50 THINGS - My list
I have been thinking of my ‘50 things about me’ list. I began by just thinking of as many of my interests as I could. After coming up with a few I was sat in my room looking around for things to prompt me into remembering what I am interested in. I noticed after a while that I was finding it much easier just to list objects that I owned that I loved, each having some story attached or some reason for why I had kept it or displayed it. I decided that this could be a good idea. A sort of “Me in 50 objects” list. I find that I am more comfortable with this idea as there is additional data that I can attach more easily to objects rather than ideas or concepts. For example some all of these object can be measured in height and weight etc, they can be grouped and categorised more easily. I think that having this additional information will give me more scope to explore how I can display these objects in a way that represents me and my personality.
“Infographics is becoming extremely popular. It’s great to see viewers who wouldn’t read articles containing the same data devour your infographics. Being the authority who decides how much detail to show using graphics, and how to present them is exciting. If you write something, everyone will come away with a different interpretation, but if you draw it, they will get the information exactly the way you want them to.”
Anil Yanik. IND magazine issue 24.5 - 2018 www.telkraft.com
These objects and any additional information I can take from them will form the ‘data’ that I can then work to curate in a the way that I want it to be seen. This is still to be decided after further research, illustrative, typographic, photographic etc.
But here is the list of objects that I have come up with:
Bankers Lamp
Roe Deer Skull
Crosley Record Player
Princess Mouse
Bakerlite Clock
Auntie Whispers
Monsters of the Sea Book
Polaroid Camera
Braun Super 8 Video Camera
Bonsai Tree
Yellow Backpack
Noface figures
Gamecube
Ukulele
Driftwood fish sculpture
Typewriter picture
Russian Dictionary
Dieter Rams Calculator
Diary
Glasses
Inhaler
Elephant Box
Robot pencil sharpener
Fossils Poster
Speaker
Shark Mug
Terrarium
Superbrothers Record
Bristol Aquarium membership card
Crustaceans Book
Day of the Triffids
Designed in the USSR Book
Made in North Korea Book
Less and More Dieter Rams Book
Soviet Space Dogs
Opulent Oceans Book
Headlopper comic
Incense Burner
New Bonsai
Laptop
Pencil Case
Notebook
Swiss Arm Knife
HP lovecraft complete Book
Porcelain Ghost Figure
Dinosaur Toy
FMP Project Book
Candle holder
3 Lego Ninjas