Fairytale Remix: Hansel and Gretel

What happens when we are not looking?

We can never really know for sure.

We can only assume. Or imagine.

For this project, I chose to remix the classic fairytale ‘Hansel and Gretel’.

Sixth Sense (Blog Entry 6)

Sixth Sense- Pattie Maes

Pattie Maes is a professor in MIT’s Program in Media Arts and Sciences. She founded and directs the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group. She is an expert in areas such as human-computer interaction, intelligent interfaces and ubiquitous computing. She also is an editor of three books, and is a editorial board member and reviewer for numerous professional journals and conferences.

Crowd Sourcing Assignment

I have always found travelling on the GO train to be an adventure. I take it to get to school every day, so it is very routine.

But what I find so interesting is the people that I encounter every morning during my commute to school. And it’s not just the types of people that I find interesting, it’s how these people choose to spend their time on the train.

To paint a picture in your mind, the morning commute is really something one has to see to believe. It is unbelievable how many people go to work in Downtown Toronto – crowds and crowds of people taking the GO trains in the morning to get to the city. You’ve got those who rush to catch the train at the last minute just before the door closes, or the brisk walkers who know that no matter what they will catch the train.

Emotional Object

https://vimeo.com/54889807

Screen Kiss (Blog Entry 5)

Screen Kiss- Jillian McDonald

Jillian McDonald is a conceptual artist, who is from Canada but resides in Brooklyn, New York. She holds the titles of Associate Professor of Art at Pace University, where her responsibilities also include co-directing the university’s Digital Gallery.

Her work is meant to be humorous and features references to popular films. She uses video art, net art, performance art, installations, and photography in her work.

Source Box no3: Gananoque

Over the Thanksgiving long weekend, my family and I decided to make a trip down to a small town near Kingston called Gananoque to go see the Thousand Islands.
We had never been to Thousand Islands before, so we thought it would be a great family outing.

Crowd Sourcing Questions

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Good food, good music, friends, family, and just the little things in life -that are generally taken for granted- are what my idea of perfect happiness is.

How much time do you spend online?

4 hours a day.

Source Box no2: Little Adventures, Big Surprises

I went shopping at Urban Outfitters after work one day, as they were having their 50%-off-sale-items sale.
I love a good sale, so I really couldn’t pass this up.
And thank goodness I didn’t!

Sniff (Blog Entry 4)

Sniff- Karolina Sobecka and Jim George

Karolina Sobecka is a Polish artist who works with animation, design, interactivity, physical computing, computer games and other media and formats. Her work often explores repercussions of scientific and technological advances, and the subjectivity of perception. Sobecka’s work has been shown at festivals and galleries around the world, including the V&A, the Beall Center for Art & Technology.

Cage Assignment

Here is a picture of the Panasonic HDC-TM300 that I took out from the Image Arts cage.

Instead of taking a video with this camera, I decided to take a picture with it.
The quality of the picture is not as good as one taken with a DSLR camera, but it still turned out well.
Here is the result.