I think Ancestry.com is a good example of autobotography. It lists all of your relatives and you can add more people that haven’t been added yet. It uses a central server with all of this information to create a kind of biography about people’s family. If you’re the one adding the connections, it becomes more […]
Archive for May 2012
Autobotography Example – Ancestry.com Leave a comment
Tools Leave a comment
Tools: 3 sheets of plywood, timber for support, chalkboard paint, spray paint, power drill, screws and chalk. We screwed the 2x4s onto the backs of the plywood to keep them together, and created a hook that we hooked over the wall so the wind wouldn’t blow the wall away. We painted the entire thing with […]
Peer List Leave a comment
Peer List: Intended for college students on campus that walk by the wall on their way to/from class/dorms. I wanted to make people think. Time goes by so quickly, and nobody really stops and just takes time for themselves anymore. They’re all trying to study through the night to ace the test or work on […]
Research Leave a comment
Research: beforeidie.cc is a website that has pictures of Before I Die walls from all over the world. It’s how I got the idea, and even showed how to make the actual wall. I saw it on StumbleUpon last year, and it would pop up again every once in a while, the last time being […]
Format Leave a comment
Format: A large 8 x 12 foot wall painted with chalkboard paint. People can write on the wall what they want to do before they die. The video will have a slideshow of still pictures with music in the background.
Content Leave a comment
Content: The phrase “BEFORE I DIE, I WANT TO…” and 36 lines for input from the audience. Very simplistic, the audience creates the art. I then take the things that people write and create a video out of it using Ren’Py, a visual novel game creation software. The video will have music playing in the […]
Autobotography Intent 1 – Before I Die Wall Leave a comment
It’s a large black chalkboard hung on a wall behind Neville Hall. People can walk by and write what they want to do before they die with the chalk that’s laying on the ground next to it. This will help get people thinking about what they want to do before they die, and hopefully go […]
Intent Review: Sidewalks Get Their Say Too Leave a comment
I think this idea is good in that people are very likely to see the messages you are writing/questions you are asking them. A lot of people look at the ground when they walk, and everyone has to walk somewhere on campus. The only problem I see with it is that chalk is very temporary. […]
Intent Review: New Media Switching It Up Leave a comment
This is an interesting concept. It’s always hard to describe what New Media is when someone asks me, and I think this idea could show that visually. The only question I have is that will people be able to read the different descriptions? If it changes every few seconds, it could be hard to read […]
Intent Review – Renovating Mainstreet Leave a comment
MaineStreet has always been confusing for me, so I think this would be a great idea. Going around and asking people individually what they would like changed could take a lot of time, but you do get more information that way. I imagine there would be some conflicting opinions on certain aspects of the website, […]
Video Games and Computer Holding Power Leave a comment
Games are the product of someone’s imagination, but they put you in the reality of the game character itself rather than the people who made the game. Nevertheless, this is a different reality than your own. Your identity can be shaped through the actions you take in a game by a sort of conditioning. Take […]
Edge of Art – Chapter 1 Leave a comment
I thought the website that had the counter with the little black squares was really cool. It doesn’t look like it would take a long time to fill the entire thing with black squares, but it really adds up the more squares you have. 10298 years is a long time for such a small clock. […]
Yes Men Leave a comment
I thought the Yes Men were very funny. That was probably one of my favorite things in the class this year. These guys go out and do ridiculous things, like pretend to be a corporate business man on national TV. I could never do that, for fear of going to jail or being sued or […]
Edge of Art – Introduction Leave a comment
I don’t think the internet has really made art any less prominent in our culture. It’s created new ways to make art. Not the internet, specifically, but technology. You can draw digitally now, edit photos and videos. Before this technology, you could paint, yes, you could sculpt, sure, but the computer has taken those to […]