I'm really frustrated and I don't know what to do next. I'm hoarding so much randomness on my computer my hard drive is probably freaking out. I have so many things I want to pull from but I'm not sure how to bring it together. I'm stuck right now and I have 3 projets due soon, but I can't nail down any one solid idea.
I've been collecting a lot of photos from facebook albums that claim to be "Photography" but I have no idea what I want to use them for. I think it's funny that people think theyre taking their photography to the next level by uploading an album of it to Facebook. I have many questions about professionalism on Facebook: why do we use it as a business contact as well as a personal connector? how can uploading albums of high edited photos instantly up your game in the facebook photography world? when is the line crossed between professional and personal?

Youtube Advertisements

I'm just noticing right now how often I get really annoyed with Youtube advertisements. It's a subconscious thing for me to just say how annoying and stupid they are, but now I'm really picking up on how often I say it or think it. I understand that Youtube needs a way to make money so it can still be free for everyone, but PNC bank advertisements with a dad swinging his daughter in circles on the beach before the music video "Sexy and I Know It" by LMFAO isn't really touching on the right audiences.
Its so annoying when you want to watch a video so click on the link, then you get the loading symbol and your finally going to watch it but you're interrupted with this cheesy music and video of something totally unrelated to the video you're trying to watch. Even though it can be only 15 seconds long I tend to hit the mute button on my computer and click open another tab. It's like this advertisement made me less excited to watch the vid I was intending on watching!

I'm thinking about maybe making a montage of all these advertisements. Like this overwhelming feeling of never being about to watch a video you wanna see, and getting pissed off at the advertisements for interrupting you. 

google hits

not a Facebook RIP

I've been looking a lot into the ideas of how people respond to the death of someone through Facebook. It seems as if people as intimate as good friends and family keep their loved ones alive through their Facebook pages. Being 'friends' with someone on Facebook after they die seems a little morbid to me. I don't understand why people feel it necessary to post on a dead persons wall even after a year of their death. I guess it gives them a feeling of closure (?) But why would you write on their public Facebook wall. When they die do they still keep their log in and check their notifications?? The way people post sure seems like they do.

I'm just stopping by to say hey! Been thinking about you alot lately, and missing you like crazy. Keep watching down of everyone, we all still love you♥




We went up to the mountains last weekend and had a great time swimming in the river. We had a huge rain storm that helped out a bunch. I miss you up there and have been thinking about how you use to come ride dirt bikes with us. ♥ u




I know how much you love animals so will you please look for my Odie and give him some extra special love. He went fast and unexpectedly like you did. I know God takes the best back sooner and he took both of you too soon. Give him some love for me and he'll be a great companion for you too.

Pros and Cons

After talking with my teacher about the redundancy of the video projects I've been doing lately she suggested I should list the reasons why I enjoy making the videos and also the reasons why making them so much is driving me crazy.

Things I like about making them:
Portraying the idea of narcissism in a medium that exudes that very same idea
Researching and discovering more and more internet trends especially through Photobooth and Youtube and the conversation that those technologies have with one another
Learning how to make things viral on the web by luring the viewer into my posts by means of false tagging and titles (having people click the videos under false pretenses)

Reasons why I need to stop making this work:
I feel like I'ver spoken directly about narcissism through Photobooth the same way in all the works
I'm tired of looking at the Photobooth effects (dumb, but I really can't stand the popart one and light/temperature sensor one)

As I'm writing this I'm realizing I need to continue making this work and further pushing the concepts in this suburb...

What I like to destroy

Are assignment in this weeks past surface research studio is to Research and Destroy. Meaning we have to take something, destroy it, and recreate a new piece from the remnants, then destroy that, and repeat the process 7 times until you have a finished product to present in a crit. At first I started thinking about tangible things to destroy, gum, flahsdrives, cds, cars, ect. But now I'm trying to think of something intangible I would wanna destroy, self image, verbal communication, perception, and how to go about representing destroying them in a systematic way. 

I thought about the idea of destroying a video and the only way to do that is destroy whatever drive or disk that videos on. In a sense it would be about destroying documentation that isn't meant to be destroyed. Pictures and videos are our way of recording something thats meant to be a saved memory but by taking this notion of destruction of what is expected as means of preservation subverts the idea of video as pure documentation and a way to look back and perfectly recount that moment in the past. The idea is to take a picture of a flashdrive and load it to that flashdrive and only on that flashdrive and then take a video of destroying that flashdrive. So the act of destroying become the act of creating as a make a video from the destruction. From there I would take that video and upload it onto a new flashdrive or storage device and proceed to destroy as I once again take a video of that.