Me and Astrid started with a Monday evening of brainstorming on an area that we soon realized was rather unknown. We decided to work with the music and animal sound application to get some limitation go get us further. It wasn’t until Tuesday night though there were some constructive ideas coming out.
After we presented our ideas on Wednesday morning, Timo laughed, hmmm is that good? Anyway we decided to go further with the physical representation of a play list; the picture play list idea. Where the tags are placed on photo frames that you place/drag to a reader on a wall. Your play lists are added to the frames in the tags and when they touch the reader it will play. If you want another play list you take that frame away and put some other picture there. We think this idea could enhance the emotional value there is in both photos and music. It takes two to tango and we think that this idea creates an interesting experience and stronger memory media that the photo in itself would not have. It will be a storytelling media in a way.
My classmates had some great ideas and it was very inspiring to listen to everybody. The chef idea especially (marius & bilal) was very inspiring. I loved that the presentation form was so unpretentious and spontaneous.
We put some pictures on the wall to get it up on the wall and get a physical context to get inspiration.
We went to get some frames with character in the second hand shop and played around with the tikitag. A tool that was very easy to get started with. A problem that appeared immediately though was how to unactivate the previous tabs. Seemed like an easy solved problem but it took some time to find the tab mix plus plug-in with help from Ruben. Anyway we started to find some lovely pictures from Astrids amazing family album. We spend some time to find and decide on what frames and pictures to use in what context.
We started to work further on the reader/holder and decided to develop a couple of different ideas that would make sense in a home context. We wanted to disguise the reader and take away the technical feeling a lot of products can create.
We worked on three ideas for this. One where we use the frame list a lot of people use today, one with hands as holders and one where we used an old vinyl cover. The photo frame broke which was maybe good cause it had absolutely no identity. We were thinking a a lot about what the feeling would be like.
We put everything up on the wall on Friday morning and actually had time to create some scenography, take pictures and film. It was so lovely that the prototype did actually work. I can’t even begin to explain how lovely that feeling was.
I loved this workshop. In the beginning of the week I thought it would be hard not to limited of the technology. Which happen to be the absolute opposite. It was such a lovely task and I felt so inspired to work with it.
