Could everyone please bring all their high resolution photos, which they tagged on flickr, to uni tomorrow.

:]

Posted in Labels: General 2 comments Posted by stephana at 10:50 PM  

Schedule of Events

3:00pm – 3:08pm : Mesobored Welcoming Presentation (Attendees to welcomed to Mesobored team members, and moved into G1.26. Directions to be displayed on Plasmas)
3:08pm – 3:10pm : Welcoming to Mesobored Exhibition by the curator (Maya) and Mesobored team members
3:10pm – 3:30pm : Mesobored Exhibition. Works will be displayed in two formats, Online via 2 computers, 1 projector and printings or works. Opportunity for questions and answers to Mesobored team members.
3:30pm – 4:20pm : Mesobored Artists Forum. A selection of Mesobored artists to come and speak to the audience about their influences, their creations and their boredom.
4:23pm – 4:30pm : Mesobored Artists Forum question rime
4:30pm – 5:00pm : Mesobored ‘Tagged’ workshop. An opportunity to create your own Mesobored art and design pieces. Demonstration of the upload process. Technology set up

Mesobored Forum – Speakers List and Times

3:30pm – 3:35pm : Welcome to the forum by the curator of the exhibition/event (Maya)
3:35pm – 3:43pm : Nina
3:43pm – 3:51pm : Jessica Brady
3:51pm – 3:59pm : Stephanie
3:59pm – 4:07pm : Kabanarama Live Stream (Featuring Mr Kransky)
4:07pm – 4:23pm : Seven Dollars and Five Cents Artist Group

What is happening in each of the timeslots?

3:00pm – 3:08pm
Audience welcomed and ushered into G1.26. In this room, they are greeted with drinks by selected Mesobored team members, which leave shortly after everyone is in the bored room. Members of the audience are invited to interact with the objects in the room, which they are filled and streamed via webcam. (To be worked out) Projection Introduction and curtains open to full exhibition space.
3:08pm – 3:10pm
Maya will welcome to audience. Explain the concept behind Mesobored and the different variations of art that are on display and how they were created. Explain some of the locations around the world where the work has come from and invite the audience to interact with the website on the projector as well as take a look at some of the art around the space.
3:10pm – 3:30pm
Audience to participate, communicate and explore the art that is on display. Mesobored team members to approach the audience and explain some of the work and guide the audience though the piece. Maya to wrap up exhibition at approx 3:30pm and invite all audience into the lecture theatre for the artists forum.
3:30pm – 4:23pm
Maya will welcome all to the Artist Forums and introduce the first speaker. Each speaker will have approx 8 mins to speak so that we can keep on time. Obviously there will be some that talk for less or more, so this should all even out in the end.
Please see timeline on page before for more information
3:30pm – 4:23pm
During the time of the presentation, some members of the team will have to set up the Workshop space. This will involve changing the layout of the room slightly and introducing more computers and the rest of the IT equipment. This operation will be led by Stephana and Erin. Remaining team members are to be in the audience of the forums.
4:23pm – 4:30pm
Questions will be posed to the artists. Mesobored team members to pose the starting question and have questions on had incase no other member of the audience asks any!
4:30pm – 5:00pm
Workshop of Mesobored. Mesobored team members and audience are to migrate back to the exhibition space to find it has been transformed into a workshop. Now the audience as the option to create so artworks inspired by mesoboed. Computers, Digital and Video Cameras, and even pieces of paper, pens and paint will be available for each of the audience to create. All the works that are digital will be uploaded on the day, while other mediums will be uploaded on Thursday.

Maya to close the afternoon by thanking guests and leaving them with some words inspired by Mesobored. Guests encouraged to join the Mesobored after party named “MesoVERYbored” from 6:00pm at Mama Dukes

What must be worked out by Wednesday
• Computers and space must be booked. Confirm on Tuesday
• Plasma TV’s must be booked and confirmed on Tuesday
• Projector to be booked and checked on Monday
• Invitations to be sent out on Monday
• Schedule posters to be printed on Monday – Placed around expo space on Wednesday from 1:00pm
• Printing of all pieces of Artworks for expo space.
• Work out music, cables and IT equipment to be bough on Wednesday
• Artists involved in Expo to work out what tech is needed for their show. E.g. Videos, Slideshows etc. These to be formalised by Tuesday Afternoon!
• Maya to purchase bottles of champs, orange juices and glasses for introduction to expo
• Show reel to be completed and prepped for Plasmas
• Introduction to Mesobored to be prepped for presentation screen

Jobs

Exhibition Gallery Assistants/Ushers – Jenny, Karen, Hijung., Kim, Adam and Yeun
Workshop Assistants – Erin and Gallery Assistants
Photographer - Stephana
Videographer – Brett
Speakers – See Above
Curator - Maya

Posted in 0 comments Posted by Aaron at 1:51 PM  

Posted in Labels: General 0 comments Posted by stephana at 10:00 PM  

HI EVERYONE!!

Please bring any remaining MESOBORED STICKERS & POSTERS to tomorrow's Monday meeting for sorting!

Also, do we still have to translate the website into different languages?


Cheers,
Kim.

Posted in Labels: General 0 comments Posted by stephana at 9:51 PM  

The schedule is as follows for Wednesday

3:00 - Welcoming to exhibition from the Curator

3:10 - 3:30 - Mesobored Exhibition

3:30 - 4:20 - Mesobored Artists Forums (Artists that have created work for mesobored come to Monash to talk and present their pieces)

4:20 - 5:00 - Mesobored Workshop. Come and create work using the latest in technology and upload directly to the Mesobored exhibition of work.

5:00 Onwards - Mesobored Afterparty

Posted in 0 comments Posted by Aaron at 5:32 PM  

Here we go guys, we are almost here! This is the timetable for the next 5 Days!!

Friday (Last Night)
6pm meet at Southern Cross Station for Mesobored Club Crawl. Attedning Personal Service Announcement Exhibition then continue on to some of the Bars and Clubs around Melbourne.

