Monday 15 October

After listening to Dan's talk I wandered off to the library for some more inspiration. I looked at the New Scientist and also The Economist. I got a couple of Computer Arts magazines out. Spoke to Dan about 3D animation for a plane and he advised after effects. I also mentioned my ideas about quicker air travel, found another link for Branson's quotes on half an hour to Sydney. Could I expand on that, I think so.

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:km_kuT4_rYMJ:mgproductions.com/articles/ET0507-BransonProfile.pdf+richard+branson+half+hour+to+sydney&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=uk&client=firefox-a

Dan Mellor

Trained as an artist/graphic designer. Dan taught himself how to animate and the work he showed us was excellent. A pro in after effects he showed us his project for the Compton road www.comptonskyline.com. Very impressive and very jealous that he can animate so well but I guess he has been doing it for ten years or so. He advised the following links:

blinksstudio@blink.tv
www.now.com
www.gamer.tv
www.creativeaftereffects.com
and pete's plugin's for after effects which you can download for free off the Internet.

Thursday 11 October

After listening to Rona's talk I had to get to work but whilst I was there I chatted to a few people trying to get more ideas for my project. I spoke with a Purser who has been with the airlines for 16 years. I asked how things may have changed. We walked about and looked at things such as security and how that has advanced over the last ten years. So has certain aspects of the aircraft such as the electronics for the video but not much else. I was thinking of the idea of interiors in aircraft over the years to come, how advanced can they get. The new A380 has been delivered to Singapore airlines and the pictures show how developed things have become over the years, it looks more like a cruise ship.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/07/business_first_airbus_a380_delivered/html/10.stm

Another interesting article from 2000 about airbus interior:

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2000/06/23/airbus000623.html

An idea I had about the whole flight experience in the future is developing for example what will happen to check-in facilities, there will no doubt have Internet on the aircraft's but with low budget carriers will this go the other way and it become a worse environment for the economy traveller. The cheaper the ticket the worse the experience?. There was also another article I found which I was very interested in which was the BBC news article

"how will we get around?"

The prospect of a revolution in air travel has been raised by Nasa's successful test of a 5,000mph plane. But are we likely to see similar advances in other forms of transport?

The way we get about has a profound impact on the way we live - affecting where we set up home, work and holiday.

Nasa scientists say their experimental X-43A jet has the potential to make the world a much smaller place. It has already led to predictions that passenger planes will one day fly from the UK to Australia in two hours. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3580337.stm

Rona Innes

An insight into Rona's designs and her website http://www.moshimachine.com/. Rona brought in some storyboards to show us. These were presented to her clients such as Greenpeace and Roky Erickson. She was very honest and gave us some good tips for freelance such as it is a good idea to keep an eye on www.wiredsussex.com. They also help students when they get out of studying. She advised against freelance work straight away and if possible try to get a job in a large company first. As Rona has worked from home being a Sole Trader, as the taxes are cheaper, she has pointed out it does get lonely and found herself even nipping to the corner shop just to have a chat with someone. She is mainly a flash animator but does the occasional website.

Wednesday 15 October

Today I got on with more research, more searches on google led to future of travel agents. Future of Air carriers and trains. Gizmodo was a good site for gadgets and gave me ideas of what various companies are coming up with. www.gizmodo.com. I have decided to present my work within a website because eventually that is what I'd like to do as a career. Paul showed us a good bookmark site. A good website I found today was http://www.futureforall.org/ giving an insight to what is possible, virtual worlds, digital money, virtual presence. I drafted out a possible scenario for my site although still unsure as to what I am doing my project on.

Mike Blow

Mike gave an interesting talk on his work. He expressed his interest in the science and art and showed us his creations of machines for singing . It was both daring and intriguing. He gave us tips to get us started such as:

Keep the idea of the piece you are doing in your head.
Technically keep it simple and sweet.
Always be critical of others work and your own.
Collaborate with industry and artists.

Useful sites include:

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/

www.futurist.com

http://panmental.de/idiofact/

http://www.arduino.cc/

Monday 8 October 2007

After missing my first week due to my late booking of days off with my work I have finally started the course. It was my first proper look at the project brief and my thoughts went into overdrive as to what I would do for this project. Typing into the google search engine enabled me to achieve more ideas such as video games in ten years, robot drummers, robot nurses, recycling possibilties for the future. Will we be cancelling out more service assistants in stores such as tesco's and clothes shops, even today more and more places have the self-service checkouts we all love to use!!. Could we see a robot saving somebodies life in the future? Maybe but in ten years? I don't think so, I came to the conclusion that ten years really isn't a long time. I thought back to what was available to me ten years ago, internet and mobiles were about although of course not as advanced. A conversation with Micheal prompted me to think about an industry I'm familiar with which is travel. Firstly I thought of a flying car, how original! Although these are starting to develop through a handglider type of look. The thought of how aircrafts could develop in ten years was of interest not so much the body of the plane but the interior. Also how people will book flights, how will carriers charge. Will it get even cheaper?. My research will start with reading Flight International, Flight Global, New Scientist and trying to find something I can work with.


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