Allright,
A Thesisupdate. What have I been up to? Less than I would have wanted to – but no biggie, not everything is lost. I did my “halftime-presentation”. It can be found on my server space, on the same spot as always. Be warned though, this things is not really “internet-ready”. Wait for it to load, then use arrow keys to navigate. Unfortunately, when my feedback came, it wasn’t what I expected. The main point the teachers sent in my direction that it was “too much about Crew”.

I struggeled with all this information. I was quite pissed, to be honest. I had the feeling teachers where commenting on the very core of my thesis proposition. A proposition I had been communicating to them for almost a complete schoolyear. But there was some truth in it to be honest. My muscle control experiments where not overly successful so far, and I was getting frustrated by all of this. How it would al fit in a theater piece by Crew was another question all together too. So I wrote down the “big idea” of how and why I wanted to pursue this whole muscle-control-in-a-piece-by-Crew plan in the first place. That piece of text is here.

And then I tried to re-orient my thesis. I had a talk with Liesbeth Huybrechts, one of my thesis mentors, and decided to look upon the whole thing from a “broader” angle. I choose to opt for a wider range of “physical actuation” devices. Crew is still very important in this, but I definately gave myself some more freedom to explore my subject matter with other prototypes, and from different angles. Then I focussed on writing my abstract (also in english) which can be found in the ususal places

So now I now have a new plan and more work then I can wrap my head around at the moment. So it’s time to get a move on. Tomorrow I’ll start a new experiment: the “GPS-Jacket”. And I hope to show my first steps off right here, tomorrow.
Until then.

Love,
Jim

The posts seem to get shorter and shorter every time a new one is placed.

Good news to whoever who wants to read it though. I Just uploaded the proposition for what will hopefully become a succesful master thesis at the end of this year.

Get it while it’s hot!

Here: www.jimboproductions.be/server/cmd/thesis

It’s only available in dutch though.
It’s a secret language that only five people on the planet are able to read.
The only language spoken or read by even less people is Norwegian, or so I am told.

Take Care Kids,
XXX
Jim

[UPDATE] I just finished my presentation – it’s uploaded on my serverspace too.

A Blog, completely written in English! This will be quite a short post. Just to indicate what I’ve been upto lately. Lets pick up where I left of with the last post: the end of the schoolyear.

So I finished my internship at “CREW” & my studies at “C-MD Year Three” with success last June. After that I went on a trip with my girlfriend – we traveled all trough Europe by train. Sweating together in small spaces (25 Hour rides!) for one month with occasional periods of hunger, tiredness or severely sore feet is a good relationship test. We came out fine. It was awesome. Trains Rule!

After this trip I started working for CREW again. I made their new website-to-be. There’s no content in it now – but soon there will be. For the first time, I used Drupal as the framework for my backend. It turned out simple but good, I think. It was there in a minimal amount of time. I learned a lot from it. Also, it made me miss the end of summer. Bummer. Last Friday I also went to their HQ in Brussels to shoot a series of pictures which will hopefully become the base for a poster for their new production.

And now we’re here: the start of (if all goes well) my last year of “Communication and Multimedia-Design”. I’m still trying to wrap my head around my master thesis proposal, while at the same time figuring out solutions to problems posed in my current modules: “Public Space” and “myStory”. More about that later.

So that’s that.
Take Care Kids,
Jim