Saturday and Sunday (Weekend)
Each team is to complete their major projects as outlined below:

Concept - Continue working on Presentation. Timeline to be completed By Saturday. Working out logistcal information to be presetned on Monday at 10am
Video - Contiune working on "Would you love me" Video. Clean up showreel for presentation on both Monday and Wednesday. Finish off all personal works by Monday at 10am
Web - Editing of Mesobored Video Doco (by Brett) New website to be launched on Monday afternoon at approx 2:00pm. Other members are to help concept team plan presetation and presentation ideas.
Print - Complete invitations and schedule posters. Please work out what posters and stickers we have remaining and these are to be bought on Monday Morning.]

Any further information is to be emailed to Jenny BY MONDAY!!!!!! Documentation will be printed on Tuesday so any further information must be preped for Monday's Class.

Monday
All teams are to meet for a meeting at 10:00am at Monash. Each team will then break down into groups to complete any final works before we head off to Federation Sqaure. All work is to be uploaded by this time for presentation. NO NEW WORK BY ANY TEAM MEMBERS IS TO BE UPLOADED AFTER 2:00PM ON MONDAY!! WE HAVE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS TO THINK ABOUT!

2.30pm Meet at Fed Square - We will leave Uni around 2:00pm as a group! Remember to invite your friends and family! Please bring along all laptops etc so we can display the work! You are all to wear Mesobored Tee's and all extra posters,handouts etc will be bought along on this day too!

Demo and Public Talk at Fed Square from 4:00 - 6:00pm

6:00pm Group Dinner and Debreif for the day!

Tuesday
All teams are to meet at 9:00am for Presentation Preperation. The Expo space will be set up on this day. All work to be handed to IT teams for test run through on Plasmas. Testing od Projections in Expo Space etc. All teams to work on information as per handed out on Monday. Concept team to prep whole presetnation. Web teams members (exclusing Nick) are to prepare handouts to markers. We will have access to lecture theature and other rooms all day. EVERYONE IS REQUIRED!!

Wednesday
10:00am - Bad Segue Studios Presentation. All team members to be at Uni by 9:00am for Brefing session on days plans

12:00 - 1:00 - Lunch

1:00pm - 2:30pm - Set up of presnetation spaces. Brefing session outline. All teams will be breifed on their equired roles on the day. Run through of some of the speachs and testing of movies, net access, laptops, projectors, etc.

3:00pm - 5:00pm Presentation. Please see above post for Presentation Schedule!

5:00pm - Small Group Debrief and drinks at Mama Dukes with other team and all markers! (Hopefully)

Thursday

10:00am - All Teams required at uni for debreif. Written doco will be presented to team completed! Footage will be edited and voiced over on this day with screens and stills added! Video team to lead editing process. All teams required to hand over all work to be included in Videos. 2 DVD's to b created. 1) Will have the video doco, Footage from Fed Square, 2am Lockout Protest, Fed Sqaure and Pub Crawl. 2) Will have edited video of presentation day

Friday
All Works to be handed into Concept Team by 3:00pm!! All Teams MUST be at uni by this time to hand in work for review and final hand in by 5:00pm to Mark and Troy!

5:00pm we will be having a bit of a End of Semester 1 party with the other group (Whole Multimedia 3rd Year Students + Mark and Troy) at Mama Dukes. Please join us if you can!

Ant questions, please email info@mesobored.net or see your team leaders! We are well on track to complete this, but we need the support of ALL TEAM MEMBERS!! Its all downhill from here on in if you put in the effort!!

Posted in 1 comments Posted by Aaron at 5:14 PM  

Nick & Brett:

Can you please post your personal artwork links on the blog. As Jenny needs it for the documentation.

Concept Team:

I need the program schedule for the Wednesday presentation asap, so that I can create the program poster for it.

Posted in Labels: General 2 comments Posted by stephana at 1:53 PM  

Guys the deadline for your work to be exhibited at fed square on the big screen is by MIDNIGHT SATURDAY 7th JUNE!
Nina and the video team will be collating all the images/stills from flickr on sunday and if u want ur video added u MUST bring it to uni on Friday 6th (best quality) to give to Nina and the video team.
Any work handed in after the deadline will not be used for the reel that will be displayed at fed square or at the exhibition on wed as part of our presentation.
Thanks.

Posted in 0 comments Posted by Nick at 3:48 PM  

Hey all, just a quick reminder that we are having another meeting tomorrow (Thursday 5th) at uni in the usual studio room at 10.30am. See you all then.

Posted in 1 comments Posted by Nick at 10:23 PM  

Since some of us don't have Facebook, I thought I would share some of the comments that are been posted.

From Facebook:

Haha. Cool idea...I'm a bit iffy about the name though, but I like the concept....I actually saw a few guys at the 2am Curfew protest wearing "mesobored" T-shirts and thought it was just another bedroom clothing label. Lol..I'll upload some work when I get a chance :)...and I dig the website too. Very nice work indeed! Who designed it?

been on the website it is cool, lots of great pics, is this an assignment, an independent web project or a web developer merely "mesobored" ? Jessica Brady i'm looking in your direction for an answer ;-)

And from the Forums:

I'd love a copy of your 'faces' picture in A4 size.

Wow - this is a fantastic idea! Thankyou for sharing and I can't wait to upload!

Keep up the great work guys. We will have a Visitor update shortly!!

Just so you guys know as well.. we have 124 Colored A3 Posters and a huge 500 Stickers awaiting us tomorrow!! Its time to start "TAGGING"

Posted in 3 comments Posted by Aaron at 4:44 PM  

Hey guys, just thought I would update you on how the website is going. Since last night we have had 123 different individuals jump on the site and they are coming from all over the world. We have had people from the US, Canada, the UK, Malaysia, Macao, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Argentina and Norway (we've even had a couple of pieces added to the site by a photographer from here). A lot of this traffic is coming as a result of referrals through forums so keep spreading the word. It's really exciting stuff!

