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take-away book spreads

Here is one of the many things I have worked on over break. This will be a book consisting of 14 pages (two weeks time) where people will be able to try my method and record their dreams in attempt to find out something new about themselves. 

moving forward

Updated version of the book I am working on. Every day is caught up and in a few days I will be adding February to it. 

Here are two photos of material I can use to build a large scale model of the dream threads. As for the smaller models, I will need some type of base. In fact, I will need an idea for a base with the large scale model as well. Something similar to a hula hoop maybe? Or something more flat. 

The image above is PVC clear pipe.

The image above is a white mailing tube made of cardboard. Comes in different lengths and widths.

Tag Organizer (S spreads)

This is one spread containing all of the tags that start with S that occurred in the past five recorded months. February is still in progress and can not yet be added. It contains the tag, how many times that tag appears, and all of the days it appears on. The tags that are colored red are the few that appear most often. (5 times or more).

Dream Book Layout Trial 2

These are new page layouts I am drying out. I would like to use some graphic elements on pages that appear to have more white space than others. I like this more than the first trial.

Organizing the book. Part 2

This is what I want to do when I have all months of completed data. The red represents most common. It will be in alphabetical order. It shows the tag, the number of times that tag occurs in within all 6 months, and the numbered day it occurred on. When I make my book, I will include an index that tells all of the pages in the book a tag appears. The current image below will help me with the second part of the book. I will have to group all repeated tags for this. I am thinking ahead.

This is a process record for myself

personal tag organizer

I have taken every single tag from the blog for every month (september-january) and organized it for my personal use. This color groups tags that appear more than once (red represents the most common). The numbers tell me the day on the blog it occurred so if I ever needed to find it's location it will be simple. It is listed alphabetically and grouped by month. This will help me when making my index book, as well as my 3D models. In the future, it will save me time. I have also put the tags that appear the most in a box in the lower right corner alone with the most occurring top ten tags. 

The different colors do not mean anything specific aside from red. They are just a way for me to separate reoccurring tags while grouping them all together. The black text means there is no tag repeating in that month. It does not mean it does not appear more than once between different months. I plan to find a way where I will easily see what tags repeat between different months.

Dream Book Layout and Setup

This is an idea I had for a book layout. Thinking more into it I was thinking of making the boxes different colors. Lights colors that represent days of the week instead of having it say Sunday - Saturday. The beginning of the book will contain all of the dreams from the blog. The middle of the book will organize the pages by tags. For example, one tag is faceless. If faceless appears on days 4, 13, 14, 23, 29, 36, 47, 55, 58, 69 and so on, then the "day x", date, and group of tags in which it appears will be displayed. It may take multiple pages. The faceless tags will be highlighted to help it stand out. The end of the book I will have an index. For example, Faceless (pg.4, 13, 14, 23, 29, 36, 47, 55, 58, 69) and so on. And every other tag as well. Tags that are grouped and appear more than once will be shown first. Tags that are the only of it's kind will be at the end of each chapter/section.

Dream Log: Tumblr

http://seminar-index.tumblr.com/

Online Trial 3D Model - October

OCTOBER MODEL

This is what the model for october will look like. The most common seven tags here were not the same as the top tags in September. However, the tags from September still occurred and they will be tied back in. The top tags of October (in no particular order) were:

Boyfriend

Theft

Clothes

Supernatural

Attention

Fitness

TIme

What I discovered is that my dream topics altered dramatically at the beginning of the new school year between the start in September to the month full month of October. Most of these tags appeared later in the month and quickly. The day with the least tags was Saturday, a weekend where there is no school and I am not on campus. I am eager to see how each month is connected. Also, when looking at this from the top point of view, the shapes created seem to have a discrete pattern. 

Short Videos

Below is a very short video showing my model from all sides. 

This video is a bit slower than the first.

Comparison

I wanted to show the difference between the structures when they are put side by side. The use of thread appears to be much cleaner. 

3D Model - Trial 2

Here is the second model. I have made a few modifications from the first model such as materials and color classification. This model has the same build as the first model and follows the same system. 

New Classifications: Blue-Faceless. Yellow-Roommate. Black-Helpless. Purple-Form. 

White-Two of me. Green-Grass. Red-Evil. These colors are chosen to best represent the tag it stands for while remaining clearly different from each other.

(I am thinking of changing the tag, "Form", to "Homework" or "Project".)

The other modification I made was to use colored thread in place of the elastic bands to avoid the problem of pulling towards the center as shown in Trial 1. This model was much more successful and easier to work with. I enjoyed it. 

Thinking further on how to better this structure, I want to remove the mock-up styrofoam base and make it a wooden one. Also, to continue with this project, I want to make one for every month from September to March. I hope to have seven of these. I also hope to see some tags appear in months where it is not most common, So that I can mark it and connect those months to each other with a thread. I like the idea of calling this, Dream Threads.

(On a side note, while making this display I thought to create dream catchers using each months threaded pattern for the center strings. This is an idea that won't come into play until all connections are finalized). 

3D Model - Trial 1- ERROR

This is my 3D model three days after it was created. The elastic bands are pulling to the center. While making this, I tried to prevent the pieces from leaning by hot gluing the top and bottom of the pedestal in place. Unfortunately, it did not work. Time to try again. 

3D Model - Trial 1

This is the first attempt at the 3D model based off of my information I collected from my seminar tumblr. It is made with a styrofoam base, wooden sticks cut to size and indented evenly, and elastic bands. Each band represents its own tag. There are seven tags displayed. 

Blue-Faceless. Yellow-Roommate. Purple-Form. Black-Helpless. Tan-Two of Me. Green-Evil. 

Red-Grass. The colors were chosen based on which elastic band could stretch accordingly. 

Each pedestal (wooden stick) represents a day of the week, Sunday through Saturday. Each score on the pedestal represents a week of the month for September. (There are five scores for five weeks). Every time a tag presented itself in a dream, I would mark it on the model below like a calendar. 

The model below is photographed from different angles to see two side views and a top view. 

What is discovered here is that none of the seven most common tags showed up on a sunday. Both Saturday (beginning to the weekend) and Monday (Start of the week) had only three tags. Most activity occurred between Tuesday and Friday, however Friday appears to be different. Unlike any other pedestal, it has no overlaps. There is one tag marked for every friday of the month. The two tags that did not appear were "Evil" and "Two-of-Me". (Both are considered to be unpleasant in a dream). 

I assume the activity during the week is caused by school, homework, time management, etc. Saturday is a day where I can wind down from the week at school and just work at my job at Market Basket. Sunday is a day I work and move back to Beverly to start another week of school. Monday is the first day of the week meaning my brain mentally prepares for the week ahead. What makes friday different is that it is the only day a week I see my significant other. This is my theory as to why my dream patters occur in this manor. 

Online Trial 3D Model - September

This is an online trial of a mock up for a 3D model. It was done in Google SketchUp .

Below are several different angles rotated to be viewed from all sides.