I put a sharpie and a caligraphy pen against the paper this time. I think i'm going to organize the final project in a book form. As this project develops it's really becoming more and more about time itself and how the pen ink can be a measure of time. i think i'm going to present this project as about both pen ink and time measurement.

About the drawings project... once again i let time get the better of me and procrastinated till it was too late. It's ok thought because i think the ink blot is a better fit for this assignment. i am still going to do the other project though just because i like the idea. So any thoughts about it would be great and maybe i can just show you when i'm done and you can tell me what you think?

So is started the pen ink seeping out thing. i created this contraption to hold the pens to the stacks of paper. i used a sharpie and a ballpoint pen. i just checked it and somehow the pen got bumped and wasn't touching the paper all night! oh well i'm going to start over. the ballpoint pen did nothing. i'm going to try some different pens.

I was thinking that maybe i could hold a pen on one page and add a page to the bottom for everyday. i could present it in a book type thing. but i don't know the more i think about this idea the more i feel bored and unattached from it. i might focus more on the drawings idea.

So i think i'm going to set up those pens and try that stuff out and maybe finish it by the end of the week. no new revalations.

I am going to focus on the pen seeping thing because i think that is a perfect measure of "pen time". i'm still going to do the other idea but i'm going to focus on the other one. i'm going to set up a bunch of pens around my room and my roommate is going to think i'm crazy.

i did a drawing a couple days ago about some ideas i could do and i'm going to try and upload it. no promises though.

So once again i rethought the project and decided, a long time ago actually, to do one big piece of paper. but then after thinking about that for a while i thought maybe i should do it in a notebook with a new page for each drawing. Maybe that would make it more linear.

Then at class today you talked about letting the pen seep out into the paper and i thought that this perfectly shows pen time, in a less entertaining but more accurate way. Some possible variations are: using wet/dry paper, the angle of the pen, the color of the pen, the amount of time (but i would probably hold the pen until the ink ran out), or the amount of pages underneath the pen. i like the amount of pages underneath the pen idea...

Also i just want to do the drawings of myself in "pen time" because i think it would be cool even if it doesn't really relate to the project as much. I guess with that project i didn't feel like i was discovering anything about the pen i was just giving an example of what the pen can do. that's why i'm excited about the pen leaking thing; because i really feel like i could learn something from it rather than just express an idea i already have. So i guess i'm doing both projects.

so this is the rough drawing i did of my first idea of attaching papers. just click on it and you can see it better.