My last session I had found out a little Urban Myth about the whole Flypostering procedures. And I tried my best to through either to this so-called Mob of the Streets and to any other relevant information on that issue – I tried contacting clubs, bars and promoters to try and get me through, but seemed that they were all getting a bit defensive and are hiding a big secret.
And on the side, I kept thinking of different ways, forms and presentations that I could go through, end up with and expect through out the project.
I was pitching my brief to quit a few interesting characters. It showed great positive feedback and people loved the chain of thoughts, I even got asked to attend an interview for a design blog where they wanted to talk about my idea! WICKED!
Part of the feedback was really interesting and I had learned from one person that he had a good idea in mind and never was able to attempt it: Cutting out a stencil and filling it up with dirt and sand... This lead me to use his idea to develop mine. I therefore decided to see how pollution might be able to construct an image within the environment.
So I am going to try spraying out stencil with Adhesive spray and recording it through out a period of time to see its results. I will surely do a few and place them around the city, in areas where I think can have a great push to the whole idea of pollution and dirt!
I had a discussion with a friend, a MA Product Design Student in Milan. And I had pitched my idea to him and asked if he would be able to help me sketch-out one of my many thoughts: Which was a replica of a big flash light:
- Would have a slot to insert a negative slide of the poster or the image to be mounted. Using techniques similar to those of the Dark Room in photography, where a person, burns an image onto a coated semi gloss paper!
- Distance indicator that can help decide between different sized formats.
- Probably a spray system, where it ejects chemicals on the designated area to coat it and then be able to apply the image.
- A source of light?!
