Lists. Who knew lists would be so complicated. In attempting to complete my first task during the week, the Project One assessment task, that was to be presented in class today, I realised how tough it was to come up and brainstorm a central idea and/or thing. I decided to use the Apple iPhone applications as an artefact in completing my Project One task. I thought there was going to be many things to write about it, there’s so much history behind the Apple iPhone applications even though it’s only been these couple of decades that the Apple iPhone applications have hit it off and gotten popular over the years. What I didn’t realised was that I had gotten myself in a bit of a pickle, I had so much to write that my brain began to go numb over the thought of coming up with ideas that could range from the moon and sun to back down to Earth. Seriously. How silly of me to pick an artefact thinking it was going to be easy to write about for my assessment task.

I realised that this course, this Documentary Ontography course is not simply about lists, it’s about how you link random words, phrases and sentences together for it to make sense. Sure it can be a bunch of random words on a piece of paper, but how is that going to make sense if there’s no one central idea. Just the other day, Adrian asked the class, ‘what irritates you?’. It was a simple question and we were asked to write down what irritated us in the form of a list. Everyone had different things to say about what irritated them, from sounds, to smell, and the the feeling of something. My list was simple, I just wrote about people and how people can be so irritating. I learnt that even though everyone comes from a different background, we all have different ideas of what irritate us.