A Kick Up My Own Backside - 1st Blog Post

Ok so I have been in my final year for 7 weeks now (nearly 2 months)
I will admit that I am behind with my work already in the final year, due to lack of motivation and attendance to lessons. I have taken a serious step back this weekend to get some motivation to do work.

To help me get to grips with my work and truly focus I need to know what I have done so far in these 7 weeks to truly know where I am going.

I have created a large list of websites which have inspired me, about 100+ which is growing each day. These are all bookmarked on my delicious account.
http://del.icio.us/t0402648

I have created a few main ideas around certain areas of interest (I will blog these ideas later). These have already been made into PDF's for a digital sketchbook.

I have read a few books so far in the last few weeks for inspiration and ideas.

-Creative Code by John Maeda

-Analogue In Digital Out by Brendan Dawes

-Lomo Mauritius by Mauritius

-Don’t Think Just Shoot by Leningradskoye Optiko Mechanichesckoye Obyedinenie

-On Photography by Susan Sontag

-Processing by Casey Reas & Ben Fry

-The Medium Is The Message by Marshall McLuhan

Although some of these are for my dissertation I think that I was able to gather ideas from all these books.

I have a few solid ideas which I will pick to further progress. This will allow me to organise my time better and allow me to specialize my ongoing research.

My dissertation is linked into my final year project as expected so I also have a sister blog based on the topic for my dissertation which is lomography
I have 4 blogs

Personal Photography Blog: http://stimu1us.blogspot.com/

Lomography Blog: http://lomo-mojo.blogspot.com/

My old Uni Blog (which can be useful for past research): http://mmvr33.blogspot.com/

and this new blog!

I have decided to create this blog to help document the progression in ideas and technologies.
As I have already done a little bit of work I will need to blog all up 2nite.


I have written a list of task which is needed to be done by the end of week.
To help me manage my time better than the last 7 weeks I will start to write these lists on a regular basis.

By the end of tonight (20th November 2007) I would like to ...

-create a blog to which I can document all work online in the last 7 weeks

-blog all photos of the lomography work I have been exploring and creating

-blog the 5 or 6 initial ideas out of notebook and PDF's with supporting images

-write a final idea proposal with images to back up the final idea

-link burst shot experiments onto blog from YouTube (can be included in the initial ideas blog post)

-find a way of adding my java experiments from the processing development onto the blog

-Think of a title for final idea and possible if time generate some logos/themes for
the ongoing style of the project, e.g. for storyboards, sketchbooks, future website
and this blog