For initial research into Nikola Tesla I chose to look into his quotes and opinions instead of just facts about him, as I want to try and get a sense of who he was more than just what he did. I'm also really interested in all his ideas that were dismissed and have since come to be the norm since his death, and also his ideas that never resulted in anything, such as a worldwide robot slave force or beetle powered electricity.
Today in the crit Jamie gave me some helpful feedback and showed me I've been coming at this brief from a weird angle, I've been visually responding to images of Tesla as a guy when I should be responding to his ideas. In my initial ideas visually I think I've been focusing too much on Tesla the person, and my feedback from the crit has geared me to move away from this caricature approach and focus more on the concepts and ideas associated with him, as it's a much more vast and interesting source to draw from.
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