Posted in 5 comments Posted by Nick at 10:31 AM  

To all those requiring the Tag It Logo and Sticker Mockups you can download the entire lot in a .ZIP from here. I have also included the font which is known as HolidayA and HolidayA Bold so that we can keep a standard on all print and web pieces. The file is a little over 7Mb Big

A style guide will be available later tonight or early tomorrow.

Click here to download

Posted in 0 comments Posted by Aaron at 7:47 PM  

Here's the list we wrote up for Friday...
This is the location list that we will follow. If we are not allowed in to a venue, we will move onto the next one in order!

Please remember to wear lounge attire PLUS your Mesobored Tee's. Also we are asking that each person bring along a friend for the evening. This person can be connected to uni e.g The other group, or just a mate that wants to come out for a night on the town.

We are meeting at Southern Cross Station at 6:00pm (Outside the Myki Stand) and will be attending the launch of a exhibition on Crn of Burke and King Streets named 'Personal Service Announcment'

The of venue locations are listed below:

Element Lounge
85 Queen st
between Bourke & Lt Collins

Golden Monkey
389 Lonsdale st
between Queen & Elizabeth

Chi Lounge
195 Lt Bourke st
between Russel & Swanston

Carlton Hotel
193 Bourke st
between Russel & Swanston

Portland Hotel
115 Russel st
Cnr Lt Collins

6 Links (Nectar Lounge)
228 Flinders Lane
between Swanston & Elizabeth

Lustre Lounge
252 Flinders Lane
between Swanston & Elizabeth

Bluestone
349 Flinders Lane
between Elizabeth & Queen

The Balcony
422 Lt Collins st
between Queen & William

Posted in 0 comments Posted by Stef at 4:47 PM  

Welcome to the next 7 days!

What needs to be done in the next 9 days!

Documentation needs to be reviewed, edited, and printed. Doco to be completed by Friday the 6th. Review by Concept and team leaders on this day. Printing to take place over weekend and presented to group 100% complete on Tuesday the 10th

Video documentation to be in conjunction with written documentation. Current raw files to be given to the video team on Thursday the 5th. Video team will then complete for presentation on the Wednesday

Organisation of the final presentation. This has began and will be reviewd by the concept team and presented on Thursday the 5th.

Everyone is to put the mesobored word out there!! Rest of the web team are to create new user profiles on many public forums, chat sites, IRC, social networks etc and spread the word of mesobored. Also use current profiles to promote this work! (All teams)

Each team is to complete working on their major pieces by 12:00pm on Monday the 9th!! If needs be, the video team will need to complete the show reel by Friday Afternoon.

Print team is to arrange printing of posters and stickers to be done by Thursday the 5th! Artwork is to be arranged by Concept and print teams. Video team is to create still images based on their video art pieces and to send to Aaron by Tuesday for posters.

Posters and stickers to be used and placed around public sites in city and surrounding suburbs on Friday (Around 2:00pm when the MX comes out) until Monday

Arrangement of Friday pub crawl and marketing exercise. e.g. Bluetooth marketing. Pub and bar locations to be arranged today. This information is now in the above post.

Ideas of deadline and the official opening of website. Monday at 4:00pm. Launch at federation square. Opening party of mesobored.

Keep creating more work… Kabanarma goes back live tonight (since it’s the start of the month and I now have full bandwidth again!!) Kabanarama Live… Its now a 1 hour show… going from 9:30pm until 10:30pm.. with replays at midnight!!... Need content and guests!!

Print team – Promo leaflets to be A5-6 B&W by Wednesday. Printed out by Thursday! Ready for Friday. Opening of the website 4:00pm on Monday.

Presentation Ideas:

• Hiring of laptop computers and giving them all to the guests and audience!
• Demo work!
• Seven Dollars and five cents demo.
• Showreel of all the artwork!
• Mr Kranski presentation and Kabanarama.com presentation.
• Film presentation prior and then just play it!
• Live demo (outdoor via stickam)
• References to the work throughout the entire presentation

Posted in 0 comments Posted by Aaron at 4:32 PM  

Thanks and great effort everyone for tonight's protest. It was a successful night. Just a reminder to everyone that there will be a team meeting on Monday at 10.30am.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend and see you all on Monday!

:]

Posted in Labels: General 0 comments Posted by stephana at 12:01 AM  

Sorry about not been there this morning guys! I am quite the sick person and run into 5 meetings today! So in between meetings i am going to be live on kabanarama.com as per normal! It has been the last couple of days but from now we are back full time, which means I am extending the project until the end of next week.. YAY.. WOOT!

Please everyone download those DP's below and add them to your social network pages, MSN, AIM, ICQ, IRC, Foums etc.. i really want to see them all around the web

Don't forget tomorrow guys! I will be at uni all day tomorrow organising and arraging things. You probley all know more then me at this stage (thats why there is a concept and production manager). We will see you all at the crn of Spring and Collins street at 4:30pm where we will head towards Parliment house at 5:00pm We will be there for 2 hours until 7:00pm.

We have had a great start to this project so far guys! Remember that we are still aiming for 80 artworks by monday! The website will go live over the weekend with all the images from the protest etc

Will post more after my next meeting!

Cheers,

Posted in 0 comments Posted by Aaron at 11:40 AM  

Can everyone download these and put them as their facebook/myspace pics.






Thanks, The Web Team :)

Posted in 0 comments Posted by Stef at 10:26 AM  

Hi guys
just letting u know that we are all meeting on thursday at 9am in our normal studio. In this time we will collaborate as a group and make posters/signs etc for the protest on friday, so if u all could attend that would be fantastic.
Also on friday we are meeting at 4.30 at parliament station (crn spring and collins st). When we meet, everyone will recieve their t-shirts and stickers.
Cheers

Posted in 0 comments Posted by Aaron at 4:40 PM  

Well its a Sunday night.. so it's time for another project update!
I have been lucky enough to take a look through some of the update peices of work which were due in on Friday and I must say that are awesome! you guys have done an awesome job on your works! Remember another series of peices are due this coming Friday at 3:00pm, but if you have stuff ready to go beforehand, please send it to Nina... we need as much public works on the internet by the 2nd of June!

