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Through this project I wanted to criticize the diet pill companies. They always have before and after photos of people who took their pills and show off how successful their pills can be. Everyone in the before pictures look depressed and but in after pictures they look happy. To me, it seems like they threw away their individualities to become somebody else they had seen on TV's. I replaced their after pictures with one model and added 'transformation' in bold letter on the ad because that's what people proudly refered this pill as.

Personal World Map - Roxana Torre

Roxana Torre's "Personal World Map" is an interactive world map that is distorted depending on the user's time and budget limiation for his/her travel plan. The project starts with world wide map, and the viewer will be given multiple cities s/he starts with. From the center city, user will input his/her time and budget (in euro) for the trip and the map will be distorted to show the users possible destinations for their trips. Rather than distorting map geographically, she chose to do it by money or travel time distances.

I think the message she was trying to convey throught this project is the difference in how today's people think about traveling. Due to the emergence of the low cost flight industry and online ticketing, people are allowed to make last minute decision on where they are going to go. Before this, people used to think the destination before money and time, but now they started to think of going to place 'anywhere except where they are now.' I think this is a great project depicting the change in how people perceive things due to the advance in techonology.

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Furtherfield Review
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=162

Personal World Map
http://www.personalworldmap.org/

Tobecontinued - Tobecontinued

Tobecontinued is a group project that is still in progress. The project is open to everyone with myspace accounts. They can upload their works in any forms such as videos, animations, photos, or paintings and inspire other artists. The project is started by a group of students in the Fine Arts Academy of Rome. The project is based on open art-work where artists from all over the world can exchange their ideas.

I visited the project's myspace and saw a lot of works that intrigued me. It seems that almost everyone at the site are students and I was amazed to see such works.I really liked the idea of professional artists and soon-to-be ones sharing their ideas and interacting to one another.

One of the video, 'Cut & Paste' by Anne Cécile Le Borgne and Caroline Carliez were the most memorable. They did not leave a note explaining the message they were trying to convey. In my opinion, they were trying to criticize 'cut and paste' function of the computer and its abuse. The funtcion allows people to plagirize the works of other people and also kind of shows one of the bad side of advanced technologies.

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Furtherfield Reviews
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=219

Tobecontinued
http://www.myspace.com/tobecontinuedigitalart

The Sheep Market - Aaron Koblin

‘The Sheep Market’ by Aaron Koblin is basically a series of ten thousands images of sheep drawn by online workers of AMT (Amazon Mechanical Turks). The visitors can view each sheep and buy them on stickers or have them fill their field of vision as part of gallery installation.

In my opinion, the project represents the bad side of capitalist society. What AMT workers do is to answer Amazon customer’s question rather than the machines answering them. They get paid a few cents for each answer and Koblin asked them to draw sheep facing left. Sheep is often used as a symbol of the pastoral in art. Pastoral illustrates the values of the sophisticated by the unsophisticated and reinforces the universal rightness of their audience's values and an immanent apologia for wealth, power and inequality. The project portrays the same thing and also foreshadows the grim future of effective labour.

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The Furtherfield Review
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=220

The Sheep Market
http://www.thesheepmarket.com/

Montage I

I wanted to criticize MTV and kids from its famous show, 'Super Sweet Sixteen.' They are spoiled, have big attitude, and whine about everything. They do not even know what they are talking about. One girl from the show said Paris Hilton is her role model. Everyone from the show seems to worship Paris Hilton. I put her face on the Statue of Liberty and the kids from the show around her to depict it. Above them are people chanting for communist revolution. These kids are getting Mercedes-Benz, BMWs for their presents but can't even pass the writing part of permit exam. This seems unfair to me because their parents are rich, it doesn't give them rights to spend all that money to waste rather than go to charity or some other good use.

Montage II

My first intension was to contrast between people with aneraxia and African orphans dying from starvation. Mindset of the people with aneraxia wanted to have better figure and causes them to have such issues. They waste food everyday. Their one meal could be a week worth food for the orphans. This piece could be reinterpreted as people who do not appreciate what they have and always want better things while there are people who are desperate to get a little things.

Elephants Dream - The Blender Foundation

Blender project announced their production of short animated film, Elephant Dream, in 2005 and the film is released on DVD and Bit Torrent Download in 2006. Rather than following Disney's Pixar fantasy, Blender Project used European social-realist surrealist fantasy for film's visual. Its modeling, texture, set design, lighting source, and camera works make this film a piece of perfect art work. However, the characters' movement is somewhat awkward and makes it more like in-game animation.

The most significant thing about this project is the license which the film is released under: BSD-Style Creative Commons "attribution only" BY license. This allows the viewers who are not comfortable with character animations to use source files for the movie and improve animation using their skills.

The story sounds confusing and lame. However, the viewers' interaction with the movie seems awesome. I am interested in the graphic animations and if I get the chance I would like to watch the movie and tweak it a little bit to see how much better I can make this film.


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Furtherfiled Review
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=197

Elephan Dream
http://orange.blender.org/

Super Sweet Sixteen and Unicef

I made this project to show how spolied the children from the show are. While there are people dying from hunger on the other side of the earth, these brats always ask for better things. They could have done some decent deeds by donating half the money they spent on the party.