Today was my first class at signal. We gathered in the room upstairs and piled round tabled of textas and butcher paper. The environment was very conducing to creative thinking. The room had windows on 3 of its 4 walls that looked out to the CBD. Being placed right in the centre of everything we had a almost 360 view from the very heart of Melbourne. On one side there was the train line with train tracks, wires, metro pedestrian trains and large trains carting shipping containers. It was interesting to look at the juxtaposition of nature (trees, river and birds) and man made things (sky rises, bridges and boats). Another thing that I found interesting was projecting the elements onto the windows (fire, water, earth, air, clouds). Another idea that intrigued me was playing on the windows as windows or mirrors. Exploring how people look a their reflections, moments of privacy when we think no one is watching. Using each window as a window was another idea. Having them framed with curtains or blinds that are peeled back to reveal the lives of the people inside, like the windows in a sky scraper, each window tells a different story, they can each give an insight to different cultures or ways of life. Looking at movement or zoom was another thing that interested me. Starting with a single image of something on a large scale e.g a forrest, then break into 2 images of something closer e.g a tree, 4 images of a branch, 8 images of a leaf, 16 images of an ant on a leaf, 34 of microscopic cells of a leaf skeleton, giving the effect of a zoom. Light and illumination was another idea thrown around, or different skylines and horizons e.g city, clouds, beach, desert.