i started off formulate by looking at my pinterest boards. the first thing that stood out to me was colour, so i colour picked all of the boards and put them into an image made up of dots and left that to move on to experiment with text. i wrote the visible titles out into a document, then had my computer read them out. it’s 9 minutes long. it was interesting to me to hear the titles read by a robot it made me think about intonations and inflections, obviously these don’t exist when you remove the human element.
the removal of the human voice lead me on to cutting up the titles and picking out 10 words at a time to create these random sentences. I enjoyed this iteration but didn’t feel like it moved the project forwards. I wanted to try and interrogate the layout of the pinterest boards using the text, so i changed the direction of the words so they read down the page vertically. this made me notice patterns in the letters, and noticing how many a’s, b’s, c’s etc there were. i created a booklet of tally charts of each letter which aesthetically had an interesting conversations with the digital text organising.
the a-z as a tool is fascinating to me because it makes me thinks about childrens learning, so from here i changed my keyboard to a standard childrens a-z so that every a became apple to every z, zebra. This was the most interesting iteration of this project. i took it further and created some illustrations and posters from this experiment using both the a-z info and the pinterest colour info.
i think an interesting way for this project to go would be a critique of pinterest as a platform and also use the brief explore language accessibility.
working quickly in this project and setting myself exersises has grown my practise and enabled me to create processes and begin to develop new methods of working.