Project 1 Project 2 Project 3

 
ACTLab Productions 2005-2007

Blackbox

Project 1

 

The first project for blackbox presented quite a challenge to me. So much in fact that my project ended up being habout ow I came to have no project . The things in my life that were blackboxing me from thinking clearly and acting on a certain way of going about creating a project for this class became my project.

 
 

Part 1: My original idea for a blackbox project was going to expore the relationship between food and sex and music.

Part 3 & 4: After reaching complete frustration at not having found a way to present over the topic I wanted, I began to turn to other things such as alochol and friends to help me decide how to accomplish my challenge.
Part 2: After thinking about this subject endlessly for two weeks and not being able to decide how to put it together, I also ran into other problems. A broken computer, a broken camera, and thinking myself into perverted corners, just to name a few. Part 4 cont'd: After all of that failed, I turned to music and comedy routines as a source of inspiration, and there I also found nothing of help.
Here's an example of me thinking myself into corners: The picture shows Grover feeding a baby lamb from a bottle that is questionably placed where his penis would be. The caption reads "This week is brought to you by the letter Ohhhhhh...." Part 5: I discovered that by mapping out all of the problems I was having, I could conclude that my thought process for this project, as well as my own mind is a blackbox. I therefore presented all of my process on a black box (sheet of paper, whatever) and concluded that had my brain not become over stimulated and clouded by my will to be funny and inspiring, and had just simply done its job, I would have been able to create a better project.