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After the mid review, I can’t stop thinking about my love map. I started to writing XML in my head while I was sleeping and just picturing it how it will work in a finished form sort to speak.
The previous half of the semester, I had a hard time making sense in the real time how to assemble the information or chunk of code together to make things I want to make. The problem I ran into was not what I want to make, but HOW to make what I want to make. And I couldn’t find the answer anywhere. I think the love map will be able to give me a chance to work with ActionScript 3 and XML to really understand how it works together and make things happen as I intended them to.
It gets more and more exciting!! (>v<)
I had a good discussion with K and prof. J about the research paper last week. What I found was that we tend to narrow the topic really small and in fact, sometimes by discussing about it make things clearer and can view in a bigger picture. Once the relationships of each element had been drawn out, we can then pick the only relative portion of it to continue and deepen our discovery. I thought that was a good way to approach it. Also I have to remind myself to purchase the research book.
Much thanks to D, I have some good information regarding to my research and I have to organize myself for those contacts and events to see if I can attend any of them. Hmmm this is getting more and more interesting. 
Social networking — analog to digital– here I come!
For all the DMI student (especially for the 1st years), hoooooooooooooooraaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!! We survived the first semester review!! Tap on the shoulder for all of us. Whether you think you had a successful review or not, I think it’s all about learning experience so I would say give a high 5 to all of us.
Aside from that on the personal note, I finally feel like I got back to my student mode. It’s hard (in my opinion) to get back to be student once you are out of it for some time. I feel like now since 6 weeks have passed, I gradually learned my own study speed and execution time which was really helpful to me so that now I can plan things accordingly.
I also started to think the direction I want to take for the rest of a year and half. A lot of thinking involved but I realy like the process my brain is taking right now. So we’ll see where it will take me to. The journey should be exciting. =)
We are doing interactive narrative for the second half of the semester. The content for this project is to remake “The Perfect Human” by Jorgen Leth, a Danish film maker. The short film was made in 1967. Then the remake version of this came out on 2003 which is called “5 Obstructions” by Lars von Trier whom asked Leth to remake the original 35 years after its creation. However the remake would have to create under obstructions that are decided by Von Trier on the spot.
It was very interesting to see the film changes through 35 year of time as well as the wide variety of way to express it. I thought the film was controversial as the subject matter was culturally limited and gender oriented. It also suggested comparison in nature and artificiality.
So far I have couple of ideas and I am excited to see how it will develop in my head before I put it down on paper of any sort.
Yes. I have been reluctant to update my DMI blogs. So now I have to make up the time I haven’t been updating.
Studio 1: Mapping “I love you”. I decided to map my own relationship since the data I was trying to gather wasn’t going to help me very much on short term. Now I have a lot of data and the problem is to design a good interface for it. You will see it on mid review. Hopefully I can pull it off… (>_<;)
Seminar1: I’m researching Social Networking on analog to digital. I found numbers of articles in many different aspect of it, but not so much on the identity side of the story which is what I’m interested in. So I think I will focus on the pros and cons of the online social networking on its progression and the new kind of problems that we need to be aware of on its future development.
Design as Experience: First its Pie. Now it’s Rope. We have been given this rope to work on for 15 min everyday for 16 days and to record it. It’s a continuous work. So far, I think it’s going alright. We’ll see where the rope will bring me in a few more days. I have to mention that we took a field trip to Mass MOCA last Monday and it was AWESOME!!! So many great projects and I have especially blown away by Jenny Holzer’s Projections. I will update the photos later but you will have to be there to experience it to believe it. It was AWESOME. I also liked the exhibition “Western artists in CHINA”. It opened up my eyes a lot since I was born in Shanghai. A lot for me to learn and re-learn so to speak.
Elements of Design: We are learning hard core Actionscript3 programming. It is so overwhleming and a lot to dygest in 3 hours of class but I am happy that I’m learning so much of the new things I never knew how to do. It opens up so many doors for future possible projects. But first and far most, I need to understand how it works and want to be able to write these code by my own. I think the second half of the semester will help me a lot on hands on working classes so that I will learn as we work on a real project.
Mid Review: Since I have updated the recent projects now I shall focus on my mid reviews. Work work work time…
Our project 2. Mapping.
I want to map “I love you.” I’ve been thinking about it for a while, and wonder, how the hell am I gonna do this?? I talked to Kent and Dennis for a little yesterday and found out that I might be able to do something regarding to the length of the relationship and how men express themselves.
I have been in couple of relationships where my partner has very hard time express his feelings verbally. Is this a common thing among boys in general? Or does it get better through time and relationships?
Some people like to express themselves verbally, some give gifts, some write, some are affectionate and some don’t do anything. Is there a pattern between age and gender? Is there a progressive behavior change through time?
The first step through this research is to gather information and data. I think a survey would work for now. I could send email to people randomly, single, in a relationship, married and divorced. Or do I just want to stick with people that are currently in a relationship? Married, unmarried? Narrow it down might be a good idea.
Mapping “I love you.”… There are certainly more to come.
