Apparently you can beat Simcity

This individual took a pretty common game - Simcity, and made a piece of rt from it. When you look at the progression to his final piece, there s a symmetry and artistic mosiac look to it. This could be considered time-based because it needed time to "grow" to look the way it does. It's original scope was not as white and tiles, it probably was spotty. Otherwise, this person has utterly destroyed this otherwise unbeatable game. Gotta love the ominous music too.

Rube Golberg Shenanigans

After the Rube Goldberg exploration in class, i decided to go out in the world of YouTube and search for others. This one came up and i looked into after we were told the asian cultures do this a lot. Amid the over-zealous japanese announcing and borders is an ingenious device. Some elements take quite awhile to perform - like the sauter-iron fuse. The bowling-pin tower was pretty amazing as well. All to make dinner? simply amazing.

Reflections in a Teacup

The opening of the student show in the foreman gallery took place on April 8th, 2010. The show was the culmination of photography students Darcy Dolge and Dominique Thomas. Before entering the show, i already noticed the array of half teacups on the wall.
These interesting items snagged my attention and had me over by the wall after entering the show. The teacups were interactive, playing a variety of music as you view the photos. This aspect really crossed the borders of conventional photography, giving an element of multimedia to the piece. Another great piece in this show was the "lemon zinger" piece featured on the glass walls. The pictures here were that of people before and after tasting bitter lemon juice. The pictures were very comical, especially because I know many of the models featured in this piece. This piece made you think how bitter this concoction must have been to procure these facial expressions.
The other artist featured in this show had a smaller presentation with a little less draw. Dominique's features were all pictures of baseball players and games. Her goal with photography is to be a sports journalist. These pictures were indeed on that track. The pictures had that newspaper feel and i could easily imagine them when flipping to the sport section in the news. I believe her goal was definitely evident, however, the content was pretty linear, there wasn't much to explore in her show. I dont mean to sound cruel, but i don't believe an art opening is quite the place for these items.
Together, these two photography students put together quite a show. I would definitely say teh teacup show really took over the opening. Darcy did a great job of creating a whole environment around her pictures, and i thoroughly enjoyed the opening.

New aspect of web 2.0?

While tooling around on facebook the other day, i came across an interesting revelation. I noticed facebook had recommended i "reconnect" with one of my friends in the top corner. There is only one problem here, this is one of my friends who had passed away last winter. I wondered why no one had deleted her profile, so i clicked on it to see if it was still active. Indeed there was much activity here.
The site had become something of a memorial, other friends posting comments about thinking of her or remembering her. I noticed people had been commenting regularly since the event of her death months ago. I was shocked, really, just to find out how people were using this account in such a way. Society nowadays is oh so remarkable...

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I just had a revelation, and thought...hey if i can imbed videos, can i imbed flash games too? The answer is yes after a quick search on the goog.