Yet another thought, why thats the most thoughts I've had since I was a little girl!

Over the weekend I was rackin' my brains as to what I might consider researching for my dissertation. What will tie in with my course? What am I interested in? What has potential to actually be a research paper? What will I be able to do primary and secondary rearch on?

I don't know, I don't know!

Until I was in my mates house on Saturday nite havin' a couple a 'Dutch Gold' and the rest of 'em decided to put on 'South Park'. Ok, I thought, but aren't we gonna have to watch it on the computer and there aren't enough seats and we'll all have to stand......

I think we all know at this stage 'South Park' is more than just an animated Tv show. The creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone deal with important issues that sometimes othere people wouldn't have thought of, or are afraid to comment on.
This particular episode was about the very popular computer game 'World of Warcraft'. Not a very eye brow raising issue there! But it dealt with how ordinary people live their life through a computer game in a whole other world, building communities, making friends, buying, selling dealing with crisis situations, being a better person than they may or may not be in the real world. And how some peoples health can deteriorate so badly when they just sit in front of a computer all day for days and days.



After watching the episode I asked my friends did they know anything about this game and them being the nerds they are, of course they did! Silly me!
I got alot of info off them, even found out that some people I know play the game on a regular basis, which may come in handy for my primary research! One of the lads character in the game is a girl and alot of male players buy him/her stuff, I thought that was quite funny. Maybe I'll do an interview with him??
I'm not sure what angle I am gonna take with the research yet.
But I'll work on it a bit more.

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Ideal work space

Hmmmmmm I cant't help but think I'm missing something??

Ahhhhhh!!! A chair, 'twould be very helpful.


Oh yes, thats the one!!


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mood board

Me mood board. What the hell is it about?
Its a blend of a couple of different art Genre's mixed into one . I like the contrast of the old style comic book, poster of The Misfits artwork to the contemporary, modern style of the Graffiti. Graffiti seems to be looked on as rather a 'sub-culture' of youths whom destroy and/or deface property, but I reckon its an art movement! Maybe i could do my research paper on 'Graffiti as an Art Form', it's prob been done? jus thinkin as I type here. Anyho, as i was sayin' this is kinda how I've been thinkin lately. Starting to see more and more really excullent graffiti everywhere and i wanna be able to do it. I have been reasearching how you do graffiti, for Fiachra's A0 poster cause i wanna do sumit like that and, I found some really great tutorials online that showe you how to create a stencil from photoshop and illustrator, which can be printed out and then alll you have to do is cut it out and spray.
So here's a link to a pretty cool site that supports tutorials for first time stencilers and t-shirt printing
stencil tuts


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