Social Media Our Only Way Of Communicating?

CNN's Patrick Oppmann speaks with a woman trying to show how technology and social media isolate people.

Just some thoughts...

Yesterday in my AIB class Representing Representation we discussed copyright and ownership which made me think of Shirky's book. The problem being discussed was weather Koons stole Art Rogers photograph to make tons of money off of his own version of the piece. He had a sculpture built and then photographed the sculpture in black in white making it look pretty identical to Art's photograph. In the end he was brought to court and lost the case [as well as losing 3 or 4 other cases that year dealing with the same issues]. If ownership is that important in the art world how does it keep its importance when the web is involved. With tools like screen shot it is easy to get access to most art today. I still don't understand how blogs and tumb1r and other sites allow people to post and share art [mainly photographs] without even crediting the artist.

top= photograph by Art Rogers. bottom= photograph of sculpture by Jeff Koons

Headaches.

- test, not so good.
+ $7 rice bowl, good.
- 20 minute presentation on history of photography for history of science class, meh.


is it thursday yet?

entertained.

But what is the Grids purpose?

The premise of the system is ideally suited to rapid prototyping, but it would work equally well when integrated into a production environment. There are printable sketch sheets, design layouts, and a CSS file that have identical measurements.

http://960.gs/

Fluid 960 Grid System

Templates for Rapid Interactive Prototyping

Picturing the Grid has been something that does not come naturally to my mind however learning to work with it has allowed my web creating skills to take on a new, cleaner, simpler feel which is awesome. I love the movement in this site under the 'One, Two, Three, Four' section.

Fish McGill

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fishmcgill/4206257815/in/set-72157616616725627/

Today's class was so interesting. Everything Fish McGill had to say was interesting and inspiring. I can't even begin to express how refreshing it was to have a successful artist who wasn't arrogant speaking to us. He seemed so down to earth and excited to be able to share his knowledge with us which made it all the more interesting. As for the sites they were pretty sweet. The more I learn about design the more I want to learn and sort of regret not taking more design courses at AIB. My dad is a Beatles, video game, comic book nerd man and I can't wait to tell him all about today's class. Also anyone who draws robots, ice cream, weiner dogs & little dudes is cool in my book.

As for the rest of the day. Lesley University til 10pm. no.thank.you. ._.

Thoughts on Chapter 6.

If email is free, instant and doesn't require the sender and the receiver to be synchronized with one another why is it that at times I hate it? I feel like no matter what when things are written they can be read incorrectly in terms of tone. This summer I experienced the longest distant relationship I ever had with Alex in China and me in NY and while using email I felt like I never knew how the other person was truly feeling. You can never pick up on little things like attitude and sarcasm or little jokes. Don't get me wrong I am thankful for having multiple ways of communicating, especially in these situations, I'd just rather video chat or talk on the phone when it comes to the important stuff.

Halloween.

I hope everyone had a great Halloween! A friend turned me into a dead cat. Yup.