Friday, August 21, 2009

Unpacking - Object Interview

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.

pillow case


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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