For your essays

Re our conversation about rigour in the research and analysis

In Taylor’s (1989) book on writing in the arts and social sciences, he suggests that the following different approaches offer a range of academically legitimate ways to engage with published work.

•   Agree with, accede to, defend, or confirm a particular point of view.

•   Propose a new point of view.

•   Concede that an existing point of view has certain merits but that it needs to be qualified in certain important respects.

•   Reformulate an existing point of view or statement of it, such that the new version makes a better explanation.

•   Dismiss a point of view or another person’s work on account of its inadequacy, irrelevance, incoherence or by recourse to other appropriate criteria.

•   Reject, rebut or refute another’s argument on various reasoned grounds.

•   Reconcile two positions that may seem at variance by appeal to some ‘higher’ or ‘deeper’ principal.

•   Develop an existing point of view, perhaps by utilising it on larger or more complex datasets, or apply a theory to a new context

(Adapted from Taylor 1989:67)

Fringe tasks to obsess with

1. For a week, live only by your grandparent's advice
2. For a week, listen ONLY to music by people over 50 who are alive now.
3. Have a real conversation with a grandparent each day of 1 week.
4. Obsessively document all titles of novels and songs with the word 'old' in them
5. For a week really notice old people.
6. For a week, obsessively notice old people on tv shows and adverts.
7. For a week, keep going somewhere that old people go.
8. For a week, obsess about Madonna
9. Become a master at the rolling exercise

Fringe sources

Yoko Ono speech; Don't stop me!
http://imaginepeace.com/archives/21173

Story
http://www.storymuseum.org.uk/1001stories/detail/161/the-old-man-and-his-grandson.html


myths about old age:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-everything-you-think-about-aging-may-be-wrong-1417408057

Ami, please learn this song in an english translation. i'm thinking that you sing over the french one. Or sing/speak. have a think
Jacques Brel, " Les Vieux""Que l'on vive à Paris on vit tous en province quand on vit trop longtemps." ("Though you live in Paris, you live in the provinces when you live too long.") As an accordion wheezes behind him, the legendary Belgian chansonnier spits out a mordant song-poem about the golden years. It's not a pretty picture: The old have voices that crack and apartments that smell of musty Bibles. They spend sunny days trudging through funeral processions for "an older man, an uglier woman." And their beloved household pets? Long gone: "Le petit chat est mort."

Image Inspiration -What makes you feel old?

I was recently looking through some old family photos and had the thought if everyone or some of us found an image of themselves we could try and recreate it? I found these via the internet and I find it fascinating to see the changes of their skin, hair, facial structure ect. If anyone would like to I am more than interested to recreate some - to experiment and see if they would work within the show. You could use them as a backdrop to a scene on stage? 

This effect would look great for family generations - standing face to face

This image/words is almost a great introduction to roll on to a next scene in the performance

Saw this image which is like Charlotte's from her blog post. I like the idea of us all starting out on stage in a position where all of us are old and gazing into a reflection (projection) of our younger self, then at the end it would be turned the other way where we would finish by us being young looking at your older selves and thinking about the life ahead of us.

What makes you feel old? It can be something that is 'associated with the old' but isn't. What makes you feel young?

For me it's snow, I don't like the idea of it and the thought of walking in it makes me feel and walk on edge. I feel old at the thought of a night in watching Agatha Christie with tea, cake, ice cream, popcorn and sweets. The moment I realise that I'm getting older is when I'm putting on my makeup and trying to see and think if there are more lines appearing but I feel young at the thought of I'm only 21 - but is that old for my generation?

What does you're age say about you?

What does you're personality say about you?

Does you're age come with certain expectations? 

Do you compare yourself to others you're age?

What is age to you?

Do you have a certain age number that you call old?

Great Opportunity!

Check this out!

http://imgur.com/a/qizFB

Retirement home residents recreate famous movie posters for their Calander !

Festival work

Hello all, please read this article and think about it seriously. Interesting in relation to the Madonna incident too. Please read carefully and see what dramatic possibilities come to you.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/11141981/Prof-Mary-Beard-lets-reclaim-the-word-old.html

Thanks