Rachel Meserve

May 7, 2008

Malena Burgmann

Accumulation Proposal

High Flying Thoughts

For my accumulation project I collected people’s thoughts, and in order to do so I utilized my Facebook. Each week I would post all the wall posts I had received that week from friends; those were there in the moment thoughts and were meant for me to see. But little did they know that by posting it on my Facebook where friends can see what they wrote, I was going to display there thoughts very large and in public.

My proposal is to take peoples thoughts that were originally meant for my eyes and (whoever creeps around Facebook reading wall posts) and display them in public in a non conventional manor. I want to design banners that are approximately 150ftx15ft for planes to trailer behind them over campus. This would show people that by placing things on the internet it is not always a safe and secure way of relaying a message.

I think that by doing so, people would realize that when they write a quick note to someone, they are not only writing to that one person, but pretty much anyone can see what they said. This project would be light hearted and a tad humorus, and at the same time who doesn’t like seeing those cool banners in the sky?

how my thoughts changed over time...

At first I wanted to collect people's thoughts, but I couldn't quite find a good or efficient way about doing that. Then I realized that by utilizing my facebook I could take thoughts of my friends at were posted on my facebook and use those, because they are quick thoughts in the moment made by my friends towards me. Then I could not decide what to do with these thoughts... so as the weeks passed I began brain storming, and I realized that these are comments and thoughts for me from people, but they post them on my facebook wall for all to see. Sometimes people assume that when they comment a person others dont take the time to read what they wrote on that persons blog. Theis got my brain turning and I began to think up some ideas to really throw these thoughts into the public. This could create awkward moments and emotions and sometimes those can be quite fun :)

Why I think we were assigned this project...

I think that the reasoning behind assigning us this is because we are used to our art projects taking shorter amounts of time. Malena was trying to get us to evoke thoughts about our piece over the course of the semester. By creating a project that slowly progresses over 3months we as the artist are forced to view our project in different states of mind on a weekly basis. This gives us better perspective and more ideas of where we could take it.

April 28th acc.

I collected about 30 thoughts this week.

Accumulation April 25th

My friends have gotten extremely random through this whole accumulation thing. I mean not that they're not already weird, but...seriously! im enjoying my chice to sccumulate there thoughts.

Accumulation April 18th

collected 52 quick thoughts from friends this week:)

Accumulation April 11th

i collected a little over 30 thoughts this week

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these are the thought i collected this week

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YAY i found a way to post them!!!!! I ahve collected over six hundred posts from people on my page. They are all thought people had in that very moment the wrote to me. I am thinking once it comes time to turn this project in I am going to cut all of them up and turn it into something. Not too sure what that something is yet.

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I have had a hard time figuring out a way to loud images of the thoughts onto my blog. I placed all of them into a wor doc, but it wouldnt upload. I hope to figure something out by next week. I have now collected over 200 since this class started. I think that I might print them and cut each of them out, and arrange them into one of those thinking bubbles they use in cartoon to emphasize that that character is talking. I think it could turn out really neat, yay!

ACCUM. 3

So far I have colected a ton on facebook messages and wall post I have a range of boys and girls and millions of dif topics. I like that this ties into my life as well, because they are wall posts from and for my friends.

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My accululation project had been put on hold for a little bit but I have since got it started, and I am a little frustrated because I am having trouble collecting peoples thoughts, because when I get them they are normally my friends and they arite down something immature and stupid.

So I had a new idea, of collecting facebook messages and my stealing people thoughts. Because in turn those are peoples thoughts in that place and time. I think i will prink them out in dif fonts and colors and mount them on something.

Accumulation Project

I think project sounds very interesting! I'm excited to see the outcome. My idea is to collect "thoughts" still in the workings, but i want to get people's in the moment thoughts. I might just keep sticky notes with me at all times and randomly ask people to write down what they are thinking about at the moment. I was somewhat inspired by Shan Raoufi. He collected opinions although, his was opinions about him. I want mine to b completely open to whatever poeple are thinking.

I also liked Michael Anderson's idea of collecting ad posters. I would love to have all those vintage and random posters.