Here is the gant chart for the project

The datasheet used can be found here.

Logo, not having conceived a logo as of yet thought it was about time. My original thought process was a kind of food time machine based upon an already famous design such as that of the tardis or HG Wells, but after a few preliminary ideas they looked pretty rubbish.

Therefore a different approach was needed, something based around a kitchen utensil perhaps. And then came my triumphant idea, an egg timer.

Yes the humble egg timer, measures time for cooking why not for food. Therefore i changed the dial to read dates and the timer to spin the opposite direction and you get a food time  machine.

As I said before the design has changed due to the orbital model I’m basing the application on and my lack of AS3.0 knowledge. It seems to be a complete shift from AS2.0 and I’m struggling with the inner workings.

Here is what is up so far.

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At the moment the middle image is stock but will be changed to the logo once developed.

Well, i thought there would be more coverage of the history of food but records are shaky and people seem not to be interested. Unfortunately this has left me with the rather unreliable source of wikipedia. This data can be found here. 

This simply shows when certain foodstuffs were introduced into Britain.

Well its been a few weeks and progress is good. Instead of scrolling back through the screen the application will be side scrolling. Unfortunately there is no indication of the dates i the ark of taste and thererfore is impossible to do with this data. A few hours of scouring the web has led to a timeline of when food was introduced to britain. This data will now become the mainstay of my project.

Well thats from Back to the Future and nothing to do with this, well it kind of is. The now present problem is the time machine element of my ark of taste. This is not really going to be possible in the original sense of moving back through the screen but instead in a different way. Furthermore the current ark of taste includes no reference dates for when the food was lost. 

Well, its been a week and I’m moving forward steadily. I will thank Vlad for his magazines flash menu and its free gnu licence. I have been working around a prebuilt menu, tweaking it to my needs. Not as simple as it sounds and has caused many hours of heartache. Its functionality is now how i need it. And once again we are moving forward.

As an added bonus feature to the 3d orbital menu i will use, i will create a timeline reaching back through the screen which will allow us to see when the food was forgotten. More on this idea will be added as i think of it and if its even possible!

Sounds like something from Indiana Jones unfortunately it isn’t. Anyhow the ark of taste is

“The Ark of Taste aims to rediscover, catalog, describe and publicize forgotten flavors. It is a metaphorical recipient of excellent gastronomic products that are threatened by industrial standardization, hygiene laws, the regulations of large-scale distribution and environmental damage.”

Taken from the slowfood website. The current online front end (http://www.slowfoodfoundation.com/eng/arca/dettaglio.lasso?cod=746&prs=0)of this ark of taste is not exactly that interesting or entertaining however I aim to change this by utilizing flash to emphasize the flavors, colours and attributes of the food. Hopefully I can build on this idea to create an ark of taste that will engage the user in such a way that they themselves take longer to savour the flavour.

Doesn’t  sound very digital to me, but i suppose there must be reasoning behind it. So….. here we are again, a blank slate, talking about ideas which seem to have nothing to do with multimedia.

Anyway, slow food as opposed to fast food. Thats basically it, to absorb the flavours, colours, scent and background of what we eat rather than just to get it quickly. Its explained here.

Hopefully something will find me, because right now im lost.