Music I Enjoy Listening To When Studying:

Best Thing Since Sliced Bread

I really enjoyed the researching aspect of this project, however I struggled with being strict and selective with what I wanted to communicate in the final outcome. My plan was to make an interactive book showing the properties of tape without being obvious... which then turned into an interactive roll.... which then ended up showing the ‘origin story’ of each type of tape. I feel as though I just wasn’t clear enough with what I wanted to communicate, which is reflected in my final outcome. I’m determined to develop on what I have already done and create a sufficient outcome which clearly communicates the properties of tape.

Fire (Pozar)

Written, directed and drawn by David Lynch

In this episode of middle ground by Jubilee, loved ones and addicts.

Before watching this, I saw addiction as a selfish, solitary disease, however after watching it made me realise that it effects the ones around you just as much, arguably even more than the person battling with the addiction. 

As someone who has no experience with either side, I found the fact that they all agreed with the statement ‘cutting ties with a loved one with addiction is ok.’ the most surprising because for some reason I have always thought that having some sort of support system was the most important thing in any healing process. However now I am realising how naïve that sounds. As said in the video, in some scenarios, cutting ties is necessary when the relationship becomes draining and toxic, and it also serves as a sort of wake up call to the addict. But what if this doesn’t work and it just further isolates the individual to the point where they fall deeper into their addiction.

Keep Your Brain Young with Music

Music can be medicine for your mind, with benefits from memory improvement to stress relief.

·  Music shows that listening to music can reduce anxiety, blood pressure, pain

·  Improves sleep quality, mood mental alertness and memory

· Johns Hopkins researchers had jazz performers and rappers improv music while lying inside an fMRI machine and studied their brains

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