At this stage we are still going ahead with the the combined protest on the 30th (This Friday) we will be awaiting printing and tshirt information from the print team tomorrow... It looks like we are now going with an all black t with colured writing.. see below! I think this stiff looks better neways so hope you guys are happy with it!

In terms of a timeline, we have the 30th this friday with our combined protest march in the city from 5pm onwards. We will be all wearing joining in.. but happy for other suggestions if they come up tomorrow. I would also love to arrange a public art/design display in a public space on the7th of june. this will be just another way of getting this meme out in the mainstream! speaking about the internet meme, i think we are on perfect target. tomorrow we should get the website up online for the first time.. and in 2 weeks time will be accpeting use submited works...but we will need to think of effective ways of getting the message out there. be creative in your art expressions and you just might find that you are the next internet superstar!! think of ow we can all get the mesobored messgae across both online and off.. this is going to be the hardest challenege for all!

We are all going to be changing our names, status and display pictures on all our social networkds and IM clients from tomorrow for 2 weeks. please be preared to do this in class. Images and wording will be given to you tomorrow.

We will still be getting 5000 stickers printed for our 'Unmasking Mesobored" project which will be undertaken from the 7 and 8th of june! this will take place in many cities around australia and the world. A download will be available on mesobored.com this week.

Its time to start getting the message out to your friends, familes and support networks. tell them what it is all about and get them jumping onboard. it only takes one person to add their name to the mesobored roster... so get to it!!

Start thinking viral guys.. Viral marketing is the best way to get your message across.. put it in peoples face and they will take notice! but remember, its as boring as possible!

Last for tonight is the launch of kabanarama.com tomorrow. Now i am not trying to pump up my own public display or boredom here.. but you can join me 24/7 from tomorrow until saturday afternoon LIVE! on the internet to the world! Information and posts have already started going out to people about the launch.. so please log on when you can and check out what boredom means to me!

Please join us tomorrow as we present for the last time to Troy and Mark and we work out some of the larger scale projects that we are going to be implimenting over the next 2 and a half weeks! You will also be able to download the timeline and final outlines tomorrow as well.

Cya all then :-)

Posted in 0 comments Posted by Aaron at 11:54 PM  

Does anyone know anywhere that sells bulk blank tshirts?

Unfortunately, the printing place that I contacted was unable to supply those specific colored t-shirts. He'll still do the printing for us, but we have to supply our own t-shirts.
....Or seeing from the comments that black seems to be a popular color, I thought maybe we could just get black t-shirts, with colored text.
What do you all think?

Posted in Labels: General 1 comments Posted by stephana at 7:24 PM  

Mesobored T-Shirts are back!

Print team will be getting them printed next week. So could everyone leave a comment of what size t-shirt you want BY THIS SATURDAY, that would be great! I need to let the printing place know by saturday what sizes we want.

Also, could everyone bring $50 on Monday, forgot to make collections last time.

:]

Posted in Labels: General 17 comments Posted by stephana at 2:20 PM  

If anyone has set up a Flickr account in the past 2 years could you please contact the Web Team.... They are needed it for testing purposes.

Cheers

Posted in 0 comments Posted by Aaron at 11:31 AM  

Well today has been very interesting. After presenting such a formal and consumer based concept this morning, I am very proud to say that we have bought this project around 360 within the space of 6 hours! You guys must be congratulated for achieving this! We are now heading on a path that we were last Monday afternoon... that is on the path of creativity. Where boredom lies, creativty can expand the mind.. and through this idea, we want to see what YOU and the public can create.
Although mesobored is the state of mind, it IS also the project. Mesobored is almost a community that creates a positive sping on boredom.
As we have seen today, the project breif is very open for the next two weeks... design/create a peice of expresion of what the state of boredom is to you. It may be as basic or simplistic as you see fit.
One of the greatest parts of ths project is that everyone experneinces the emotion of boredom in a differnct way, for a differnce time span...so we are going to see some amazing expresions throughout the next two weeks!! Start creating now and remember to get in all this information by 3:00pm on Friday to the email address in the post below!!

Posted in 0 comments Posted by Aaron at 6:53 PM  

it is now everyones job to make some sort of artwork under the mesobored theme

Be Creative, almost anything is possible

UPLOAD your work to YouTube, Deviant, Filckr or anywhere you like and
SEND through the links to your work by 3pm friday to:

7dollarsand5cents@gmail.com

Video team will email you back if you are to send your work on to the web team for the mesobored website or it will go on sevendollar site.

It is then your responsibility to spread the work far and wide... link it anywhere and everywhere, send it to your friends, look at other peoples, share them aswell.

If you want to post these works as someone else, let us know your new name... and we can become your friend/favorite

Work together if you want to do a more ambitious project.
Tell/Show your friends
Think of different ways to get the work out into the world!!

Posted in 0 comments Posted by Nina at 3:57 PM  

Everyone, if you could please bring $50 tomorrow to start off the mesobored fund that would be great! We will also be taking your names and bored is statements so we can get these ready for print and to place online!

Cheers!

Posted in 0 comments Posted by Aaron at 4:22 PM  

These are the key dates to remember along the timeline of the project. Please be aware that these are subject to change and your team leaders will be notified of these changes as soon as these occur

May 19th - Final Concept Presentation. Once presented, each team will begin production phase of timeline.

May 22nd @ 11:00am - Team leaders to present production information and how far they are into production. First Madison Woods video diary to go Live!

May 26th - Teams to present to project group how far along they are. Mesobored archive launch online. 2nd Madison Woods diary to go live.

May 28th - 3rd Madison Woods diary to go live.

May 30th - Final Madison Woods diary to go live. Launch of Bored Is... Campaign website. All print material to be completed and presented to group.

June 2nd - Starting day to campaign. Team leaders to finalize images/text for project documentation.

June 6th - Print Documentation to finalized and presented to group. Ready to weekend printing.

