We each chose a total 3 objects from fellow students. Taking them, we proceeded to 'interview' them, asking a series of 20 questions for each. The following are my three initial source interview questions/answers.
1 What type of environment are you predominantly kept in, if indeed singularly located?
I spend most of my time in a drawer in a bedroom, unless taken out for use or transported to other rooms or other locations (e.g holiday)
2 When were you acquired?
At least 5-6 yrs ago
3 How were you aqcuired?
I was bought at a market
4 Does your character (image) hold any personal significance for its owner? How?
Yes. My owner adores Donald Duck and likes Disney cartoon characters in general
5 Do you belong to an organised set?
No, I am the only one in relationship to my owner
6 Have you ever been damaged?
No, but have been near naked flame
7 How often are you used?
Only when my owner is feeling depressed
8 Are you used by more than one person?
No, I am exclusively used by my owner
9 Has your colour faded?
Yes, a little bit
10 Have you always had an image?
No, my owner gave me a transfer
11 Do you have a unique name?
Yes, pillyD
12 Have you been discarded dispassionately?
Never
13 Have you ever been misplaced or lost?
I was close to being lost while on school camp
14 Have you been repaired?
No, although not without anxiety for such
15 Have you ever made your owner cry?
Yes. When I was presumed lost
16 Have you ever caused an argument?
Yes. Over being used by owner's sibling
17 Have you been stained?
Yes. I've had ice cream dropped on me
18 What objects have you contained?
Pillows mostly, but once a extra padded jacket
19 Have you been used as a weapon?
Yes, included as one during pillow fights
20 Would you miss your owner?
Yes, very much
electronic (Creative) device
1 Would you prefer to be a different colour?
No. I like being black
2 Are you operated consistently?
Very often
3 Would you choose to have more buttons?
Yes, I would prefer to be adorned with lots
4 Do other devices make you jealous?
Absolutely
5 Do reflections bother you?
From time to time
6 Are you impervious to temperature/elements?
No. I am a very sensitive device requiring great care
7 Do you like your logo attached?
I think it could be more iconic
8 Where are you contained as a place of care?
Normally in my ower's bag
9 Have you been used to hold food or drink?
Unfortunately, yes
10 Are you happy about your shape?
I wouldn't mind a few more curves
11 Do you think you should be smaller or larger?
I believe being larger would help me function
12 Are you ever shared indiscriminately?
At times I experience ambivalence of importance
13 Have you been present during moments of intimacy?
Er.... discretely tucked away and not powered up!
14 Do you consider your performance satisfactory?
Why yes. Yes I do.
15 Are afraid of being replaced?
Every operating minute of my day
16 Are you attached to anything else in order to function?
No not really, but I am included as part of multitasking
17 Do you lose energy or power?
If I'm not recharged
18 Do you consider that you respond well to interaction?
I suspect that I frustrate my owner due to response times
19 Which button do you find pushed the most?
The largest I posess!
20 Do you prefer to be face up or down?
I actually prefer to be placed face down
balloon/ribbon
1 Are you a certain length for a particular reason?
No not particularly. i just happen to be this long
2 What were you initially attached to?
I wasn't. I was bought freshly in a packet
3 Were you present at an auspicious occasion?
Yes, it was a wedding anniversary
4 Have you tied anything up rather than being tied?
I was used to tie a collection of other balloons
5 Does being the sum of two parts create a sense of belonging?
I'd rather not talk about that
6 Have you been transformed from a different physical state?
I was not crimped and my balloon was full of air before being attached and later bursting
7 Does being the colour red signify anything specifically?
No, but perhaps it could if you really wanted it to
8 Have you ever been stored in a dark place?
I have been in transitory dark rooms preceding large amounts of light
9 Have you had to share space with similar objects?
Yep. Other balloons and wrapped gifts with ribbons
10 Would you prefer to be separated?
Actually, i'm over balloon boy (feelings mutual 'floppy')
11 Does it piss you off that you were not discarded?
No, in fact I like the fact that i'm kept as something of value (apart from B-Boy above)
12 Do you consider yourself rubbish?
Hell no
13 Have you experienced weightlessness?
Well, with - in this case - help from you know who (that's right skinny!)
14 Have you been recaptured after being free?
Balloon and I have floated around non-chalantly at times
15 Would you change your texture if you could?
No, I like being ribbed. Can't speak for rubber face
16 Does it feel constricting to be tied at one end of your form?
Sometimes I feel a little asphyxiated
17 What does the sensation of gravity feel like for you?
A bit like being on a train that stops and you feel your centre still moving
18 Did you fulfil ceremonial augmentation of the occasion you were initially present?
I haven't had any complaints
19 Have you experienced insufferable tension?
At times it's been 'tight' squeezed in between a bunch of others like myself
20 Have you ever been given as a gift?
Only as a complementary decorative material to them
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