Rob Spalding

Last night, I spoke to:
Rick Penney:
-board is vibrant
-info graphic hard to read but valuable info (once you explain it)

Charlene Lyu:
-make it a non-issue (are you hiding us?)
-who is the user of your product (homo, hetero, both?)

Kerry McNaughton:
-heterosexual relationships are also breaking down (gender roles)
-courting/dating in general
-image of 1950s gender roles irritating to deal with
-"FACILITATING"
-urban vs. rural
-use sustainability as a model
-"zinger to the brain"
-how do you say "I want to spend time with you" ?

Roberto Fantauzzi:
-photographs of sculptures (male/female --> male/male)
-ad campaigns
-editorial (fashion photography)

Eddie Torres:
-cultural vs. religious jews
-diffusion of conflict (leads to non-issue)
-"drawing your fish in the sand" (Christian story)
-"membership" in a club
-today's CHOICE (big box stores, sexuality, etc.)
-"CURATE"
-contact Jen Rhee for her point of view (media studies)
-story about Salt Lake City bar (gays are the only ones having brunch because everyone else is at temple)

DISCUSSION:
Karen Tinney:
-"merger" product
-genderless, sexless object

Vanessa Lyung:
-parents' role in raising a child?

Rick Penney:
-neutralizing roles
-next stage in EVOLUTION?
-disasters/horrible sexual experiences (regarding different preferences)
-take a position (political?)

Karen Tinney:
-why stereotypes and when?

Rick Penney:
-do we play roles? (are we actors?)
-inclusive area of human life vs. gender life
:END DISCUSSION

Lisa Berkeley:
-sexual initiation
-friend is working on "Initiation Opera"
(gave me contact info of friend)

Ray Koh:
-"i know what you're doing"
-provocative
-you've got the idea: just do the work
-idea is most important

Kevin Jean:
-are you designing for the PRESENT or the FUTURE?
-anonymous
-watch: INFOMANIA on Current TV: "that's so gay"
-could you design an ad campaign?
-references: H&M skirt for guys, pitching tights to guys
-homogeneous society

Steven Landau:
-what does declining birth rate have to do with this project? (less hetero sex)
-womens' desire?
-accept children will eventually have sex (provocative)
-animal instinct

IN GENERAL:
-send similar survey to heterosexuals
-bring everyone down to "the sex act"
-what does it mean to raise a child as a child vs. a child who will eventually be married? In other words, the child's life leading up to puberty has no expectations. Then the child is supposed to use puberty to find out who/what he/she is attracted to.