June 7th @ 12:00pm - June 8th - Bored Day!. Federation Square Promo launch. Photo-shoots. Roaming teams getting expo dates and times across. Exhibition to begin and span over the weekend. Bored Is website webcam and chat to launch.

June 9th @ 9:00am - Documentation to be presented to class in full. Debrief of Weekends events. Final presentation to be worked on. Team leaders required to wrap up documentation of teams events for presentation. All teams required to be present at university.

June 10th @ 9:00am - All teams required to be present at university for presentation preparation. Presentation run-through at 2:00pm.

June 11th @ 10:00am - Presentation Day! All teams required to be at uni by 9:00am for final briefing and preparation (Time is schedule to change depending on when presentation is) Presentation debrief. Celebrations at Mama Dukes from 7:00pm

June 12th @ - Teams leaders, video and concept teams required to put together video documentation. All teams to help out with final presentation video documentation. Print time to create CD/DVD covers for final presentation etc.

June 13th @ - Final Documentation to be presented to Mark and Troy.

June 14th @ - Aaron's 21st Birthday! Everyone welcome to help really celebrate our achievements over the last 6 weeks!

Posted in 0 comments Posted by Aaron at 3:37 PM  

We have made another timeline update to include the prints teams information. We you are all starting to be aware, we have a very VERY tight timeframe now, and there could be some adjustments to the campaign launch on monday. Please download this never version of the timeline from the 'Downloads' panel to the right hand side.

Cheers

Posted in 0 comments Posted by Aaron at 3:30 PM  

Hey Everyone!
Been really busy over the past 24 hours preparing for some of the stuff we are going to be talking about on Monday. I thought I would upload V2.0 of the concept information package this afternoon so that everyone knows where we stand for Monday.
This is only a draft, and will be full prepared on monday for complete disruption among the team early next week. Please read, review and of most importance, please point out all my spelling and grammar mistakes so I can adjust!!!!

A updated version of the style guide will be upload this afternoon!

Cheers

Posted in 0 comments Posted by Aaron at 5:20 PM  

Just a reminder to all Team Leaders to send then teams timeline over by Saturday. We are going to need to present this complete on Monday to the group. You can download version 1.0 of the template now from this blog, and from the downloads information to the right.

In the next update I will be making sure the PDF file isn't as long as per this revision.. sorry about that guys!

**UPDATE** - A new version of the timeline is now online. I have made it a lot smaller (since the timeline was HUUGGGEEE in the last update) and I have added in the web teams information.

Posted in 0 comments Posted by Aaron at 6:58 PM  

Just a reminder for everyone to download Skype on the weekend. This is going to be the best way to have face to face video calls and voice calls without the need to come into uni every second day.

Team leaders will be on Skype from the weekend and happy to answer any calls (at a reasonable time). Team leaders will also have tri-weekly conference calls and the times of these will be posted shortly. Team members are happy to join in and have your day direct!

I seem to live on Skype, so please add me (aaron_meredith) if you would like to chat or know anything about the project.

Posted in 2 comments Posted by Aaron at 6:51 PM  

http://www.artescape.com.au/

Came across this and thought it was sort of similar to what our exhibition is aiming for..
check out the brochure.

Posted in 0 comments Posted by stephana at 2:04 PM  

The first revision of the timeline is available to download now. Please be aware that at the moment, the timeline only covers tasks to be completed by the concept team as I am awaiting tomorrows leaders meeting for group specific timelines.

Cheers.

Click Here to Download V1.0 of Project Timeline

Posted in 2 comments Posted by Aaron at 10:29 PM  

Just to inform all groups that an overall project and milestone timeline will be drawn up tomorrow and will be emailed to all team leaders tomorrow afternoon/evening. It is up to each of the times to create a smaller timeline for each group which outlines your own personal milestones so that you can reach these within the project time.

Posted in 0 comments Posted by Aaron at 7:53 PM  

I would love for everyone to take a look at the post I have made on the concept blog. Although its aimed at the concept team, it's something we all need to start thinking of as a team! From this stage to the conclusion of the project, we are going to be building and embracing this concept.

As Mark has said, we are about to try and make a state of mind and a way of life apart of history and a future... I think we all need to get our heads around the idea of a state of mind!.. Forget the ideas about fashion, music, tastes, etc... start thinking more in a psychological way! This is my explanation of the me(i)sobored state of mind....

Me(i)sobored is the psychological state of the mind intermediately between stimulation and anxiety. It is described as the creative impulse that each and everyone is presented with, but limited individuals realise and embrace. Its the middle point between continuing on your path within a stimulating world of events, or going out on a tangent and thinking beyond what the mind is callable. It can only be reached during a state of down time (boredom) where the mind is free of interesting surroundings. Once me(i)sobored is reached, creative control takes over the mind, body and spirit, presenting opportunities that cannot be reached in highly stimulating environments. Everyones approach to me(i)sobored is difference, creating a unique and individual experience to all.

If I could get every team to read this, embrace this and create based on this! Through your design, archieves and approaches, you need to get people embraced in this state of mind! Its each groups task to answer the questions of how people reach this state of mind, and what allows them to be creative once reached! How does an individual embrace this if they don't even know they have reached the peak of me(i)sosbored? How does a person reach this state of mind within boredom? How does an individual approach and live this state of mind in their own ways of life?

I hope I have posed some great questions and cleared up a lot of how this project is been progressed!!

I would love to start seeing some feedback!!! Please use the comments and tell me what you think! This is everyones project, but its getting to a point where feedback will be cut off, and we will be locked into the framework and story that creates this project

On just a final note for the evening (well morning) I would love to see as many people as possibl download and use skype! Its really hard for teams to have meetings during the week, and we doing an awesome job of meeting each couple of days! It just may make life a lot easier if Skype was used in those intermediate states of non meetings.

Cheers,

Posted in 3 comments Posted by Aaron at 12:00 AM  

embrace the meso!

