It’s good that we can get different opinions from different tutors. I never knew what the creative review is, does it actually happen or not (’cause not everything that appears on the timetable is for our subgroup). So, people told that nothing happens actually, i never went.
So, for this day we had an announcement from Grant, that review will take place, so we came and were happy to discuss our ideas with tutors.
On the edge of Grant’s and Jo’s acceptance new brilliant idea is getting born.
Today, we have visited CIty Hall. Speaking about me, it was the first time I came inside. What was nice, that when we came in, one lady invited us to take part in public listening of General London Assembly meeting.
Making photos inside was prohibited, here are ones from outside…
Today was the day when we changed our name to Honey Badger. Honey Badgers are very intellectual animals – they are from a minority, who is able to use tools. They are famous for attacking animals that are several times bigger and stronger, in case they don’t have a chance to escape.
Honey badgers don’t care, they never go back.
Really enjoyed the Leo Tolstoy’s 10-point manifesto, which he wrote at the age of 18.
Also, discussed difference between Blur and Oasis – first is more pop than rock, and they are from London, second – are rock and from Manchester.
Vishua’s task for today was to read Walter Benjamin’s “The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction“, R. Bathles’s “Mythology today” and “I think critically, therefore I am” from Times Higher Education Magazine.
From this list, I clearly understood only the last one. However, the subject of Benjamin’s article is very interesting for my, I understood nothing from there.
And it doesn’t matter, are this articles on English, Spanish or German. I remember articles written in identical-style-language in Russian – authored by Nietzsche, Kant, Schopenhauer, Frege and other philosophers or, for example, Manly Palmer Hall’s book “An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy” - I experienced the same while reading – the subject is really interesting, but you can understand nothing.
Peter divided our class to groups, we formed the group of five: two Natashas, Leanne, Raimond and I. We’ve got the task to visit and to describe London’s City Hall – the meeting place of General London Authority, consisting of the London Assembly and the Mayor of London.
So, the next week’s Tuesday morning class should be spent on venue.
Finally, we filtered out 9 core points for our manifesto. This cups were at the bottom of the paper.
The Philanthropy logo based on our inspiration.
Grant’s first lecture for our sub-group. Several thoughts from it:
Questions to ask yourself (and your agency):
Many companies before Apple asked themselves only two types of questions:
Apple were the first, who asked: Why do they buy? … and this was breakthrough!
There, at Saint Martins we thought that if we are Philanthropy, we need to conduct our business in low-energy-consumption way, so we thought that we could meet our customers in cafes or coffee-shops. The result, is our idea with faces looking out from cups.
This shooting-session’s core aim is to prepare photos for future-processing ‘em in photoshop.
