Monday, 16 April 2018
Let's go shopping: Finding the Most Expensive and Least Expensive in Specialist Shops.
The Pen Shop
Fortnum & Mason
A special cheese shop
Rollology
I am a rollologist, somebody who specialises in rolls and establishing whether rolls are rolls based on whether they roll or not.
Particularly us rollologists were intrigued by the fact that the sausage roll is called a roll yet it does not physically roll therefore does it truly deserve its title. We thought not.
We made a Twitter account and contacted Greggs about their sausage roll after testing the fact that it did not roll down a surface with a gradient. It slid. Hence we wrote to them enquiring about how it should be renamed to sausage slider.
Particularly us rollologists were intrigued by the fact that the sausage roll is called a roll yet it does not physically roll therefore does it truly deserve its title. We thought not.
These rolled
These didn't roll
Us rollologists created a ramp and found an optimum gradient of 39 degrees. An optimum had to be found because nothing will roll at a small gradient and everything will roll at a really large gradient.
We made guidelines on the ramp and decided that if the roll rolled out of these guidelines, it isn't a roll. A roll should have a consistent roll.
Rollology is satirising the roll, rolls that we use in our everyday lives so that through experimentation we learn more about what makes a roll.
Homes and Gardens: The Bathroom
Everyone knows what the bathroom can be like.
The bathroom is unique because it is generally the only room with a lock so each member of the house really values their privacy. Most conventional families don't tend to interact in the bathroom, rather than being social it is more of an awkward spot. The bathroom is a symbol of stress and anger as family members squabble during the morning rush as to who deserves to go first, moreover family members calculate how much time you have spent in there and shout through the door, begging for you to get out.
We concluded that people don't wish to all go to the bathroom at once because of the awkwardness that surrounds nudity and excretion. we wanted to create a new way for families to cope with your Dad walking in on you having a poo. Planning permissions require bathroom windows to be made of frosted glass, and so your awkward-free family now requires you to wear frosted glasses, which prevents any awkward eye contact or glimpses of family members. This is achieved by frosted lenses, which allow you to see things up close, but not far away. These, along with red bathroom accessories enable you to navigate the bathroom whilst wearing the obscure glasses.
Everything was made out of paper but that didn't matter as once the frosted glasses were on, all that was visible was blurs of colours.
The bathroom is unique because it is generally the only room with a lock so each member of the house really values their privacy. Most conventional families don't tend to interact in the bathroom, rather than being social it is more of an awkward spot. The bathroom is a symbol of stress and anger as family members squabble during the morning rush as to who deserves to go first, moreover family members calculate how much time you have spent in there and shout through the door, begging for you to get out.
We concluded that people don't wish to all go to the bathroom at once because of the awkwardness that surrounds nudity and excretion. we wanted to create a new way for families to cope with your Dad walking in on you having a poo. Planning permissions require bathroom windows to be made of frosted glass, and so your awkward-free family now requires you to wear frosted glasses, which prevents any awkward eye contact or glimpses of family members. This is achieved by frosted lenses, which allow you to see things up close, but not far away. These, along with red bathroom accessories enable you to navigate the bathroom whilst wearing the obscure glasses.
The all important pulley light, every bathroom should have one!
Pieced together using a mini plastic cup, some cord and attached to the ceiling using elastic so that it could be physically pulled.
Toothbrushes spray painted in red.
Toilet seat also spray painted in red.
Everything else was tiled with white and black diamond tiles to give the essence of a conventional bathroom aesthetic.
Glasses made using cardboard and the frosted part from a plastic wallet.
The striking notes of red really came through the frosted glasses and these photos successfully show that all important colour differentiation for an efficient anti-awkward bathroom navigation.
Glasses in action
The Bathroom Team
(Elliot, Theo, Me and Ella)
New and improved goggle-styled frosted glasses, adopting the imagery from swimming goggles.
Discombobulate Me... alternative idea
Little People
Using miniature figures to stimulate human-ly shadows in scenarios and settings so that the viewer is confused as to whether the shadows belong to figurines or humans. We used everyday stationery objects such as pens, glue stick lids and scissors to simulate buildings and very ambiguous scenarios.
Inspired by the comical and dramatic compositions of mini-people from David Gilliver's photography. I am intrigued how the relationship between the mini figure and the object reveals the truth of that object in a playful manner.
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