This is the class blog from Spring 2010

The current Spring 2011 blog lives here.

final – 25 (objects-memories-videos-people-years)

http://itp.nyu.edu/~kb1270/oblog/?p=456

existencial final crisis

So here’s my story of this final.

The topic of the last assignment was ‘crowd sourcing.’
And somehow, I thought I have to do my final something, related to that.
So I come up with dance exquisite corpse idea, etc, etc.
and even shot my hands dancing.

but uh-ahh.
I got stressed. Deep down, I knew there’s no way
I could be building this by the end of this semester. seemed too techy, too complicated.
(and I also know this may be simply excuses. This fact made me more depressed.)

so,,,
I got stressed
and to be honest,
I started to procrastinate.

In help session with Daniel, he gave me advice to do what really spoke to me.
So I played more with remix stuff that I did, changing language, speed and so on.

(if you wanna know the meaning of the poem I’m reading, go to subtitled video)

But as you can see….
It’s too dark. I wanted something light.
One good thing came out of this is that I don’t hate my voice any longer
….. call me narcissistic.

So all this process made me desperately wanting Okka’s project ‘FOR ME‘.

New posting by Poram:
“Please, any idea is thin in my brain and physical energy is thin in my body.
But I have finals to do, to pass this class. Can any body do my gsts final, FOR ME?”

So, I decided to do this final about this final and outsource everything.
words, voices and videos.
(by the way, I wanted Jeff to do my video with his awesome camera.
but I figured he would be very busy doing his.)

This got me thinking.
Why am I having this hard time in general at ITP?
I guess it’s part of identity crisis or existential crisis.

I thought ITP might be good fit for me.
Cuz when I’m having chats with my friends (mostly Korean, mostly female)

But no, I realized I’m not a geek.
Especially among this super duper smart brilliant people.

I thought there’s an artistic side in me.

But, and So, I never consider myself as an artist.

So there you go, I lost track of who I am. …. oops.

So till I get my answers, till I fully understand,
till I get over my not-so-existential-late-20-early-30-crisis,
I’ll try not to freak out with hope that this kind of moment will come to me someday.


For last, here’s what I wanted to say to you guys,
This class with all of you, really helped me get through this semester with fun and insights.

so, Thank You All.

The Figure 8 – [teaser]

View the project at thefigure8.net.

Failures: My Final

Phe Phe Failures

Experience it in different browsers…

Just So You Know

Final

Sherlock Holmes in the Case of the Mysterious Mystery

Sherlock Holmes in the Case of the Mysterious Mystery from Aly Wolff-Mills on Vimeo.

TubeSoap

The chatroulette/crowd sourced promo for TubeSoap, part of the Live Experimental Interactive Television course.

end of the Downfall meme?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8617454.stm

does mainstream media attention hearken the end of a meme? If so…

for me

‘for me’ is a website containing an outsourced, crowdsourced, filmed to-do list, where people from anywhere can assign tasks to anyone in the world to carry out, film, and post. these assignments can range from the mundane – i.e. ‘please do my laundry for me’ (the task-performer would ideally be in close proximity to the task-giver to actually do THEIR laundry; alternatively, the task-giver could ask that the person do any batch of laundry, in order to obtain a sense of completion) – to ‘please go to acapulco for me’, to ‘please apologize to my husband for me’, etc. clearly the site will raise all sorts of interesting ethical concerns, as well as shed light on human desires, needs, limitations, and openness.

gstsforme