It is a growing notion in my little brain that you, reader, are my strange nerdy design friend that actually cares what I think. I sometimes imagine these Bloggs as calling you up – imagine my voice as I talk, joke and make sense to you. As this idea grows, I want more contact with you… I want to tell you more and more the real true thoughts I have which lead me down the path to design

So, at 7:30 this morning – (still awake after my recent schedule of all night thesis writing) I’m sitting up in bed. I’m thinking of this idea I have that’s inspired by Andrea Zittel’s time clocks. I’ve modified her idea of different revolutions for different segments of time. Mine is an actual product. This sleep clock will somehow gauge the moment that you fall asleep. Some digital maternal instinct receives the information that you are out, and then a timer starts: for six hours, eight hours, or whatever you’ve determined a sleep cycle for yourself to be. Granted there may be some rigamorale to determine this length of perfect sleep, but wouldn’t it be nice to be on that schedule rather than an hourly one?

So then I think, “I want to write a Blogg about this idea because then it will be published.
And then I think, “Well if it is on the web is it really published?”
-“Well if it’s not then why did I get excited about writing theses things when I was told that it is published work?” (you know who you are)
-“But if I publish this idea on the web, would it ever be uphold able in court if someone comes along and makes a million bucks off of it and I want to sue them?
-“But the same person who told me this would be published also said that you’ve got to give it away in the beginning” (yes you)
-“Well, then should I even write a Blogg about it or should I just hoard my ideas as if I’ll never have another? Ideas are so precious, after all…”
-“Maybe I should add this to the looong growing list of little things I hoard”
-“Well I don’t know. I’m going to bed.”
posted by jenifer constantine on 3:22 PM