Responses to various links/videos from the past week....
Photosynth
First and foremost, I love TED talks. That website motivates me to do more with my life than almost anything. Second, technology is scary. The program that Blaise and Microsoft worked on to link all photos together to form composite images is mind-numbing. Like most technological advancements, they are cool in theory but scare me as to where things will be heading in the future.
Digital Designers Rediscover Their Hands
This article was simultaneously depressing but also reassuring that people recognize the importance of maintaining skills that require hands on figuring out. The program will hopefully inspire some progressive thinking and bridge a gap where technology and craft get totally lost. The depressing side to the matter is that for a certain group of people craft and hands on activity are lost to a virtual wonderland where almost anything is possible. That's another story though since I have a difficult time bridging the gap between computers actually having an impact on the world/being part of reality and the physical world. The lines need to stop getting blurred, in my opinion.
Teen's Photo Used in Virgin Mobile Ad
Virgin Mobile is certainly in the wrong about what they did to this girl, however the reporter made a good point that the "creative commons" violation/exploitation is a part of it. In general, this is why I do not upload a lot of my artwork (at least in high res) or post photos when anyone anywhere can take advantage of the media. Look at facebook, for example. They use photos and names of your friends to convince you to take quizzes or participate in offers. It's all a huge scam and we're the people being exploited.
The Laws that Choke Creativity
It's a pirates life for me.
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