T-Dogg's playllist

My friend, Tyler, is a genius at making paper aeroplanes. In class one day he made about six different ones (which, coincidentally, hung in my res room for the rest of the semester).

So I decided to download this ebook (Campbell Morris's Advanced Paper Aircraft Construction to be exact) from res net, on how to make advanced paper aircraft, you know, out of jealousy and feminism and all things rivalling Tyler's skills.

Forgot about it. Until it came to Tyler's playlist...

Tyler's playlist I actually made as a sample to my friends who I mailed to ask for their playlists...I showed the example to Tyler, who decided to keep the playlist as it is because of the personal jokes associated with the songs.

(For instance Club Can't Handle Me, Indian Style). Too many procrastination nights with internet I'm afraid...

I still laugh every time I hear this song out.

Paper Planes- M.I.A was one of the songs that I'd put on the playlist. I remembered Tyler's nifty talent and my ebook...I found the most complex and cool plane and made it in the fold of the book. (Not so easy a task might I add!)

The writing is an exerpt from my mum's recipe book. No particular reason for it being the background other than the fact that I love the olden day look about it. It has my grandmothers writing in too, which adds sentimental value to me.

I hope people will realise that they need to tuck the plane's tail in before closing the book(!)

Staple it Together-Jack Johnson

This is a drawing of the cover art of Jack Johnson's album, In Between Dreams, from which Staple It Together comes. It represents the album covers which pop up when songs play on later generations of iPods. 

(The iPod in this sketchbook is actually a mixture of an iPod Classic Forth Generation, mixed with iPod Nano Second Generation and iPod Nano Forth Generation. It was a compromise of colour and font and memory space and size. And also shows my development of music through iPods as the iPods themselves developed. Just a quick footnote.)

The bottom border is a drawing of backwards staples and the real things are used on the left. And the yellow paper is from a Kodak photo envelope. Thanks Kodak, Jack Johnson should have shares in your paper!

The actual piece is inspired by Jeff Nishinaka's paper work animals which I found on a blog I was browsing. I was mind blown. I wanted to be him. I wanted to be that good.               (http://www.jeffnishinaka.com/)

I decided to try...but I had no glue. And I had no pencils...so no designing, scissors to paper, I cut and cut and masking taped and stapled. And I made something that, I'll admit, was not what I expected, but altogether something cool. I scouted the house for a pencil and eventually found the glue.. And that is how my interpretation came about!

Jessie's Playlist

Someone had to get the ball rolling....


My playlist may have possibly the most boring name in the world, and not quite my favourite songs, but I looked to the songs I do genuinely like which were inspiring me at 22:00. 
And these were them. 
Voilá.

(Yes, the background of this playlist is the Classified section of the newspaper. Part cover-up from the left-handed curse of smudging and part self-entertainment are the snippets included around each song title. My personal favourite being "There Are Tiny Beasts In Th...foldable toy watches".)

Back to six songs...I think I'll use three in my journal. So far...I've used one.

The Playlists

Going back to the sketchbook which is actually an iPod, but not...I'm one of those people who has a gazillion playlists on my iPod, you know.... from driving to get x-rays playlists to late night studying ones, I've pretty much seen them all..

And I have awesome friends.

So the logical conclusion was to have 9 friends to join me in making a playlist for my iPod sketchbook. Six songs are all that show up on the screen...that and the playlist's name.

Ten playlists, 6 songs, an iPod with 60 songs.

I asked them to get creative.

They include their best songs, and what songs best describe them. The symbols and letters and wording used is entirely up to them...

As are the songs. 

From these songs I choose one, maybe four, and use the name or meaning or what-not from the songs to fill this book of mine.

Not all of them are in yet, but so far I'm boggled by the song choices, learning some more from the friends I thought I knew so well.

This way, music and love are tied in to one. 

(Which, let's face it, they always are.)