Rapid Prototype Directory LB1

RAPID PROTOTYPE DIRECTORY

1. Empty your pockets. Take a photo.

2. Look around you. Three persons use the light of their own source to cast shadows on a human subject; one person documents the lights and shadows. (groups of five).

3. find a way to hide your face

4. four people draw a line on the paper; connect the drawings in a single line; document the process

5. Record the last note on your phone

6. Record the most recent text message

7. Take a photo or screen shot of your first youtube recommendation.

8. Take a photo of the warmest object around you

9. create the most movement in a still image

10. individuals in the groups arrange their feet together and one person takes a photo of them

11. Create a sculpture with the contents of your bag and take a photo

12. Go to your nearer corner, stay there, look at it for a while, and then try to draw it.

13. Take picture of the phone lock screen of the person on your left

14. Link every person in the room to a word, write the word down and make a mugshot.

15. Design a tattoo for every person in the room, make them draw it on themselves and make a picture.

16. Take a selfie without your face in it.

17. Open your phone camera, close your eyes, spin in your chair (be careful) and take a photo

18. enter this classroom ‘backwards’ and film this.

19. make a picture of something you want to throw away/get rid of

20. Look around you. Think about a color that translates the way you are feeling atm.

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21. fake a still portrait but with video

22. take a picture of other people’s laptops and document them

23. Have a conversation with an inanimate object while another photographs you

24. Go to the corner of the room and look at it for 10 sec, close you eyes and turn rapidly - take a photo of the first thing you see

25. everybody needs to screenshot one letter on their phone, the whole class needs to form a word together with all these letters.

26. Take a picture of something that tells time

27. interlock fingers in as many ways possible and take a picture

28. Film someone saying sounds made up of vowels and consonants until they say a word.

29. everyone makes one single note (individual) - add them together to flow - and record

30. Take everyone's portrait of their noses.

31. Think about a word that you don't like. Write it down.

32. write your name with cameramovement

33. Draw on a piece of paper the directions you took from your home to where you are now (from memory).

34. Find a texture you like - press your hand on it for 15 sec - make a close up of how your palm looks after.

35. Find nothing. Take a photo.

36. make a gesture with your hand and take a photo

37. make a video of the noisiest object around you

38. sort every object in this room in color and make a picture.

39. Look outside a window, look at a river, if you have none, look at the sky. Feel the flow of the water or the air. Flowing, walk back backward.

40. Take a picture of the heaviest thing you can find around.

41a. wrap yourself in toilet paper and make a picture.

41b. dress yourself for your prom photos

42 Figure out the answer to everything, and take a photo

44. Take a picture of your underwear secretly

45. Take a photo of something that represents a map46. Take an image of somebody in the air

46. you can't touch the floor, take a photo

47. write the first letter of your name through the shape of your body

48. place every object in this room upside down and make a picture

49. Photograph something invisible.

50. Take a picture of something transparent.

51. pose as if you are eating your favorite dish

52. send a text saying “I love you❤️” and document it.

53. Look for tension and take a picture of that.

54. screenshot of your favorite image in your phone

55. screenshot of your background

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56. Photograph only colour - no object should be recognisable

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57. screenshot of your most recent photo

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58. ask one person to take a picture of the back of your head

59. Think of your passport photo - get someone to take a portrait of you and do the opposite

60. take a picture of you working behind laptop or notebook

61. Recreate a landscape photo with your body/face

62. recreate a childhood photo

62. play rock paper scissors, take photo of the different outcomes

63. Describe another one by some other object in picture

64. Have one person film two others, who may only communicate using their fingers.

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65. Create a photo montage of different textures within your current environment

66. Study of pace: video something slow, normal, and fast.

67. Choose a project currently in progress. Set a timer for 20 min. In those 20 minutes, write down all questions, doubts, concerns relating to that project. Don’t stop writing till the timer goes off.

68. Variable number of participants. Create a group chat through a phone application of your choice and ensure that all the participant are part of it. Each participant choose a vowel and tunes up by doing a collective harmonisation. With the phone of one of the participant (from now on ‘the recorder’), record 7 seconds of this harmonisation and then share it on the group chat. Repeat the exercise with a variation. Each time a vocalisation is recorded, one of the participant plays back the latest recording shared on the group instead of singing, and will keep doing so for the future recordings. The recordist keeps recording and will never put his phone in playback. When all participant are playing back sounds through their phones, repeat the exercise for seven times. Compare the original recording to the latest one.

69. Have a look into your personal archive and around you. Select two images and two texts that inspire you and that are related to your research.

70. Make images about a case like murder/missing.

71. Take a photo of your face in the classroom

72. Take a lap around the building floor. Take a photo if you feel inspired

73. Open the Max patch and take photos of all the outcomes for 10 minutes straight.

74. Talking vaguely about explosions.

100. write down as many questions about ‘time’

101. look up words related to time, every ‘next word’ you’re looking up must arise from the previous word.

103. link the previous words to images and put all these images together.

75. Falling from the shy

76. Make a collage landscape with images you find an reprint it.

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77. The second stage of pace study: find videos on the internet: a fast thing made by humans, a human-made object performed at human speed, and a slow creature in nature.

78. Copy something which has already been copied

79. Animating the explosion.

80. Find a landscape around our studio and class space, in which you can feel something happened but not on the surface.

81. Capture the most season in one frame

82. Write about a (happy) memory from my childhood.

83. Gender is invisible

84. Take a look at the ‘Raft of the Medusa’ painting from Théodore Géricault, in particular the figure who is embracing the horizont with its fist holding a red textile lifted. Giving your back to the camera, reach a position inspired by the character in the painting: take off you upper cloths and hold them with your left arm. Rise your hand above your head and bend your elbow slightly to bring the cloths further forward and let your back follow the arc created by your arm. Remember the position you founded and now, starting from a neutral position, reach it with a fast movement. A wide movement of the arm favours the dynamic of your cloths movement. The camera will shot a picture in the moment you reach the position.

85. Pick a few outcomes from the Max patch and let AI create an image from the text prompt.

86. Write down some places those a guy usually visit.

87. Write about pace: one in 1 minute, one in 5 minutes, one in 15 minutes

88. Collect/take pictures of playgrounds (slides, swings,...)

89. Connect to a stranger online and start the conversation by using one of the generated sentences from the Max patch.

90. Find or make five ghosts.

91. Perform a pace: slow down a video and mimic it

92. Animate seven circles with the seven color of the spectrum to perform an abstract dance. Position, size, overlaying and blurring are the main parameters to explore.

93. Write questions related to my research.

94. What does forgetting sound like?

95. Make a scan of analog picture with iphone print and hang it

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