Bunnymedia

I had the most amazing day of meetings today, a lot of really strange things happen that were just to random to be coincidence.
1st I had my usual 10 with Mike and we discussed my projects and what I needed to do to get to the next stage before our next meeting. However there was still this very mechanical literal sense to the project that just didn’t feel right. Mike then introduced me to Michael Punt who has studied angels along with Martha my dissertation tutor from the 1st term. I arranged a meeting with them for later that day to discuss my idea further. I then thought back to an article that had sparked my initial interest in the field of scent, the odour of sanctity which I read when I began my dissertation.
During my meeting with Martha and Micheal Punt we were discussing some amazing ideas and developements for my project.
The most important thing for this project to work with the subtly I require is to hide the technology involved.
1) The angels only appear when you call on them, so some people believe. Therefore I could hide the technology and have the people text the angel and have the prayers displayed on a screen. When the text is received by the hidden phone then the scent emitter would trigger.

2)Have an abstract painting of an angel like the ones martha showed me which display lights and auras which are angels captured on film rather than the traditional angel with wings. There could be a pressure plate on the floor so as people stand in the presence of this image the scent is released.

3)This was an amazing idea involving GPS & natural scent, I would go round the city tracking the angels of Plymouth and recording the co-ordinates, times and weather they appeared in and map it on a 3D map of Plymouth. I could even produce an audio or visual representation that people could use to go to these places themselves.

4)The final idea is another way of visualising my idea. People have claimed to be able to smell the Aurora Borealis (Northern lights) and it is another natural phenomenon involving unseen source so it could be a good representation of my angel.

I talked to Patricia from the perfumery course but unfortunately it only runs as a distance learning thing but she did email me a lot of information and has invited me to a workshop masterclass on the 19th March which would be amazing to go to and help to add another level to my understanding of scent.

I am picking up more material from Martha tomorrow so I can develop my ideas further.

After my meeting with Mike on Tuesday I have been looking at text and doing word replacement to help with broading my project. I have also gathered my resources together to allow me to produce the mobile phone scent experiment which will be the starting block of my project. I hope to go to the electronics lab this tuesday and talk it through with the guys up there. I will post up the results of that meeting next tuesday

I had a sudden burst of inspiration when my mum showed me a novelty reindeer hat for her phone that someone at work gave her. It is triggered by sending or receiving a mobile signal therefore technically I should be able to utalise this circuit board and some how fuse it with the electronics from a trigger airfreshner.. “technically!” lol
I don’t know what the practiacllities are yet so I’m going to show Mike my Project Tutor my ideas this week and see what he thinks.