Assignment Two: Inside/Outside the Scene

This week I decided to do the second option, creating a 'tag' or 'burn' of my social scene into my site of investigation. I placed the tag in my neighbourhood (in my garden) because I investigated my neighbourhood for our first walk this week but I didn't see any evidence of tagging in personal gardens. It's my garden, my personal space and my social scene!

The scene I have chosen is Doctor Who. I have been watching Doctor Who since I was five years old, it was cancelled shortly afterwards but I collected books, vhs tapes and magazines of the show. I went to conventions and collected autographs from the stars. In short, Doctor Who is a science fiction show about a character called 'The Doctor' who travels through time and space in an old blue 60's police box (the box has a camouflage circuit which is stuck on police box) called the TARDIS. The box is dimensionally transcendental (bigger on the inside). The Doctor is a Time Lord which means that if he is ever mortally wounded his body can regenerate itself completely (which is handy because it means that the character of the Doctor has been played by 12 different men so far).

For me, Doctor Who was always my special secret escape from the world, very few people my age back then knew anything about it. Now it's a different story because Doctor Who came back in 2005 to critical acclaim.

I decided to do a burn of the TARDIS because it is such an integral part of the show (the actor who plays the Doctor may change but the TARDIS always stays the same) and a very iconic symbol.

I had a great time creating the outline for the TARDIS burn and spent a lot of it thinking about tonight's episode and how the story arc is progressing this series. I used a black sharpie (couldn't find the blue...) and drew the outline from memory.