Scott Fisher

this looks like some crazy initiation ceremony.

I think you mean an eleven-course meal - unless you'd prefer that four of us not present. :)

Erg - sorry. At least the title got it right.

Posted up some pics up on Flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/skeckulous/sets/72057594078298925/

Enjoy. Good work all around. Loved the diversity of styles.

A few more photos from my cam:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ksantiago/sets/72057594078856326/

and, great work, all! great energy - it was especially interesting at the end to hear your processes, and also to see you all do something a little different.

Great job everyone. I'm looking forward to a year from now. And if we start dabbling in electronics now...

This assignment was a ton of fun, a chance to get off the computer, and build something physical. And a treat to see what folks do with a severe deadline! It's the kind of work I think I wanted from film school - I hought somehow, during my first year production classes, that we'd be making a film a week. Maybe instead we can make an interactive project a week instead!

More!

Also thanks to Shelby for organizing the pot luck, although most of us were so deep into the one-week production we couldn't contribute much. Maybe we should introduce her to the class of 2008 so she can organize them to bring food!

I enjoyed this seminar – it was the first time this semester that people were truly excited about the class projects. Along with hearing project ideas for next year’s class, there was just a lot of excitement about being able to create.

It’s nice to see some design school influence in this program.

I agree with Anthony. I think that projects like these are great opportunities to exercise our design skill, by working with simple, interesting, and unordinary parameters.

And thanks to Shelby for getting the food together.

I was thinking the same thing as Anthony. It was the first time I was both intellectually stimulated this semester in the seminar and inspired to start thinking about what I would want to do if put into the same situation. While I'm pretty sure that whatever we do next year will be slightly different, I still look forward to the challenge! :)

Great job, 2nd years! :D

What I really liked was how all the projects wound up turning out incredibly varied. We had musical jello and a spy-train on the same table. I really didn't expect to see that at a seminar.

It's great to see what creative people can come up with when given the change to blue sky.

I liked the purpose of something with the same continent versatile enough so everybody could develop different contents.

This seminar provided a great design challenge that was fun to watch. You really could see everyone’s personality shine through their projects. I also like the fact that the imd got together and decided that this would be a joint project between multiple classes. It seems like everyone was able to put their full energy into the project because of this, and I am sure it was nice to take a break from the constant juggling that is the imd. So, great job second years, and who knows… maybe next year under the metal bowl we will see a musical train that writes notes with it’s path while it plays music through the Zemeckis speakers , throws colored lights around, spam texts you, and gives you a giant fist.

This was one of my favourite seminar's this entire year. What is impressive, was that everyone stepped up to the design challenge and came up with some whacky, zany, and oh ho: physically interactive! We should have a competition between all three years at the beginning of each semester. The winner gets to tell Justin what food to bring to seminar each week.

This was FANTASTIC.

Best seminar all year.

I thought the projects were creative, the goal was noble and the presentation was a blast. I want to be a crank for a sec and say that if you're going to surprise the room with a strobe light, you ought to check and make sure medically it's cool to do that in a room full of people you don't know too well (Second time this year someone at IMD has strobed a class without warning).

But, really, I think when we do these "salon" kind of things, everyone benefits. We are so divided by year through classes that we don't fracking know what the other years are up to and we're not benefiting often enough from the creative minds in our own department. More salon seminars. I feel like I finally know what some of the second years are about, and it's important that we dialogue more than we do in a formal setting about what we as a department are doing.

great ideas. i particularly like aaron's jello theremin and noah's spinning thingy the former for its gross tacticity and the latter, cause of the pretty lights that made such nice time laps pictures (check out scott gillies flickr). i applaud the decision to have the 2nd years work on project unrelated to their thesis in one week and commend the students on a job well done. additionally i agree with jesse that the salon atrmosphere was a nice way to make use of seminar, which after all is the core of the division.