'meso' from the american dictionary

1. In the middle; middle: mesoderm.
2. Intermediate: mesomere.
3. Mesentery: mesoileum.
4. Characterizing a superimposable isomer: meso-2,3-dichlorobutane. (Yeah right!!)
   

good stuff!

of course you could also have misobored - a cool intermediate (boring - never) japanese soup... just my 2cents worth...

Posted in 0 comments Posted by mark at 9:06 PM  

Just thought I would end today with the great group photos we took this afternoon. The print team will be getting these photos whenever we catch up to start working on the print material.

Posted in 5 comments Posted by Aaron at 8:49 PM  

Well I know I am completely buggered from such a long day!... I think Monday's are really getting to me now!
Just wanted to give a slight update on the developments from todays class and where this now leads the project.

Leading up to today's class there really no information researched into what me.so.bored really is? How did positive boredom get the name me.so.bored? and more importantly why? Thanks to tim, we were guided down a path that we would never of even thought of, primarily because we didn't want to stick with the name. After doing some research into eastern culture history we thought we were leading down a path with too many webs, we were just going to get lost in the backstory... which we didn't want! The concept team have all this information on their blog.

So we started delving down into the meening of me and so... are they just 'notes' on the musical scale? or do these too words have a pass, either as 2 seperate words, or one? Is there ever a word such as meso?

Well... enter 'mesobored' now one word without the break points, mesobored has a meaning, a reason why it was created. Let me explain in what we believe mesobored is:

Mesobored is the intermediate or middle state of mind where nothingness prevails. Its on a direct tangent on the world that we see, but exists differnntly to everyone. Mesobord is the state of mind between the real, and imagerny where positite and creative aspirations take over and guide life forward. The greeks bought upon this term in 9-6th Century BC from the feeling of anixioty that existed when an individual took it apon themselves to think creativly duing states of down time.

Now.. clearly this has got to be written up in context and structed correctly, but I think we are onto something. By using elements of pre exisiting ideas, we can meaning and form to what we are trying to create. We have to remember what we are trying to do here.. create an entire state of mind of which people live their lives based around, It isn't an easy task. Foe this to be credible, we need a true story to go along with it!

I am loving some of the ideas that are coming out of todays class.. and I think we need to stick to these. Mesobored needs to be seen in the public eye as a pre exisiting outlook on life! By creating crdible sources and placing them all around the inernet to be links to a a basic database GIVE crediblity to what we are trying to produce! The video team is also onto a winner by allow each of you guys to create difference video art peices, in different style all with the same message, which lead to the same outlook on life. The print team may also need to think down the same path

Bored is...? is the modern day take on this old greek mathology known as mesobored. As it stands right now, Bored Is... is the campaign as such to show and gather people that are living and exisiting within out community with the same ideals that mesobored brings.. even if they dont know it yet!

I am still really set on getting credible articles written up to be placed all around the net for people of spirtual and religious forums to visit, even through the creation of art we may be able to pull in a whole demographic into our train of thought! Madison Woods still plays a great role in brining the cyper culture along for the ride, and I think the print team can draw in the business types into looking at OUR outlook on life.

From now, we are all living the mesobored way of life.. and its our aim from today to get others to share the same outlook. Through our different mediums, i am sure we are going to make a subtle yet effective impact not just on the small community of Melbourne, but around the world!

Look out for further information tomorrow. The concept team will be nutting out all these ideas over the next 72 hours to present on Thursday a full credible story and implimentation outline.

Cheers,

Posted in 0 comments Posted by Aaron at 8:13 PM  

Hey Team,
I have just uploaded the me.so.bored information package to the blog. Please use this for reference for the concept and further information. We will be updating this throughout the week to be completed by next monday. Click on the cover to download.



Download the PDF Document.

Posted in 0 comments Posted by Aaron at 10:52 AM  

Well, we have been hard at work over the weekend to get prepared the Bored style guide. This is only the very basic edition of the style guide and a full information booklet will be prepared during the week.

The reasoning we had to get this out so quick (and the reasoning is good) is because we I am already seeing work come out of some of our groups.. and its look pretty good!

**Update** added in new colour. Please note that this version of the style guide will change and be updated on a regular basis until the final guide is completed this week.

Download the basic style guide here.

Posted in 1 comments Posted by Aaron at 9:06 PM  

Hey All,
I am just working on the presentation for tomorrow, and just let you know what's going on.

The concept group will begin the presentation outlining the research undertook into the project, before summarizing it up with our framework statement. This will then lead into the implementation of the project.

The implementation gives some explanation to how we are going to use this framework to create the reality of positive boredom. the concept team will go into the ideals behind the character implementation, the use of real mediums to play out the culture as well as the individual nature of the print campaign... but dont worry, we are only going to be touching on this... its up to all of the teams to present this information in full.

If you aren't aware, for the sake of the presentation, we are still calling the group me.so.bored. We will discuss this further as a group tomorrow as to the name of the group we are calling ourselves. The creative campaign will still be known as bored is...?

Each team is responsible for making their own presentation and for presenting as a group.

I hope we are all starting to get a feel for this concept. In the last week I know it was hard for some people to grasp the concept, but we are starting to see people getting it!... its good to see!

I should be ready to post a PDF version of the concept teams presentation in the next hour or so. I have personally also been working on typeface and logo design, which you will see throughout the presentation. The print team although have the power to creative any design they WISH!!!

Cheers!

Posted in 0 comments Posted by Aaron at 2:05 PM  

Well guys, Madi is my new best friend.. how about yours?

Posted in 1 comments Posted by Aaron at 6:40 PM  

I have booked the studio downstairs on Monday from 12-1 for a test and set up.
Then someone else is using.. We go back we can shoot from 4-6pm.

EVERYONE SHOULD COME TO UNI LOOKING PRETTY FOR THE PRINT TEAMS POSTERS!!
See you monday!

Posted in 0 comments Posted by Nina at 11:50 AM  

I would like to take this opportunity to intro our new treasurer for the Bored! group... Maya. Maya will be responsible for the collection of moneies and the payments of any printing/web/design and more costs.

She will speak to you all about the collection of cash as well as the sales of t-shirts on Monday!

