project 1 proposal
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My Project
Global Village
• When I think of computers and communities, I think about Marshall McLuhan
• “In a tribal all-at-once culture, the idea of the public”...individuals, all dissimilar but all capable of acting in basically the same way”
• “...an integral collective awareness that transcends conventional boundaries of time and space”
• I want to do something that shows how the computer can transcend borders (physical borders as well as time)
My Interests• culture
• languages
• traveling
• photography
• exploring the city
Concept• To create a sort of
‘global village’ (or at least my interpretation)
• I will find as many photos as I can of people posing in front of a famous landmark
• I’m hoping to collect photos of people of various ethnicities, ages and also from different times
• I’ll paste these pictures together to create either a cohesive image or a moving image where people are constantly popping in and out and over lapping with each other
Technology• Flicker and other
photo sharing sites
• iPhoto, Adobe Photoshop
• KeyNote/Qucktime
• I’ve chosen these technologies mainly because I know how to use them! But also because information is easily transferred between all of the mediums
Audience
• Anyone interested in the idea of a global community
• People interested in travel and the ‘touristic history’ of a landmark (tourists as seen from landmark’s point of view)