final decision

Better plan

would you ever get enough of yourselfie? can you capture yourselfie? me, myselfie and I. lose your selfie. lose your weight selfie. make yourselfie. punish yourselfie. express yourselfie. ask yourselfie. save yourselfie. have yourselfie a merry little christmas. show yourselfie. be yourselfie. find your inner selfie. watch yourselfie. do it yourselfie. bring yourselfie to me. pick yourselfie up. lies to yourselfie. do youselfie a favor. enjoy your selfie. go loose yourselfie. keep it to yourselfie. shoot yourselfie in the foot again. disarm your selfie. don’t mug yourselfie. release your selfie. throw yourselfie away. kill your selfie. change yourselfie. come find yourselfie. help yourselfie. train yourselfie. 

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how real is real? 

would you ever get of yourselfie? 

(English below!)

Selfie sport:

Bye yoga, hello selfie-sport

beginner & advanced (arm prothese)

wij vinden het overdreven om zoveel van jezelf vast te leggen. 

door het maken van de video, besefte we dat het maken van selfies nog best een sport is. het doet zeer aan je armen en hoe verder je arm reikt des te moeilijker je gezichtsuitdrukking wordt. Sport: 1) lichamelijke activiteit voor je plezier of als beroep. Dit nemen we dan ook heel letterlijk; selfie als een sport. Iets wat mensen vaak doen, beweging bij kijken. bewust worden van je eigen lichaam. 

moeten we onszelf zo vaak vastleggen en laten zien? is het een ontspanning of een drang? sport is voor ontspanning, maar dit kan ook een drang worden/verslavend werken. selfie als sport, sport als selfie; het is dubbel. ga je sporten om een selfie te maken? of ga je sporten voor een betere selfie? 

wat zegt het nou als we er een sport van maken?

je brengt jezelf in rare posities om een juist beeld te zoeken, dit is meestal geforceerd, maar wat nou als je dit op een ontspannende manier kan doen of blijft het nog steeds geforceerd? selfie in scene zettten

gaat het om het sporten of om het selfie maken? en dat kan iedereen voor zichzelf bepalen. 

Wat willen we van de toeschouwer?

''bewustwording creëren door de spot te drijven met selfies maken als een sport.’'

we willen met deze bewustwording niet mensen veranderen, maar het kan geen kwaad om af en toe stil te staan bij wat je nou aan het doen bent. om zich te laten realiseren dat we in het nu leven en niet door de front-face-camera van je telefoon.

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we think it’s overrated to capture so much pictures of yourself. by making the test-video, we realised that’s quite hard to make selfies and that it is kind of a sport (dance). the arm will get tired or hurts when you stretch it too far and the further you stretch your arm all the more your facial expression will get more awkward. 1) Sport: an athletic activity requiring skill or physicalprowess and often of a competitive nature. We’re gonna take this very literal; selfie as a sport. Something that people do very often, movement. getting conscious of your own body. do we have to capture ourselves that often? is this a type of relaxation or is this an urge? sport is ment for relaxation, but it can become an urge/addiction. selfie as a sport, sport as a selfie; it has a double meaning. do you work out to make a selfie or do  you work out for a better selfie? 

what does it say when we turn this into a sport? you put yourself into weird  positions to find the right image/angle, this is forced most of the times. but what if you can do this in a relaxed way or does it still stay forced? *putting yourselfie in scene’’ is it about the sport or is it about making selfies? everyone can decide that for themselves.

what do we want from the viewer/participant?

'’creating awareness by scoff at the sport of making selfies’’ 

we don’t want to change people with this awareness, but it’s not wrong to reflect on what you’re actually doing; and to realize that we live in the present and not trough the front-face-camera of your phone.

