It Begins...

Hello world, and fellow MA'ers of Worcester. This shall serve as my journal for Digital Media Practice 1.
That is all.

Stay tuned!

The proposal

To produce a series of illustrations based on the doodles produced through the semester.

To create a narrative to each image, influenced by emotional state at the time

Have the illustrations in chronological order. A visual 'mind-ography (subconsciousness thought and emotion from doodling)

To create my own visual language

Aim for 5 drawings, could be more, could be less.

The content will be a psycho analyses of my own life, like a visual diary.

How Doodling came about

Mentioned earlier in my blog was 'how the word doodling came about in the twentieth century'.

Doodling is in my interpretation the same as a squiggle.Going back to Roman times, society used to put the local gossip onto the walls of Rome. This as not just graffiti but in my interpretation, doodling. Doodling does not just have to happen on paper.

Today there are many ways of doodling, whether on an iPad, phone or computer. The point is we all do it whether listening to somebody talk really boring or just for fun.

Doodling - How the word came into the twentieth century

Preliterate, primordial, the doodle is at once the most common and the most ignored art form. 
Hilobrow (2009)

The Oxford English Dictionary which defines the doodle as “an aimless scrawl made by a person while his mind is otherwise applied” 
Hilobrow (2009)

While our current sense of doodle is relatively new, it is an old word. In his Dictionary of the English Language, Samuel Johnson defines a doodle as “a trifler, an idler,” calling it a mere “cant word” and suggesting that it derives from the expression “do little.” Later dictionaries, however, trace it from the Portuguese doudo, for foolish, or more plausibly from the Low German dudel, as in dudeltopf, a nightcap (an etymology that crosses aptly with that of “dunce cap,” so named for the medieval Scholastic philosopher Duns Scotus, whose aversion to classicism earned the derision of Renaissance schoolmasters). The best-known such use occurs in the colonial sobriquet “Yankee Doodle,” which may have originated as a Dutch New Yorker nickname for Anglo-American colonists — with Yankee from the Dutch New Yorker Janke, or “Johnny,” which in turn became a catchall British nickname for Americans during the Revolutionary War. By the late nineteenth century, it is used to describe a cheat; and gradually “doodling” becomes the name of idle, deviant, or erratic behavior. 

Before the twentieth century, the nearest term was scribble — a word with an obviously Latin origin that came into use, seemingly coeval with widespread vernacular literacy, in the late Middle Ages. But scribbling is not doodling, because scribbles are marks made in haste or by an uncertain hand. Doodling, by contrast, is beyond craft and criticism; it belongs to us all; it’s impossible to do it badly — or well. It springs from that flourishing thicket, common to everyone, where mind shoots forth its florid branches from the rootstock of the animal brain. Its intent, if it has one, differs from the preliminary brainstorming of sketching and the territorial mark-making of graffiti: it is the graphic expression of ennui, an existential criticism of the world-as-such. 
Hilobrow (2009)

 But for the practical monks, even doodling had a reason: their term for the practice was probatio pennae, the “proving of the pen.”
Hilobrow (2009)

Hilobrow (2009) In Praise of doodling [online] Available from: http://hilobrow.com/2009/08/24/in-praise-of-doodling/ [date accessed 10th September]

Introduction to Doodling

Research includes the themes of;artists the fine line of art, psychology of children and adults, how the subconscious mind works, and how can this idea of doodling be be analysed by the patterns doing first hand research. Also how have we as an audience been influenced by the patterns that we do.

Immersion

I've finally discovered the wonders that are RSS readers! I have to say I have gone a bit made with my new "NewsBar" App.  A personal and customized news feed that keeps me up to date with what is going on in and around the world, I'm in love.

Anyway, i have found some blogs that are great for inspiration. I am trying to immerse myself in the world of ideas and design to spur on my own creativity, but also to keep my ideas relevant to industry changes.