Posted in 1 comments Posted by Aaron at 7:45 PM  

In conjunction with the your group leaders and the print team, we are going to be developing group t-shirts for all of us to purchase.

Each T-Shirt will have the words "Bored Is..." Followed by your name, saying or anything you want! Remember, its about what boredom is to you! These will feature the "Bored Is...?" campaign logo and Bored! logo as well as the overall look and style that we are creating

We are still looking into costs, but at this stage we are suggesting $20.00.

Maya will be taking a collection on Monday for these orders. Please email her directly for any questions, or make a comment below.

Posted in 0 comments Posted by Aaron at 7:42 PM  

After today's very long brainstorming and revision session, we have been able to come up with the frameworks of what Bored! is all about.

As a side note, we have changed the name from Me.So.Bored to Bored! This was for many reason including how to effectively target our market better. We also wanted something which reflect the style and emotion of the project.

I know some of you are trying to still get your heads around the idea of turning an everyday emotion into a subculture, and what this culture is called... for now, we are calling is boredism. Boredism is the frameworks of the culture in which the concept team have been working on. From there, we move into the attidutes of how to get this culture into the wider society. This is where Bored! comes into play. Bored! is a group of people which are activlty engaging the community to bring about there ideals and attitudes. Its a group of people that want to change the underlyuing attitudes of boredom, and create a culture of creativity and inpired individuals. But how does Bored! get their word on the street? Well its a 2 prong attack!

The first attack is still been finilised, but very soon you are going to meet Madison Woods.

The second is the viral marketing campaign named "Bored Is...?"

Bored Is...? is the underlying attitude of the Bored! group. Boredom is such an individual emotion to have. To some, it inspires acts of unpredictability. For others it is a self driven emotion which leads to a proactive approach in life. Bored Is...? is about the taking an individual emotion and making it a communal experience. Through print, web and motion graphics, we aim to bring Bored Is...? to life in as little as 3 weeks time!

The whole project comes down to the following few sentences:

"Boredom takes life on a tangent which leads to unpredictability. Our lifestyle is to seek proactive stimulation...to find new situations and new experiences to be engaged. It is important to understand that the source of boredom is within your own mind, the consequences of not understanding this may lead to an individual not releasing their full creative, social and proactive potential."

We are about to endeavor on a project which could change the attitudes of many in society today. What we create, through our designs and thought process will have an impact on the wider community both now and into the future.

More will be coming soon.. so stay tuned!

Posted in 0 comments Posted by Aaron at 7:31 PM  

yes! concept team: keep developing the philosophy for me so bored - it is crucial to refine it as much as you can by Monday - this will be the groups platform and departure point for the rest of the project.

As a side note: it is great to see some of you have embraced the concept - good work! I am encouraged by your efforts.

For the students who have not participated yet; please remember 25% of the projects mark is for individual participation. So get proactive!

Mark

Posted in 0 comments Posted by mark at 12:33 PM  

Well neither has Ray himself... cause he isn't real. This was bought to the attention of me this afternoon by the Print team, and I think that is exactly what we are looking t producing to start the campaign off with.

From the indications that I got last week, this would be a good point to begin with. Making up a character name and image and releasing them onto the world. This would mean the first aim and goal of the Web team would be to make this character come to life on the web through social networking and a character on forums etc..

Click here to view the news story

Posted in 0 comments Posted by Aaron at 3:59 PM  

Just a reminder that there is a group leaders meeting at 11:00am tomorrow at Monash. I know a lot of other groups are having there meetings tomorrow and Friday as well, so its a good that we should get a good indication of where we stand.

Just a reminder that once you guys have got all your research information by 12:00pm TOMORROW, could you please email it to our email address rootnegativeone@gmail.com

Posted in 0 comments Posted by Aaron at 3:07 PM  

Bored is no longer an emotion, its a lifestyle! (on our eyes and the eyes of out beholders) but how do you create a word for what we are trying to achieve? How can you give an emotion a underlying term to describe positive boredom? Well thats the task that has been given to the Web Team. This reminds me of a ad from this year which was shown in the UK.... This is how all these new terms are created...

Posted in 1 comments Posted by Aaron at 10:14 AM  

I think you guys are starting to move in the right direction - 'boredom is..." what a great start! and leaves open the possibility for a positive experience; bored is the new black!.

Posted in 0 comments Posted by mark at 2:56 PM  

I saw this video in a festival a few years ago - a real crowd pleaser! for some reason when i think of the boredom concept I think of this video - perhaps it is the quirky nature of the video - both amusing and informative - makes light of the subject matter and the broader cultural framework within which it is deployed. clever and yet... the subject matter is... not interesting - kindof sushiboredom.

Posted in 1 comments Posted by mark at 2:49 PM  

Refining Concept... Taken from today's discussion

"Bored Lifestyle"

Creating a lifestyle incorporating fashion, music, design, font, colors and activities ect
Subtle marketing to make bored the new cool trend, without directly saying it to the audience directly.
Seling Bored as a positive

Everyone is bored at some point, so everyone can realate
Me so Bored Ideas
- communal boredom is fun
- It is a natural state that not BAD for you
- Connect people who are bored
- Boredom breeds Creativity
- A place people can share their bored experiences, post the things the came up with/ made while bored

Invent theory of Bored - find statistics which prove being bored is beneficial for you, scientific back up, unrelated to the other part of the project.

- The Bored Identity
Creativity
The shift in culture, the death of procrastination and down time
Everyone is to busy to be bored 'we miss being bored', where did the bored go in today's society?
Bored is healthy
Creativity comes from being bored
Cross Media: Web, Stickers, Photographs, profile sites, grabs, blog cam, journalism
Lego, 8bit, nostalgic, neoretro, when we were kids we......

Audience: Young people who grew/growing up in the digital age where computers have taken over from toys and more imaginative play. People who don't fit into a current social "group".

The Character to help launch the ideas of 'bored'.
Everyday person who is bored and looking for friends who are also bored... thus creating a network/ group of people.
Should his name be released or secret?
Who is James Bored? He is just bored...

