This blog is about the story of my favourite plp project this year. 

Craziness is something that is not something that is commonly kindly looked upon when people think of crazy most of the time they think about people who are deficient, for example schizophrenics but crazy is good if your definition of crazy shifts a little bit. This project is about the crazy ones, but the good crazy people like bill gates, Jeff Bezos and Dave Chihuly people who are renowned for being crazy in a good way.

This project started by chance, with the spin of a wheel. We were to pick a person out of apples’s 1997 crazy ones advertising campaign centered around the people who have changed the world. People like Richard Branson, Ghandi or Muhammad Ali. People who have had un undeniable impact on the world in the own unlike way. The purpose of this was to give us an idea of what a Pecha Kucha is with out giving us enough time to perfect it. A Pecha Kucha is a slide show presentation where each slide has around one image on it and the slides automatically change after twenty seconds so that it forces you to spend a certain amount of time time on each one or look bad.

We had to research the person for the person for the Pecha Kucha. My person was Richard Branson described as a: British Businessman by Wikipedia he is known for starting the virgin name conglomerate. So we researched the person and crafted our Pecha Kucha. I had a hard time with mine and would say that i didn’t do well because i don’t think that Richard Branson changed the world like a lot of the other people that were available to choose from. The point of this exercise though was to learn about what it was like to make a Pecha Kucha, what worked well and what we would need to do for the next one. 

The next step for this project was to go to Seattle and learn about oddballs that have had an impact around the world on a variety of different things. Some of the highlights from the trip were the space needle, the MoPoP, the tour that we did of the Boeing factory, the Bucca di Beppo restaurant. If you want to read more about the trip you can read my blog post about it or read one of my classmate’s blog about the trip. While we were on the trip we went to different locations some of them on guided tours some of them self guided and learn about the different people. We took notes and media about the different sites that we went to so that we could formulate and argument as to why the different people changed the world and why they were/should be considered crazy.

When we got back from the trip there were a variety of things to do, the first of which being get a good sleep over the weekend. Then we started making a storyspine or storyboard what these are are structures for a story of presentation to improve it and not have look like a rambling run on sentence. We also had to make the slideshow and find pictures for it. The final step was to fine tune. And make it look all slick for the presentation night.

Finaly we presented on the night and watched the other group present and enjoyed the hard work of the class.  

Thank you for reading.