Class brainstorm from Monday's class

some of the photos I took at the beach.

Rubbish from the beach

We went to the beach for research and ended up spending an hour and a half or so picking up rubbish - from Freyberg Beach to half way along Oriental bay

I sorted and counted everything because I find this interesting. In order of most to least.

Total: 434

Glass: 199

Sea glass (smoothed): 73

• brown: 47
• green:11
• blue:1
• pink:1
• white:13

sharp(ish): 126

• green: 31
• blue: 1
• white: 25 (two are almost half a bottle-attached by the label)
• brown: 69

Plastic: 178

soft plastic: 29 altogether, including

• 1 cookie time wrapper
• 1 plant label thing
• 2 fruit stickers
• 3 straw pieces
• pill packet (4 panadols worth)
• small zip lock bag
• 1 small bit of foam
• 1 bit of dried glue
• 6 bits of balloon

hard plastic: 149 altogether, including

• 3 pieces of plastic spoon
• 1 lollipop stick 
• 6 plastic lids
• 2 small glue lids
• 4 small plastic spheres?
• 1 lego
• 1 bit of bread tag

Cigarettes: 20

Metal: 13

• 5 pieces of foil/crumpled metal,
• 1 paperclip
• 6 lids 
• 1 ring pull

Rope/String: 10
Paper: 3 (one mcdonalds wrapper, one small strip of white paper, one large piece of waxed paper)
Rubber bands: 3
Miscellanious: 9 

• 2 chips of paint
• 1 hairtie
• 1 clothes label
• 1 small piece of wood that's blue
• 1 cloth
• 1 teabag
• 1 earplug
• 1 lump of chewing gum ( and another was stuck to the wall so we left it there)

Moodboard

A moodboard - of beachy stuff in general, since we're not really sure what style we'll be doing yet

beach pictures

I went through all the photos on my computer that i've taken and found some good photos. Most of them are south island beaches (Punakaiki, Kaikoura, The Heaphy, Golden Bay: Ancourage, Mutton Cove, Awaroa, Totoranui, and others) and there's a couple from Turakinae head. Will get more photos of Wellington beaches when we can go there on a day that's not raining.

examples of posters/rhetoric/etc related to the topic

effect on animals eating plastic: using shock and clever placement

effect on seafood/people who eat it: using subversion

same, but about swimming in polluted water:


about the effect on the ocean in general:

some illustrations:


various beach clean up things:
 (some more subversion with rubbish and animals. this is a cool idea.)

(this poster is a mosaic made of rubbish)
 < some more mosaics
<cool use of scale and showing a community effort?

also some infographics: