Young Hearts, Be Free, Tonight!

<3 okay so after the last meeting with Don and a brainstorming session with Debbie/Connie/Saeid... I was presented with some interesting insights into how my project can go. We are still not at the point of forming deliverables and whatnot, more so diverging and converging onto appropriate and intriguing ideas.

here were some of the things mentioned:
focusing on what areas to affect change (relationships, environment, etc)
looking at why people DON'T care
how can we make it revelant that their lives
taking the surrealness of the topics-->making them personal
how the overlaying push of the project to recreate a value system/create an explanation for life/give both comfort and awareness/community/spirituality is really similar to religion
twisting our senses and perceptions
blowing up small things/worlds, making huge worlds tiny
creating a complex narrative of interconnected events
switching environments (what we control and what we don't control, ie. cities where outer space was and outer space where cities were...unfamiliarity and change in context)
REVEAL + MAKE RELEVANT

so then when i began research again, i started to look into emotionality/emotional learning and the idea/nature of the complex or simple narrative in itself. a book i found randomly discusses the natures of both scientific and humanistic knowledge, as well as the narrative as an entity. i learned this stuff:
science attempts a world that is invariant across human intentions and plights while humanist endeavors establish not truth, but versimilitude (the appearance of being real), and puts timelessness into the particulars of experience and locate it in time and place. the humanist outlook also changes from viewer to viewer (therefore creating something that can be more universally appreciated is integral)
we render the world by: scientific theories, historical explanations, or metaphorical renderings of our experience
the idea of surprise; probe what we take for granted
"our brain stores a view of the world, if unflexed we let our attention flag a little, look elsewhere, even go to sleep"
perception; to some degree, the world as we have structured it by our expectancies
dealing with the selectivity of our senses, our minds, and our language

so i did find all of those things intriguing. but what most interests me is the idea of a complex narrative (when the author uses causally unrelated narratives to work together to build thematic unity) to layout what i want people to learn. but i dont have a huge amount of experience in it and it seems kind of scary/terribly hard but i think that is a good thing. i was also looking at a book of interactive/conceptual books (haha!) that ginger brought to class. it involves examples of how you can totally change a viewer's experience of learning from a book by structuring it and creating different mechanisms for physical exploration.

some examples of complex narratives include:
- flashbacks
- dream sequences
- repetition
- different characters' point of view
- multiple plot lines converging at the end
- flash forwards
- different time frames
- pre-figuring of events that have not yet taken place
- circular plotting where we are led back to the beginning
- backwards story telling, where the denoument is shown first and
explained through the plot

so i think that could give me a lot of freedom to cover a lot of ground. now to figure out what the fuck i am going to talk about and how exactly the make it work...

here is one of the most amazing songs i have heard this year. it makes me dance and cry at the same time. ah, amazing!

relation, with 'your tiny mind' (lifelike remix)