The Natural History Museum was a place I always wanted to explore, but never felt as though I had enough time for the visit. Being able to wander through the exhibits as part of this project was one of my favorite parts of the wunderkammer process. Finding objects to capture was an easy task with so many pieces to choose from. I was also unconcerned with finding pictures to fit into the “theme” of my Tumblr/Pintrest pages. In order to create pages with variety, I decided to pick posts on the simple basis of what, for whatever reason, was aesthetically pleasing, striking, interesting, attention catching, etc. to me. I thought with this sort of “themeless theme” my pages could represent the wunderkammer’s chaos the best. By simply looking at my posts, most would not be able to find a common link between images because in fact, the only link is my random interest in each image. I tried to create pages that symbolized a small glimpse into my mind. That being said, I was able to select displays from the museum that I simply found pleasing. An easy task since almost everything stood out to me in one way or another- whether it be for its size, strangeness, organization, or one of many other factors.
The two separate platforms did not necessarily create problems, but certainly operate and display the same concepts I portray in different ways. For example, Tumblr is much more gif friendly. Rather than hiding this complication, I tried to use it to create a contrast between my two pages. When picking posts, I purposely chose gifs for almost half of my images. Switching between the pages, we can see how the gifs make Tumblr more visually dynamic, while making Pinterest manually interactive. Furthermore I was able to rearrange pictures on my Pinterest page to a limited extent. Without this option on Tumblr, the posts display themselves in whatever random order I reblogged or uploaded pictures. This may be less visually interesting since many like items are clustered together, for example, all museum pictures are back-to-back.
My expectations of a digital wunderkammer varied between platforms. On my Pinterest page, I like the fact that pictures can be clicked on in order to open a separate website. A new adventure is then created for those viewing the page. Like a real wunderkammer, often filled with boxes and trinkets to be opened and explored, this feature allows for interaction and complexity. However, I find more visually interesting. The gifs add movement unavailable on Pinterest- something that I believe wunderkammer curators would appreciate. Also, the way in which users must scroll to reveal the next post adds another level of curiosity and element of surprise. To add to the vague wonder that is most wundkammers, I captioned each picture with a word that expressed my prominent thought or feeling when viewing each image; aside from the museum pictures, which are captioned with my false description. Because Pinterest only allows 500 characters for a caption, these descriptions had to be cut down from my original work. Overall, I found the project to be an interesting experience and test of my creativity.
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