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Loving this interview

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Experimentation

Playing with sewing with copper wire that I found in dad’s toolbox.

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Resources for assessment 3

How to make recycled paper http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Paper 

Rodrigo Alonso’s ‘New: No More Electronic Waste’ → using e-waste to create art inspiration http://inhabitat.com/rodrigo-alonsos-new-seats-turn-e-waste-into-a-cool-electronic-time-capsules/ 

Two Articles discussing the success and reason for reading self help books: http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-15734/5-reasons-to-read-self-help-books-even-if-you-think-you-dont-need-to.html https://www.quora.com/Why-Do-99-of-People-Who-Read-Self-Help-Books-Fail-To-Get-Results 

Information on Andrew Mclellan: http://www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/program/andrew-mclellan/ 

E-Waste Projects and Artworks: http://www.betterworldsolutions.eu/e-waste-as-art/ 

Safety measures for working with techno waste: http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/8-projects-turning-deadly-e-waste-into-beautiful-non-deadly-works-of-art 

‘Age of Ease’ Andrew Mclellan, Lachlan Anthony, Michael Candy. The Time Bomb Ticks http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue111/10774 

Hazardous Material Found in E-Waste: http://ewasteguide.info/hazardous-substances 

Article: Toxic E-Waste dumped in poor nations, says United Nations http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/dec/14/toxic-ewaste-illegal-dumping-developing-countries Sigmund Freud http://sciphilos.info/docs_pages/abst_Freud_css.html 

Rampant individualism http://www.theguardian.com/comment/story/0,3604,805161,00.html 

Self-preservation http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Self-preservation.aspx 

Narcissism https://www.psychologytoday.com/conditions/narcissistic-personality-disorder 

Selfishness in society http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1280764/ow-selfishness-ruining-society-turning-children-monsters.html 

Several Links on our dependency on electricity http://articles.courant.com/2003-08-21/features/0308211380_1_power-grid-power-outage-electricity http://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/depend-on-electricity-zbcz1305.aspx http://www.watersheds.org/education/gstudent.htm http://orange.eserver.org/issues/5-2/henson.html 

Conversation Starters http://www.scienceofpeople.com/2013/10/helpful-conversation-starters/ 

Shelter designs (https://www.google.com/search?q=tents+made+from+recycled+materials&safe=active&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=955&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAWoVChMIl7f-nbbnyAIV5J6mCh23lwkT) http://www.instructables.com/id/GerTee-Portable-tent-home-made-of-recycled-materia/step2/Alaskan-GerTees/

Blue Print Format TV Show - White Collar (Season 5)

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Final PDF Assessment 3: Survival Basics 101.

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FINAL WORK: survival basics 101

(lay down - shelter blueprint can be viewed)

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FINAL WORK: survival basics 101

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Final Copy: Basic cooking skills without using any electricity or modern kitchen appliances. I have used a magazine clipping of a recipe that uses cheap ingredients and can be made simply without technology. I have also included instruction for an outdoor oven that could be made cheaply and used many times over.

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Final Copy: We decided to give instruction on basic gardening and growing your own produce, as this is a skill many would be without as well as without many ways to easily research it under these circumstances. 

Have also included a diagram of a way to use old monitors as pots for plants, to emphasise the junk nature of technology following a ‘failure’.

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Also wanted it to resemble the font from those “TOP SECRET”, “CLASSIFIED” red stamps from government/FBI/spy movies 

Final Copy: Title Page (Read in Case of Technological Failure (Survival Basics 101:)

We have gone for a government document look, combined with the paint splatter and human error to represent the conditions in which the document was produced and the materials available.

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We’re addressing the basic human need for water; particularly safe drinking water and how to survive without the water systems we rely on in our current day and age. We’re looking practical and easy to execute methods of making water safe for drinking.

http://chemistry.about.com/od/waterchemistry/fl/Can-You-Drink-Rain-Water.htm

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The skills of letter writing. In the age of technology that we currently live in, it appears that the art of even simple letter writing have started to fade away. We are becoming reliant on quick and instantaneous forms of communication. Therefore a guide to communication through letters is essential in place of the technology of phones and the internet that we have grown to rely on.

http://auspost.com.au/education/letterwriting/students/personal-letters.html

http://auspost.com.au/education/letterwriting/students/addressing.html

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Snippets from our group’s Facebook convo

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Our group discussing what we could do for the publication back from Week 11.

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Inspiration

“Mosconi’s Codex” from tv show White Collar. They pieced the pages from a chapter together to form one complete image. Really liked this puzzle/mysterious aesthetic where the drawings on each page look vague and confusing, yet when pieced together, make sense.

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Research

http://www.scienceofpeople.com/2013/10/helpful-conversation-starters/

In our future, our people would be so unfamiliar to talking to people physically in-person that they wouldn’t know how to start a conversation and keep it going. In our current times, we’re still familiar with basic conversational skills, however in our far future right after the failure of electricity, the people would have very little idea on how to interact without hiding behind a screen.

This website was great as it reminded me and gave me ideas on good conversation starters and how to sustain it.

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Research

This diagram was a life-saver when I was struggling to remember all the terms and names for each little part of a tent. 

Although our design resembles a traditional triangular tent, our tent’s sides can fold in on each other just by removing the guy lines and sectional poles, allowing the user to pack up and be able to move locations in an instant, instead of having to disassemble tens or even hundreds of little pieces. Our tent will also have some sort of insulation.

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Research

For the blueprint of a shelter that my group has decided to design, I tried looking up “tents made from recycled materials” on google images (https://www.google.com/search?q=tents+made+from+recycled+materials&safe=active&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=955&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAWoVChMIl7f-nbbnyAIV5J6mCh23lwkT). Although the shelters that came up from the search were interesting in terms of composition and shape, I decided that it would be more practical and convenient to have a sufficiently large tent to live in, but small and easy enough to pack up and go in an instant. Being able to leave immediately with all your belongings may be an important need in our future as the world will be chaotic and unfavourable circumstances can arrive in an instant. We also wanted to create our shelter by reusing many technological or electrical related objects that have been rendered obsolete by the failure of electricity. These materials include electrical cords, wires, insulating tape, sheets of metal, acrylic tubes (used to cool down computers), etc. 

This also helped me think of possible materials I could use/needed to use: http://www.instructables.com/id/GerTee-Portable-tent-home-made-of-recycled-materia/step2/Alaskan-GerTees/