MATAY, FB PAGE OVERBOARD!

So after being so cocky in my previous post and then making it to over 360 members, our facebook page went crazy due to an uncontrollable error on facebook's behalf. It then proceeded to send notifications to members repetitively resulting in over 150 people to leave the group. It was extremely annoying as people were getting angry at us thinking we kept sending the notification. After contacting facebook help and reporting the issue, they pretty much told us they couldn't help us. Felicia discussed the best way to approach this without loosing too many people and decided the best way was to delete the group and start a new one and send out new invitations for people to join. In other words start all over again. This problem is also accompanied by the fact our ebay purchases have still not arrived and we will be needing them this weekend, damn you Murphy's law! Lucky we have turtle power to fight this bad luck off, we are staying positive and occupying ourselves with other tasks that need to be completed for the distribution such as the shirts.

Ninja out!

Guerilla ad attempt 1

Before our first main distribution we thought we would firstly test run our little guerilla ad which proved to be very helpful. Apart from getting into trouble with council workers within the fist 5 minutes of trying to dominate a park in Burwood as we were 'not allowed to block a pathway'. Another thing is we definitely underestimated the amount of tape me would need, apparently 15 metres isn't as long as you think it is! Or perhaps we did get just a little carried away. After the photos we had to take it down but we left the sticker on the drain next to the dead turtle (poor cross-eyed turtle) we noticed that the tape is definitely necessary to draw peoples attention as even when people saw the chalk they looked but didn't stop to take it all in. The most attention we drew was when we were actually putting up the tape around the area, which made people wonder what on earth we were doing. After this re-assessment our next attempt will be much more successful. Get excited!

Member update

150 members? NINJA PLEASE!

Today there are 349 members of of save the turtles facebook page and its still growing. Viva la turtle!

Week 9 - Intangible symbols

Symbol of a sound

There was a specifically compelling point in Desiree's lecture this week - that everyone must all be signed up for the same meaning of symbols. I think this is the case with intangible symbols because they are symbolising something that doesn't have a shape or form, it is up to us to use our other senses combined with imagination of what we think the form would be. Everyone's perception of this would differ, however we all seem to associate sound with wave-like shapes. This came to my attention when looking at electronic objects used to project sound e.g. ipod, television and laptop. It is also understood that the more waves (or the bigger) the louder the sound, as can be seen in the photo of my keyboard.

Week 8 - Symbol that represents a philosophy

The Eye of Horus is an Egyptian symbol that personifies the goddess Wadjet. It is also associated with royal power and protection and i found it interesting that they used an eye to represent this. This philosophy relates to me personally as when i was little there was an enormous gum tree in our front yard and when Spring came, so did the magpies. Being much younger and fearing getting swooped by the birds it was a known thing that they tended to strike when you weren't looking. Not always being able to look up while walking, my sister and i would draw eyes on empty ice cream containers and wear them on our heads as a means of protecting ourselves.

I found this guy lining up for the ferry to Manly! He was pretty scary looking so I didn't start a conversation with him as to whether his tattoo was philosophical or not!

Turtle Power!

The ninja's have been very busy planning and organising upcoming events. We have devised our action plan that will take place over the next 7 weeks. We have put our stickers in to be printed so they will be ready in a week or less which gives us time to design a poster as another visual device. We decided to make an addition website as the link for the facebook page is long and complicated making is less likely for people to punch it into a url. This way they can see the site (which is still in the very early stages of development) making our cause appear more professional with a link that they can simply click on to take them to the facebook group. Problem solved!

Our facebook page is well and truly underway with 117 members that have joined in less than a week and many people already posting photos to show their support. Our cause has already started to spread beyond Sydney with many of these photos being taken in places such as Canberra, Tamworth and Sweden.

These are the links:

http://saveaturtle.weebly.com/

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=146229392077660&ref=search

Turtle out!

Week 7 - Symbols of revolution part 2

Christmas day is a symbols of revolution as the meaning has become something very different to people of today compared to what it meant years ago. Although it is a celebration of the birth of Christ, many non-Christians immerse themselves in this holiday. The idea of giving has been completely manipulated by marketing and corporations in order to boost sales rather then in the spirit of the day Jesus was born. When entering 'Christmas' into Google search engine you are bombarded with images like the top example, opposed to the bottom example.