otherwise it would be drawing not doodling, like whistling a tune. It is the situation that makes it a doodle. It is throwaway. Many of the little games that I have been finding on the web are like doodles.
19th March
21/03/10 08:57
OK Friday, March 19 and lower gate I'm going to try and talk much more clearly and more slowly one of the problems I seem to have had with the transcription is not recognising some of my faster words he doesn't like me saying err either doesn't like that at all so here is a slower dictate. Talking to my year eight yesterday about sight and perception how we see everything with the brain with our understanding and our memory not objectively with our eye so the sight is all subjective it fitted in quite neatly with the program I was watching on television about high-speed cameras and how the eye and can only process information at a certain speed so it doesn't see things the fast which is of course the basis of flipbook movement animation and move the Cinema the persistence of sight that the image on the retina and all the visual tricks behind the zoetrope and the praxinascope etc and I was also thinking about how the flipbook in your hand is still so magic the kinaesthetic actually holding it and I found some flip books online yesterday that are designed for the iPhone that work with the inclinometer so that as you tip the iPhone runs through the flipbook backwards and forwards so I'm very keen to build that into my iPhone application. I also had a brilliant meeting on Wednesday with the centre for fine print research they are very keen to get these training sessions going so to an extent that does hone what I am doing for my masters degree to look very closely at the flip books to collaboration bit with photoshoppingpong is going while I think that will just tick over I've got my year nine started now on the Photoshop ping-pong site and I can speak quite a lot about the game that Peter and I played and how much fun that was how we got into the flow what else might I talk about this morning and I think leaving the education bit behind and being much more to towards on the idea of games of playing games of collaborative games of games where you raise the energy and maybe this has something to do with expectation and with boundaries when you go and play rugby you expect to get muddy you expect to get involved in the rough-and-tumble which wouldn't be appropriate in other settings so partly the game is about appropriate in this in different settings and I was also talking about this to my year eight yesterday in relation to Facebook and blogging that you have too be even more careful about the appropriateness of the comments you're making because of the contexts in which they are made particularly if anyone can be reading them your mother perhaps or a stranger whoo second gate
bubbles
19/11/09 07:47
The best ideas seem to rise from the subconscious like bubbles bursting on the surface of a glass of champaign. Often when I cycle or walk, I am not thinking or much, I am conscious of the real world, the passage of time, the effort of the hill. Then time expands, disappears, my consciousness alters, and often at this point ideas will pop into my consciousness. Sometimes these thoughts may have been forming deep for ages. Sometimes they are ideas that make lots of connections between other ideas that I am working with. Sometimes I don't know where these ideas have come from, out of the blue.
left v right
27/10/09 06:55
list v picture, mac v pc logic and language v feeling, space writing v drawing, conscious and subconscious time and space.
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