Publications : Digital
This is the class blog for "Publications : Digital" - the 3rd year Integrated Media studio for online and digital artists' projects at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto. The course is taught by Associate Professor Judith Doyle.Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Indecent Proposal
by Lucas
So here's what I'm thinking of doing for my final assignment;
Working in the back room of a thrift store, one of my favourite things is when people donate old notebooks and binders which (whether they realize it or not, I'm not sure) usually contain a lot pf pages with notes, scribbles, doodles, names and phone numbers, To-Do lists, bad high school poetry, and other such musings. I collect these and scrapbook the good ones. So, for my final assignment I think I would like to create an online scrapbook of these orphaned pages, which I will entitle "Lost & Found".
Timeline:
I can have all of the content assembled by mid-Febuary, and the basic HTML in place by the beginning of March. Then it will be a question of scanning, resizing, and placing the images within the format of the pages themselves.
--Lucas.
P.S. If anyone is looking for some free webspace without banners or any of that shit, I suggest going here.
So here's what I'm thinking of doing for my final assignment;
Working in the back room of a thrift store, one of my favourite things is when people donate old notebooks and binders which (whether they realize it or not, I'm not sure) usually contain a lot pf pages with notes, scribbles, doodles, names and phone numbers, To-Do lists, bad high school poetry, and other such musings. I collect these and scrapbook the good ones. So, for my final assignment I think I would like to create an online scrapbook of these orphaned pages, which I will entitle "Lost & Found".
Timeline:
I can have all of the content assembled by mid-Febuary, and the basic HTML in place by the beginning of March. Then it will be a question of scanning, resizing, and placing the images within the format of the pages themselves.
--Lucas.
P.S. If anyone is looking for some free webspace without banners or any of that shit, I suggest going here.
posted by Lucas # 11:35 AM 
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I back your topic, and I sometimes wonder what people would think if they ever read my journal... probably call the police. :P
Old diaries and notebooks are fascinating. Your idea is good and reminds me of a zine project by the collective Pas de Chance - in their case, the zine was entirely composed of missing pet flyers. These were disarmingly touching. I also did a similar project - a film called "Private Property / Public History" composed of family photographs spanning 30 years taken by a woman photographer who cast her shadow in many of the pix. (I used those ones). I actually tracked her down in an old folks home and it makes me wonder - would you consider trying to track down the authors of the journals?
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