First Thoughts On A Blank Page

I have a new blog! Hurrah! This is the first blog posting in this account. Salutations, welcome...and all the other friendly greetings out there!
Yep, here is where I will be posting (regularly) my thoughts and other little bits'n'pieces of info that I happen to stumble across or fall into that I find interesting.(Stop reading here and skip to the link if you want to bypass my meandering way of writing.) Or might invoke a feeling of inspiration - the euphoric feeling in the return of one's artistic muse. Or maybe just the ranting of (hopefully)artistic or multimedia-ish mumbo jumbo...or no mumbo jumbo or any ranting of any type at all (this blog is probably gonna be like that more often than not). This account, unlike my devArt and livejournal will be well used. I'm aiming to post at least one a week. So if I'm not doing that, you have permission to bug me until I do.
Posts on this blog may also just comprise of hyperlinks to websites that I believe are good (my references as I find them). In fact, here's one now. I'm sure that most of the people that will be reading this has already been there. It's an entertaining site, the main character can keep visitors entertained for a while (I think I've given it away a bit). Anywho, here it is: http://www.neostream.com/ you'll know when you see it. It never fails to inspire/amuse me.

At the moment, for MMD3307, we've received our first brief, well...I have. For three days now. Four even. So the gist is this: Create an exhibition concept that relates to Multimedia & Digital Arts, develop a concept for the exhibition space, research and experiment with the use of projected media, produce a moving image clip between 2-5 mins in duration that can loop and design and cost the exhibition space.

So far, these past few days, I've been thinking about what it is like to be a student of Multimedia & Digital Arts and the big question of what is Multimedia and Digital Arts some ideas have popped up:

• students do a lot of travelling to attend classes so perhaps something about the mode of transportation used by the students?
• perhaps something to reflect the changes in our work? (IE: the way we improve, or perhaps regress, or even just coast - just changes!)
• the use of experimentation? Multimedia and digital arts is a big field...lots of experimentation to be done - so perhaps that.
• or maybe focus on the ways that multimedia and digital arts has in a way merged with its surrounding environment where the line between virtual and real worlds are blurred (I've just been reading the reader...so maybe something about the augmented realities? BTW, here's a site that helped me to understand more about what it AR is, its in the footer of a page in the reader...but here it is again, it helped me to put a visual on it: http://www.howstuffworks.com/augmented-reality.htm to me it's sorta like a scanner glasses thingy from something like Dragon BallZ that integrates with the world. Oh yeah, just the website www.howstuffworks.com is pretty cool - want to know how to pick a lock? Look it up there.)

I know that I want to create a video loop (for projection) with something that merges in with the environment of its surrounding space...IE: a projection that doesn't look like a projection, something subtle but noticeable. Hm, not too sure I made a lot of sense there...but, I'm just getting a couple of thoughts down. I'll have something more developed tonight I know it! Ah, the muse is coming back again!

Well, until next ti...whenever I get near a computer or have something to share.

~Anna