memories.

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	about me. _____________________________________________________ title : archive fever / memory _____________________________________________________ an archive is something that's accumulated over a lifetime. it could be in any form or media. like photographs, diaries, letters, or anything collected by the individual. it's a unique collection of "by-product" of human activities. just like your memory. memories make up your life experiences. your collective set of memories forms who you are. everyone's memory is personal and exclusive. no two persons will recall an experience identically. _____________________________________________________ main problem : memory is something intangible and it's a vast collection to tackle. each person's memory and how they register events and emotions is different. the challenge is to find that essence of memory everyone can relate to. _____________________________________________________ possible sub problems : 1. would i be focusing on my own personal set of archives and sharing those memories. or something more generic about memory? 2. the outcome may be too personal. such that not everyone relate and share the same experience about memory. 3. there are too many things in my archive. 4. identifying a target audience. those who probably share certain similarities of memory. or those who've never seen or experience my collection. _____________________________________________________	tag	past January 2009 / February 2009 / March 2009 /
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 3:09 PM hi everyone! happy cny! anyway.. i realised most of us are doing an archive of an issue or something we're interested in. but very few based it on an actual archive/collection of their own. sth physical. like roger's collection of movie posters or viet tu's hidden obsession of yellow stuff. hee i know everyone's interpretation of the proj is different. but when i found the definition of archive. --accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime. for example, the archives of an individual may contain letters, papers, photographs, computer files, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries or any other kind of documentary materials created or collected by the individual--regardless of media or format. --unpublished and almost always unique --"by-product" of human activities i felt it was closely related to my object of archive. some tots during the last class (jotted randomly) : --> somehw mysteriously i rem almost every single memory story --> it's amazing hw much archive i have in my brain. must be my photographic memory! (hee..realised..it's an archive based on another archive? my box of stuff are jz tools leading to the intangible archive) --> it's so dusty, old n smells. which im paranoid about. cz i imagine im eating the dust (yucks!) --> journey? --> my topic is intangible yet i still can rem --> we forget.. but it's only temporary. lost for the moment. tucked away. --> how is my archive going to manifest? --> how does the mind/brain store so many things? --> i miss the past..so nice. (in future i'll aso look tru at my current archive fever too) --> even my blog entries. often abstract and simple. (others wont understand cz onli i can comprehend) possible solutions : --> compilation of an archive. archive of an archive. (in a cleaner way. saving space?) --> personal diary. hidden tots behind my archive? --> from the archive objects. visualizing into a story? (letting others understand the link between memory and obj?) --> poster of obj and ask.."remember?" (is like letting others realise..eh? i rem this n that.. letting pple be amazed at wonders of their memory. also seeing how different pple relate differently to an obj. yet each is unqiue. part of their personal life.) what should i do now? : --> research how the human memory works, understand. --> more about memory. problem? : --> there are too many things in my archive. --> memory is a very intangible ting. (need to narrow down to a certain essence that i wan to portray. and focus) --> what's do i wan to show? another random tot : dont you find it really tiring to read the wordy, pictures, technical, long posts about archive fever? i do. probably cause im not the kind to usually type long posts. most of the time i'll just scroll and skip and pick certain parts to read. isnt it abit like our brain/memory? there's like 20+yrs of events yet we rem by small bits of our memory. --> a possible solution to my archive fever. --> simplifying and presenting onli the essence of my memory/ hw the brain works WOOHOO!!! . . .