References:
The current trend of emo, social groups and sub cultures
Lonely Girl 15
Stories from history the inventions come out of being bored eg. Issac Newton
Cultural Virus
The Metrosexual
Test out project on campus before 'going live'.

Web Team:
Make profiles for the Character in the internet, Myspace, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter ect
Create Group on facebook
Make a personal website/blog for character to update and people to subscribe to.
Website related to street team's advertising of the slogan, BORED IS ? Showing photos of 'bored' people.
ME SO BORED website, talking about the lack of bored in our lives now OR things to do when you are bored.

Video Team:
Quick grabs for internet and public screens
Video Blog for Character
Postcasts - things done while bored, things to do while bored, famous/hot bored people
Bluetooth
Animation (cute) attention grabbing.

Print Team: Trend setting
Stickers
Team T-shirt
Posters
Flyers- distribution (MX)
Design (fashion)
The Bored style
Wallpapers for photos/ computers, ringtones

Posted in 0 comments Posted by Nina at 9:51 PM  

As per group discussion this afternoon, each of our teams is required to undertake an element of research. This research may be conducted in whatever manner that you wish. Each group has been allocated a particular research area. This information has also been placed on your teams blogs.

Information about the fundamental structure of the concept will be available tonight.

Please complete this element of research by 12:00pm on Thursday the 8th May.

Concept - Research the concept behind Boredom. What is Boredom in a psychological and philosophical way? Is Boredom just an emotion or a state of mind? Effects of Boredom on individuals as well as groups. Causes and Effects.

Motion Graphics/Video - Research the ideas behind cultures and subcultures. This may include youth sub/cultures and popular culture. What makes these trends mainstream? How do they effect the way we act, dress, listen and speak? What would your ideas be behind the culture of boredom?

Web - You guys are the research the term neologism, and in what ways this term relates to what our group is trying to achieve. Points to think about is the culture shift away or towards a certain mainstream ideal. Neologism is also related to words, and how these words create the basis of the culture. Your aim is to try and make Boredom and the idea of neologism relevant.

Print/Other Media - Since this was your concept originally, your group knows exact what you meant by the terms" Boredom is been positive" Your task is to further research the ideals beghind positive boredom. Does it exist and in what ways? Is there even such positive boredom as a emotion? How would this fit into the task at hand, and what relationship does it have to mainstream culture?

Please speak to your team leaders or myself for further information. Nina will be posting over the next couple of hours more information about the fundamentals of the project so this will give you a base for your research.

Posted in 0 comments Posted by Aaron at 7:15 PM  

Its been 6 days since this project was delivered, so I thought its time that we should get an idea of where everyone is, and what everyone is up to.
As you can imagine, things have been pretty hectic this past week. Every group that I have spoken to have got their concepts down-pat and there is a lot of action in our blog network.

If you dont have a copy of the breif as yet, please download from Blackboard today! I can't stress enough that from TOMORROW we start work on this project with 1 concept, 4 teams... def need everyone on the same page!

I thought I would give everyone a overview of what each of the teams are up to...

• The concept team is giving us a big teaser in relation to their project. Hope to find out what its al about tomorrow.
• The video team has been VERY active on the blog network this week. The focused on Find the Lost Ring ARG game going on at the moment. We also got an insight into their project ideas.
• The web team has also given us an insight into their project and provided heaps of research into their backstory. Information about facebook and myki also came out their camp this week!

Unfortunalty, the print team has yet to begin their blog, lets hope we get a good idea from them tomorrow!

Now I am unsure of how active this blog network is yet, but please remember to be at the lecture by 9:00am tomorrow!!! All team will be presenting their 10 Minute concepts to the class and then these will be voted on by Mark and Troy.

I thought it would be a good idea to get your indication of how the project is going. From this afternoon, I am adding a poll to the front page, and lets see if we can get some indication of what concept THEY would like.

Posted in 0 comments Posted by Aaron at 2:14 PM  

Below you will find the contact details for your team and group leaders. For further information about the project, please contact them directly. If you have any issues with a group related issue, please contact your group leader directly. We want a one way traffic street when it comes to information.

Project Leader
Aaron (Project and Concept)
Email: aaron@anem.com.au
Mobile: 0434 342 310

If you have any group related issue, please contact your group leader directly using the below information.

Group Leaders
Nina (Moving Image)
Email: ninasers@hotmail.com
Mobile: 0421 163 484

Stephanie (Web Applications)
Email: sglaub@optushome.com.au

Stephana (Print/Other Media)
Email:

Please dont hesitate to contact these people directly. They are your group leaders!

Posted in Labels: General 0 comments Posted by Aaron at 9:21 PM  

Good Evening All,
Welcome to our blog. Yes.. OUR BLOG, where everyone can keep updated with the project at hand. If you missed the class today, or any week, this is the place to keep up to date with what the rest of your group and teams are up to.

The Brief:
The Brief has been delivered on MUSO this afternoon and available to download now. Please make sure that you have a copy of it and you read it through. If you have any questions, please contact your team leaders.

Team Leaders:
The team leaders are the people that run your particular teams. They are in-charge of your particular areas of the project and will report for the group leader on a regular basis. If you have any questions about the project, these people are your first port of call. If a problem cannot be resolved, your team leaders will address the problems with the group leader. From there hopefully all problems or questions can be resolved.

Please make sure that you exchange email's or telephone numbers with your team members ASAP. This is a VITAL part of working in a team, and it is expected that you will stay in constant communication with them.

General Information

• Please make sure that your group has your 10 minute presentation prepared for the 9:00am class on Monday.
• Please ONLY use this blog for communication between the teams and the project as a whole. This should be the first port of call for any questions etc.

I know many of you were looking to have the week off since the conclusion of the last project... unfortunately, think again! There was some great concepts coming out of todays class.. so stick with them!!

Cheers

Aaron

Posted in Labels: General 0 comments Posted by Aaron at 5:02 PM