User:Yoana Buzova/reading, writing and research methodologies 2012
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TO DO: Write WHY & HOW upload ON TIME-------> tuesday night latest
LP project
The LP project is a collaborative “in-development” idea dealing with the rather abstract notion of lacking visual perception. We are being stuffed with visual information and the idea of this research is to try to ignore this and try to make the user/viewer “see” things without actual image. We made a 3 minute video, trailer-like, asking questions about the act of “seeing” in order to raise certain interest. All means used in the video are minimal...using nothing but a simple light source we create the needed environment and pose questions about basic notions such as lightness, darkness and the notion of nothing.
WHY---> because We were interested in visualizing the unseen. Something that is without particular form and color. we realized that blindnes is as diverse as the world we, sighted people know. So the video we made is just a brief interpretation af what we want to explore more further.
HOW--->We first started reading medical facts about blindness and then stumbled upon personal experience, described by blind people in forums or blogs. After a few nights of reading and gathering information, we took some extracts from different sources and took them as a starting point of our video. The 3 minute piece is stop motion animation, composite of about 2,500 still images, shot with a DSLR camera.
What is Internet?
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide.( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet ).
This is an “in-development” project that aims to collect information and definitions of what is internet from non-users. I started a database of videos, collecting definitions of what the internet is, according to those people. Results are honest, descriptive and tend to bring out simple physical features that could result in gradual materialization of the web.
WHY--->because Being online is a thing we are completely used to. All the time. Well, yes billions of us, but at the very same time, there are people that don't use internet, moreover they are not pretty sure what exactly that is.
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