Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Getting it to work

Finding two artist...I'm not sure why but I had a hard time find anything of interest or that I could understand.

My Friendemines
This website looks hilarious. A take on social networking sites, this site is all about complaining about other people who have similar people in their lives. For example, two friendemines could be paired together for the attribute of a having an annoying know-it-all friend.
http://www.myfrienemies.com/

Tactical Garden by Mark Shepard
The project of allowing anyone to create and place sounds around physical locations seamed really cool. People using their "PDA's" would plant sounds in various places (in the city because this program operates off of the wireless networks) and other people with similar devices could listen in as they walked around. It also seemed like it would have practical application such as tours and information for visually impaired persons. However the aspect of the program being a parasite (growing without control) seemed really crazy. It reminded me of those movies or comics from when the internet was just taking off. The author would propose a way that some insignificant program or virus would take on a life of its own and destroy humanity as we knew it or something like that. I guess the video came off as little creepy and that's why I went off on a strange tangent. Anyway I'm off in space right now.
http://www.tacticalsoundgarden.net/

Test-test:This is me

Giving it a go to see what it looks like. Whee! I'm blogging!
Um Hi! I'm Patricia. I am an Art major with an emphasis in CIA. I am also minoring in Asian American Studies. After college I plan to spend time teaching English in Japan with my significant other, as well as exploring the rest of Asia.