Ok well my floor looks like it snowed, fluro post-it notes are littered everywhere, creativity isn’t always neat eh? Once I realise that my floor rainbow is depicting my process and ideation of my digital artifact up until this point, I carefully smooth them all out and giggle at my hieroglyphic mind scrawling . Then I erect them in a little pile on my desk to sift through again as I’m a ceaseless self editing, which is the opposite of what I should be shooting for at the conception phase.

I’ve likely jumped the gates by firming up my thoughts on my DA but I think the penny dropped when I realised that I can delve into something that’s been slow burning at the back of my mind for too long now. I adore podcasts and the digital revival of oral traditions. It feels magical to me and I want to contribute.

In classic synchronistic timing today, as I walked along the foreshore at sunrise, I heard the word ‘slowpocalypse’. It resonated. Coupled with the code red climate report released earlier this week. I have always been moved by the environment and I am feeling acutely aware of this topic at present. I also have a fascination surrounding the desired ‘normal’ everyone is hoping to get back to ‘after’ the pandemic.

I have lived remotely in a forest in a trailer and I eat plants and have a curiosity for the natural world and how humans operate. Due to my interests I’ve poked around these ideas in my life experience thus far. At this stage, I’ve settled on making a podcast because I want to delve into these topics and muse over the trajectory of humanity. This really hits a heart string for me and at best, podcasting is a career goal and a skill I’d like in my quiver.

I have had other ideas such as creating Tiktok content that includes interactions with guys on tinder that I’ve summed up in haiku poems and making yoga stretch videos but for some reason my age, interests and desire for this project to extend beyond this semester is really delineating my plans into one direction of craft. In saying that, I do not know how the actual content and production is going to play out. Obviously.

Back to the podcast. At this stage I can answer to the questions of my background, interests and where I want to go and what format I will be utilising BUT I do not know whom I’m addressing this to or what problem I have identified. I’m guessing this is where the DA started pack template to identify potential DA users and their needs comes into play.

On that note, I’m off to create that.

And then bury myself in the realm of podcast creating, how to record interviews and edit well and manage my cAT stock as the creation begins. Today is a good day.

p.s the platforms I intend to use are soundcloud and instagram, I have a strong notion these thoughts will reshape but for the purpose of laying out my project thoughts, there we go.