Well well well :)
The day after chalking out the poem I went back to see what impact it had had. The good thing about chalk is it allows you to see the foot prints of people (or anything else) who have walked through it.
During my re-walk down the street there were a lot of people reading as they were walking along.
There was a little boy (dressed in full spider man costume) who ran in and out of the arrows up and down the street that we had drawn between prose, fitting his little feet inside the arrows and running from arrow to arrow leaving little prints behind.
There were buggy tracks through the arrows and words (only a buggy could have a double wheeled, wheel like that) that shows that people weren’t avoiding it, they weren’t afraid to walk over it. Usually when people see some suspicious stain on the street they give it a wide berth.
Stuck a hash tag on each part of the poem to see if any interest was generated by it. Which it did. People were stopping to take photos and reading it in groups.
Been an interesting experiment but the rain came down in the middle of the day, washing away any trace of what we had done. Something quite nice about that thought of how temporary it was, only X amount of people got to experience it for X amount of time… then it’s gone for ever.
Finally drawing the RSA project to a close, a little team of lovely volunteers helped me chalk out the chosen prose at each bus stop down George Street (heading into town).
It was late at night and we still drew a lot of attention from passers by. People stopping and reading while we were still writing as well as following it along the street.
Further inspiration.
Trying to find the right prose to use for RSA is proving harder than anticipated. Originality has been fruitless thus far.
So indecisive and hate the thought of permanently making the wrong decision.
However, sort of infatuated by some of Dr Seuss’ work as of late. Think there will always be that curious childishness in all of us and within his writing, cleverly disguised in playful fantasy is some pretty relevant advice. Something everyone may relate to.
"
The Waiting Place…
…for people just waiting.
Waiting for a train to go
or a bus to come, or a plane to go
or the mail to come, or the rain to go
or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow
or waiting around for a Yes or No
or waiting for their hair to grow.
Everyone is just waiting.
— Dr Seuss, Oh, The Places You’ll Go!
"You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose."
You have feet in your shoes
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose."
Came across this blog, guy venting as he commutes. Interesting read.
The opening board of RSA: needs re-working; the elements within it will remain, just a little shuffle to sort it all out is needed I think.
It looks - as with all the RSA boards - a bit too polished and bare essential. I took the opportunity within the RSA project to try and bring my Illustrator skills up to scratch. Sticking to essential information represented graphically with minimal words I tried to achieve that “project on 4 boards” jazz, without cramming in weak findings to fill white space. Lets embrace the white space and put on the page what really matters. When I see presentation boards with paragraph after paragraph of explanation it really puts me off - because i’m too lazy to read in all honesty - if the ideas is good enough it should be self-explanatory and/or able to be clearly graphically represented, in my opinion.
The RSA sketch book is where all the messy and unorganised information is hidden.
Second board: I’m not so sure it’s as clear as it could be.. re-work that one.
Third board: Is ok.
Final solution will be completely re-worked, more experimentation required with some guerilla graffiti. Fun times ahead :)
