Brain storm and Diego Garcia

this week in design studies we have been asked to brainstorm our chosen chapters of "the Tipping Point" in groups. Due to being held up helping other projects (damn you Steve) i was unable to join in my groups brain storming. But thankfully i was able to join in one of the other groups. These are the results. It took us a while to get started on the brainstorming but due to setting a time limit of 15 mins on each one we never really got anywhere with them until the last 2 mins.


Ok i have no clue why that paragraph is underlined.... and i cant work out how to change it... sorry.

Other than the Brain Storming i have been having more thoughts on my "snail and rock" project. After finding out that the final product had to be a food stuff i had to scrap the majority of my previous ideas (helps if you read the brief properly), But due to this i have managed to come up with (in my opinion) the best idea so far. i am going to try and produce some sort of health drink made out of rock minerals and snails... yes i know this sounds disgusting but that i think is the point of a health drink. The worst it tastes the better it must be for you? good logic yeah. i have also decided to keep the packaging low budget and am thinking of doing something like a milk carton. most of the inspiration i have had so far has been form the "Innocence Smoothie" brand.

Other thoughts for the moment are towards the travesty that occurred on the island of "Diego Gracia". It is something that has just came to my attention now so i am going to make every effort i can to spread the word. In short what happened was during the 60's the British government decided to exile the entire population of one of its islands in order to rent it out to America to be used as a military air field. Ever person on the island was a British citizen and had the same rights as anyone living in Britain until the government decided to revoke their citizenship and now have been left stranded in a foreign country with no way of supporting themselves. The case went to the high court in Britain and was judged to be completely illegal and the government was ordered to return the people to their island but due to this being vetoed by the house of lords nothing has been done. even with protests from almost every international law origination. And what is even better is that the government has made no attempt to cover this up but instead have relied on the fact that no one would ever hear about it or bother to look it up. If anyone wants to find out more information about this there has been a documentary made about the whole event called "Stealing a Nation" by John Pilger. i did attempt to post the video on the blog but for some reason it didn't work but the video can be looked up on google videos. Here is the link.
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-3667764379758632511&ei=8OjdSuiBEaOm2wLvw4G4Cw&q=stealing+a+nation+by+john+pilger&hl=en#