i'm annoyed right now. but it fits with the things that we talked about in class...
this isnt so much about information fields (although they sound super interesting and difficult to study in a "legit" way) as finding connections in things across different systems and in different places. I'm finding recurring themes in my life, and in the people i'm around, and while this is easily explained by my own nature/personality/preferences and those influencing what i do, i still think it is interesting that when they say "high school never ends" its very true, it just pops up in other places and the labels change, the roles dont.

paper folding/marking in class excercise

will upload pics of the papers... [here]

stuff i found that mirrors:
some paper project where the paper was torn (like giraffe spots) that resembles the negative space in the tree
plastic poster display that was "folded" at the bottom to hold the poster
windows and formations...that look folded. and have the "memory lines" of the paper
trees resemble the tree i drew

the start of my project

so i've started my project. i made a myspace, a facebook group, and then i have this blog, and i've linked all of them together.

currently, i'm taking a break from making birds, i'm in the basement of the union and have given some of them out and set some of them out on tables and things with tags that say "take me home!" so far i'm not getting a great response, people seem to think its a bit weird when you walk up to them and hand them an origami bird (even with an explanation as to why).

aside from this I've gotten positive responses from a few people that i've added to the myspace and facebook pages. i'll post pictures later when i have my camera, and am going to work on better images and a better looking myspace, as this is the main website

i've decided on my project...

link

it will get prettier and more realized but for now i'm starting small... more details and explanation to follow either here or on the myspace or both...

what is included/excluded in a humanities framing system, and what is/isn't technology.

I thought humanities encompasses these things like english and art and music and what is generally labeled as satisfying the HU requirement in the LSA Course Guide. Then after thinking about it, I think humanities is (to be cliche) what makes us "human". So really I think it is the "creative" things we do, and even things like medical images have been used as "art" (i saw this in the airport in san diego this summer).

as for technology i would say that this is one of those things that is relative to the times. computers are technology to us, but language is not generally considered technology in 2008 because it has been around for so long that it ceases to be "new".

What is the role of access in determining these boundaries?

I'm not really sure what this means.... where if access determines the way we consider these things. for example if we didnt have access to ink pens and suddenly we do (even though the rest of the world has had ink pens for a really long time) then they are "technology" ???


project [although i'm not really sure what falls well into this category]

i think i want to do something with paper cranes, and my paper crane project idea.

first post! [test]