What happened in 2000?

When did YouTube launch? 

At the patterns in time workshop today we had to construct a timeline from 2000-2006. We were given lots of big events that have happened over those 7 years, like the launch of YouTube and Twitter. I only knew like two or three of the 35 total, but together with the rest of the group, we got about 11 right at the beginning. Once Katie had told us what ones we got wrong we were allowed to go and research the rest on the Internet. It seemed like 2004 was the year that had the most things going on. It was really interesting to see what has happened over all of those years, and to talk about the similarities and differences, and the patterns that occurred.

One, Two, Three, Four...

Do you know how they measured time a long time ago without clocks? I'm not too sure but we had to make our own one minute timers only using 3 cups, Blu Tac, 2 Pins, Tape, a Straw and 2 skewers. Most of us used the idea of an egg timer. I used the straw with tiny holes in it. The water slowly dripped but it didn't go for the amount of time that it was meant to. I got up to four minutes and then we decided to stop timing it because it was going for too long. I was kind of disappointed because I wanted it to work, but you can't always get it right the first time. Next time I know what I could do better, one of them would be not putting holes where they don't need to be.

Say Cheese!

Say Cheese! In the performance group today we took photos of ourselves and laminated them so that we can make our wall look nicer then just... red.

When we re-arranged the room that wall looked so blank. So Nicola's brilliant idea was to fill it with pictures of all of the us. It sounds easy enough to take a photo of yourself and print it, but it can't be too close but not too far away. Not too dark but not really bright so I had to take like 30 pictures before I got one that I was happy with. These photos are our publicity shots.

Once we had done that we set up some lamps lighting them so now it looks quite nice with the lights and photos.