GOOD IS : LOOKING

Below are the 5 things I pulled out of the crit that I want to look at and research further -

 Things to Look at further :

- How to make people look up.

- What situations people look up in.

- Where to look up.

- What exactly can you find when you look up.

- Who would be interested in looking up.

How to make people up :

- Put something unsuspecting in the sky line

- Say Look over there

- If people see other people pointing they genrally Look in whatever direction that person is pointing

- Sound , if a person hears something coming from above them they will look up

- Have signs saying Look UP.

What situations do people look up in :

- When a plane flys overhead

- Checking if money is real

- Looking at film negatives

- Checking the weather

- Admiring the view

- Checking the time on clocks

- Sneezing 

- Putting contacts in 

- If they are heigh up and suffer from vertigo 

- Fire works display

- If something is lit up

Where to  look up :

The nice thing about looking up is that it is a compltely different experience wherever you go, as generally, no two places are the same.

- City

- Countryside

- Woods 

- Town

- Village 

- under a bridge

- inside town halls

What exactly can you find when you look up :

To list every single thing you would see when looking up would take hours as there is so much to see which is why looking up is so exciting, you never know what to expect, so I'm just going to name few.

- Old signs

- Clocks

- Statues

- Murials

- Birds

- Shooting star

- rainbow

- windows

- people

- insects

- curtains

- roofs

- building decoration, on the outside

- decoration on the inside

- brick work

- architecture

- cracks

Who would be interested in looking up.

I think people that would be interested in look up are obviously architects as they will often look up at buildings for work and for pleasure. I think anyone who is creative will find the process of looking up and finding something new each times, exciting, they will also appreciate the beauty of looking up. Someone who likes exlporing may enjoy looking up as it is a new way of discovering the city. People who are stressed might apreciate looking up as it definitly brightens the mood compared to walking around in a busy environment looking at your feet. Children are also interested in looking up, they are experts as they are always walking around discovering new things and as they are small they have to look up to everything, a child always walks around with completely different body language to an adult, an adults is very head down, must get from a-b quicketst way, where as a child is open to wandering around and discovering things.

I feel like I have generated some interesting thoughts from going into what I wanted to discover from the crit. I have thought about things that previously had't crossed my mind such as in what day to day activities people look up in. I will now be able to use this in my practical work, but figuring out how to make people look up.

GOOD IS : Research

Good is :

I have decided to do some visual research into my favourite 'what is good' choices, as this will hopefully aid me to make my decision for the crit as to what my 'Good' is. 

Out of the list I generated today my favourite goods were :

- Bulldogs

- Leeds above the shops

- Looking up

- sea side towns 

Bulldogs :

This would be a good option to choose in terms of research, as my parents have three bulldogs at home and I have a bulldog in Leeds, and last year we hand reared 5 bulldogs puppies from the day they were born. So I have access to many, many books, first hand experience, first hands example dogs, so I am pretty clued up about Bulldogs.

Primary research :

Facts :

Bulldogs, like many brachycephalic (large-skulled) dogs are not well-suited for water and are in danger of drowning when swimming.

Many celebrities own bulldogs including Leonardo DiCaprio, Reese Witherspoon, David Beckham, Ashley Olsen, Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, and Martha Stewart

Bulldogs originally were used to drive cattle to market and to compete in a bloody sport called bullbaiting. Today, they're gentle companions who love kids. A brief walk and a nap on the sofa is just this dog breed's speed.

Size: The weight of Bulldogs range from 40 - 50 pounds

The height ranges from 12 - 15 inches, up to the shoulder

Secondary imagry :

Bulldogs have a very individual personality, they are all strange creatures who are part dog, part human and part alien. Below are some videos highlighting this fact.

Products :

There are many products out that feature the bulldog as a design. Many clothing companies use bulldogs on their t-shirts or products such as mugs, cushions, door stops etc, which all can look really lovely. But then you get the other kind of products which are made for crazy bulldog people and are genrally really tacky and have no design quality, these things might be book mars, coasters, mouse matts, phone cases etc.

There are also weird an wonderful products featuring bulldogs, such as vintage posters/books, statues, book stands. The bulldog was an iconic image back during the war time so there is lots of really interesting old bulldog items.

 

There are many Books available as guides of how to look after your bulldog. These guides are filled with interesting and relevant information for bulldog owners, and are very popular due to the fact the bulldog can sometimes be a tricky dog in certain situations like hot weather, so these books help. They all have that generic dog book look, in the style of the bulldog merchandise made for crazy dog people, so they are not that visualy aesthetic. This could be something interesting to look into doing, if i choose bulldogs as my good.

Bulldog specific food

Leeds above the shops x Look up :

I really love the architecture of Leeds city centre, espeically above all the shop fronts, if you look up and ignore the shop front there are some truley stunning buildings. I also love the fact that nothing matches , everything is very different which is visually very interesting and brings so much character to Leeds, compared to somewhere like Bath, where I studied for a year, Bath is renowned for being beautiful, but I found after seeing it a couple of times, quite boring as the architecture is all done the same it is a very regimented town, where as with Leeds eveytime you step out you'll notice something new and exciting.

I have decided that Leeds above the shops, could be combined with my other topic looking up, as you have to look up to see above the shop fronts and they can be tied in together.

Below is some examples of Leeds architecture -

Seaside towns :

Sea side towns are something I find very interesting, they have so much character espeically the pleasure beaches such as Whitby , Cromer and blackpool. I don't know much about the history of pleasure beaches, so would find this topic really interesting to research.