Unit 3: start writing down ideas!

Unit 3 is going to be comprised a several sections; including a choice between two projects ‘Personal Cinema’ or ‘Space and Materials’. There is a Sound project which looks into how to record on location.

Been to the Superhighway Exhibition at the Whitechapel gallery since 01.02.16 brief starting.

Made a palm leaf out of paper, noted down ideas about a projection installation/

My Current Thoughts & Ideas:

• ‘Post Internet Art’

• Projection installation

• CGI / animation programming like ‘blender’

• Consciousness / Subconsciousness

• Paradise

• Palm Trees

• Cabana

• Crackly Music

• Birdsong

• Hawaii

• My title ? ?? ? > > Paradise Complex

• Post-war golden age,  sound and visuals in media

• Archival Sound

• Sound Sampling

• Remixing

• my old postcard collection, old obsession

• Peter Doig’s paintings in Trinidad: http://peterdoig.mbam.qc.ca/en/

• 1950s, mid century,  ‘Paradise Lounge’

• Virtual Reality

• Tropical Haven

• Magnum PI???

• Northern Exposure???

• vhs? square dimensions?

• Expectations of a higher state of quality in living

• The ultimate good place

• the past seen as mysterious and other worldly

• ‘Holidays’

• Where we hold a small piece of paradise in a potted plant.

• Friendly Fires Interview about ‘Pala’ – Pala is an island from Aldous Huxley’s book Island. The idea of ultimate happiness being a temporary deal. ‘ science fiction / utopian fiction

• https://monsterrally.bandcamp.com

• LA grooves/ hip hop genre using smooth undertones, nostalgic?

• https://soundcloud.com/swumbeats/illtown

• not quite relevant, still cool; http://70sscifiart.tumblr.com/page/2