21 September 2010

Zach Roberts' Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=100001563905538

Zach Roberts is a 20 year old boy, whose selective interests include video games, some rock music, and food. His social life is entirely online, where he interacts with other gamers each day and several hours into the night. He has unnatural relationships with the characters he encounters, or plays in the virtual world. He idolizes the female characters--their strong personalities and more proportional bodies. He doesn't care to interact with others outside of the virtual world due to his belief that mortals can't match up, and he'd end up disappointed by their flaws. 

06 September 2010

Google Earth

 Artists working in Google Earth
1. James Dive's 'God's Eye View'
 He uses the satellite images of Google Earth and 3d objects to recreate some scenes from the Bible

2. Bill Guffey uses Google Street View as inspiration for his paintings & here is his blog
Bill Guffey paints scenes from Google Street View. With the program, he felt like he could travel the world outside his rural home in Kentucky. He has created an entire series: one painting for each state in the U.S.

My Google Earth Assignment 

Here I have documented all the places i've lived and a memory attached to them. This assignment brought about some interesting perspectives and thoughts. When I think of home I never think of a house or location, I think it's more about people or memories that make a place home. This also made the term seem so fleeting and artificial. There's nothing stable about it, although originally stability would be a word that might come to my mind when I think about my home.