The more I find my way in the digital landscape, the more I start to realise how much data becomes part of our daily live. Without releasing most of our choices are made by data. Not only Google serves you what they think you need to see (based on your data), but also most of the websites and apps you daily visit. Based on what you’ve seen before, they will serve you a website/app that shows you what you want…
So I failed my graduation, but I have to say I wasn’t sad for lang. I saw this failing as an opportunity to do better. And also I failed not because I sucked but made the wrong choice. I hoped that they would appreciated my technical effort more than an shiny story, but they did’nt. They liked my plan B of a prototype en a chase movie more than, my simpler but really working platform. I guess that is what…
So after my last post I kind of broke down. I was in a constant fight with what I wanted, what worked well and what was technically possible with my skills (basic HTML). I choose that for me the important part was that I could make it real, and that it wouldn become a video or a prototype. But that it would actually work. During my minor I clearly saw how much I was grown, and on that part I…
I figured out my “why me”, it’s my fascination with the system, any system. The system I was looking for in the graduation the system, the human aspect in the “lo and behold” system (the internet), panopticon the system of being watched, the circle (movie) and also the system I was looking for in a project in the second year on income inequality (I toughed that the power created the inequality, but we as humans need that overlooking system to…
Thank god, i’m back at my original idea. It maybe sounds strange, but “kill your darlings” is not something creative people like to do. And i’m most definitely one of those people. I killed my first idea (i’dont know) four weeks ago, and i’m so happy it found it’s way back to me 🙂 So how did that happen you might wonder? Well I guess I “connected the dots” and filled in the blank spot, thanks to my research. Yesterday…
So I totally lost my motivation and passion for my graduation project for the last couple of weeks. This because I already tried recover from a blockade that made me start this blog as a result, but that wasn’t enough to get me back on track. And now I hit a very low in motivation and passion. The down started with me realising I underestimated my idea. The research is way more than I had guessed in the beginning and…
These last two days I were the internet of things day(s) in Rotterdam. Sadly I could only go one day, and here’s what i learned. The first day was about Privacy & Security and Date & The self, we started with an introduction lecture from Lorna Goulden, called; “Iot: Are we being smart?” She talked about the value of things on the internet and that are connected to it. The internet once was made to give us insight but lately…
I know that as a data designer pie charts are off the charts 😉 but this time I felt it was the way to go. I asked myself (with the knowledge I gain in the last couple of month’s) “What is graduation?” and this is what came out… Coming to the conclusion that, graduating is not just one big important thing but assembly off everything. Bewaren
Today I had a meeting with my teachers, first with my advertising teacher and after that with my research/data design teacher. Hans The first meeting was very interesting, the teacher has trouble following my process but respects what I’m doing. What most of the time ends up with me leaving more confused, than I already was before, but I think that’s also an important part of the process. Today I introduced him to my blog and talked about the lecture…
Today I decided to go to a lecture mathematical/algorithmic design in Het Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam. The invited four speakers, each of them did something computer generated design. So i’m going to tell what they talked about and how I’m feel about their work. Pieter Schreurs – parametric design Pieter is some sort of an artist/architect who designs his work with the help of math algorithms and programming. He first worked for seven years at ONL and now he works at…