Playing Response

E. Through the experience of using games, it actually helped me ground my idea a little

more. Originally my idea was that of trends, and occurrence. Though this experience it

helped me narrow down my idea and eventually possibly thinking of future ideas such as

transition, and synchronization. As a whole this was a interesting approach to thinking of ideas. Instead of sitting and trying to come up with something, this made it easier for an idea to come to my mind.

Group Play

The game that was played was Cranium. During this game there was a time restraint. That was the major conponent of the game and it helped you progress through the game.

Because of that I instantly thought of time. Each time it was a players go it the people on

the other team had to wait for the little

sand clock to run out sand. So I took that idea

of waiting and decided that it would be interesting to have time as topic.

Solo Play

For my solo play I decided to do three different things.

1. Play Video Game 2. Play with Colored Pencils 3. Play with toy pinwheels.

The video game was the starting point and helped me think of restraint and limitation because

I was playing a fighting game. And there is only so much you can do with it. I thought of urgency, impatience, and restraint.

When I was little, I would play with colored pencils as if they were dolls. So I applied the same idea. I split the colored pencils into groups and battled sets of colors with each other. What resulted from that was order and organization.

When I played with the pinwheels, I thought of actually windmills. When I think of windmills,

I thought of synchronization. Which then led me to time of day, etc.

In all this process helped direct to a different idea that what I originally had.

Play History and Games

A. My most joyful image is an image of playing practice baseball with my neighbor's family.

What exactly makes this images so special is how it was done. What is meant by that is

my neighbor's dad would never actually take the time out to play with a group of children.

That was something out of the norm. So when this occurred, it definitely had an impact on me.

He taught me how to hold the bat and everything.

The connection that I made of this was reoccurrence. This memory was always at the back of my mind reminding me of my childhood. And also how much you can learn in a small amount of time.

B. My Favorite Games From Childhood:

Trouble

Hide and Seek

Twister

Game of Life

Mancala

Connect 4

Guess Who

Uno

The one game that disliked:

Scrabble

Through this list I noticed that I tend to like games that have to do with numbers or counting.

The type of counting is used as a way of progression instead of tactical. The games on the list

are basic and yet have a unpredictability about it. Even though you have to roll or spin something you never know what number your going to get.

I also noticed that these games are also based upon repetition.

inspiration #3

An additional inspirational source is gadgets

which can fall under the wants and needs category

Inspiration #2

Here's a list of Links that I really like or I get inspiration from.

I was thinking more so in the form of a person's interalized ideas coming out in the

form of the physical. Or possible somewhere along those lines.

HP Commercials:

Pharrell: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlSGJGHJEpI&feature=related

Serena: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3g_37Kb3cY

More Commercial Ads that appeal visually

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=217LXYnqCgA Harrahs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWUrM0IZaDQ Sherwin Williams

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLTUC7ei2EI Tostitos Commercial

Inspiration #1: Retro

Here's a list of my inspiration.

The first of which is more so Trends. What I mean by that each decade has

a particular style, which I call trends. I think what i find interesting about that is you can tell what decade a certain thing came from.

Distilled Words

During my brain searching, I noticed that I had the tendency of picking things that

had to deal with what is already inside of one's head or programming. What I mean by that

is everywhere a person is fed information and sometimes that information comes out. An ex of this idea is media in itself. How it feeds us information even if we dont realize it.

Here are some of the words that I was attracted to:

Childhood

Nostalgia

Trends

or Social Trends

Fads

Retro

Fame

Media

Reality

Entertainment

wants and needs

gadgets

organization

automatic

automated voices

pop culture

celebrity

confinement

popularity

privacy

persona

personality

outer-shell

social networking

hands

gestures

inside

color

introvert

extrovert

public

private.

excess

repitition

programming

assumption

assignment

visual

gone

here

there

now

eventually