Exploration 12

My journey to Brighton for some shopping is like reading a novel. It is like reading the city and I am amazed at things I saw.

From the trees to:

1) People on mobile phones
2) Restaurants with catchy phrases
3) Street names that I am curious to know the history behind
4) Road post alien to my country
5) Sign post that seem to be forcing me to move in a certain way
6) I notice I interact with my moving screen better than the man sitting next to me in the bus.
7) Everything is paved and tarred. Where is the earth
8) The food has a short life span wonder what happens to it after the expiry date.
9) Traffic lights
10)Every bus has a screen advising where it is going. I want to know all those places.
11)Newspaper headlines on billboards, static screens
12)Houses
13)Fountains (Where does the water come from is it salty?
14)Parks
15)cars
16)Almost every shop has a sale tag
17)Blue sky.

And below are other images of the things I saw











Here are the things I have noticed on my way to do some shopping in Brighton as part of a Moving Screens class project. To me it was reading the topography of the city and the various screens that point and control our movement and understanding of our journey. The signs are in our everyday life (the sign post, the bus ticket and typography, the people and the clothes they wear) and the mind seems to be in search of words of identity of all these things we see. The mind is ever at work even in the shop trying to read and understand the expiring dates of various foods and the mobile phone itself a moving screen we depend on ever demystifying the QR codes. A journey of ten minutes is like reading the city and failing to understand it or at worst ignoring most of its messages. Here are the pics.

Exploration 15

After cleaning my room I set about documenting all the "dark places" I either ignored or just plain missed. This is part of an experiment that zooms on focusing on things we miss in life because they are right in front of us. All great ideas and innovation have always worked on the backdrop of everyday life. Facebook is a good example of this.

Exploration 3

I had fun doing this experiment that tasked the Moving Screens class to look at light patterns, reflections and projections. I would have found oblects that reflect but I chose to go into space at different times of the day and capture the bulbs as well as the sun. Here are my findings:

Exploration 15

A list of small placid thoughts this week.Space is also in our mind. This experiment showed me how consistently our mind navigates space and seeks to make sense of everything. It is like a locative device in battle with finding a destiny.

1) Deadline
2) food
3) Home
4) Grades
5) Facebook
6) Mobile phone
7) Have to go shopping
8) Find a job
9) The Premiership title race
10)Dissertation topic
11)Weight
12)Movie
13)Football and more football
14)My mother
15)Workplace
16)Future after studies
17)Buying a TV
18)Weather
19)Ipad
20)Jogging
21)Learning flash
22)American Idol
23)Olympics
24)Changing my bed linen
25)Skipping bathing
26)Friends
27)Cleaning dishes
28)Birds
29)Clubbing
30)London
31)Music
32)Downloading
33)Zimbabwe
34)Church
35)Expenses
36)The beach
37)My room

Exploration 12

I documented over a period of time in different circumstances the different letterings I found around Brighton. I used my mobile phone to capture them. All of these letterings seem to differ in texture depending on their environment.And all have a history in time and space. Their typography has become their definition just as our ethnicity is as humankind. Technology is a mirror of our life.

Urban screens manifesto

Read the messages and understand the direction the urban narrative want you to take.

Do not protest openly if you do like the message. Take time off your mobile phone and read the poetry of screens around you.

Do not deface the screens.