Personal Infrastructures - A Dog's Life

Starting to work on the assignment to make a movie about personal infrastructures. While I thought about making it on the infrastructures of the dogs' lives, I became much more interested in how the dogs impact the structure of our life, and also how we use our space. These are 15 4"x4" frames comprising the initial story board for the movie

Connected

Spent a good chunk of yesterday getting "connected." For Media & Communications class, I had to sign up for Google Wave, Flickr, Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo, Blogger, Delicious, and Twitter. Wow...that's a lot of accounts and a lot of connection. Having had to carry a pager since 1991, I am more than dubious about the level of availability. I cannot tell you how many times I have threatened to flush my pager down the toilet. I wasn't 100% sure I even wanted a cell phone (though I have certainly come around on that one..... still playing with my Samsung Behold II).

trip to the mart....or "oy, my back hurts"

I slipped away to go scavenging at the Mart for a few hours. I have been dreading this. I think I am so used to being "expert" in my current profession, that I hate appearing as a complete novice. I still don't feel that I really belong there. But....I forced myself to go anyways.

I tried to hit the floors marked for commercial interiors (3,10,11) but everything seemed to be closed for renovation or something....most of the windows were papered over. I was able to get some great samples at Holly Hunt and Farrow & Ball. I was in a few other showrooms...people were friendly, but I didn't find anything particularly helpful. Eventually, my back was aching (the place is huge and the floors are hard) which was a good sign that I should return to work.

I hope this gets easier with time. At least, I'm getting a sense of where things are.