Sep 12
Aside from time, I have two constraints for this project series: Theme: The Inherent Darkness of Fairy Tales Media: Each project will be in a different medium. My first project is a barbed wire apple. It is the first in my series as a commentary on the inherent darkness of fairy tales. It represents the …
Sep 11
We live in a culture that assigns great importance (rightly so) to recycling, reusing, and repurposing. The main purpose is to get the most out of our limited resources, to use the entire buffalo. A secondary purpose, which the concept of mash-ups certainly explores, is to not reinvent the wheel. There’s a great quote given …
Sep 11
Week 3 – Reading Assignment Day 2 I believe that the Mashup Readings for Week 3 can be framed really well in context with Monday’s reading on Prototyping. To frame this context we jump from he representational role of prototyping to the tangent role of problem solving. There is a clear theme in almost …
Sep 11
Grey Album Producer Danger Mouse Explains How He Did It The way Burton describes a mashup as a deconstruction as opposed to just stealing and reproducing is fascinating. This reading makes it clear that since a mashup is dealing with two separate media, it is important to cater to the restrictions of each to make …
Sep 11
This is the last one project I did for 7 in 7 , and I decide to make a conclusion to the 7 in 7, to visualize the whole process of everyday project. And find out some design method I learned from this quick everyday project.
Sep 11
Surprise No post…TRICKED YOU Just Kidding… Pre-Work Write-Up: The Trickster v Precedents and their themes: Loki – Thor Comic book and Movie Origin: Adopted Brother of the God Thor and a master of manipulation and Trickery. He enjoys playing allys and enemys alike against each other while staying out of the line …
Sep 11
Pre Work Write Up: The Shadow v Precedents and their themes: Sephiroth – Final Fantasy VII Video Game Origin: The Genetic clone of an evil scientist and the cells of an alien monster known as Jenova. Jenova’s goal is to devour planets and when he finds out he has been cloned Sephiroth aims to …
Sep 11
Pre-Work Write Up: The ShapeShifter v Precedents and their themes: Land Calrissian – Star Wars Episode 5 & 6 Origin: Friend and fellow “rogue” character with Han Solo, He has become an overseer and authority figure in cloud city and in order to keep the city safe he makes a deal with Vader and …
Sep 11
I didn’t know what is mashup before reading the articles. Especially the article, “Hacking, Mashing, Gluing: Understanding Opportunistic Design” was caught my eyes because I am interested in ubiquitous computing design which is based on mashups. As I read them, I could realize that I already doing mashups such as referencing open source and using libraries …
Sep 11
Mashing up together or syncing, harmonizing or paralleling, original or edited, these are the questions I come up with when the word mashup appears. Several important issues when it comes to create a mashup project: 1. choice of materials; 2. (Re)Composition; 3. Post-editing. Good mashups take successful elements or aspects from different sources and rebuild …
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