Jaws 3D! (Now with less sharks)

 
What strikes me the most about my source material, Back To The Future, is the fundamental misunderstanding Marty has about the past, in particular- their technology. He struggles to open a glass coke bottle, the jukebox is a mystery, while he believes he knows what the past is- he has no idea what the time is like outside of generalization and stereotypes.

We currently live in the time of Avatar, 3D TVs available to the masses, even Justin Beiber's movie is premiering in 3D (if that doesn't scream The End Is Nigh, I don't know what does). In as little as 30 years out, I believe people will view our time as a people obsessed with creating false images and though the standard Blue/Red glasses have become passe to us (we've moved onto the all black Buddy Holly type glasses)- that's the immediate association with 3D and it would be easy to confuse our time as one wearing those around.

Deliverables:
Creating a set of digital images composed of 3D images of trash in Islais Creek (what's left of it) in 500 years. These will be viewable using 3D glasses and they will be displayed on a digital photo frame which rotates through the images.

The majority of waste we found in our explorations during the midterm were paper (mostly food wrappers), plastics, and e-waste. I'd like to reflect how the future will handle these items, I'm assuming food and packaging will continue to be important to humans even 500 years in the future.

I'm working with Kate (kind of) in that our projects are operating under the same universe, like how all Kevin Smith films are interrelated to each other. Our grand scheme is optical illusions in displaying information. I'm focusing on what would be the more 'advanced' optical illusions.

Rough Example:

I was never good at feelings (Glen Canyon Park Presentations)

The Glen Canyon Park presentations was a unique opportunity to display the work we have created over the course of our semester to real people. Real people!

Not that our class isn't real people, but you know, people who aren't people who have been focused on watersheds since September.

Besides logistical problems (the room was quite cramped, the librarians attitudes towards us rivaled that of elderly Catholic nuns armed with metal rulers, that projector had seen better days) I think it went really well. The audience was engaged, they seemed excited when they actually recognized places around SF that we had investigated, and all of the work was well recieved.

It was a new experience for me, as I usually only present to people within the DAI major who understand work as a process, rather than to people who are just critically evaluating the end product with no further knowledge of the steps it has undergone. I'm excited for the gallery showing at the end of this semester, where we can hopefully still invite people from the public to mingle with those that have witnessed the entire design process and I can get very different feedback from multiple resources.

Final Proposal: "Doc, I have to tell you about the future!"



When Marty McFly returns to his present day life in Hill Valley after spending a week in a Hill Valley circa 1955, he finds that life has become exponentially better for him. His family has gotten their act together, they've pursued successful careers, Biff waxes the family cars instead of terrorizing them. Ultimately, Marty uses the butterfly effect to his advantage and his teenage shenanigans improve his situation, improve others.

And I'd like my final project to be Marty McFly, a warning from the future.

I don't plan on building a Delorean, nor a time machine, nor could I even begin to quantify what a 'jigawatt' is. I would, however, like my final project to be a vision of the future of the garbage of Islais Creek, one that if sent back in time (our present day) could ultimately affect the future.

These installments of future warnings I'm calling "McFlys". I would like to construct garbage of the future, make documentation of it, and then 'send them back in time' to our present day. Thus altering the space time continuum for what I hope is the better.

I'm taking a slightly dystopian view of the world based on work such as Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, 1984 by George Orwell, and Back To The Future 2 by Robert Zimekis. The trash created and documented will be connect to the refuse recovered from my midterm project such as categories of trash, which have remained a problem (do we still use paper in the future?) and what that trash looks like now.

Midterm Rough Draft Ideas: Infographic Board

Look at your project. Now back to mine. Now back to your project. Now back to mine.

Sadly, your project is not about trash. But it could be! (If you threw it in the garbage.)

Midterm Rough Draft Ideas: Postcards

What better way to show a facsimile of a particular area than with postcards?


We were thinking of sending them to MUNI to see if we couldn't get someone to clean up the area of the creek that they seem to own operate/neglect. I wanted to try doing postcards from different eras to show just how long this has been a problem with 'Shit Creek'.

These postcards could be digital and hardcopy. They may be used in conjunction with the google earth walking tour kmz file.

More Photos From A Depressing Field Study

Trash at Islais