Today we were able to narrow down our objects to post-its and nail polish. They both have some human interaction to them which is why they seem to be the most interesting.

With the post-it, we can look at the different designs/shapes/colors/ etc that they come in as well as the different categories of notes that people write on them. Depending on the person's handwriting or message we can then analyze the kind of personality of the note-taker.

With the nail-polish, there are many categories from color to packaging to kinds of nail polish (quick dry/UV change). There is also some form of human interaction because depending on the color or polish type we can look at the person's mood or other aspects of their personality. Also, we think that photographing the nail polish will be interesting for the catalog because we can take pictures of different people's hands and of the product itself. We were even thinking of making a color spectrum of the different colors we collect.

After making a small mind-map for our objects, we are probably going to move forward with the nail polish because it gives us the most categories to work with and it easily accessible to collect. The only thing that may be a challenge for us is the amount of people that would be willing to participate (meaning that they would polish their nails and be willing to be photographed). Finding the nail polish should not be a problem though because we both have a lot of them.

The next step to our project is looking at the colors that we own and find as many categories as we can. Then we will look at different ways of taking photographs; taking pictures of hands, the nail polish bottle, etc.