After…

It was a rush term…

Professional Study and Research project…

Then

Issues and DAP

I was worried…

I was thinking of giving up

I was strugling

And

I was really involed…

Now they are there, waiting for verdict…

I looked outside the window

oh…

Tulip is here

Spring is here…

From DAP Group First Meeting

My Room After Printing Issues Booklet….

Review our work on D.A.P-Tutorial with Neil

After the presentation, we got comments from Neil and our classmates. We realize that we should focus our work on one PARTICULAR THING which can WORK.

E-mail, is the one.

   

What we are doing is to built up an email system which is imagined to be run by humans.User is able to send (try to send) email with this system,but who knows what human behavior can influnce the process and the result?

We had a tutorial with Neil and he gave us very useful comments.

 

Review our work on D.A.P-Presentation to class(3)

 

So There is a system called HUMPUTER
Hardware: humanbeings
Operating system:communities
Softwares:law,politics,religion,history,geography,music,art and more

 

How does this system work?

On the base of operating system where lots of softwares are running together, each individual hardware takes a part of a job and finishes it together with others.

 

What can this system do?

Everything you can do on a computer.
Typying,calculating,scanning,drawing,printing…
Playing music,video,games…
Surfing the internet
Searching engine
Sending Emails
..

Advantages

 

There are more then one Operating systems in a humputer
various ways of infomation storage:characters,numbers, graphicsand sounds…rather than just 0 and 1
every part of hardware has its own memory
Hardwares can update by themselves
Longer hardware life-span
…

 

Disadvantages

Fighting between different operating systems,different hardwares and different softwares for limited resources.
These fightings normally cause the injury of hardwares
Virus produced by softwares: Lazy, selfish, violence,hegemony…
There are Antivirus software like law and religion, but they do not always work effectively.

Humputer experts announce:Every hardware is carrying more then one kind of virus!!!

Review our work on D.A.P-Presentation to class(2)

How will the project look? :
The project will be an irony upon our use of computers. We will simulate a computer, with applications such as Word, Internet Explorer and Outlook Express. When you do the actions such as searching, writing or sending email we will show what is going on inside the computer. We will use the idea of the division of labour to show how each task is broke down into many smaller components. But we’re switching the roles, now each task inside the computer is being performed by humans.

Based on the question “What if humans were parts in a computer?”

Review our work on D.A.P-Presentation to class(1)

Our group has been working on Writely since we started the project. We write down and share our ideas from Writely document and it has been really helpful for us to built up our final dirction.

For the first presentation to the class (13 Feb), first time we gave our HUGE idea to the class.We read and discussed a range of the theories and did some graphic work and video shooting.

Here are the theories we were first into: 

Division of Labour

Division of Labour is an idea Adam Smith described in his book “Wealth of the Nations” . Adam Smith claims economical growth is rooted in the increasing division of labor. This idea relates primarily to the specialization of the labor force, essentially the breaking down of large jobs into many tiny components. Under this regime each worker becomes an expert in one isolated area of production, and thus increasing his/hers efficiency.  How is the division of labour affection our society today?

 

Fordism
Fordism refers to the system of mass production and consumption characteristic of highly developed economies during the 1940s-1960s. Under Fordism, mass consumption combined with mass production to produce sustained economic growth and widespread material advancement.
The history of “fordism” goes back to Henry Ford, who significantly improved mass production methods and developed the assembly line method of manufacturing early in the 20th century. Is the modern computer, just a new way of mass production?
 

Marxism
Marx talked about the “alienation” from your labour, but he meant it in the literal sense that a worker doing specialized tasks is far removed from understanding or appreciating was he is doing. The division of labour enslaves the workers. You can no longer be an carpenter and create a chair – because you do not know how to do it. You only know your little part of the job of making a chair, and thus you are not able to create a chair. The division of labour enslaves and removes you from the end product. Is this what’s happening with the computers?

Scripting of …

This is the storyboard and Scrpting of the movieclip we made yesterday.

Sening-E-mail:Showing Laziness of humanbeing.

DAP meeting today

Today we’ve had a new DAP meeting in our group. We made some progress and we have some sample films to show to Neil to the next presentation. Our ideas about the HumanComputer is progressing. Here a quick sample movieclip of Dong recieving an email. Requires QuickTime.

Fast film…

 Happy to watch short films like ‘FAST FILM’ and ‘ Copy shop’. Can we make film without using powerful new tec?

We are now living in a world of hight-tec and i am wondering if one day we loose all this powerful things, what can we put in our mind. How many of us would still go and see a film without special effect?

 Fast Film

“Fast Film” is an animated homage to motion pictures, hand-made by folding 65,000 print outs of film frames into three dimensional objects.

A woman is abducted and a man comes to her rescue, but during their escape they find themselves in the enemy’s secret headquarters. This classic plot conceals an hommage to action movies. In 14 minutes, Fast Film (a play on words, English fast and German fast, meaning “almost”) provides a tour de force through film history, from its silent beginnings to present-day Hollywood. The filmmakers printed out some 65,000 individual images from 300 films, folded them into paper objects, arranged them in complex tableaux, and then brought them to life with an animation camera in a two-year production process.

Copy shop

The story of a man who works in a copy shop and copies himself until he fills the whole world.

The film consists of nearly 18,000 photocopied digital frames, which are animated and filmed with a 35mm camera.

 

First group meeting.

We three had the first meeting this afternoon. Afterashort lunch we discussed about our Plan.

It was great that we gave our own idea and then put them together. We even managed to draw a rough storyboard and put more infomation in it. We are to make the project both meaningful and funny.

We need to find out more theory things to surport so another meeting will be at tomorrow as we are going to the libary together.

Setup the group today!

We were all exited when we dicided that Mats, Witoon and me were going to work together for the project of ‘DAP’ unit.

Witoon is always with great ideas while Mats and me are both interested in taking a subject and going further.We have been talking about  ‘Humancomputer’ which sounds really interesting to explore on.Three of us are doing our own preparation and meeting each other on Wed.

Looking forward to it now!