One thing i wish is that the interface wasnt so small...if only we could do it on touch screens like this...
Monday, February 23, 2009
VDMX
So i have been working on vdmx for my new directions in digital art class and boy is it intense. The interface was intimidating at first and then once you get the hang of it, its not so bad. But there is just so much to learn! I feel like i could spend months on this thing and not even really touch on everything. It is amazing to think of the effort it takes to create such a program.
One thing i wish is that the interface wasnt so small...if only we could do it on touch screens like this...
One thing i wish is that the interface wasnt so small...if only we could do it on touch screens like this...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
A HACKER MANIFESTO
"And yet we don't quite know who we are.
While we recognise our distinctive existence as a
group, as programmers, as artists or writers or
scientists or musicians, we rarely see these ways
of representing ourselves as mere fragments of a
class experience that is still struggling to express
itself as itself, as expressions of the process of
producing abstraction in the world. Geeks and
freaks become what they are negatively, through
their exclusion by others. Hackers are a class, but
an abstract class, a class as yet to hack itself into
manifest existence as itself."
-McKenzie Wark
While we recognise our distinctive existence as a
group, as programmers, as artists or writers or
scientists or musicians, we rarely see these ways
of representing ourselves as mere fragments of a
class experience that is still struggling to express
itself as itself, as expressions of the process of
producing abstraction in the world. Geeks and
freaks become what they are negatively, through
their exclusion by others. Hackers are a class, but
an abstract class, a class as yet to hack itself into
manifest existence as itself."
-McKenzie Wark
Friday, February 13, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Sunday, February 8, 2009
my life on a table
just a few shots i took for my new directions photosynth project thought it went along with our section on identity.
Identity Management in Cyberspace
When I think about my identity in cyberspace and who i am in the real world, it is interesting to see the difference. Although I do not think that I have a completely alternate identity online I do realize that there are some differences. I think that in some cases I am a bit more honest with who i think that i really am. I am secretive yet also very open in a strange way.
After entering the world of second life and witnessing all of the people that are apart of that virtual world, it made me realize how many people use this alternate reality to escape the banality of their own lives. It really shocked me at first when I heard that people were dying because of games like world of war craft but after thinking about it more, its not very shocking at all. The bottom line is, WOWC is much more interesting and stimulating for them than their own lives...it is a way to escape. It's horrible that people are forgetting to feed their children and even themselves because they are so caught up in the virtual world. What will it take for these people to come back to reality, and why would they?
It's a sick sick world we live in.
After entering the world of second life and witnessing all of the people that are apart of that virtual world, it made me realize how many people use this alternate reality to escape the banality of their own lives. It really shocked me at first when I heard that people were dying because of games like world of war craft but after thinking about it more, its not very shocking at all. The bottom line is, WOWC is much more interesting and stimulating for them than their own lives...it is a way to escape. It's horrible that people are forgetting to feed their children and even themselves because they are so caught up in the virtual world. What will it take for these people to come back to reality, and why would they?
It's a sick sick world we live in.
I am a ______because _______
lover_hater_thinker_compassionate _strong_weak _creator_wino_writer_curious_apathetic_sympathetic
_ crazy_alien_lost.
I am crazy curious person because sometimes
i think that i'm really an alien.
_ crazy_alien_lost.
I am crazy curious person because sometimes
i think that i'm really an alien.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Monday, February 2, 2009
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