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i think the thing i found the coolest about tv is that all the people who are the biggest names are people who had little to no education. farnsworth thought of the idea when he was in high school which is amazing. that's like someone inventing i don't even no what sitting right next to you while you doodle in class.

this website is really cool how it's interactive even in the still pictures. it has information about everything you'd want to know about tv and even everything you wouldn't want to know about tv. i really like how the first tv is the phantom teleceiver, i think that's a really funny name. instead of just calling it a tv, it gets to be a phantom.

bio art

so we had our last speaker yesterday. i won't lie, i didn't really get it. i thought the demonstration was interesting but that didn't seem like art to me. i guess maybe it was performance art? i think when we talked about "painting" with bacteria, being a bio person myself, i thought it really meant painting the bacteria on using swabs in different designs. for me, the use of the stamp kind of took away from the pieces because they were so precise i guess. i would have liked to see more experimentation with how all the different bacteria grows and how you can use that to your advantage in the art form.

electronics alive

both of the presentations so far have been pretty interesting. i guess i didn't really know how far the term art could be stretch and how much technology is having a part in things. i will be honest, some of the work that was shown i didn't really like, but that's just personal bias. i did really like the work that cynthia did with using the two images and interchanging them in different ways to ask the question is it movement or still? those were really cool. i really liked her work with photographing a place over a period of time and layering the images. the light boxes of those works were definitely my favorite.
for bruce's presentation i was pretty interested in seeing how you could take fine art and also make it digital. people did work and then photographed it and tweaked it, which i do so i thought that was cool. again, some of the works like the LED light installations, i wasn't a fan of, but oh well. i thought it was good that he talked about the jobs that were available to a digital artist in this time. he really gave a lot of information about a lot of international digital art awareness. i didn't know how widespread things were at this time. in looking at the virtual reality pieces, i really want to learn how to do that and make my own little world. after doing fine work for so long it just baffles me that you can create such intricate things using only a mouse and keyboard.

flip book

So, the card reader on my computer is broken right now but it's in the works to be fixed. As soon as it is, pictures will be going up of my flipbook. Basically I started out with a red ball that then gets zapped by a lightning bolt and turns green, then it breaks open and ants come out, then one ant spontaneously combusted, then the fire grows bigger and the pages turns yellow and gets erased by a blue eraser on a spring then a little man comes out and turns into a super hero with a cape and flies around and gets eaten by a big evil snake.

pictures coming soon

singin in the rain

ok, so i have no idea what happened between the first singing in the rain and clockwork orange other than a huge increase in drug usage. the civil rights movement was also getting started. the vietnam war was also taking place which could have influenced the huge increase in violence. to tell you the truth, i thought clockwork orange was pretty disturbing and i have no desire to watch the whole movie. i feel like a lot of the violent things seen in film really do influence people and how they act. how can we find torturing and hurting someone so much entertaining? i truly find it repulsive especially when it is someone being sick and twisted and hurting people just because they think it's fun. i don't want to watch any movie like that.

wearable computer? whaaaat???

ok i'm not sure at all how i feel about a wearable computer. i already don't like that i see in myself a desire to have instant gratification. i think this can be a dangerous thing because people will become more and more impatient with the technology that they have. i just don't think this is necessarily something that should be a common everyday thing. i think this is a really interesting technology that can be used for certain things. if everybody had one of these, i think they would just do everything with it. i already feel this way about the iphone. yes it's an impressive piece of technology but i think it takes a personal aspect of life away. i have sat with groups of people and they just take their iphones out and use all the different applications instead of being social and interacting with others. i think this new wearable computer would make that even more prevalent. new technologies like that always worry me.