Blog #22: Final Class Assignment Idea!!

Our final class assignment sounds incredibly exciting albeit proving to be very challenging given the parameters. If it were simply an independent project I would have an endless list of ideas but having to make this a potential class assignment has been surprisingly limiting. I'm a perfectionist and have always avoided group projects unless I had good faith in my partners.

Yup Yup. So the first idea that came to mind was a large collection of identical vials filled with various bodily fluids. That would include blood, tears, urine, saliva, semen, breast milk, sweat, puss, bile, etc. There would be a large variety of colors and each classmate would be responsible for a unique fluid. But I didn't think that was "interesting" enough. Plus, it probably wouldn't be fair for that poor student who had to get a hold of blood or semen.

Another idea that passed through my mind was a collection of bullets that have been shot in famous people. Presidents, popes, Billy the Kid, Martin Luther King, John Lenon, Prince Albert, etc. But then I thought this wasn't elaborate enough yet too detailed in determining the bullet models as being historically accurate. It would take a butt load of research and wouldn't be as fun to make since it wouldn't be "creative" enough and looking at this example picture. It just wouldn't be very visually stimulating.

But then one evening as I was watching some British program on the BBC, a group of crotchety old Englishmen were attempting to fish out a bottled message from a small creek and then my final idea hit me. I propose we do a collection of messages in bottles. More broadly anything significant that has been or could be found floating in the water. This might include the typical "HELP! I'm marooned" message, to anonymous letters of someone reaching out to anyone who might listen. It could be letters to Santa, Poetry, Suicide Notes, Photos, Treasure Maps, Cremated Remains, Wedding Rings, ANYTHING that might be thrown out to sea for whatever reason. When people toss things like this in the ocean they either want it found or lost/forgotten. So I think it would be nice for each student to come up with something that they might toss out to sea and then from there we can put them on display with an article describing what is known about the contents. Who sent it, who it's to, what the letter reads, etc.