How much can you capture of yourself while stretching your arm?

planning

week    date   

week 1 Nov 17           

Design, Production & Realisation

-       making the planning

-       see how far your arm can reach to make a selfie

-       think of selfie frames

-       think of ways to visualize 3D selfies

o   knitting

o   embroidery

o   3D scannen (18dec)

o   3D printen

o   gypsum

o   plastic

o   silicone

o   filten

o   lasercutten layers

o   fiberfill

-       photo convert to knitting pattern

-       make appointment for gypsum and do this

-       documentation en reflection

week 2 Nov 24           

Design, Production & Realisation

-       start with the tests

-       embroidery

-       fiberfill

-       plastic

week 3 Dec 3  

Design, Production & Realisation + Student Run Tools & Tech

-       filten

-       silicone

-    knitting

week 4 Dec 8  

Design, Production & Realisation + Student Run Tools & Tech

                        -   

week 5 Dec 15            

Research & Reflection Document Final Draft + Student Run Tools & Tech

-       3D scannen (openaanbod)

-       3D printen (openaanbod)

-       pattern jacket

-       lining jacket

-       sewing every together

Dec 22 Christmas Vacation

Dec 29 Christmas Vacation

week 6 Jan 5   

Finishing Touches – Publishing Research Document – Exhibition Planning

                        - final  piece

                        - collection reactions

week 7 Jan 12

Final Assessment – Exhibition Planning

week 8 Jan 19 

Digital Craft Exhibition @ V2_Institute for Unstable Media – Digital Craft Debate

week 9 Jan 26 

UTC Publication

week 10 Feb 2 

UTC Publication

Swot-analyse

Swot-analyse

• How does your concept relate to body, identity and technology or a combination of these?We associate selfies mostly with faces, but that doesn’t have to be. How far can you stretch out your arm to capture a big part of your body? In this visual culture, the selfie quickly and easily shows, not tells, how you’re feeling, where you are, what you’re doing. A way of expressing ourselves and putting yourself in a light that you can control.

• What are you making? We want to capture ourself in every possible way with our smartphone. What will happen if we create a pattern of selfies and bring this in public space? By means of making the selfies wearable. We retain control in what we want to show in the pictures. We want to try out all conceivable selfies. We're gonna explore this way of representing ourselves to others, but of communicating with one another through images. would we ever get enough of or selfie? How will people react when you’re walking with you’re selfie all the time?, instead of staying on your phone or online, we take them into the physical world.

Wearable selfie: celebrities are getting away with wearing clothes with their own face on it, we probably don’t. we hebben gefilmd hoe ver onze arm kan reiken om een stuk van onszelf in beeld te brengen. Lizet heeft zo haar eigen selfie arm/handpose. Thelma heeft dat ook. het lijkt ons leuk om dit terug te laten komen in het kledingstuk. Daarnaast willen we van onze selfies een patroon creëren om onszelf mee te confronteren maar ook om de toeschouwer mee op te zadelen, en zo reacties uit te lokken. would we ever get enough of ourselfie. 

• What is the role of the public? (user, audience, reader, participant, viewer,  customer, other?                      A viewer and reader ( we want to get opinions/reactions). ''maar ook om de toeschouwer mee op te zadelen, en zo reacties uit te lokken. would we ever get enough of ourselfie. ''

• Which techniques, media and materials are you using and why? -

 - Photography; for the selfies.

- Fabric: for the wearable pieces

• What are you actually doing to realize/materialize your project? 

- Experimenting/tests : making = thinking

• Is there a realistic planning for each week in quarter 10?

Yes, we do have.(It's coming..)

• are you killing darlings?

All the time...

Swot-analyse: 

strengths: het maken/creeren, enthousiasme, onuitputtende doorzettingsvermogen

opportunities: wat heb je al wat je kunt inzetten. lot’s of selfies, workshops, patternmaking, sewing-skills, 

weaknesses: onzeker, niet te eigenwijs, we luisteren teveel

threats: te weinig selfies, dat we geen reacties durven uit te lokken. 

expiriments

What we want to try out with our experiments

o   knitting

o   embroidery

o   3D scannen (18dec)

o   3D printen

o   gypsum

o   plastic

o   silicone

o   filten

o   lasercutten layers

o   fiberfill

sketch

 Gypsum 

 siliconen

 Plastic

 gypsum

 knitting

 embroidery

stitch with filling

Presentation Quarter 1

Kwartaalbeoordeling

1. What is the theme I am investigating? Why is this relevant?

OurSelfie. Communicating through selfies, they have taken over the internet.  Every major social media site is overflowing with millions of them.

