We had a little exercise in class today.

We were told to pick an object, shoot a 1 minute video about this object. Shoot it in a way that we are describing that object. We then spent the 2nd half of the studio describing our shots.

What’s the outcome of this exercise? – Adrian mentioned that we are not thinking through our medium.

This exercise allows me to think more critically. If we were to do it another way round ( script first then shoot) I would have started off with doing some research on google and I would have relied on information google tells me instead of thinking and observing critically. Which I feel, is a big problem in our generation today. We no longer ask questions about things, we are just following a system and guidelines built by the previous generation.

During the exercise, I am amazed by how the cap on my bottle is designed in a way that it requires lesser force when we open the bottle. It’s scary how I’ve been using this bottle for the past 4 months and I never thought about it. Now I understand why Frankham says that ” A poetic application of associational form creates relationships between element that are more often felt than thought. p139″ Last week I questioned how can we not think about what we felt? Objects around us are so common, that we often take things for granted. We don’t question what is common anymore. I’ve watched this documentary called ” The true cost” over the weekend. Consumerism is polluting and killing our planet, I wonder how many consumers know about the chains of relations and consequences by their purchases. If we stop questioning what is common, it will soon be uncommon.

Anyway, back to my bottle cap. From my observation, there is an entanglement mesh network about the bottle cap alone. It is designed and engineered with sets of scientific rules ( both physics and chemistry ) It is BPA free.