Brand New

For this project we had to come up with an idea the was 'Original'. Or an idea that has stemened from another if you conclude that there is no such thing as a original idea.

So after doing some sketches of what ideas could be done I decided to go with the idea of a bottle that has a two layer sieve system which could be used to hold a fruit that would flavour the water and stop all the seeds any any other unwanted parts to combine in the water.

I have looked at a few ways in which I can go about making this work. One way is to have a area in the top that can be unscrewed, allowing you to place a fruit. Another way was possibly a tray compartment in which it has a locking mechanism to hold it in place.

Quote Project

Out - of the - hat 

"First they ignore you, they they laugh at you,

then they fight you, then you win"

- Mahatma Gandhi

 Mahatma Gandhi                                                           

  Born: October 2, 1869 Porbander, India                        

Died: Assassinated January 30, 1948, New Delhi          

Also Known as                                                           

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi                                  

("Great Soul"),                                                           

Father of the nation                                                     

Although generally a obedient child, at one point Gandhi experimented with eating meat, smoking and a small amount of stealing which he later regretted these things. By the age of 13 Gandhi was married to Kasturbai.

In his search for vegetarian restaurants, Gandhi found and joined the London vegetarian society which consisted of an intellectual crowd who introduced Gandhi to different authors, such as Henry David Thoreau and Leo Tolstoy.

When the Boer war in Africa began in 1899 Gandhi organized the Indian ambulance corp in which 1100 Indians heroically helped injured British soldiers.

Gandhi was the leading light in India's freedom struggle against the British rule. The uniqueness of this freedom struggle was that it was essentially based on Ahimsa (non - violence) & Satya (truth).

• Mahatma Gandhi's birthday on October 2, is treated as a celebratory day known as Gandhi Jayanti, it is a national holiday

• January 30, the day he was assassinated, is celebrated as martyr's day in India

The Formative Years

Three people had a lasting impression in molding the thoughts and character of the young Gandhi.

• The 1st was his mother Putlibai who was a deeply religious woman. Though unlettered, her qualities of love, sacrifice and service for her children and others, deeply influenced the impressionable mind of the young Gandhi.
• The other two were Shravana & Raja (King) Harishchandra, two very famous historical characters. From Shravana he imbibed the quality of love & from king Harishchandra, he imbibed the value of truth. Gandhi himself admits this in his biography 

Kiss Me Quick

London being such a vast multicultural city has a particular identity to each culture in the city these conflicting identity cause the reason as to way there is not one whole identity / brand for London.

This also deepens when you consider the fact that London is always changing old buildings being knocked down to make way for new more modern buildings, but also with such a vast range group of people staying in London each person has a different view point / opinion as to what they see London and how it means to them.

Dance Step

This porject was aimed at creating a 3 dance step movement and a hairstyle that would go with the dance. The three dance step had to be created into a flip book. Also a A3 poster for the hairstyle. So I started to look at the different genres of music and some examples of dance movement routines.
Music genres

• Hip hop
• Dub
• Trip hop
• House
• Techno
• Drum and bass

Dance Styles

Traditional Jazz / African -American vernacular dance

• Black Bottom 
• Boogie woogie
• Chicago Stepping
• Detroit Ballroom
• Drunken Sailor
• Jitterbug
• Jazz dance
• Lindy hop
• Tap dance
• Calypso
• Zumba

Hip - Hop dance

• Breaking
• Bounce
• Crip walk (C - Walk)
• Clown walk
• Crown walk
• Detroit jit
• Electric booyaloo
• Jiggin

Typically today's dance step music tend to be more electronic.

Steve Hillage and Miquette Girandy set out a categorization of electronic dance music genres based on bests per minute (Bpm)

• 60 - 90 Bpm - Hip hop and dub
• 90 - 120 Bpm - faster Hip hop and big beats / trip hop
• 120 - 135 Bpm - House
• 135 - 155 Bpm - Techno
• 155 - 180 Bpm - Drum and bass / Jungle
• 180 + Bpm - Hardcore gobber and beyond4

For the flip book I decided to record the movement and then later turn it into images.