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. 

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.

Pack Rat Series

Sol Lewitt's "Sentences on Conceptual Art"

#10 "Ideas can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical."

I have some issues with this statement. I don't agree with ideas being art at all. If  by ideas he means a thought, something abstract that has no physical form...I don't see how that is art unless it is executed in some way. I think for something to be art, it should have some kind of form; it doesn't necessarily need to be a physical form. But I am confused as to what he interprets as "physical" does that mean something one can touch and see? If he means that art does not need to be in a 2d or 3d form, then I would agree. I think art could be in other forms as well--sound or whatever. Could sound/video be physical? I would have a better understanding if I knew what his definition of art is, because it tends to be very subjective, what he means by ideas and what is "physical."

I also thought some of his sentences contradict each other. With more thought, I'll respond to that.