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- new year brain clear out
It’s good to get rid of useless thoughts every now and then, since they grows and mashroom in no time and can get really cluttering. So here goes - i decided to share my things I will be thinking much less about in the coming year because maybe, just maybe, you’ll agree some of them are not worth so much time and it will free some space in your head too…
- this photo is me #6 (the ending)
What is a completely new experience for a “normal” member of society is being exposed to an abstract audience of the World Wide Web – audience that they can identify very vaguely if at all. Additionally through the Internet photographic services an ongoing conversation is enabled. Services like Flickr allow the users to “comment” on each other’s photographs. And by this ongoing conversation such services become social institutions in their own rights – with a complex web of social connections, own codes of conduct, own law enforcement etc…
- Warsaw photo log #3: watching the time
Long story short: this was a happening, which took place in the main hall of the building of Warsaw Stock Market. It was a part of series of events by one of capitals theaters. They are all dealing with reality and creation of illusion using low-tech solutions . The Stock Market event was several people building a clock 12 meters wide and 4 meters high, which was completely manual. To keep the clock running for twelve hours (midday till 00:00) they had to make 805 changes to the construction.
- this photo is me #5
In the reality of Internet every photographer (creator of visual representation) can reach an audience consisting of people they never personally met. Internet services that allow access to this audiences are user cantered and however it is possible to remain relatively anonymous more and more users decide to tie content they publish over Internet with quite personal information. The consequence of this state of affairs is that it becomes more and more important to the individual how the content of the photograph published represents them (Giddens A, 1992: 8). “It became clear” writes Susan Sontag, “that there was not just a simple, unitary activity called seeing (recorded by, aided by cameras) but “photographic seeing,” which was both a new way for people to see and a new activity for them to perform”.
- lazy sunday surf
I intended to write another instalment of the “sunday hangover surf” today, but since this weekend I’m alive and kicking and actually very much rested it wouldn’t be appropriate. Still it is Sunday, so do not expect a rigorous methodology (or indeed any methodology) to manifest itself. Research really is the soul of writing, if you write in order to figure things out and it should be done accordingly to the state of mind and on a Sunday that means - lazily. Mike Skinner, The Work Book Project, Kevin Kelly and more.