 Selfies are either the latest form of self-expression.  A way of expressing yourself and putting yourself in a light that you can control.”  There are numerous theories about the negative and / or positive impact of the ''so-called- selfie madness.''

In this visual culture, the selfie quickly and easily shows, not tells, how you’re feeling, where you are, what you’re doing. 

We noticed in our own environment that some people are so busy with profiling themself that they completely overlook 'the moment’ they want to capture. If you only have a good day when you get a certain numbers of likes on that forced but conscious selfie and your using this to ensure your self-esteem, then it has become an obsession. Like the Danny Bowman who was constantly in search of taking the perfect selfie and when he realized he couldn’t he wanted to die. 

2. How does this relate to the body, identity, and technology? Defend the relevancy. 

What do we want to show in our selfie? What do we want others to see? How exactly do we want people to view us? 

We associate selfies mostly with faces, but that doesn’t have to be. How far can you stretch out your arm to capture a big part of yourself? The belfie for example: bottom selfie

 There's a rapidly growing preference for online conversations that prioritize images over words. Why text “I’m happy” when you could post a picture of your smiling face?

 Clearly, there is a symbiosis between smartphones, social media and selfies. Almost all smartphones have front-facing cameras, which is designed to take pictures of ourselves,”   Some people say that by studying your own selfies, you know with which look and attitude you look the best, and so it becomes second nature to adjust your facial expression in the ‚’real'' world.

A selfie among else can function as a means of self-expression, a construction of a positive image, a tool of self-promotion, a cry for attention and love, a way to express belonging to a certain community.

The selfie has become so dominant a form, it may even be shaping technology, because many products have been developed, in order to make selfies better.  When you feel the urge to become an image, you can, with little effort and almost no consequences. It gives control. It gives release. It can be a way to control others images of us. 

3. What is my research question? Why is this relevant?

How can the use of ‘selfies’ into material patterns confront one’s concept of self representation?

If a picture paints a thousand words, then what about a selfie? Is a selfie is an "instant" depiction of the self?   Selfies are mirrors which we can capture, but sharing those ’mirrors’’ is done primarily online. We want to capture ourself in every possible way with our smartphone. What will happen if we create a pattern of selfies and bring this in public space? By means of making the selfies wearable. We retain control in what we want to show in the pictures. We want to try out all conceivable selfies. 

the virtual-mini-me becomes the analog mini-me- 

- were gonna explore this way of representing ourselves to others, but of communicating with one another through images. would we ever get enough of or selfie? 

•  how will people react when you’re walking with you’re selfie all the time?, instead of staying on your phone or online, we take them into the physical world.

 4. How am I structuring my research? Why is this relevant?

•  organizing our thoughts and collected information

•  research plan

•  experimenting (We don’t want to lose ourself in all the data)

•  prototypes

•  designs

•  shshowing the designs in public space

•  reflection

•  conclusions

relevant because otherwise it’s going to be a mess.

5. What tools or methods could I/will I use to conduct my research? How are these relevant?

•  experimenting: keeping control of what we want to show

•  prototyping & implementation

•  with the final design we want to see how other people will react and thus we hope we can answer our research  question. 


Feedback lizet & thelma
Good intro – clear question clear topic
Urgent of relevance is well answered
Pity that you don’t have experiments and that the plan isn’t clear
Putting down your actions, what are you going to do to actively produce?
If you are not enthusiastic selfie makers, why would you use yourself for the end product?
You can use someone who is an selfie addict
Give yourself some plan/restriction, make a selfie every day or every 10 min for 1 week.
Pick three different things, now to brought because of the amount of all the different selfie types.
Explore a few of the options, every week another one, so you can get a lot of information.